#Timbern

[thebirdsandthebats]

Dick in Gotham handling a hostage situation at a local university. Some villain crashed a party in the student apartments and has the whole building locked down. Dick is in there with Damian, and they finally make it to the floor where the bad guy is and they’re having this big tense stand off before the final fight…

and then one of the college students who this guy had huddled in the corner grabs a chair and just fucking clocks this guy. He hits him over the head so hard that the chair breaks and the guy COLLAPSES. Dick is like . Oh??

And then the student turns around (with a truly unhinged glint in his eye) and Dick recognizes him and realizes OH . Oh this is Tim’s boyfriend. That’s the crazy guy who recruited us to go beat up cultists with him. Yeah we didn’t even need to come he had that handled actually

[nicomoon69]

get it…. cause it’s called zesti….

[cosmicpoutine]

bruce tries to throw a dinner party to get to know bernard, but he doesn't have alfred anymore, and jason just loves to watch him suffer, so he's not gonna help.

everything goes wrong and the food is awful and all i can imagine is bernard trying to be nice but failing miserably

bernard: wow look at the.... lack of color in that chicken.

[shyjusticewarrior]

Timber: Forehead Touches

[ghostiiest]

hot to go

[ollies-moving-castle]

so it’s agreed that Tim and Bern adopted that cat we saw in their cover art right? Right but anyway

Tim doesn’t really feel true happiness and contentness often he always has something else in his mind he’s always doing thing he doesn’t just stop and take in the moment often

EXCEPT

when he comes home to his murder boat from a long grueling boring night of patrol to find Bernard either

a. Testing out a new recipe determined to get it right before he goes to bed (it’s 4 am)

b. Playing video games waiting for tim to get back as cover art cat lays happily purring in his lap as he fights off sleep

c. Is passed out in the couch when he tried to wait up for Tim but finals all nighter studying finally caught up to him and he fell asleep

but either way these are some of the only moments Tim puts away his mind and just takes a moment to soak it all in he brings Bernard to bed (and the cat) puts in a dumb movie to wind Bernard and him down (or just him depending on the situation) so they can actually sleep and just takes a moment to admire his wonderful boyfriend he almost never got to have but is sure as shit grateful he did get to have him

and their weird cat that just showed up one day that keeps bringing Tim slightly worrying items and dead fish as gifts

what are the slightly worrying items you ask?

well babes let me tell you

Small rock with what seemed to be blood (turned out the be a odd mixture of cranberry juice and some form of mutated melted ice cream)

small bird not native to America

but bird that was alive and seemed to be just chill with it

Jason’s favorite cooking knife (cat has never met Jason)

jasons favorite murder knife (cat still hasn’t met Jason)

tuft of fur if unidentifiable animal (Tim out it through extensive testing)

scarecrows mask when scarecrow was in Arkham

dead fish

dead fish but smaller

dead fish that seemed to have swallowed 17 pounds of rocks

it won’t let me type on number eleven my apologies

another cat

a piece of Bruce’s cap

scalpel

syringe

joker gas canister (full)

joker gas canister (empty)

and many others but it’s 3 am for me rn and I’ve run out of things

[allthegothihopgirls]

You asked us to send you headcanons, so. I think it would be funny if, before he learned Tim was Robin, Bernard was a die hard Robin/Superboy shipper. It just has so much potential.

gonna be honest, the closest i get to consuming any bernard content is through tumblr posts. i have close to zero concept of him as an actual character.

i did see a post like this the other day though and thought it was really amusing. i think it's a hilarious concept, and can see it happening with other vigilantes.

imagine poor steph, having to listen to a friend talk about how they think spoiler and robin are 'an item', fresh off breaking up with tim.

or dick, talking to a co-worker at a temporary barista job he picked up, and she's going on about how when the teen titans were a thing, she always 'felt bad' for aqualad, because kid flash and robin obviously had something going on as they got older, and wonder girl.. well she was just too good for any of them.

[timdrakebrainworms]

Bernard, BLASTING "Cult of Dionysus" by The Orion Experience at full volume

Tim: Do you... wanna talk about it...?

Bernard: Idk what you're talking about, this song simply fucks and any similarities to past or current trauma is purely coincidental

[moreau29]

between jerejean and timber.. i'm noticing a pattern

[introspectivememories]

tim and bernard who break up and it's nothing big, no one cheated or anything. it's just their lifestyles didn't work out well together. tim cannot give up vigilantism currently and bear cannot handle the level of danger tim puts himself in. and on the other hand, tim cannot handle the fact that bear chooses to run into danger as an emt bc he already worries about everything but now he has to worry if he'll find his boyfriend convulsing from fear gas in a random alley but also bear who felt the life drain out of darla cannot stand the thought of not helping people and runs headfirst into dangerous situation after dangerous situation hoping that every person he saves can somehow make up for the fact that he could not save darla.

(he very pointedly does not think about the fact that there was nothing he could do because if he thinks about that, he'll spiral until they have to lock him in arkham too)

and so they break up but they were tim & bernard in high school and when they started dating they balanced out the worst of each other and they became tim&bernard. and everyone who knows them, knows that they're better together but they cant be together, they refuse actually because they cannot lose another person to the violence of gotham and by the time they figure out that they cant work together as long as the other is an emt or vigilante, it's too late for both them. they've already left too many pieces of themselves in each other.

tim still knows what bear means when he says "tim" in that exasperated voice. tim still goes boneless when he hears bear say "baby" in that firm tone. bear can still read tim like a book. he still knows the right way to massage tim's neck so that tim can go to sleep. everyone at the first responders gala knows not to bother ceo drake-wayne and senior emt dowd when they're talking.

(and if they're standing a little too close to each other than what is normal, who are they to judge? everyone knows that dowd and drake-wayne have history)

and if everyone on the night shift has caught red robin with his head tucked into the crook of emt dowd's neck as emt dowd runs a soothing hand up and down the vigilante's back, well then, they just quietly back away.

(after all, dowd's one of like, five, emts that can get the bats to receive medical treatment so if turning a blind eye to whatever the fuck they have going on is what allows them to give back to their heroes, then the night shift will do it every time)

and of course, tim and bear are practical people. they loved (love) each other sure, but when your lives are fundamentally incompatible, well, you cant get too stuck on the what-ifs, that's for sure. and so they do find love with other people and yeah, maybe it's not what they expected love to be when they first fell in love with each other. it's not the bubbly, stomach-swoopy, cant stop grinning, feeling that permeated tim&bernard's early days or the i Know you/you Know me that was their middle or the quiet despair that was their end but it is contentment. and in a life with as many losses as theirs, contentment is something they hold dearly

and they're happy! truly! but sometimes, at galas when they're making each other snort champagne out their noses or in darkened alleyways when their clothes are both stained with blood or at rallies for stricter gun regulations in gotham where they both sit too close to each other, fingers enclosed around each other in a death grip, when the presenters inevitably bring up grieves

(worst school shooting in gotham in decades, there's blood on their hands and blood in their mouths and darla is dead in between both of them and there is a chasm so wide that they are screaming to get their voices across and she will always be dead and maybe this had always been the problem that she is dead and there is no coming back from that and that there is blood on their hands and blood in their mouth and blood on their han-)

but sometimes, most especially on opposite sides of the street, as life pulls them in different directions, just sometimes, they see each other and just for a second, nothing too long, the flap of a hummingbird's wings, the time it takes to blink, an electron's orbital, they look at each other and for the briefest moment, blue on brown, a barely noticeable stutter in their steps, the space between heartbeats, because this is all they will give themselves because they do not dwell on what-ifs or what-could-have-beens, or what-should-have-beens, or delusions of a softer world, their eyes meet and they think to themselves, god, in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with him.

[cocopop-04]

okay so im curious...

couldn't fit them all :(

Others include: Lynx, Zoanne Wilkins, Darla Aquista, Jubilee, Barbara Gordon, Kon+Bernard, Bart+Kon, Bart+Cassie+Kon, Cissie King-Jones, Bernard+Steph, Jason+Kon, Greta Hayes, Ra's al Ghul, Damian Wayne, Roy Harper, Slobo, Match etc.

[borderlinegerard]

collab with me and @ethmaron 🫡

(i did drawing/linework/base colors , ari did rendering :3)

[nicomoon69]

while I think that if I were to cook up an actual riordanverse x dc AU I’d have Tim as a son of Bellona I also think he could be a son of Hades (bc Bernard is a son of Apollo through and through and I live for Solangelo and Timber parallels)

I just imagine Janet and Jack having a fling with a rich guy when they’re away at an archeological dig site in Greece and then Janet becomes pregnant and they have Tim. neither of them think too much of it, don’t consider that it may have been the mysterious rich guy but business is booming and their digs are great (though it’s a lot of skeletons for some reason…)

[cosmicpoutine]

tim not being able to express his feelings properly due to emotionally neglectful parents

bernard being able to read the smallest change in someone's mood due to emotionally abusive parents

[shyjusticewarrior]

The thing about "I always thought you were super straight" is it implies Tim was thinking about whether Bernard likes guys. And didn't question why he wondered about that.

[the-shark-is-a-mammal]

a few weeks ago I had a dream DC was releasing a Tim Drake special in september written by Meghan Fitzmartin and I'm still mourning the fact it's not real