#meanwhile Jinny Hex is just in Dripping Springs like

[nerdpoe]

Kon is the only one who remembers Tim. Well, Kon and some guy named Bernard.

For some reason, no one remembers Tim. At all.

Oh they remember Robin, and that's how he got Batman to actually take him seriously, but they don't remember Tim. They know that Wayne Enterprises had a CEO after Bruce, but no one remembers who he was. Gotham elites know that the Drakes had a child, but no one knows who it was.

Batman himself had just thought Kon just had a dream, maybe; until Kon asked him to name the Robin he was recorded as being with after Jason and before Damian.

Then he'd frozen.

Kal told him later that he'd just witnessed a Batman-shaped breakdown. One that only came with realizing that his mind had been compromised by an outside source.

Then the Bats were like a kicked antpile, but they weren't including Kon so.

Fine.

Kon doesn't care about them.

Kon doesn't need them.

Kon needs Tim.

His best friend is missing, vanished off the face of the earth.

Bart doesn't remember Tim either, but he believes Kon. So does Cassie. So they help him by searching other cities Tim's prone to visiting.

He's scouring Gotham again, fuck you very much Batman, when he hears some guy calling at him from a rooftop.

The dude's name is Bernard, and he was Tim's boyfriend.

And he's got a theory.

And, fuck it, it's not like Kon's even got a starting point, so he agrees to cart the little chef around so they can look into it.

Meanwhile, in Nanda Parbat, Tim is imprisoned in a Gilded Cage half technology and half magic as Ra's Al Ghul uses his most recent Magical Artifact to attempt to rewrite everyone's memories, including Tim's.

If Tim isn't remembered by anyone, then there's no chance of Tim being snapped out of the false memories he's about to implant in his protégé/heir.

He's just saving Tim for last.

That way Tim won't have as much fight in him.

He didn't account for Kon for Bernard's necklaces; weird little trinkets Tim had picked up for them in a shop in Hong Kong. Weird little trinkets that actually were just as enchanted as their seller proclaimed them to be.

@simplestoryteller