Hey So Actually I Might Be A Little Obsessed With How Tim Is Dick’s Only Clearly Defined Brother.

i do think we should consider the following though: modern day well off parenting trends are generally about the idea that by giving your children the Best/Most Superior Infant and Early Childhood Experiences your children will 100% grow up into Healthy and Well Adjusted Adults With No Issues like children are a video game character that can be min/maxed for Optimal Outcomes. so rather than showing-love-is-weakness-and-my-business-baby-can't-show-weakness drakes, i suggest we should highly consider the following drakes who are trying to outdo their social class acquaintances and achieve best possibly outcomes for their son the following possible ways instead:

janet read this once on a blog and all her rich friends agree: primary colors are Bad for Babies. instead of having a house decorated only in white because she's an evil mother who is incompatible with having children, their house is filled with neutral colors and various shades of beige because the house can't be too stimulating for tim!! bright colors would be too distracting and detrimental for his overall development. he needs the calming surroundings of neutral colors. he is a sad beige baby.

(the first time tim sees color is dick's circus costume which is why he's so enamored and amazed with it and the backlash against his sad, beige childhood is what causes him to own at least 5 magenta shirts as a teenager)

on a related note, janet obsessed with the idea of montessori for tim. but not, like, real montessori which is actually an excellent and very evidenced based educational philosophy that is supposed to be cheap and accessible to children of all different socioeconomic backgrounds. instead, janet is about rich people montessori, which is all about buying only wooden toys that have at minimum a $150 price tag on it just because it says montessori on it. she rigs up his toy kitchen to the actual house plumbing so that instead of play washing dishes, he's, like, actually washing dishes. because it's not meaningful work play if your kid isn't actually doing a chore, right? he'll never succeed as an adult otherwise.

maybe she doesn't do montessori. maybe she shells out $24k a year for tim to attend forest school instead (at least, until he turns 7 and he goes to boarding school instead)

janet, as an archeologist, is all about raising her son like the ancients raised their children. and the ancients didn't have their children sit inside. no, children are meant to be outside as much as possible like they were in ancient times, not inside sitting in front of the television. when she's not taking tim to museums and art galleries for max educational experiences, she's focused on tim getting 1000 hours outside. now, gotham doesn't necessarily have a lot of green space and and the park gets taken over by poison ivy a lot so it's not necessarily safe, but they do the best they can. other parents might balk at taking their 6 year old out at 3 in the morning to go stalk batman and robin's patrol routes, but this is what tim wants to do and outdoor time is outdoor time, even at night, so janet takes him and marks off 2 hours on her tracker sheet with an air of self satisfaction. she'll make it to 1000 hours before the rest of moms in her mom group if it kills her, just to see to sour look on susan's face that janet was able outdo her parenting and now tim is on track to do better than susan's son jeff.

anyways, the drakes send tim off to boarding school at age 7 secure in the knowledge that tim is now bound for greatness and normalcy and success because they did everything right with raising him up to this point. tim will be completely well adjusted and totally normal. their job is done. they did it. success.

old art since I havent drawn them in years but I think of them often

this is so unbelievably funny to me, less than 0.01% of people are willing to besmirch alfred

the boy wonder #2

yknow what annoys me about fanon, that Tim and Dick had ONE serious argument and suddenly they both hate each other somehow? Like, come on, that's Dicks little brother, and that's Tim Big bro, and his superhero.

And even then, in Red Robin we see Tim still being close as heck, they both love and respect each other despite their differences.

ITS LITERALLY IN THE COMIC THAT TIM DOESNT HAVE A CONTINGENCY FOR DICK BECAUSE HE WOULD NEVER HURT OR BETRAY TIM!!! LIKE COME ON

he's just a little guy

The Boy Wonder (2024) #2 by Juni Ba

The fact that edgeworth’s office is on the 12th floor will never not be funny to me. There’s no way girlypop’s taking the elevator so is he like?? Just walking up and down 12 flights of stairs everyday ???

forever thinking about Dick’s reaction to Jason’s death

Bonus: Jason’s Batcomputer profile <3

The Many Post-Crisis Christmases of Tim Drake

Yes, everyone gets a few Holiday issues over the years, but Tim’s got his own special levels of trauma associated with the holiday.

A round up of every time Tim appears in comics about Christmas, sorted by year:

1990: Identity Crisis - Batman #455-457 aka Janet Drake’s funeral. Janet is buried on Christmas Eve. Jack’s still in a coma. Tim is living with Bruce at this point. Tim spends a lot of this storyline having nightmares and worrying by Jason’s memorial case. At the very end, Bruce and Alfred give Tim his personal Robin costume and Tim goes out officially as Robin for the first time.

1996: Holiday Bash I – “Just Another Night” it’s just a small mention here, but given future events it’s worth noting. Tim leaves a Christmas card for Alfred, and Jack takes Tim to the Caribbean for the holidays. Very in line with Tim’s behaviour during this period, where he’s noted for giving Babs thank you notes.

1998: Holiday Bash III – “Alone for the Holidays” aka the single point in canon that supports Neglected Sad Boi Tim Drake. Tim is, as the title implies, alone for the holidays and moping about it. Jack and Dana are trapped in Chicago because the airport is closed due to snow (Why Jack and Dana are in Chicago is left to the reader). Babs and Dick call Tim over to the Clock Tower for a Loners Christmas Party. It will never not be funny to me that Alfred and Harold are at this Loners Party, but Bruce isn’t. Only a TRUE committed loner misses the family loners Christmas party.

1999: Endgame, No Man’s Land (LotDK #126, Batman #574, ‘Tec #741). If you are unfamiliar with this classic story, Joker kidnaps 36 babies on Christmas Eve in No Man’s Land and threatens to blow them all up. Tim gets called away from Christmas dinner with Jack (as a note, Tim’s outside NML at the dinner, then immediately dives inside for this. Never bother trying to make sense of how often Tim got in and out of Gotham during NML) and is helping track down the babies. It’s…traumatic for everyone involved.

2001: Young Justice #40. The Night Before Doomsday. This is the story where Santa dies and Young Justice find themselves having to deliver all the presents on his behalf.

2006: Slayride, ‘Tec #826. Tim is running away from a group of drug dealers and is offered a ride by a passing car. The car is driven by Joker. Tim gets tied up with Christmas lights and eventually distracts him via an argument with Joker about the Marx Brothers.

2008: “It’s a Wonderful Night” and “The Night Before Christmas”, DCU Holiday Special #1 2008. Two reminders that Tim has a hard time at Christmas in one!

“It’s a Wonderful Night” is a tear jerker where Dick goes looking for Tim to deliver a Christmas present. He finds him at a cinema watching a showing of It’s a Wonderful Life. Captain Boomerang Jnr is also there. Tim and Owen bond over their dead dads both liking the movie (which…given their dads killed each other, is a thing) and Dick gives Tim his old Robin costume. You WILL cry.

“The Night Before Christmas” is a Titans story, particularly notable as far as Tim goes in that Tim and Cassie talk about how the holidays remind Tim of the people he’s lost (and look, for perfectly good reasons, given the above).