More Dick & Tim. More Tim Being A Little Rat Boy

my junky tribute to young justice

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.

dude, the excitement on tim's face is just- wow. if you didn't think he liked bruce wayne, id say think again.

(dick's hair is a crime. i huge crime. yikes. he should try tying it up c; )

tim drake: the tired robin

poor sleepy robin.

low blow, kid.

sometimes i really bothers me that tim will say things about jason or about bruces parents and then feel no guilt about it, but panics over silly little other things. i wish there was more tim drake-bruce wayne interactions. also

shit like this, man. this line was a big deal! and so little mention of it later :(

give me angst, man. please.

bruce you are a TERRIBLE influence on teenage boys. christ.

look at him, being a teenager. don't you love it?

'boy hostage', for your viewing pleasure

man i love tim's middle part. it really sets him apart from his brothers.

thank you! i appreciate this a bunch, i dont want to just blindly hate on steph because someone told me to.

my reply to them before i sent the ask was actually “ if you dont like steph, wait until i tell you about bruce wayne “ and someone gave me a wholesome award so i consider that a win in my book lmao

god i sound like a redditor; i was just defending tim drake in the post this was under

hey! how knowledgeable are you on stephanie brown? because i got in a bit of an argument with a dc fan on reddit who claims she's all these awful things, but im still relatively new to steph and i want to see what was true and what wasn't. link to screenie right here: https://ibb.co/vh6CYCJ

these may be matters of opinion, but even then, i'd like to know your take. i haven't read her firsthand often enough and i trust your judgement over this random redditor who seems to have some sort of blonde-woman related trauma left untapped.

I'm not necessarily the most knowledgable on her in the world, but I do know a decent amount because she's one of my absolute faves and I love her

But ohhhh boy that screenshot is a lot.

I will say that several of the things this person brings up are based in canon but are taken in the worst faith and framed in the way that makes her look as bad as possible, if that makes sense? It’s ripping things away from any context, because there's a very clear bias against her here.

I'll go through it point by point under the cut

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look at him think. so focused. so determined.

man im out of it. at least comics are pretty fun.