(no prompt, just wanted to do a minific of Brainy reacting to his appearance in the live-action Supergirl series, in honor of Jesse Rath debuting as the character tonight)

"What the hell?"

Clark stared at Brainy, as he was looking at the images on Clark's phone.

"Brainy, you want to tell me what's wrong?"

Brainy showed the phone to Clark, inches away from shoving it in his face.

"This! This is how they chose to first preview my appearance, in live-action television?"

Clark sighed. "I've told you before and I'll tell you again. It's fiction, Brainy."

"Yes… but I look dead. The makeup job is horrible, and my hair-"

Clark ruffled his Brainy's hair. "You'll always be adorable to me."

Brainy smiled, but still couldn't tear his eyes away.


(prompt: Kara/Brainy + They find a reason to hold hands or do it accidentally)

He's there to see her, when she wakes up.

Her eyes open, looking around, and it's the most wonderful sight in the world for him- he did what he was asked. She sits up, slowly, and he sighs in relief.

Kara grabs his hands, staring into his eyes. She's smiling, but Brainy's just glad she's not trying to punch him in the face.

"You." She says. "You're the one who brought me back."

Brainy gives her a smile in return. "Yes."

"And you're part of the Legion, too?"

"I am. Mon-El woke me up to help you."

"Thank you, Querl."


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + I could just choke you right now.)

"I could just…choke you right now." Brainy said, scowling at Winn.

Winn stared at him.

"Did you…did you really just say that to me?" he asked. "Because that is not okay."

Brainy didn't know how they'd gotten into this argument, but now that it had escalated to that point, he wished he could take it all back. He tried to avoid looking at Winn's face, especially because it seemed he was about to cry.

"I do not know what came over me. I am so sorry, Winslow."

"It's fine. I just expected someone as smart as you to know better."


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + What did you do to your hair?)

"What did you do to your hair?"

Winn reached out to touch it, and Brainy flinched, but let him.

Brainy's hair was stiff, like optical fibers inside a cable, and bright white. It was strange, feeling it. He was so much more alien than a lot of people he associated with, even the literal aliens, and though Winn wasn't inclined to like him, he still found him fascinating.

"I did nothing to my hair, Winslow. It has always been like this."

"Oh." Winn answered, as if it wasn't obvious. "It looks weird."

"Do you think I care about your opinions?"


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + It's four A.M.)

"It's 4 A.M. Why are you awake?"

Brainy rolled over, making sure Winn was looking at him. He noticed he wasn't wearing his disguise, which surprised Winn.

"I was… just thinking." Brainy said, slowly.

"What else is new?"

Brainy lightly hit him in the arm. "Shut up."

"Okay, sorry. What're you thinking about?"

"You, mostly."

Winn raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"Not like that. I wanted to know if you really thought I was ugly, without my disguise."

"Oh."

"That is all you have to say? 'Oh'?" Brainy answered.

"No. I meant, of course not."

"Really?"

"You're kinda growing on me."


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + Can you just back off?)

Winn really, really didn't want to go down to that ship again.

It was so dark, no thanks to it being buried underwater. And then there were those pods, with bodies floating in them…

But if Mon-El told the DEO he needed to go down there to retrieve one of the people in those pods, Winn would go help him.

So there he was, with him and Imra, as they prepared to release Brainiac 5 from containment.

"I sense you're scared." Imra said, touching his shoulder. "You've had a bad experience with a Brainiac before-"

"Can you just back off?"


(prompt: Winn making fun of Brainy's face.)

"I just want to talk to him. Alone." Winn tells the others. "Make sure he's really trustworthy."

"But-"

"Let him do this. It'll be alright."

Winn takes Brainy, then, to a room somewhere in the DEO, and Winn invites him to sit down.

"Did you really mean what you said?" Brainy asks.

"Not really." Winn answers. "I just didn't want to make fun of you in front of your friends."

Brainy's heart sinks, and Winn feels a tiny bit sorry- until he looks at the symbol on Brainy's forehead again.

"I've heard a lot of insults. Yours won't be better."


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + things you said that made me feel like shit)

Brainy was pulled out of Kara's mind, and was greeted by several unhappy faces, Winn's being closest to him.

"Way to go, Brainiac." Winn said, sneering. "You made no progress. Now it'll be even more difficult to pull her out of whatever's going on inside her head."

"What was I supposed to do?" Brainy asked. "I followed Mon- El's instructions for me to the letter. And yet…she's still afraid of me."

"No shit." Winn said. "With a face like that? She'd never trust you. Hell, I probably wouldn't, if I was in her place."

"What is that supposed to mean?"


(prompt: Kara almost hugging Brainy after she wakes up, but deciding not to.)

Kara wakes up. He's still there, waiting next to her.

After all that he saw of her, in her mind prison, he still wants to be there for her. Even though they barely know each other.

She's sure he's tired, from their encounter. After what she went through, she knew she wasn't the easiest person to work with, especially when she tried to kill him on first sight.

But they managed, somehow. She knows he wouldn't hurt her.

She thinks about hugging him, but something tells her she needs to hug her sister first.

And she can't argue with that.


(prompt: Winn/Brainy + "I'm not going anywhere.")

"You did it." Winn said, after Kara left.

Brainy looked up at him, still staring at where she'd been. "I suppose I did. But in the end, it was she who had to save herself. I was just there to motivate the process, a bit."

"Yeah." Winn agreed. "So, what are you gonna do now?"

Brainy sighed. "I do not know. Mon- El woke me up to help her…but after seeing what he and Imra had to face, I cannot do nothing."

"True, but just for tonight, I think you need to celebrate."

"Everyone else left."

"I'm not going anywhere."