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The Drakes son

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I love Tim Drakes character and story, he’s my favorite robin if you couldn’t tell. He was a normalish kid before he stepped into the vigilante life, him becoming Robin was one of the best things that happened to him, he’s made friends, became familial with the bats, made a new life for himself. But he had also witnessed so much pain with him becoming a vigilante inadvertently killing his parents and him seeing the friends he had made die, leading him to manic. This comic was also inspired by me doing a Tim-robin reread and the fic Heart, Humble by Betty (it is so good, it explores Jacks and Tim’s relationship and is one of my favorite fic).

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the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

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Mission: befriend robin

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just had a revelation that maybe my love for the alternate self trope was from watching tokusatsu as a kid

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au where uncle aaron doesnt die but he has still just found out his favorite nephew is spiderman so now hes just kinda like :/ damn i guess i gotta be a superhero now

its like batman and robin if batman were the sidekick. hes just sort of following miles around dragging his scrawny little butt out of tight spots and yelling encouragement. 

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Talia walked over to Damian, her expression a mix of playful reprimand and maternal affection. After a brief pause, a smile broke on her face as she scooped up her ten-year-old son, wrapping him in a warm embrace and showering him with kisses. Damian barely had time to react before he found himself trapped in his mother’s affectionate onslaught, overwhelmed by the scent of her strong perfume.

Damian (embarrassed): I’d rather be stuck in an elevator with Clayface than deal with this… this is my life now. Why is she so smothering?

Talia (ignoring her son's complaining): Shush, let me love you, my sweet tifl! I haven't seen you in three months and this is me being better then my awful, awful, awful father.

Ra's Al Ghul (smoking from a cigarette): I am the reason you stopped being insane after what Nyssa put you through, but sure put the blame all on me.

Damian thrashed his legs in a vain attempt to escape while reaching out to his grandfather for help.

Damian (begging): Grandpa, help!

Ra's Al Ghul: Nope. She once kicked me in the crotch with a heel when I tried to scold her parenting. Bruce, you wanna give it a shot?

Bruce simply walked away, not saying a word. Faced with the relentless affection of his mother, Damian groaned as Talia continued to shower him with kisses.

Talia: You should be happy to have such a strong, powerful, highly skilled, and sweet woman as your momma!

Damian let out a dramatic whine, but he resigned himself to her embrace, knowing this was just part of being her son. For now, he was at her mercy.

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Tim staying at Dick's apartment for the first time:

Dick: So, what do you want to eat?

Tim: I don't know, maybe some italian food?

Dick: Ah, sure. I think I have everything I need so...

Tim, confused: Need? Need for what?

Dick, even more confused: You just tell me you want some italian food, don't you?

Tim: Yeah?

Dick: So, I'm telling you that I think I have everything I need for that.

Tim:

Tim: YOU KNOW HOW TO COOK?

Dick: What- What that's supposed to mean?

Dick: Of course I know how to cook. How do you think I'm still alive???

Tim: Idk, buying food???

Dick: Every day? I don't have enough money for that!

Tim: You're rich!

Dick: Tim, are you even looking at my apartment?

Tim:

Tim: I thought it was small because you liked it like that...

Dick: I'm an acrobat who literally grew up doing everything in motion all the time, plus the most likely AuDHD thing in my brain, why would I ever want to live in a small place?

Tim:

Tim: Good point...

Tim: So, u can cook?

Dick: timistgiloveyoubutyoureanidiot

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So... Dick can sing.

This is canon, he actually can sing and it's pretty good at it.

I like to think that he sings to the hostages when he rescues them, especially to the frightened children that he helps.

So... How his siblings found out? Not by hearing him humming, or by hearing him comfort a scared child, na-ah.

The siblings were in Dick's apartment, going through the things he had told them they could see if they wanted anything, since he was going to throw away some of the things he no longer needed.

In a box, Jason pulls out a CD, looking at the name written on it with a frown.

Jason: "Dick's performances"? What is this? School presentations?

Dick, not at all impressed by the taunt, looks up at the CD: Oh, I forgot that existed. Alfred recorded that. It's when he was singing on the radio.

Absolutely everyone falls silent.

Steph, who was invited to join them and now it's just stunned: You did what?

Dick: What? Singing on the radio?

Duke: Are you a singer?

Dick: No? I mean, only with sung commercials and some other music that people asked for. Nothing actually serious.

Tim, completely offended because I didn't know about this CD: Let's listen to it.

Dick, rolling eyes: It's awful.

It's not, not at all. Even Damian is impressed.

Cass asks him to sing after that, and Dick complies with his little sister's wishes.

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http://archiveofourown.org/works/62033509

This is about Tim and his dad and also his other dad and that last dad’s relationship with his other son who is of course tims brother. And how people who truly LOVE each other are WRONG about each other all the time regardless of whether that person is on net Good or Bad, although there is indeed categorical cardinal Good and Bad and also ordinal Better (Bruce) and Worse (Jack) 👍

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i'm trying to think of the funniest places in canon to put fanon versions of characters in. so far i've got:

10 year old perfect drake heir baby stalker tim - knightfall

17 year old post-rr uber depressed wet noodle red robin tim - contagion

14 year old wet noodle robin tim - battle for the cowl

himbo dick - murderer/fugitive

emotional support sister cass - officer down

lazarus pit jason - no man's land

good dad bruce - knightquest the search + knightsend

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Brainstorming the best points in canon for various bat-girls/women to get turned into cats for fic purposes (I am accepting suggestions):

Cass: One year later. She gets turned into a cat instead of the whole deathstroke thing. Tim finds her when he returns to Gotham and begs to be allowed to keep. Alfred says no though, so he calls in a favor with Barbara and Cass gets stuck with the OYL Birds of Prey crew and has to sit through Shiva and Barbara bitching at each other about a number of topics that also includes Cass herself seeing as she’s gone missing

Alternatively: That vaguely at the end of post-crisis setting so many fics have. She is recently returned to Gotham when she gets turned into a cat. Unfortunately for her, when trying to investigate, she gets stuck under Damian’s care as part of one of Bruce’s attempts to teach his son responsibility (unaware that the cat is his missing daughter). Neither of them are particularly happy with this but they grow on each other.

Helena: Post Birds of Prey #80. Helena has just stormed out of the Aerie post argument with Barbara when she suddenly gets transformed into a cat. She gets picked up by Dinah, who thinks she’s adorable, and gets stuck as the Bird’s mascot/pet. Helena would rather be a anywhere else but instead she is stick listening to Dinah grump at Barbara for how she handled the situation, and watching Barbara get the Braniac virus, and everyone keeps giving her head scratches and well maybe it isn’t that bad after all.

Barbara: Her Suicide Squad era. She wakes up one morning as a cat and has complicated feeling about how she isn’t paralyzed in this dorm. She then hangs around Suicide Squad headquarters listening in on people (and collecting pets) until Waller figures out how to transform her back.

Stephanie: War Games. Half-dead and staggering through Gotham after escaping Black Mask, Steph gets turned into a cat by a well-meaning magic user trying to save her life. Spoiler is presumed dead/missing in the gang war while Cat!Steph ends up hanging around either Leslie’s clinic or maybe Selina (I need to read more Catwoman comics), recovering and grappling with the results of her actions.

(Bonus) Bruce: His loser era (pre-Murderer/Fugitive). Sasha thought that that learning that Bruce Wayne was Batman would mean that he wasn’t able to ditch her anymore. Appearently not. Now she has to figure out where the hell Batman went, cover for Bruce Wayne’s disappearance, and also take care of the new cat he apparently obtained. She isn’t getting paid enough for this.

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anyways the thing is that dixon loves foils it's clearly his favority literary device. if two characters exist to dixon they exist to be foiled.

and mmm i think there's a misconception that a foil is somehow a lesser character?? and that's not necessarily the case because the only thing about foiling is the exploration of the contrasts.

so without further ado....a list of characters dixon foils sometimes...

dick and tim

dick and bruce

bruce and jack

jack and crystal brown (tho she was just steph's mom at the time)

jack and dana

tim and ariana

tim and dava

tim and steph

steph and ariana

steph and cass

dick and amy

clancy and dick (arguably clancy and barbara as romantic interests for dick)

dick and barbara

barbara and dinah

helena and barbara

helena and dick

helena and tim

helena and steph

.....and many many more

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I think the fact that Tim’s childhood was actually fairly normal makes things funnier, actually.

He was raised in boarding schools and a bit of a latchkey kid, but he knew his parents loved him and he was supervised the majority of the year. He has normal interests, like skateboarding and superheroes. He has plenty of friends and meets up with them outside of school and everything. Even when he has to go to a new school, he finds a friend group. He dislikes school and he’s a dork. He has had multiple girlfriends, a homoerotic friendship, and a boyfriend. He’s intended to be the reader-insert, the Everyman, the guy that teenage boy readers identify with. As far as Batman comics go, he’s practically Normal McNormal Face on a surface level.

He also:

Responds to a temporary lack of adult supervision by stalking Batman with a camera to prove that Batman is being reckless. How did Tim know Batman was being reckless in the first place? Who knows! Maybe he just stalked him recreationally first.

Travels to New York City alone to break into Dick Grayson’s apartment.

Tries to clone his dead best friend (the other half of said homoerotic friendship).

Climbs out the window in the middle of a conversation with his guidance counselor.

Fakes an entire uncle and hires an actor to play him because he wants to live independently.

Runs away to a quarantined disaster zone, resulting in a huge manhunt.

Deduces Batman’s identity at age 9 and keeps it a secret (look, 9-year-olds are chatty).

Falls asleep on a rollercoaster, in the middle of a stakeout, and other inopportune places like the freaking dormouse from Alice in Wonderland.

Desperately attempts to keep the family together in Gotham War to a frankly disturbing degree.

Routinely ends up in random countries without adults, but it’s fine because he’s Competent (TM).

Hero worships Dick Grayson so hard he literally steals his identity.

Like, no, Tim’s insanity is not the result of cartoonish childhood neglect. Which means…

He’s just like that.

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Inspired by these panels:3

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Trying to find the sweet spot for Bernard's design where he's recognizable but also alt

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Tim, finally able to go sleep after solving a rough case: Alright, line up.

Cassie, Bart and Kon: *all line up and stand at attention*

Tim: When I say don’t add to the population, I mean…?

Cassie, Bart and Kon in unison: Do not get pregnant, get someone else pregnant, clone someone, give a robot or Artificial Intelligence a consciousness or mess with the time stream and accidently increase fertility rates again.

Tim, nodding in approval: And when I say don’t remove from the population…?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: Don’t kill anyone or thing that has a soul or consciousness directly or inadvertently unless through the legal system or if it’s a genuine accident, in which it is not our fault.

Tim, rubbing his eyes tiredly and yawning: If you’re going to leave the planet or time period?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: Tell you or a trusted adult.

Tim: and who is a trusted adult?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: WonderWoman, Superman, Oracle, and Batman between 1 am to 11 pm only.

Tim: good job, gold stars all round.

Cassie, Bart and Kon: YES!

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Star Trippin' , Baby