#releasing timby into jasons enclosure. for enrichment

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i do think a lot of interpretations of preboot jason that are like "nah idc about canon he should straight up loathe tim" are usually coming from a place of like. ttg robin voice nobody cares about timmmmm drake rather than actually getting into either characters head (as well as--tbh justified--frustration with the fact that for a while tims writers just kept bashing you over the head with "hes the specialest boy in the world and half the people he meets are obsessed with him" crap). just in terms of tims personality/backstory like... i don't think there's anything you could point to for jason to dislike that isnt also true of bruce and bruce is jasons favorite person in the world, and not by a small margin

aside from like. well the replacing aspect. and its like ok how much of the canon version of titans tower are we throwing out? bc the canon version has Jason like. inexplicably having fucking read a lonely place of dying somehow, and he just showed up to like, call bullshit. which is extremely funny tbh. "no the FUCK you didnt stalk bruce undetected for weeks. i dont FUCKING believe you" and kicking his ass more or less just because he could and it wasnt even hard

dndkclfocjkf anyway like i did actually have a point and my point was just 1) at this point in time whether or not jason likes the guy is irrelevant to whether or not he triggers jasons kill instinct. can we just focus on the fact that jason wants to hunt him for sport. Can we just focus on letting him hunt tim for sport 2) i actually think the best reason for jason to dislike tim is that i think jason should think damian is hilarious despite or maybe because of damians general disdain for him & propensity for calling him "Mother's ill-advised science experiment" and such, and moreover i think jason shld automatically side with him on any disputes where he doesn't have any actual skin in the game himself. but even then i just don't think he takes tim seriously enough to actually dislike him lmao

i do rly wish titans tower had been good but i also think its funny that it was followed up by jasons appearance in ga bc ngl it feels like kind of a "well actually this is how jason would go about menacing a kid sidekick he thinks shouldn't be in the field"