#tim drake’s missing spleen

[ahfrickenfrick]

bruce: i’ve decided i need a break

tim: yeah right, and i’ve decided i actually DO have a spleen, stop playing with alfred’s feelings like that :/

bruce: no, tim, i am legitimately taking a- what do you mean you don’t have a spleen?

tim: oh so NOW you listen

[heroesriseandfall]

I know the Tim fandom trope of the Batfam not finding out about his missing spleen until later is mostly for angst and humor so it’s not necessarily worried about the technicalities—but just to be more serious for a moment, I think it’s unlikely Alfred wouldn’t notice a fresh surgery scar when he was wrapping Tim’s injuries from the fight with Ra’s, right after they reunited.

Given it was a recent emergency surgery, it would be pretty obvious I think? Especially since Tim kept clutching that area when he woke up, either from that injury or another one from this issue:

Red Robin #12

And Alfred had just spent the past few months having not seen Tim since the day he opened a grieving Tim’s bedroom door to find him gone (unless he saw Tim briefly during Blackest Night, but even still). Then Dick finally brings Tim back to Alfred unconscious and bloody…I just think Alfred would be giving Tim a very thorough checkup and would NOT miss a recent splenectomy scar.

All this to say this doesn’t mean people can’t ignore these details for fun but I think we could always be milking a lot more angst out of Red Robin #12.

[mythical-art]

Spleen and Ideal, 1907 by Carlos Schwabe

[screwsfall0ut]

@theweatherinmyhead gave me an early birthday present and then we made a cake together

[kuebiko-kei]

I feel it’s my duty to clarify that Tim DOES have a survival instinct, it just DOESN’T include self preservation.

Objective: SURVIVE, maybe lose the spleen tho

[lily-drake]

Random thoughts

Okay, every time I read stories about Tim’s lost spleen (they shouldn’t be as funny as they actually are) my brain goes to a conversation I had with a friend a few weeks ago about how amazing 3D printing has become. Because apparently we can now 3D print working organs?! And I just want to read something where Tim finds out he can 3D print his spleen and either freaks out about it, demands why no one told him sooner, or just up and does it himself without telling anyone, maybe all of the above; I don’t know. But yea, we can 3D print working organs now and I want to read about Tim finding that out, because I don’t want to write it. So here I am, BEGGING you on my hands and knees for someone to PLEASE write this and tag me. PLEASE!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[eastwardbound7]

Watching the Tim Drake’s Missing Spleen tag refill for Whumptober

Wonderful

[thealexanderfiles]

Jason, to himself: If I can catch Tim off guard when he comes back from patrol he'll confess about breaking my favourite Wonder Woman's mug

Jason, as Tim wanders in: Got anything to confess??

Tim, very very high off Gotham Harbor fumes: Ra's pickled my spleen.

[incorrect-batfam-quotes-mostly]

Bruce: imagine someone gave you a box full of everything you’ve lost over your lifetime.

Damian: It would be nice to get my sense of purpose back.

Jason: My childhood innocence! Thank you!

Dick: My will to live! I’ve been looking for this for years!

Tim: My spleen! I've been needing that

Everyone:

Bruce: Tim WHAT-

[p0ssym1lker]

Red Robin: Hi I'm-

Danny: I saw your spleen in the ghost zone

[arrowheadedbitch]

Damian being mean to jason

Jason: Oh yeah? Well I fucked your mom, so

Damian: murder stare

Tim: Oh! Speaking of your family, does your grandpa still have my spleen?

Jason: Does he WHAT

[azmaarts]

Tim: Shit.

Bruce: Language!

Damian: Kol khara!

Bruce: Language!

Steph: Now that's one crazy motherfucker

Bruce: Language!

Jason: Who the fuck are you calling a "son of a bitch," you pigeon-livered saucy lackey!? Maltworm spat out of a mouldy rogue! Rare parrot teacher! Your—

Bruce: —Language!

Dick: Yeah! What the frick-frack tickity tic-tac snik-snak, bro?

Bruce: ...

Bruce: What the fuck.

[raepritewrites]

Let 👏🏻Tim👏🏻 Drake👏🏻 Murder👏🏻 Ra's 👏🏻Al Ghul 👏🏻As👏🏻 A 👏🏻Treat 👏🏻 It's 👏🏻Enrichment 👏🏻

[caicie]

Tim: “Look Ra’s, I’m really not into this today.”

Ra’s: “Feeling under the weather, detective?”

Tim: “Yeah. You know the whole organ you stole from me? I kinda need that to, you know, not almost die every time the flu season comes around.”

Ra’s: “No need to be so ungrateful, detective. You would have died much sooner had I not removed it.”

Tim: “I’m really not seeing a downside there.”

[sobstea]

Tim: One time I almost had appendicitis.

Damian: Almost?

Steph: Did you get your appendix removed?

Tim: I don’t think so? Pretty sure I still have it.

Steph: …

Damian: You’re “pretty sure” you have your appendix???

[catostrofiqu]

"I'm seventeen"

"How long have you been seventeen"

Dead on main where danny gets to meet jasons family and knows that there is something terribly wrong with Tim. (Jason breaks down crying over the Twilight reference and thats it)