cindy: straight girls are DANGEROUS. hate them, banned. yolanda: did courtney hold your hand again & tell you you're redeemable & wants to be your friend? cindy: irrelevant.
courtney: hey guys i was just looking for you!! :) so anyways i was thinking that i want to take our relationships to the next level
yolanda: ...WHAT?????
cindy: i told you, she’s a menace. now if you’ll excuse me... WHAT???!?!!
courtney: cindy, isn't there something you want to say? cindy: im sorry for slut shaming you & doing that unspeakable horrible thing.. yolanda: are we seriously doing this? courtney: it's important that we resolve- yolanda checking her phone: CINDY WHAT IS THIS? cindy: my nudes, now we're even, enjoy. courtney: i don't think that's the point- yolanda: um i gotta go to the bathroom seeyouguyslater! courtney: that's weird, we usually go to the bathroom together. Cindy: hey courtney, check your dms
courtney: you’ve got to do something for yolanda as payback. tit for tat, okay?
courtney sitting in yolanda lap and them giggling into each other's hair and just zoning out of the general conversation until beth has to lay down the law that this is NOT acceptable straight behaviour. cindy sitting in courtney/yolanda lap and them giggling into each other's hair and just zoning out of the general conversation until cosmic staff has to lay down the law that this is NOT acceptable straight behaviour-
and they’re all just sitting there like ✨ just gal pal things ✨
should i ask you to analyze folklore for starcatshiv bc, hoo boy that's a lot. mirrorball, exile, peace, so much sapphic shit for our comp het lesbians
yes absolutely!!! this album is the gayest one yet and i stand by that.
okay so mirrorball could be yolanda/starcat or cindy/starshiv. “and when i break, it’s in a million pieces” could represent both of their respective major traumatic events--yolanda’s nudes being released and cindy accidentally killing her mother--and how neither of them was the same after this. “hush, when no one is around, my dear ... shining just for you” and “you are not like the regulars/the masquerade revelers/drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten” are VERY yolanda, since the first time she was able to be her old self again was in 1x04 when courtney recruited her to be wildcat and everyone else enjoyed her downfall and the drama of it all bc they thought she deserved it, but courtney knew it was henry’s fault for ever sharing them!!! and then “i’m a mirrorball/i can change everything about me to fit it” is cindy bc she always has to hide that vulnerability around her father/the isa and she has to hide the fact that she has powers around her peers, but she doesn’t have to hide anything abt her around courtney!!
exile... god this one just hurts me. “you’re not my homeland anymore/so what am i defending now?/you were my town, now i’m in exile, seein’ you out” feels very yolanda in 1x10 being mad at courtney but still going w her and protecting her and fighting w her. even “i can see you starin’, honey/like he’s just your understudy/like you’d get your knuckles bloody for me” is just courtney talking abt how yolanda is mad that it seems like courtney’s chosen henry over her but she’d still fight to protect her 😭😭 anyways i’m moving on now
peace is literally just starshivcat. taylor watched stargirl and was like “hey i think i’ll write a song abt courtney, yolanda, and cindy’s dynamic” and then peace came to be. “as long as danger is near/and it’s just around the corner, darlin’/’cause it lives in me/no, i could never give you peace” and “i’d give you my sunshine, give you my best/but the rain is always gonna come if you’re standin’ with me” are literally just applicable to any of their dynamics bc they’re superheroes and supervillains!!! ofc they could never give any partner they had peace bc they’d always be hunted by their enemies!!!! but “‘cause it lives in me” hits especially hard when you think abt the fact that cindy is enemies w yolanda and courtney and so danger ‘lives’ in cindy bc she IS their nemesis, she embodies everything that’s dangerous to them. “all these people think love’s for show/but i would die for you in secret” bc obviously if they were dating it would have to be a secret, they’re enemies!!! secret dating excellence much?? “i talk shit with my friends, it’s like i’m wasting your honor” = cindy. straight-up. anyways this is all i have to say!! :)
and every day is like a battle (but every night with us is like a dream)
ao3
Summary:
At school, Cindy always has to be in control: of her emotions, of her powers, or her so-called "friends." If she ever let her guard down she'd be stabbed in the back before she could say, "Et tu, Brute?"
So it's only outside of the oppressive confines of Blue Valley High and in the presence of her two favorite people (and the only ones she fully trusts) that Cindy allows herself to relax and truly be herself.
Notes:
title is from "new romantics" by taylor swift.
the only explanation i have for this spur-of-the-moment fic is that one tumblr post that says something like "fandom seeks to create what the original source material is missing." and i'm just filling the voids of "gay characters/relationships" and "the characters all being happy and safe" recently on stargirl.
anyways @ geoff johns make them girlfriends or else. go check out my ao3 for more of me believing that pretty much all of the girls on stargirl (and pretty much any other show) are gay with little to no proof!!!
Cindy drives through the meandering streets of Blue Valley faster than is really necessary, but that's not her fault. The driver that her father created usually drops her off at Courtney's (or at a location nearby that Cindy walks to Courtney's from once the driver's out of sight so as not to make him suspicious about how often she goes there), so it's only when he's busy performing other various nefarious tasks that Cindy is allowed to drive herself. These times are so few and far between that Cindy doesn't even know the speed limit here--she thinks that it ends in a 5, though, so she took a wild guess that it was 45 miles per hour and tacked on another 5 for good measure because everyone knows that going 5 over the speed limit is technically allowed.
She's pulled out of her thoughts by the now-familiar sight of the Whitmore-Dugan household. Cindy slows down to turn into their driveway, grateful that it isn't trash day and that she doesn't have to risk a repeat of last time, and parks next to the grass on the left side. Getting out of the car, she locks the doors and tosses the keys into her purse before striding purposefully toward the front door. Cindy's barely finished ringing the doorbell when the door abruptly opens, startling her and (for some reason) Barbara, who was the one to open the door in the first place.
"Hey, Courtney's mom," Cindy recovers smoothly, pasting on her most charming smile.
"Hey, Courtney's friend," Barbara replies bemusedly, stepping aside to let Cindy into the house. "She's upstairs in her room."
With that, Cindy starts up the stairs, her anticipation already building. At school, Cindy always has to be in control: of her emotions, of her powers, or her so-called "friends." If she ever let her guard down she'd be stabbed in the back before she could say, "Et tu, Brute?"
So it's only outside of the oppressive confines of Blue Valley High and in the presence of her two favorite people (and the only ones she fully trusts) that Cindy allows herself to relax and truly be herself. Speaking of...
Cindy opens the door to Courtney's room and steps inside, immediately spotting Courtney sitting against the headrest of her bed and seemingly studying.
"Hi, babe," Courtney says cheerfully without looking up from her textbook. Cindy frowns at the lack of attention--and for some boring school book?
"How did you know that it was me?" Cindy prompts, attempting to get Courtney to look at her. "Or do you just greet your family members like that too?" Courtney's mouth twitches into a smile, and she finally looks at Cindy.
"My family members knock before coming in," she remarks dryly, watching Cindy set her purse down on Courtney's desk and then turn back towards her. Looking directly at Courtney, Cindy slowly stalks towards her, putting far more sway in her hips than usually would.
Courtney falls for the bait hook, line, and sinker, and Cindy can't help her victorious smirk as her girlfriend looks at her with renewed interest. Unfortunately for her, though, Courtney has one more card to play before she puts aside this facade of disinterest.
"So." Courtney presses her lips together in an attempt to contain her smile, but it doesn't matter--her mirth shines from her eyes, as bright as the sun. "Ready to start studying?" Cindy rolls her eyes but can't help herself from smiling, taking a seat on the edge of the bed.
"Yeah, how about we start with chemistry?" she suggests playfully. Courtney snorts at the double meaning before catching herself and scrambling to revert to her faux-seriousness. She pretends to consider Cindy's words for a moment before nodding decisively, shoving her book off to the side.
"Excellent." Cindy grins and scoots further onto the bed, throwing one of her legs across Courtney's hips and settling into her lap. Courtney's hands rest on Cindy's waist almost automatically and Cindy settles her arms in their customary place on Courtney's shoulders, her fingers tangling in Courtney's hair and scratching at her scalp. Ever the tease, Cindy leans down as slowly as she can manage, drawing this moment out as revenge for Courtney's (successful) attempts to rile her up. It lasts for a solid few seconds before Courtney grows impatient and, in a somewhat surprising (because Courtney's deceptively small and lean frame often leads Cindy to forget how powerful she really is) but definitely exhilarating show of strength, flips them over so that Cindy is lying on her back, her legs still bracketing Courtney's hips, and Courtney is leaning over her with a shit-eating grin, one hand holding herself up while the other loosely pins Cindy's wrists against the pillows.
"Did I forget to mention that I'm really more of a hands-on learner?" Courtney murmurs, so obviously pleased with herself for continuing the joke. Cindy wants nothing more than to lunge forward and wipe that self-satisfied smirk off her mouth (preferably with her own mouth), but this time it's Courtney who leans down and connects their lips.
Cindy's eyes flutter closed as she allows herself to melt into the kiss, to feel the all-consuming fire that's been licking at her insides since Courtney showed up in Blue Valley. Being with Courtney is like an roller coaster she never wants to end, and kissing Courtney makes her feel like she can do anything. There's only one other person she's ever felt anything like this around, and she's--
"I don't know if I'll ever get used to this sight." Yolanda's voice breaks through their reverie, and Cindy and Courtney stop kissing and look up to see their other girlfriend, who's just entered the bedroom and is now looking on them both with affection.
"Yolanda! C'mere," Courtney encourages her, patting the bed emphatically. Cindy reaches out for Yolanda as well, giving her the best "come hither" look she can muster, although it's not really necessary--unlike the two of them, Yolanda's less about playing the world's most homoerotic game of Chicken and more about simply being honest and open about her feelings and wants, which is honestly the only reason the three of them finally got together in the first place (although to be fair, it did take Yolanda quite a while to figure out her feelings)--and Yolanda easily acquiesces. She sits down next to them, her knees tucked under her and her hand seeking out Cindy's own to intertwine their fingers.
Wordlessly, Courtney and Yolanda lean toward each other and share a sweet, lingering kiss. Cindy watches them through hooded eyes, worrying her lower lip with her teeth as the bubbling heat in the pit of her stomach rises to a boil once more. She instinctively squeezes her legs together, forgetting that Courtney's still between them.
"Needy," Courtney chides, running her hand up Cindy's thigh as she breaks away from Yolanda, but there's no venom to it. And as both Courtney and Yolanda look at her, nothing but pure, unadulterated fondness in their eyes, Cindy feels more loved than she's ever felt with anyone else and can't help but think, How did I get so lucky?
"I mean, can you blame me? I do have the hottest girlfriends in the world," she replies earnestly. Yolanda snorts.
"Flatterer," she says warmly, flopping down next to her and beginning to pepper kisses all over Cindy's face except her lips.
"I don't know if that's completely true, though," Courtney says with a wide smile, her fingers tracing small, repetitive circles on the skin of her stomach where her shirt's ridden up. Judging by the matching grin Cindy can feel Yolanda pressing against her cheek, it's a buildup to another one of their bad jokes, and she prepares herself accordingly.
"There's this really attractive girl at school, right, babe?" Courtney continues, directing the last part of her statement to Yolanda.
"Oh, yeah, I know exactly who you mean, Court," Yolanda says, hamming it up as she momentarily pulls away from Cindy. "I think her name is Sandy or something?" Ugh, so that was where it was going, Cindy thinks, letting out a loud groan and pinching the bridge of her nose. Unfortunately, her audible disapproval doesn't deter the two at all--in fact, it seems like it only serves to spur them on.
"Really? I thought it was Sydney," Courtney says, faking confusion.
"Is it Cindy??" Cindy blurts out exasperatedly. Her girlfriends look at each other and nod with faux-thoughtfulness, muttering yes, that's it, absolutely, and Cindy dramatically covers her eyes with the back of her hand.
"You two are the worst," she grumbles halfheartedly.
"Come on, you have to admit that it was at least a little funny," Courtney wheedles as Yolanda gently tugs her hand away from her eyes.
"If I do, will you promise never to do it again?" Cindy asks, only half kidding. Courtney and Yolanda laugh but shake their heads, and so Cindy shrugs haughtily and attempts to remain aloof. However, she can only withstand the power of both of their beseeching gazes for so long, and she breaks faster than she'd like to admit.
"Fine. I guess it wasn't the worst joke you've ever told," Cindy concedes, allowing her lips to curl into a rueful grin. Courtney pumps her fist and cheers theatrically at this hard-won victory, finally extricating herself from between Cindy's legs in favor of lying next to her instead.
"High praise," Yolanda murmurs teasingly before finally giving in and pressing her lips to Cindy's. Yolanda's tender kisses and hands oh-so-carefully cradling Cindy's jaw, like she's something precious that might break if she's treated too roughly, are the perfect juxtaposition to Courtney practically mauling her on her other side, leaving a ragged trail of kisses and nips across her neck because she knows that Cindy can take it, knows that deep down she wants to. Yolanda makes her feel safe and so, so very loved, and Courtney makes her feel brave and alive. These are the reasons why she fell for both of them in the first place, the reasons why she could never just choose one--and thankfully, she didn't have to.
Cindy's train of thought is derailed when Courtney bites down particularly hard right on her pulse point, causing her to let out an undignified, breathy moan into Yolanda's mouth. Yolanda's grip on her jaw tightens slightly at the sound, the change in pressure so minute that Cindy doesn't even think Yolanda knows she's doing it. But then Yolanda's tongue slips into her mouth, and yeah, she definitely knows she's doing here.
When they finally break apart, both of them are breathing hard and flushed. Courtney detaches from Cindy's neck, where she's been trying to suck a bruise into her skin (key word: trying. Her healing factor doesn't make it that easy to leave hickeys). All three of them lay there quietly as they allow heartbeats to return more or less to normal until Cindy sits up and breaks the silence.
"I miss you two," she confesses in a rare moment of vulnerability. "Not now, obviously, but at school. Hanging out with other people just doesn't feel the same." Her girlfriends quickly move to sit up as well, arranging themselves in something resembling a close-knit triangle.
"I'm sorry, babe," Yolanda says simply, squeezing her hand in support.
"Me too. I hate that we can't always be together," Courtney adds, hugging Cindy tightly. Yolanda joins in only seconds later, and although Cindy knows this won't change things, she still somehow feels better--Courtney and Yolanda always manage to do that. Suddenly, Courtney gasps and breaks the embrace, looking... angry?
"Wait, is Henry being a jerk again? Because I can totally go kick his ass if you want," she declares. Cindy and Yolanda share an amused glance--this isn't the first time that Courtney has offered to go beat up their ex-boyfriend on behalf of one or both of them, and they know it won't be the last.
"Not any more than usual," Cindy replies dryly. The JSA and Cindy have had a tenuous alliance with Henry ever since he figured out their identities (but in all fairness, he could literally hear their thoughts), but considering that he's one of only three people who knows that Cindy, Courtney, and Yolanda are dating (the other two being Beth and Rick), it was best for them to focus more on the 'alliance' part rather than the 'tenuous' considering he hadn't done anything truly heinous (yet). They hadn't even wanted to tell him, but mindreaders and secrets don't go very well together, as was evidenced by how he found out--Courtney couldn't stop thinking (very loudly, Henry had noted), Don't think about the fact that you're dating both of his ex-girlfriends whenever she saw him. "He's mostly just pissed because he thinks that either he 'turned us gay' by being a horrible boyfriend or that you 'turned us gay,' specifically, to spite him."
Yolanda scoffs, rolling her eyes. "Why do men always think that it's about them?" Cindy laughs, high-fiving her and nodding.
"Did you somehow gain telepathy too?" Courtney asks, confused. "Because I highly doubt that he would just tell you all of that."
"No, Henry's just still learning how to use his powers," Cindy explains. "So sometimes he accidentally projects his thoughts into my head--and other people's too sometimes, I presume--without realizing it. And this was one of his tamer thoughts."
Courtney shakes her head with a grimace. "I don't even want to know."
"Yeah, gross," Yolanda says, wrinkling her nose up. "I still can't believe I ever dated him."
"Join the club," Cindy sympathizes, nudging her shoulder in solidarity.
"Now that's one organization that I hope I'll never join," Courtney laughs. "Honestly, I'm simultaneously kinda flattered that Henry thinks I could 'turn' both of you and kinda terrified that people still think that's a real thing that happens."
"Straight boys: can't live with them, can... actually really easily live without them," Cindy says thoughtfully. The other two chuckle.
"While we're on the topic of straight boys... where's Rick?" Yolanda wonders aloud.
"Date night with Beth," Courtney supplies promptly. "I think they said something about bowling?"
"Ooh, that sounds like fun," Cindy says, perking up. "Wanna go crash it?"
"Depends, are you any good?" Yolanda teases.
"I'm good at whatever I apply myself too," she says smoothly. There's a long pause, and then...
"You've never gone bowling before, have you?" Courtney asks suspiciously.
"Maybe..." Cindy hedges. Her girlfriends gape at her in horror.
"Well, now we have to go!" Courtney exclaims, acting as if Cindy having never bowled before is a personal affront to everything she stands for. "Come on, Cindy, you can drive us." She gets up and starts grabbing her stuff, and Cindy and Yolanda follow her lead.
"Mom! We're leaving to go meet Beth and Rick!" Courtney yells as they head downstairs.
A muffled "Okay, stay safe!" comes from somewhere in the house, and Courtney opens the front door and holds it for Cindy and Yolanda with a dramatic half-bow.
"Why, thank you," Cindy says as she bats her eyelashes exaggeratedly.
"What a gentlewoman," Yolanda adds, giggling.
"Shotgun!" Courtney calls out once they're all outside, jogging a little to catch up.
"And just like that... chivalry is dead," Yolanda deadpans, clasping her hands to her chest and staring off wistfully into the distance. "Where, oh where, did you go?"
"Oh, shut up," Courtney says, punching her lightly in the shoulder with a bright smile. "Do you really want shotgun or did you just want to make that joke? Because if you're so attached to it you can have it."
"No, I just wanted to make that joke." Yolanda grins and plants a kiss on her cheek, leaning into her side as Cindy rifles through her purse for her keys.
"Here we go!" Cindy declares when she finds them and unlocks the car.
"So, what's the speed limit again?" she asks, only half joking, as her and Yolanda get into the car and Courtney goes around the the passenger side.
"Yeah, I was totally kidding," Cindy reassures her with a nervous laugh, because there's no way she's telling her that she was doing twice that on the drive here. Courtney gets in and begins fiddling with the radio, nodding in approval when she finds a station she likes as one of the presets.
"Okay, babe, since you've never bowled before, we're going to have to go over all of the basics," Courtney instructs. "Some of it we can talk about on the way, but most of the teaching has to happen at the bowling alley, like proper stance and how much run-up distance you need."
"Yes, I think you'll need a lot of help with stance in particular," Yolanda confirms from the backseat as Cindy pulls out of the driveway.
"I think you two just want an excuse to stand really close behind me and maneuver me around," Cindy teases them, smirking.
"Well, stance is actually really important for knocking over the maximum amount of pins and making sure not to injure yourself," Yolanda explains, and the thing is that Cindy actually believes her--it's a very Yolanda thing to do, to care so much about other people and their well-being (Cindy took advantage of that many times before. Yolanda has since forgiven her, but Cindy still doesn't know if she'll ever be able to forgive herself for all of the torture she put Yolanda through). Then, her voice turns mischievous and although Cindy can't see her, she knows that she's smiling as she continues, "That's just a fun bonus."
"And someone has to," Courtney reasons. "Wouldn't you rather it be us than Beth or Rick?"
"True. Beth and Rick are nice, but I'm not going to put out on my first date with them," Cindy says, chuckling, and then, sultrily, "You two can adjust my stance all you want, though." Both of her girlfriends laugh, but Yolanda leans forward to lightly slap Cindy's arm semi-reproachfully--she still hasn't quite overcome all of her Catholic upbringing.
"Okay, but I'm going to hold you to that," Courtney warns her with a grin. "Just a heads-up, bowling can get pretty, well... intense with us, but really, what doesn't? The competitiveness is strong in the JSA."
"Yeah, but bowling isn't all about competition, it's also just plain fun," Yolanda says. "Knocking down the pins is actually really therapeutic, you'll love it. Bowling is one of my favorite sports because I get to throw stuff at other stuff in the same way that boxing is one of my favorite sports because I get to hit stuff."
After that, Courtney and Yolanda begin to debate exactly how far bent over you should be by the end of your throw for maximum pin-hitting potential, and Cindy half-listens to their good-natured bickering, a big smile on her face as she drives through the streets of Blue Valley (this time at the actual speed limit).
I love them, she thinks, not for the first time. Even Cindy isn't brave enough to say it aloud--none of them have yet--but she knows deep down that it's absolutely true. Of course she's managed to fall in love with two of her father's worst enemies: Stargirl and Wildcat, impulsivity and stability, her better wholes (because really, neither of them are half a person).
And she wouldn't have it any other way.
Notes:
this was meant to be like 2k words but ig my creative juices were just flowing!!! anyways i love these three w my entire heart and would both kill and die for them, so chances are i will be writing more for them, either by making this part of like a series of oneshots or maybe i'll be making a multichapter fic sometime soon idk 👀
once again, check out my ao3 for more like this!! please leave ur questions/comments/concerns below, i thrive off of others' validation :')
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you, a fool: friends to lovers, no, enemies to lovers, wait no, friends to lovers- me, an intellectual: they're all dating, they have two hands, they do the three way kiss challenge we can have it all
you’re so right!! i see the error of my ways, this was clearly the only logical way to go!!!
principal bowin is all cindy as most popular student in school the isa has a mission for you. i want you to start an abstinence club so that students like my precious baby isaac won't be seduced. cindy: i absolutely refuse. bowin: courtney & yolanda will be in it. cindy: i love abstinence. excuse me while i go be abstinent w courtney & yolanda after school in the school club room w no adult supervision isaac can watch or something. isaac: can't i just play fortnite? cindy: absolutely not.
lmaooo isaac is so tired he’s not even mad about the whole his-parents-being-villains thing he’s just mad that he has to deal w this bc of it. his mom has no idea bc cindy threatened to end him if he told her and so now he just goes to the meetings every week and sits outside w his heavy-duty noise-cancelling headphones
"straight girls are a different breed. i can’t remember the exact wording of the post but i specifically remember this tumblr post that was like “guys have to prove that they aren’t gay, whereas girls have to prove that they ARE” bc of the vast difference between straight guys having no physical contact and straight girls literally being able to make out with each other and still be thought of as straight lol" this is wildstarshiv closeted couple
anon your MIND. i didn’t even consider the way they could just like totally do cute couply things in public and just get away w it bc they could play it off as them just being really close friends. this opens up a whole new avenue of headcanons
