Tim Drake: The Tired Robin

tim gets a bruce wayne shadow when he acts like batman. that's some incredible and impressive detail

connor acting remotely domestic cracks me up. how sweet :>

even tim is aware

it isnt my birthday but can someone write me some angst around this topic? LMAO i have minor writer's block

not a clue! that certainly makes more sense, though. im just going off of this

dick and tim gossiping about bruce. neither of them considered bruce as their dad; more like the weird younger uncle who used to babysit them

you know, realistically, tim brings up a good point. i mean, he wasn't just a lonely child boo hoo or anything, it's implied that his only present family would up and leave semi frequently to the point that it was normalized for tim, who has a VERY strong moral compass.

this panel sequence is just... so much. first of all, it hits the awkward part of tim drake just right. deny it all you want, the boy blurts dumb shit kinda often lol.

then, there is the bond between the two boys. they may not be bruce's sons at that point, but they certainly do act like brothers. plus, that connection to bruce that tim has. man, it produces some good angst.

BAM. comic book proof of tim being left alone. i will never doubt another fanfic writer again. okay, that's a lie.

anyone else laughing at how tim's age makes zero sense?

can you imagine working with someone who you've idolized since the age of seven and have them not smile at you for months? smiling is like the bare minimum for any friendliness or openness whatsoever. i doubt he literally never smiled, but what tim says suggests that the environment wasn't quite easy for a while.

also tim being starved for praise is always what i wanna see. sorry fluff fans.

it is obligation. it's unhealthy and destructive, but it's his obligation.

nice

some more okay-dad!jack drake for you

i dont know if anyone finds jack drake as interesting as i do, but his relationship with tim really draws me in.

even without tim as robin, there is still something drawing them apart, like a mutual misunderstanding between the two. jack acts boarderline selfish in his raising of tim, but he's also grieving in the same way bruce and tim are.

instead of solving the root of the problem (even if tim would have nearly never caved), he sends his son away to cause trouble out of jack's sight. obviously, the writers had to do this for the sake of the story, but its still very sad.

people who blindly hate jack drake either see him hitting too close to home or haven't truly read him enough, and that makes me a little sad.

luckily theyre just comic books lmao

steph at it again. you know, being her. confident. smooth.

AWW HES PROUD. LOOK AT BATMAM BEING A GOOD FATHER-FIGURE. take notes, jack drake. naybe talk to your son every once in a while

you see, i say all of this, but then bruce abandons tim for months at a time out of guilt. man, i have a problem

just a little bit of disaster-tim for you

listen, listen, is it too much to ask for a john constantine fic where his partner treats him all soft and he's confused because he's much a morally gray person, but also into it? IS IT?