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The idea of Tim and Ra’s having a mini war post time stream brings me joy. They’re not really out to kill, just inconvenience. One day Tim wakes up to a scandal that Ra’s set up and he has to figure out how to fix it and in retaliation Tim hacks into the LoA bases and causes intro music to play whenever Ra’s enters a new room.

One day Dick walks into the manor to see Tim staring at a singular cupcake sitting on the counter. Before he can steal it for himself Tim warns him off with a quick. “It’s from Ra’s and it’s poisoned.”

Dick is confused and flabbergasted and concerned because why is the 600 year old leader of an assassin cult sending his baby brother poisoned cupcakes.

“I snuck on to base and added laxatives to the water last month. I was gonna test the cupcake in the cave but my guess is it’s meant to incapacitate me the same time it took for them to get the water out of their system. Or maybe he’s just sending me a gift for the 2 year anniversary of me blowing up all his major bases. Last year he sent chocolate laced with non lethal doses of belladonna. Naturally I retaliated by hacking his servers and changing the language settings to Pig Latin.”

Dick just nods along and wonders how hard it would be to trick Tim into visiting a therapist. Also they are clearly not keeping a close enough eye on their brother.

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Yeah.....

I miss his Red Robin era

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Robin: *does a Quadruple Summer Sault*

Baby stalker Tim Drake: Richard you have girlbossed a little too close to the sun

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okay for tim's 16th birthday he got:

trauma and immense paranoia from bruce

a super unfashionable and clunky pair of shiny dress shoes from dana he's never ever going to wear (dana canonical terrible gift giver c. 2003)

a wireless modem from jack

i feel like as far as parents go, jack somehow was the dark horse winner of the day.

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genetically he’s gotta give good hugs right? Statistically that punnet squares gotta do something and it certainly wasn’t the hair gene

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the fandom’s twisted takes on jack drake and tim kind of make me sad because i feel like its canon state is the most realistic, relatable, and ‘heartwrenching in its own way’ form of a parent-child relationship. jack loves tim, but fails to communicate that properly. he doesn’t understand tim. the lack of dialogue between two people who love each other, but physically can’t express it, especially from the parental side, is a pain that is so valid and one that i’m sure many people can understand.

making jack abusive also takes away so much of tim’s canon grief and devastation. tim loved his father! he gave up robin for him! in their very last moments, he was crying and telling his father how much he loved him and to just hold on a little longer. and then the utter tragedy of arriving just seconds late to the sight of his father’s corpse.

and the added context that jack drake wasn’t even murdered intentionally, it was a freak accident part of a larger scheme that didn’t even involve tim at all. can you imagine tim’s anger?? the bitterness???

anyways… i think the story of losing one’s parent and spending forever thinking about all the unsaid words, regretting what you did say, being angry at the circumstances, wishing for anything to bring them back, holds so much weight on its own and it really doesn’t need unnecessary non-canon details of jack being abusive or cruel when that wasn’t the case. you don’t need to vilify everyone. i know he was FAR from perfect but he did love tim, and tim loved him back and he will likely grieve for him forever.

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"In a world where Jason Todd can come back... then why can't my dad?" ATE. HE ATE. GET THAT BITCH 6FT UNDER BRING BACK JACK DRAKE

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I just finished We Are Robin and holy shit. Have Duke and Tim ever spent any significant amount of time together?

Because. Middletown North and Louis E. Grieve. The two of them have a connection no other Bat does.

The only two of the kids to survive a school shooting as civilians.

On top of that, they both juggled seeing their parents disabled due to costumed violence and helped look after them during their treatment.

I just think they have a few things they could talk about.

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It was inevitable that I’d draw joker jr with how angsty that plot line is

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It's so funny to me when people act like Tim's major problem is the time when no one believed his seemingly grief driven (but secretly correct) theory about Batman being lost in time. Something that he really doesn't seem to hold much of a grudge about and that was motivated mainly by concern for his well being.

Like. What about the time Batman orchestrated a fake message from the future designed to drive him into paranoia so he would question EVERYONE and everything, even time itself, ON HIS BIRTHDAY?! THAT was crazy. THAT almost made him quit being Robin.

He also truly believes that he would lose EVERY non-civilian he cares about if he stops being Robin.

Obviously, the comic is trying to show that Tim goes back to Batman because he gets over his fear of the "headspace" Batman wants him to enter, but there is no way this isn't motivated largely due to the connections he is scared of losing! (Don't even get me STARTED on how this contrasts to Cissie from Young Justice)

And then. When he returns. What happens?

HE DOESN'T ASK FOR AN APOLOGY BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE WON'T GET ONE. He knows he won't get one, and it doesn't seem to bother him that much! That is SO MUCH MORE INSANE than people being RIGHTFULLY concerned for his mental health after many, many serious deaths in a short period of time.

The worst part of all of this, by the way, is that when Tim isn't Robin (because his father finds out and tells him to stop) he really doesn't talk to anyone from his other life. Except Steph, briefly, before she thinks he's cheating on him and then goes to off to replace him as Robin. But everyone else? The only other Bat he talks to is Dick during a gang event at his school where he gives him the information he knows.

And sure, Dick calls him little brother when he sees him, but is that brotherhood conditional to being in the game? From what we've seen, a little bit.

That's what kills me about Tim Drake. It's never acknowledged in the comics (beyond his guilt for not helping people who need him), but out of EVERYONE he knows the consequences of leaving the game. Not just for the city, but for the hero.

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Robin (1993) #5

^ This has the same vibes as this:

Red Robin #5

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Tim casually, to Stephanie: Bernard mentioned wanting to be a chef <3

Steph: love that for him.

[Later]

Dick: Tim's been looking good lately

Steph: he's probably eating better, his boyfriend likes to cook.

[Later later]

Damian: not that I care, but what's the deal with Drake's new boyfriend anyways?

Dick: Apparently they met in high school? I don't know much about him but I hear he's a cooker.

Damian: ...

[Even later]

Damian *on a mission*: you don't have to worry about father getting in the way, he hasn't even confronted Drake for dating a drug dealer.

Jason: oh word?

[The latest]

Jason: good on you for being so lax lately! I still can't believe you're letting Tim date a dealer.

Bruce: what.

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feeling sooooo normal (having a category ten 'thinking about tim & cassie using each other to cope with kon’s death' moment)

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Confess I loved you from the start

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mandatory jason tim stabbing sequence for every au

#not me melting into a puddle over this #(ooc)

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