I Used To Think It Was Kinda Weird That So Many People Interpreted Tim Drake As Being Sooo Smart Or Whatever

i hope tim drake gets disowned and falls down the stairs in front of photographers and his boyfriend leaves him and all his friends stop texting him back and the spirits of his dead parents come back and call him a slur and he gets tetanus from a rusty nail on his ugly houseboat and the houseboat sinks and dick calls him inept and he develops a shellfish allergy for real and eats a shrimp and keels over dead

✨Timcore✨

The "Sassy" Core 4 are my babies. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE WELL BEHAVED?

Nah, these 4 are little shits 🐛

I understand that the Red Robin run has us all in a chokehold, but I think we sometimes miss the forest for the trees. What makes it truly tragic isn't the fact that Tim is a really depressed and anxious person, but the opposite. Tim is a nerd who loves friendship and justice. He has tons of friends and contrasts a post-Jason Bruce who is withdrawn and depressed by being very outgoing and personable. That's his whole thing as a character, he exists to act as a liaison between Batman and the world.

When Red Robin starts, his father has just died, his best friend has just died, his girlfriend has just died, his mentor and some other friends have disappeared from the map, his older brother is juggling the Batman mantle and a poor ten yo Damian that has just lost his father. This is Tim at his worst mentally. He's a character built on interaction and he has no one to interact with. Add to it his canonical mental health issues, well the guy is going through it.

He pours his entire soul into the search for Bruce because he needs a fucking win. The man is spiraling the entire run. The true angst of Red Robin is not that he's a sad little mew mew, but that he isn't. We come to know him as this little guy who loves making friends and forcing Bruce to open up to others, and now we have to see him alone and desperate. He's very similar to Dick in that aspect, the drama hits you harder because you know how he is normally. And the parallels to Bruce at the start of his run as Robin are just brutal: someone wrecked by grief, alone, pouring all their energy and focus into work as an escape... And even in the middle of his crash out arc, he still ends up making friends. That's who Tim Drake is, and that's why he acts like that after losing so many people he holds dear.

the boy wonder #2

dc writing modern jaybin be like “this homeless child is ontologically evil but worry not billionaire saint Batman will deign to attempt to train the criminality and devilishness out of him”

Parental permission

ppl got really mad at bruce last time for getting mad when damian said he wanted to quit robin and be a doctor he immediately got his act straight

local luzers

People will have Dick acting too nice to his siblings sometimes. Never forget that Tim thought Dick was buried under a bunch of rubble, and Dick took a hot minute to observe Tim from his spot up in the rafters before letting Tim know he was alive and well. Cheeky shit even had the gall to tell Tim, "You should see your face. You really looked worried."

Robin #67