YES! YES! I PREDICTED IT! IM A MASTERMIND! The Whole 'mature For His Age' Thing! I Had It Pinned From

still feel like shit but bart's hair seems like something worth watching. he's sharp. he's fierce.

THIS IS SO SAD

sketch of lt. kim kitsuragi

EVERYONE, hear me out please

fanon tim has been sort of... obliterated, which is pretty normal when you have people who like to push hurt/comfort to the limit. no hate. however, we shouldn't just shove the idea that tim has troubles away just because he isn't characterized all too well in some fanfictions.

tim drake's parents left him alone a lot. they (at least his father) had high expectations of him, causing him to have to mature faster. that much is seemingly canon. in canon, his parents were overly terrible to him like you might find in a classic trope (because it doesn't work that way), but what we see of his dad certainly wasn't all too great. it's complicated!

that being said, he is still a goofy and dramatic child overall. he, like everyone, has his lows and weak moments, but his demeaner early on as robin is often a little bright-eyed.

as for his relationship with bruce- it's tense. bruce is still grieving. tim is still grieving. bruce tries to hold tim at arm's length, but he can't help but to try and parent the kid more than his own father had. at least, from what im reading. i just barely wrapped up the whole contagion stories for tim's robin days.

regarding this screencap from a comic volume i dont remember, tim actively separates his life from robin's life. his school and social life are in pieces. his robin life is messy and bruce is difficult to work with. tim is trying to do his job, but it's hard and he gets into moods about them, because him claiming to hate himself isn't a one-time thing if i can recall correctly.

tim drake struggles to be a teenage boy and enjoy time with his girlfriend. he doesn't see much of his friends and his grades are plummeting. this is a good thing to write sad-tim over, because if you remember being tim's age, grades and friends are your life. those two things are why you get out of bed and do things.

tim as robin has several 'im going to die' experiences that he fightfully freaks out over. those are fabulous things to write about, even if the senario is totally fabricated and youve never touched a comic.

all this being said, i could still be wrong and/or missing things. i just wanted to put my little ideas out there regarding tim fics, because all he needs is a little work to be written interesting (to me lol). feel free to add one, because again, im still a baby in this fandom.

tim being insecure about his age will always crack me up, but it also makes me sad because he wants to be taken seriously and become an adult, but he never truly gets to act his age.

tim and jack's relationship is so peculiar. people should write about it more often ;D

not to get anyone's hopes up, but keep your eyes peeled for the next ~10 years because my life goal is to take some creative role in a dc movie or tv show containing tim drake as a major character.

is this incredibly cocky? absolutely, but im making this post so that it will either age poorly or fantastically.

listen, i have to work for something big in life, so let me be cocky this once.

tim drake is mighty protective of jason's memorial

jeez, i really like their expressions

pssst, hey, you guys want some timkon queer subtext?

tired boy strikes again

they are sharing a moment!

aaand my favorite.

i really appreciate how well the complexities of tim drake are portrayed here

it's an unhealthy relationship, especially for a young teen, but it isnt so black and white. it has a lot of depth, especially if youre me and like to pretend the writers intended all sorts of little intricacies i see lol

also, the potential of this being written is phenomenal. it's times like these were i wish i was in a discord group or something

does anyone have any recommendations for a batfam or similarly themed discord server?

i feel like it would be fun to talk about comics/fics/whatevers with other people because there is only so much my irl friends can handle lol