So... Who Wants To Hear My Random Ass Headcanons For Tim? No One? Cool I'm Showing You Guys Anyway.

So... who wants to hear my random ass headcanons for Tim? No one? Cool I'm showing you guys anyway.

Tim's moral code is.. fascinating. Because he's trying to live up to *others* expectations. So in my mind, he has a very flexible moral code. He has killed, and has no compunctions about killing again. But he *tries not to* because it will make Dick sad.

This also means he can have deals with some rogues. I won't day which ones, I will keep my secrets.

Tim is first and *foremost* Janet Drakes son. Not Robin, not Red Robin, not Bruce's protege. No he is the son of Janet Drake and he will remind you *viscerally* with nothing more than a look.

Tim is simultaneously a feral chaotic monster who will bite a rogues ear off and the most calculating mfer to ever exist. These can coexist and they do within him.

If you insult any of the Robins that is not him? He will become a monster and you will be on the floor and maybe out a few bones, don't ask how you lost the bones. If you insult him? He'll smile and cock his head in a specific way and probably agree with you.

You cannot tell me that Tim doesn't deep down think he was the worst Robin.

Tim is tiny, this is not news to most people, however when you see this slight, shortish dude with a slightly feminine appearance you don't expect his voice, he can make it softer and lighter and do a feminine voice, but his natural voice is *decently deep* really refined, and depending on the time of day and the company he's with *varying accents*. I'm not saying like super deep, but it's lower than you think.

Out of the batfam he knows the third most languages, after Bruce and Dick Damian knows many but Tim is keeping third place.

His idea of downtime is messing with companies, yes this includes Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor doesn't hate Red Robin he hates *Tim Drake*. On the same tangent, he runs like 3 other companies without Bruce knowing, without anyone knowing truthfully. He runs them under the Drake name and no one bats an eye, he also fucks with the board of directors out of sheer boredom, in actuality he can do all their jobs and then some.

Also, people say Tim looks up to Batman. I think that's wrong. He looked up to Robin.

Tim's Robin has the *most* respect from Gotham's rogues gallery. With like.. two major exceptions. Killer Croc, and Joker.

I have an entire thing on why him and Croc hate each other.

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

it's a fun hc of mine that during dick's robin days, he went through the "omg i wish i had a cool secret language so i can have secret conversations with my friends" phase all kids go through. but one of his closest friends at the time also happened to be the batman, a guy with possibly the most bizarrely diverse arsenal of skills in the world. bruce sees the merit in the entire idea of a coded language to communicate rudimentary information when they can hear but not see each other. so why not make a code built on bird vocalizations? it's pretty much incomprehensible to anyone without a trained ear or comprehensive knowledge of birding and impossible to even passably mimic without proper training, so while the chances of interception are high, the chances of someone understanding it enough to interrupt during the middle of a bird-convo and feed false information are not.

it also, batman and robin come to realize, feed into the "holy fuck our vigilantes are cryptids" idea. bird sounds that come from seemingly no determinable location (ventriloquism) come to mean batman and robin are nearby. to the goons of gotham, bird song becomes inextricably connected to getting your ass kicked by the dynamic duo. the real reason why criminals don't operate during the day is because they get skittish and jumpy about if the sounds of birds chirping are real birds or some masked vigilantes lying in wait to rock your shit, and it's just easier to commit crimes during the night when all the birds are asleep so you know for sure.

ornithologists have boards on their bedrooms dedicated to the bird-bats of gotham. they've written dissertations.

the bird language becomes a bit of a batfamily bonding connection. teaching each other how to do different clicks and whistles, making up slang so bruce and barbara can't complain of clogging up comms with non-mission relevant talk, searching up birds to associate them with different people, psychologically terrorizing the criminal populace of gotham by chirping at them...

how the bird code works is that there's a bird assigned to each one of gotham's major heavy hitter criminals and vigilantes, and a few assigned to heroes out of the city (by which i mean the ones the bats associate with often enough to have a sign to address by). the only birds i've got so far are the robin (for robin. self-explanatory) and the glistening-green tanager (for the joker). i only have one for the joker bc i wanted to reference this hc in one of my fics and so searched up green birds to find the most eye-searingly annoying-to-look-at green bird i could find, and the glistening-green tanager was the closest one to fit the bill.

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Yes, goddamn Eminem LAST NIGHT. This post has perfect timing

This poll brought to you by my dream last night where Tupac Shakur was telling me something 😌