You should draw brainy and Winn being nerds (only if requests are open I don’t wanna force)
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i didn't feel like drawing people so have more kitties 🫶 if theres one thing to know about me i am a multishipper at heart and i dont believe ive posted about them before but i do love turbulence ❗️ also winn has a kink in his tail and no claws because of his time in the foster system even as a cat he cannot escape my incessant need to whump him
winndox + Have you ever though of a career in driving people fucking insane? Because you are already a PRO at it.
Something was up with Brainy.
Winn hadn’t been sure before- maybe this was just how he acted now, after over a year (from what he’d been told) in the twenty-first century. Maybe he was always a little distant, a little cold, keeping space between himself and his friends. Maybe his speech was always this monotone, more robotic like his ancestor before him.
(He tried not to think of that other Brainiac, even though now he couldn’t help but notice the resemblance. Perhaps that was why Brainy was being so tentative around him- he was worried Winn wouldn’t want to see him anymore, some fear by association thing.
To be fair, that was how Winn had thought of him before, but their situation had changed, and after all there was also a Toyman wearing his face on the loose- maybe that fear was mutual.)
But Winn wasn’t afraid of Brainy, just confused. Before, he’d been too eager to talk, to brag about his twelfth-level intelligence, to try and work with the DEO’s technology only to scoff at it and tell him all about how what he had in his own century was sooooo far superior, and he was to that extent so much more intelligent than him.
Now, he seemed hollowed out, from his voice to the way he stood away from Kara and Alex, instead of being in the center of the action, operating several screens at once like he’d enjoyed doing before, and Winn needed to get to the bottom of it.
So after he refused to use the Legion’s technology to identify Toyman’s accomplice, and Kara and Alex left J’onn’s tower, Winn let him have it.
“Have you ever thought of a career in driving people fucking insane?”
Brainy didn’t even roll his eyes- a gesture Winn had so often seen whenever he used to say anything Brainy considered stupid, which was constantly. “No.” he said. “I already have a career, and that is not in any job description I have ever seen.”
“Well, that’s too bad.” Winn answered. “Because you are already a pro at it.”
Brainy just sighed, and returned to his work at the computer, the image of the alternate Toyman grinning still on the screen, taunting both of them.
“What, no comeback?” Winn questioned him, like he’d been expecting one even though, with this Brainy, it was becoming clear he couldn’t expect a thing. “If this were back when you first landed in this century, you would’ve said something like “Right. And you would know something about going insane, wouldn’t you, Toyman Junior?””
Brainy shook his head.
“I would never say something so cruel.” He answered.
“Yeah. I know- of all the arguments we got into, family never came up. But I was always expecting it. Just like you were probably expecting me to bring up one of your many evil relatives.”
“And I knew you would never insult me in the same way.” He said flatly. “It would be hypocritical of either of us.”
“Right.” Winn said. “But now my evil doppelganger is on the loose, and he has an accomplice that I know you could so easily find with your tech or ours, and yet you won’t do it. Why?”
“I never said I wouldn’t.”
“But you’re hesitating.” Winn pressed. “I saw it, Alex saw it, Kara probably noticed something. Come on, Brainy. Work with me here.”
“I… there are things I cannot tell you right now.”
“Yeah, well, neither of us knows the future in this situation, so we’re both at a disadvantage. But the sooner we find this guy, the sooner he’ll be able to lead us to Toyman, and then I’ll be able to go home. You want to help me do that, right?”
“Of course.”
“That’s what I thought.” Winn said. “I helped you get home once… and I guess I still am. So when are you going to return the favor?”
When Brainy turned away from the computer and met his eyes, a part of Winn thought he looked guilty.
Can I trust him? He wondered.
For all he knew, Brainy could have been asking the same question.
sometimes I just casually think about how much jesse rath clearly wanted brainy to be bi. like- brainy in 3x18 reaching towards winn’s face in a way that suggested he wanted to kiss him? him in an interview comparing how brainy felt about winn to someone having a crush? him sharing my text post meme with ‘it’s my god given bisexual right to be dramatic’ over a picture of brainy on his instagram stories? him saying he shipped brainy with winn the most during his takeover on the supergirl instagram for part 1 of crisis? other things I’m probably forgetting? it really should have been canon
jesse rath also wanted female!querl’s wife to be kara so he gets it! sapphic!karadox>>>
given brainy’s bisexual in the comics, or at least it’s implied he is, i’m surprised the show never even confirmed it. for what it’s worth, queer representation was really important to them. but then again, they completely ignored ayla and salu’s relationship and had winn marry ayla so maybe i’m tripping. i hope she divorced his ass and got remarried to the (actual) love of her life. not sure why they couldn’t have winn date literally anyone else. nura was right there. this lowkey made me really mad at winn for breaking up the gays like that.
winn and brainy’s almost kiss scene was gold. not sure why winn didn’t want to be kissed by a beautiful man but maybe he was still pining after jimmy.
to me, the show’s finale is 6x07 and i’d like to think not long after, the legion defeated brainiac and brainy could go back home, so who knows. maybe brainy and winn do end up with each other. or maybe brainy finally gets to smooch lyle.
We're just going to enjoy my random sketches of the Winndox Villain AU from time to time, okay? But I’m relieved that some aspects of Winn and Brainy's previous designs have changed. Some of them gave me the creeps! Sheesh, how about we give people evil villain jackets now? That’s what the people want right??
I still believe that my artistic ability transfers a lot better on traditional media than it does digital. 💀
Thanks for playing, Rachy! ^-^ And you never disappoint with the WinnDox agenda. ;D
Headcanon for their sexuality:
I headcanon Brainy as panromantic asexual! Ace!Brainy was like one of my first ace headcanons, it is very dear to me *^*
And Winn, I think, is bi.
Have they came out? If so, how:
Winn first came out to Kara, then to Alex. Semi-casual and in a very word-vomit rambling way.
I think Brainy just did in a very matter-of-factly manner. With his present-time friends anyway.
How their friends/family took their coming out:
That moment when J'onn said "I'm proud of who you are" brought Winn to actual tears because his biological father was, well, never much of a father and to have his and everybody's father figure accept him was incredibly important.
Kara was honestly just excited about having a queer friend, since she'd never actively made any before. Sisters don't count. Same goes for Brainy's coming out. Also I think that Kara might have played a tiny bit of a matchmaker, originally brought to you by "you are both great and you both like guys too!", but it did work out in the end. xD
Do they go to Pride/With whom?:
I think Brainy would actually go in his glorious green self and everyone would just think it's a quirky queer costume. Because pride's about being who you are and that does include his green skin in Brainy's case. Winn loves that. They're going together, also with Nia, Kelly, Alex and Kara. I just realize that everyone's either canon queer or I headcanon them as queer. Afkghafghl.
Do they show their colors? (Flag-wise):
During pride, they go all out. Otherwise, Brainy 100% owns many mugs with ace and pan puns on them. Also a couple shirts. Winn has bi buttons that he wears.