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Tim, just starting his Robin training: What are you doing now? 👀 (Is it a cool Batman thing?)

Bruce, who’s already been through this with two Robins before: I am unfolding a piece of paper.

Batman (1940) #444

Image description: A panel from the above comic issue, showing young Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne sitting at a lab computer in the batcave. Tim is wearing civilian clothing while Bruce has the gloves of his Batman suit on under his regular clothing. He’s holding paper, dollar bills, and several plastic cards in his hands. Tim says, “What are you doing now?” and Bruce says, “Unfolding a piece of paper from his wallet, Tim.” End ID.

#bruce u don’t need to sass the 13 year old

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dick!bats

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timkon kiss inspired by the latest chapter of buy back the secrets by the one and only fer sundiscus

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I prefer the sketch

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”You don't need to say anything.”

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Tim Drake

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Couldn’t resist when I saw THIS post by @freakly-fungi

Tim clothe’s thief confirmed, none of Bernard’s clothes are safe.

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found this sketch I forgor about :))

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A Letter To My Mother That She Will Never Read by Ocean Vuong / Batman Urban Legends #18 / Dementia by Jane Hewitt / We Are Robin #8 / Forgetting by Joy Ladin / We Are Robin #8 / Remember My Name by Mitski / Batman (2011) #50

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Jason Todd moodboard

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Now listen, I think that Batman slitting Jason's throat was not an intentional, conscious choice made by the character, but instead the narrative punishing him for refusing to accept his role in the story.

Like, it's hard to accept at face value "batman missed," because batman doesn't miss, that's his whole thing, but hear me out:

Jason said "It's him or me," and Bruce tried to save both, tried to pick something else, but in doing so almost killed Jason, because by refusing to choose, by doing anything other than killing the Joker, he picked against Jason.

It wasn't "kill him or kill me," not really. It was "kill him or lose me, forever, again," and by not picking up the gun and shooting the joker, by trying something else, he made his choice.

Any move that he made that did not kill the joker was going to kill Jason.

It's a metaphor, it's metatextual, it wasn't batman executing Jason, it was the narrative punishing him for trying to save both Jason and Batman

because not killing the joker isn't about the joker. it's about saving batman, because the moment batman kills someone because Bruce Wayne wants them dead is the moment Batman can no longer exist.

You can be a hero or a father, but not both, and you're choosing between killing yourself and killing your son and there was never a way to get out making that choice.

#and ultimately bruce always chooses batman over everyone and everything else #anyway. feeling crazy

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Fallen.

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Really enjoyed working on this commission about Jason. Thanks to my amazing commissioner🙏

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I want less of "the Drakes were terrible people and parents and Bruce rescues poor sad Timmy" (not knocking the trope it just got old for me)

And more of Bruce suffering a hell of his own creation as he tries to figure out how to parent Timothy "latchkey kid" Drake, who doesn't respect the concept of having parental supervision in general and more specifically Bruce's authority as his new guardian at all, because Tim was basically his caretaker for the entire beginning of his tenure as Robin

Any kind of Parental Action would have Bruce choking in his own hypocrisy. Like... imagine trying to get your teenage son to go to bed when he's been putting your ass down for naps for like, years, by that point. Imagine telling him to eat healthier when at 13 years old he was helping your butler with designing your meal plan 'cause you were too depressed to eat

Bruce gently tries to get him to stop working on a case to take a break, and Tim raises a single withering eyebrow (he learned this from Alfred) and Bruce immediately shuts up. Tim only listens to Bruce when he wants to and being legally adopted by the man hasn't changed that

(And I want fics of the rest of the batfam reacting to this dynamic soooooooo bad)

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I don't know how to explain this I just wanted Jason to adopt an ugly cat

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( bruce: i left you here as my conscience, tim. you were supposed to handle any problems. )

bruce that is a 14 year old that you left in charge of an adult man with a history of violence. just because it worked for you doesn’t mean it’ll work for jean-paul

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thinking about clark and jason again