#I’m sorry bout that

[wh3nturtlesfly]

Hello! I really enjoy a lot of your writing, it’s so good. May I request 9 and D for the prompt event please?

9, D: Confrontation, “Make me”

CW: Slightly Suggestive

“Didn’t anyone ever warn you about touching things that aren’t yours?”

Villain froze with their hand just above the doorknob. Slowly, they turned and in the dimness of the hall they made out the shape of Hero, arms crossed.

“I hardly think a door is anyone’s property.” Villain suppressed a string of curses. Hero wasn’t supposed to be back yet. They were supposed to have another hour at least.

“I’d like to think that anything within my house counts as my property.”

“It’s not my fault your frolicking about the town ended earlier than usual,” a smirk emerged on their face as they watched the Hero’s own expression fall, “What would your precious agency think of your little search for a partner? Seems awfully risky, especially for the city’s top Hero.”

Hero’s fists clenched at their sides, “What I do in my time off shouldn’t matter to them.” They stalked forward, eying Villain’s hand on the doorknob, “Breaking and entering however, is right up their alley.”

It was meant to be a threat, though Villain saw through it clear as glass. They chuckled and marveled at the way it only increased the Hero’s frustration. Revealing Villain’s presence would leave them responsible for explaining why they weren’t at their house in the first place. Though it would be perfectly within Villain’s conscience to lie, they knew their nemesis could never fall to the same moral prey.

With a smile they gripped the doorknob tighter, turning it just slightly if only to see the Hero’s shoulders tense. “I call your bluff.”

Panic swarmed the Hero’s mind, but they quickly halted it. There was a simple solution to all of this. One of which left a sly smile creeping across the Hero’s face. “Fine then. I suppose I’ll have to take care of you myself.”

There was a flicker of worry in the Villain’s eyes. They hadn’t expected such a turn, not from the Hero of all people. They flinched as a hand closed around their own. Villain barely had the chance to think, much less jerk away, before Hero’s hand turned the doorknob and they both toppled inside.

The two landed in a huff, the hardwood floor painful against Villain’s spine. They blinked in a daze and took in the room. It had been just as their plans had predicted. The main living space, where they had landed in, held a couch, television, bookshelf, and small coffee table. To the right was the kitchen that housed an array of cabinets and to the left was a closed off room. Hero’s bedroom no doubt. It was much smaller than Villain had thought, though that was the least of their problems at the moment.

Hero loomed over them, determination in their eyes, “What? The apartment’s not to your liking?”

“Oh no, I actually find it to be quite lovely,” Villain quipped. They shifted their weight to the side, enough to roll out of the Hero’s grasp. As they stood their eyes swept over the Hero’s form, “It’s fun sized, just like you.”

The jest was elementary at most, more of a distraction than anything, but it was enough to leave the Hero’s face red. They sputtered, though as expected couldn’t come up with a rebuttal. Villain took the opportunity to slink sideways, closer to the room in the corner. Hero’s room.

The movement didn’t go unnoticed. One glance indicated that both knew what lay inside. Secrets.

Villain’s hand froze above the doorknob but this time they were anything but worried. Hero had been a fool to let them in. Now, they were but moments away from accessing all they sought. One by one, their fingers closed around the brass knob, turning, turning, turning.

Just as the closet clicked open, the Hero lunged forward. The door was forced shut and Villain was slammed up against it, nearly too shocked to react. Hands bracketed either side of their hips and this close- Villain never realized how much taller they were in comparison to their nemesis.

“You can’t go in there.” Hero was clearly out of breath. They avoided Villain’s eyes, and yet their grip didn’t shift.

Villain offered a smile. “And why is that?”

“You wouldn’t be breaking into my house if you didn’t know why.”

“You were the fool who decided to let me in.”

Hero huffed, “I figured I could handle it.”

That drew a chuckle from the Villain and with their hands free one drifted to clutch the Hero’s chin. Their breath hitched while their gaze was drawn upwards. “Well, aren’t you just so brave-”

“Shut up,” Hero glared.

A flicker of amusement shone in Villain’s eyes. “Make me.”

They waited for the Hero to startle, to jerk away when their thumb brushed teasingly across their cheek. Instead Hero was silent. There wasn’t so much as a warning- not until the Hero’s fingers wrapped around Villain’s collar and dragged them downward.

Their lips met for a second at most, though when the Hero pulled away it was clear their idea had worked. Villain was a mess of sputtered syllables and pinkish cheeks. Hero didn’t wait for their head to clear, nor did they justify their reasoning. They leaned close whilst the Villain was still bent to their eye level and whispered, “Like I said, you can’t go in there. Not unless…”

Villain raised a brow, “Unless?”

“Unless I get to take you on a proper date first.”

“Whatever happened to not touching things that aren’t yours?” they looked at Hero’s hands, one still locked around their collar.

“You’ve never had an issue with breaking the rules before.” Hero’s gaze turned dark and they spun away before the Villain could question them more. In five steps they had crossed the room and held the front door open with a grin, “Goodbye Villain.”

Their nemesis lingered a second, a mix of confusion and interest swirling in their features, though in another moment they had gone.

Hero allowed their door to swing shut. They sunk to the floor though not before beginning to laugh, something so filled with conflict they couldn’t seem to stop. What had they just done? All the rules they must have broken-

Somehow they didn’t regret it. Hero brought the feeling of Villain’s lips to their memory. It sure had been better than any small talk they had thrown together on the countless dinner dates. Such a flip of personality, even now it was a shock to Hero themselves, yet they didn’t feel guilty, nor did they hesitate to answer the next time they heard a knock upon their door.

[notherpuppet]

A radioapple AU where the golden angel has never fallen, but has become an ambassador~🌟

[equestriagirl16]

YALL IM-

IM LIGHTHEADED IM LIGHTHEADED IM LIGHTHEADED-

Btw his song from my playlist is Defying Gravity by Matt Copley I don’t make the rules💖

[nightcatssketchbook]

I was hitting some art block so I felt like drawing some fanart of @abd-illustrates’ Heartless characters!

I realized I never actually watched the final installment of the Concept Corner series, so that’s what I had playing when sketching these. It’s just so fun listening to the brainstorming and cool character connections

[kenandeliza]

A random thought / headcanon

Superman learns knitting/sewing, deciding to give an “ugly sweater” to his friends, including captain marvel

He doesn’t make them ugly intentionally, he’s just bad at making designs

[clownzaf]

I know that people love to headcanon Tim as a child of Athena, I personally like to headcanon him as child of Hades due to his similarities with Nico and the fact that dead seems to follow that kid like a motherfucker but never actually reach HIM.

But hear me out.

Tim as a child of Dionysus. And he gets claimed during the Bruce-quest.

When he was in Gotham monsters were a usual thing. You never knew that they were there for your godly blood, you just thought that they were things created by pollution or something like that. And when he became Robin fighting things that wanted to kill you while saying weird things was more usual than a hug (not that that was a hug standard for Tim).

But then everyone started dying. His parents, Kon, Bart, Steph, BRUCE. Everyone. Every. One.

And Tim…Tim couldn’t seem to reach madness. I mean YEAH he wasn’t doing great by any standard, but he knew madness, he grew up in madness, and he wasn’t going mad.

The cloning was just a treat.

And during the Bruce-quest, everyone thought he was crazy, he was casted away because everyone thought he was crazy CRAZY Tim can’t he crazy! He knows that! He knows that in his blood that going crazy isn’t a chance for him. He made everyone crazy when they were around him (hence Jason. He knew that Jason was mad at him from the start, but going near Tim lighted a flame inside him that Tim is sure isn’t completely Jason’s) but Tim couldn’t go crazy. He could ACT crazy. But never too serious.

And then, in the depths of Greece, he met his dad. His real dad.

He always knew that Jake wasn’t his dad. The blonde hair his mother forced him to dye since he was 5 and the purple eyes his father forced him to hide with contacts told him that. But Tim grew up looking up at Jack, even if Jack didn’t love him, he was the dad that decided to (figuratively) stay. And Tim loved him till death.

But when that man appeared, Tim knew, with only a moment of stares, that that man was his father. They talked a bit, too. The man knew about everything Tim was doing, and that creeped Tim out, but when the man made appear a glass of wine for Tim (and one side for himself) and Tim drank it, he knew what he was.

Something on the flavor, on the feeling. It was Tim. It was home. Something he hadn’t feel in a long time.

He spent the rest of the quest feeling sure that he would make it, because somewhere on the heavens his dad was looking out for him, he promised he was. And this time it wasn’t a figuratively sentimental bullshit. His dad was really helping on the heavens. And Tim was gonna make it.

He saw him again when the quest ended. He appeared in all of his godly glory while Tim was living in the nest. He opened a can of soda and sat on his couch like he wasn’t a man Tim has only met twice, but that was ok, because that was his dad, and he was choosing to visit him. (Also, he wasn’t going to say no to a literal GOD) .

He yapped for two hours about the kids at the camp his dad forced him to work at ( “HE IS SUCH AN A-HOLE SOMETIMES TIM YOU DONT UNDERSTAND-“) and the more he talked about that camp, the more invested Tim got. At the end of it the man, his dad, just looked at him in the eye and said “y’know if you were there we could do this more often. Yer a better listener than that centaur. Also, I think your brothers would like having you there”

He leaves immediately for camp after that. The family thinks Tim decided to leave them for not believing in him, so it’s a shock when he comes back after the summer being great with a sword and with a Tan his skin haven’t known before, not even after fighting crime during the hottest days on San Francisco, and he was happy, like actually happy. A kind of happy he never was with them.

Tim made friends there. He was friends with Annabeth, a girl from the Athena cabin, who honestly thought that Tim was one of them after they had a talk about strategies on the field and all that, and was about to fist fight Dionysus for claiming one of her brothers. She still called him brother, but now she understood that Tim was a Dionysus kid. And her boyfriend Percy. They talked all night about the weight of being a leader and having your people die without you being able to do anything. Percy talked about a boy named Ethan and two girls named Zoe and Bianca. Tim talked about Steph, Kon and Bart.

Tim told him about the Bruce-quest, and Percy told him about the time he was ready to fist fight a good to get his mother back from the underworld.

He also fully loved his brother. Pollux was great and made him feel welcomed to camp. They talked during lunch and Pollux showed him every single thing that made camp especial. He also teached him how to make fun of their dad without turning into a dolphin, so yeah. They got along like a house on fire.

He also made friends with a girl from the Aphrodite cabin. Her name is Drew. She was kind of an asshole and tried flirting with him, and THEY DID GET TOGETHER FOR A BIT, but after some time they decided they were better as friends. And friends they were. Best friend even.

He never told the Batfam any of this.

So after some months in Gotham there’s a cult going around calling themselves “Children of Dionysus” and doing atrocious things.

Duke walked in on Tim trashing the training room of the cave, and later on Jason walked in on Tim having his fourth bottle of wine.

Tim was FURIOUS. Not only that was disrespectful to his dad, but to his brother and himself too. He was going to pick every part of that little cult and trash it.

There he meets Bernard. Then they get on a relationship.

When a sathyr comes to take Bernard to camp Tim goes with him, excited to have his dad meeting his boyfriend.

Dionysus has never been more uncomfortable than when he had to claim his son’s boyfriend in front of him. It wasn’t that hard before! But now they had those things against incest on the human world and he knew this wouldn’t be pleasant to any of his sons.

[legolambi]

[winniefrezcomics]

how did dale escape vicky? Did timmy save him?

Timmy was part of a team that rescued Dale and the other captured faires from anti-Vicky, ye!!

This was hundreds of years ago though, and Dale was nearly blind at the time from all the starlight exposure, so current-day Dale has no relationship with, nor would he recognize the faires that saved him.

[notherpuppet]

What does Allo mean?

alloromantic/allosexual for more info pls google it ho LOL

[nounaarts]

I seriously forget I have a tumblr when I’m really active on twitter most of the time! Sorry guys ..!

I did do a bunch of Trolls art over there so if you wanna see that you can go to my twitter @ nouna_arts . Note tho, I rambled bout Trolls. A LOT

But I will show some of my recents here! (I did a lot more)

JUST A BUNCH OF MY ART ⬇️⬇️

BUT THE BRAINROT HAS UNFORTUNATELY ROTTED AND NOW MY MIND IS ALL SONIC AGAIN. curse you sonic prime,…

Anyways here’s my sonic doodles :3

I couldn’t put anymore images. Damn .but you get it😭

[akito-shinonome-daily]

🎤 day 369 🎵

➥ today’s akito is from a bunch of memes i tried to make out of screenshots of the beyond the way 3DMV!

[dailyhtfboards]

Since we're sharing Cuddles boards now, allow me to show you Charlie Cantfeld Cuddles

I love that last one so so much he’s so stupid n funni lookin <3333 Oh Don’t Yank my Chain Boards my beloved <3333 So silli and expressive :] (From TV episode 2C Don’t Yank my Chain)

[t-w-i-l-l-e-r]

christine canigula drive me banana bonkers cause like. shoutout to girls who are shitty and obnoxious honestly. like shoutout to girls who talk too much. shoutout to girls who joke about sex too much. shoutout to girls who talk about sex too much, shoutout to girls who think about sex too much. shoutout to girls who are indecisive and informal. shoutout to girls who are flighty and forgetful. shoutout to girls who find parallels, notice patterns, make connections. shoutout to girls who fix being made uncomfortable by the world by making the world uncomfortable. shoutout for the girls who want to be OUT and PROUD but are mostly OUT and GUILTY. shoutout to girls who want to #girlboss but can barely #girlemployee. shoutout to girls who flip between “IM THE FUNNIEST CREATURE GOD EVER MADE” and “congrats to myself on earning the worlds most annoying person award <3”. shoutout to girls who flop between “the feminine urge to compromise every opinion I have and moral I hold to avoid potentially upsetting someone 😝” and “hi! my hobbies include 1. being a selfish terrible listener and 2. hating myself for being a selfish terrible listener, what do u like to do?? (I will interrupt ur response ☺️)”. shoutout to girls who have no filter and no volume control shoutout to god and shoutout to christine canigula. 

[smolldust]

Tesscyn drawing I made awhile ago and never posted

version with her canon colors:

[phoenixkaptain]

Okay. I’ll write an actual analysis.

A Lonely Place of Dying does a few things, storytelling-wise, that are actually incredibly impressive. Like, I figured it out and I was so excited.

First, we don’t see Tim. Not in part 1. All we see is glimpses. His hands as he puts away his camera. His feet as he runs away from Starfire’s apartment. We only see small parts of him, leaving him shrouded in mystery, which leads into part 2, where he’s represented by a shadowy figure on the cover.

The Titans, but especially Starfire, are all worried about the small child looking for Nightwing. This kid knows Nightwing’s name, knows where he lives, nd has a very conspicuous camera. I’d be worried too! So of course, from the Titans perspective, he’s an intimidating opponent that they don’t understand. (Especially since I’m like ninety percent sure Tim isn’t actually the one they’re looking for. Like, I think it was just a happy coincidence that the most suspicious child on the face of the planet happened to show up at the same time as the actual problem.)

We don’t see Tim’s face until just under halfway through part 2. And the first thing they show us are his eyes. He’s searching for Dick, even among all the pandemonium, and it’s only upon him finding Dick that we see his whole face.

Tim’s eyes are important. They’re an important part of his character in this storyline. Because Tim sees things. He sees through Bruce, he sees through Dick, he sees through Alfred even. He’s always looking.

And this is compounded when he explains how he knows what he knows in part 3.

We see child Tim Drake at the circus. Tim says this to Dick “…I kept staring at you…” and this “I remember waiting for you to go on. And then, when you did, I just sat there and watched.”

On the next page, he says, about Dick’s parents’ deaths, “I turned away… I couldn’t watch. Then I heard you crying and I turned back and I saw you holding onto them, and I began crying, too.”

Page 11 has his monologue about seeing Batman for the first time, and how he thought Batman would hurt Dick, but what’s important isn’t the dialogue, it’s the panels. They focus on the realization of Batman being safe, entirely through Tim’s eyes. He’s panicked and scared, then slowly relaxes. We see it all, because Tim sees it all.

And it’s THIS. Tim started the story by finding Batman, but he starts his story by beginning to look for Dick. Us seeing Tim seeing Dick is a direct parallel to us seeing Tim seeing Batman with Dick. Tim’s story starts by him staring at Dick, unable to look away. And when we see him for the first time, he’s looking at him again, still unable to look away.

Throughout the story, Tim is constantly looking at Dick. Yes, this is mostly because he’s talking to Dick, but even at the end of part 2, when Dick is being congratulated by Haly’s Circus members and isn’t paying attention to Tim at all, Tim is still watching him.

Why is there so much emphasis on his eyes? I’m so glad you asked- IT’S VISUAL STORYTELLING BABEYYYY.

Tim’s most important role in A Lonely Place of Dying is as a third party. He cares about Bruce and Dick, and he knows them a lot better than they might think, but he’s still a third party to them. They don’t know him. He’s someone who’s been looking in on their lives for ten years.

He’s. A. Voyeur.

The emphasis being placed on his eyes cements this. Dick, Alfred, and Bruce are all put off by him at first. He knows too much, he doesn’t offer much information on himself until he’s forced to, it’s almost uncomfortable how much of a stalker this thirteen-year-old manages to be. He’s a voyeur, watching their lives, unnoticed by any of them, and that’s a bit unnerving! I don’t blame Dick for being unsettled by him, he’s weird!

And, his eyes as a child watching Dick to his eyes as a preteen finding Dick. They’re connected. A perfectly linear story, just told backwards. It’s really very satisfying.

Now, point two. The question we all have. Is Tim a stalker?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: yes, but I’ll explain.

Tim begins the story by taking pictures of Batman fighting Ravager. The narration mentions someone calling in a tip to Gordon about Ravager’s location, which is what led Batman to this point, and I’m on the fence over whether or not Tim was the one who called in. On one hand, it would make a lot of sense. Ravager is part of a bigger ploy by Two-Face, and we find out in part 2 that Tim knows Two-Face is behind the trouble. It would also explain how Tim found a spot to set up his camera for a good portion of the fight. And, it isn’t like Tim wouldn’t know Gordon’s phone number. On the other hand, it’s never explicitly stated who called Gordon, so assume what you will.

Part 1 actually shows us a glimpse of Tim’s collection of photographs. It’s huge. Most of them are obviously newspaper clippings, but a few are just pictures (I assume on photo paper because the edges are cleaner than the newspaper photos). Tim says, in part 3 “You know, since I was able to read, I clipped every article on Batman and Robin.” We admittedly don’t know when Tim learned to read, but he’s thirteen and says he gets mostly A’s, so I’m assuming he probably learned in preschool or kindergarten, around the age of 3-5. That’s a lot of newpaper clippings. We only see his more recent and his most stalkery ones, so who knows how many more he has?

There are only a few points in the story where we see that Tim is genuinely emotional about anything. For the most part, he is calm. He smiles a lot. He doesn’t use a lot of exclamation marks. The only times he does use exclamation marks are when he’s monologuing (internally or externally) about how great Dick is or when he’s trying to make a point. The only time we see him get visibly distressed is when Dick ignores him about Batman needing a Robin.

I don’t know how to stress upon you that Tim only cries that one time. Tim almost dies three times in this comic. He went to his second circus and another person died. His idols both berate him and talk down to him (although Dick stops right after they meet with Bruce. I’m going to be honest, I think Dick wants Bruce to take Tim on as Robin because if Dick had to deal with Tim for a whole day, so does Bruce). He has to recount watching Dick’s parents die and the nightmares he got from it.

He went through so much. But, the only time he’s upset is when Dick won’t listen to him about what’s best for Batman.

Anyway, Tim flat out just says a lot of really stalker-y shit, so I’ll just list some more:

We already know about him clipping newspapers since he could read

When he’s asking Kory where Nightwing is, he lets slip to her that he was watching Titans Tower with this line “I know he wasn’t at your meeting today.”

There’s also a few lines from breaking and entering Dick’s apartment “Grayson kept his old apartment. If he left the Titans, he might be here.” “He’s a detective… he must keep notes. Even something scribbled on a shopping list.” “No! The Haly Circus is closing? It can’t be! It can’t! But at least I now know where he is!” (Why is the shopping list thing stalkery Kacie, I’m so glad you asked. Tim knows Dick well enough that he knows Dick writes things down. Bruce certainly doesn’t, and Bruce is also a detective, so it’s a logical leap unless Tim knows Dick is inclined to write things down.)

There’s one part that isn’t stalkery so much as really funny to me. While Tim is looking for Dick at the circus, he realizes that Dick is “a master of disguise” and that “I’ve been looking for Dick Grayson, but he could be anyone.” only to almost immediately after say “No, not the roustabouts. They’re too tall.” First, that means he can’t “be anyone.” Second, he knows Dick’s height just. So well.

Tim realizes who Dick is and I think I’ll just tell you what he said to explain how he figured it out “Th-that jump- - -that’s him! It’s got to be Dick!” What was so special about Dick’s jump? I don’t think there was anything special, I think Tim is just weird.

Dick asks Tim who he is no less than three separate times. Tim refuses to tell him, all three times. At the beginning of part 3, while Dick is introducing Tim to Alfred, Dick says “Alfred, this may be a bit awkward, but I’d like you to meet- - - -what did you say your name was again?” Implying that Tim did tell Dick, but only briefly.

Back in part 2, Tim says this to Dick “Look, I know you’re Nightwing. You used to be Robin. Then Jason Todd became Robin, and when he died, Bruce Wayne went to pieces.” Tim says this before telling Dick his name by the way.

Tim, upon being introduced to Alfred (a cont. of the earlier Dick line) “Tim. Mr. Pennyworth- - gosh I was really hoping we’d meet. I know you’re Batman’s confidant, and I’ve dreamed about the stories you could tell.”

Alfred’s response to this is “I am- - what did you say?” Which is very funny.

Some more stalker lines that come from Tim looking around the manor: “I’ve seen pictures of this place,” “There’s the renoir Mr. Wayne bought last year. I read about that in Art World Today.”, “He’s got an erte? Oh, I love his stuff.”, “Please, can I see the rest of the house?”

There’s this, which a part of was mentioned earlier “I don’t remember the clowns or the animals, or anything else. I just remember waiting for you to go on. And then, when you did, I just sat there and watched.”

Tim says, before explaining anything, “Okay, you won’t take me seriously until I tell you everything. Dick, I don’t want this to hurt you. And I’m really afraid it might.” He then says, “I’m sorry, Dick. I really am. I told you I didn’t want to hurt you by telling you all this.” Tim is right, Dick is hurt. Tim is a stalker, but he’s a conscientious stalker.

There’s this “That image of you doing your somersault- - - -it stayed with me for years. I couldn’t get it out of my mind.” “I knew that somersault. I knew it like I knew my own name.”

This is just the beginning of a sentence, but it still is very stalkery “When you moved to New York to become Nightwing…”

Or how about “…Batman and Robin have meant everything to me. I’ve followed them both… I know them so well. I knew when Dick left to become Nightwing. I knew when Jason came and became Robin… and I knew when Jason died.”

Tim mentions offhandedly that he managed at some point to slip a tracking device on Two-Face. An impressive feat, considering Two-Face was trying to hit him with a crowbar and Tim only came into contact with him twice, either to punch him in the face or push him away from attacking Alfred. I doubt he slipped it on him while punching him, but his ability to stay calm under pressure even while acting panicky, managing to smoothly slide a tracking device onto Two-Face that Two-Face never realizes is there, is very impressive. Or, it’s practiced-

Bruce says “I don’t want a partner. It’s as simple as that.”

Tim responds “After all you’ve been through, I understand.”

So you may be wondering, with all of this overwhelming evidence and the fact that he knows where both Kory and Dick live and the fact that he already knew Alfred Pennyworth was Batman’s confidant and all of the weird, supervillain-esque shit he says, why does anyone like him?

And I’ll tell you why. It’s because he’s so fucking awkward.

Tim says things like “oh thank goodness” or “gosh” or “it’s still been wonderful.” Tim stutters talking to Batman. Tim fanboys over Dick and Bruce constantly. He isn’t even upset to have gotten a mystery wrong, he’s just happy he got to see Dick solve a case.

But also, Tim is right. Batman is acting recklessly, and it’s directly as a result of Jason dying. Tim says he needs Robin, not Nightwing, but I think what he means is more the role that they fill. Robin is little and Bruce can tuck him under his wing and keep him safe. Nightwing is an adult who argues with him and is a good leader in his own right, leading to more arguments. Robin is someone Batman has to take notice of, has to account for when making plans. Nightwing can keep up, and he isn’t as worried about Nightwing because he trusts Nightwing’s ability to stay alive. They fill very different roles, and that’s what Tim means, even if he has trouble saying it.

And he’s completely right. Batman without Robin runs recklessly into a building without scoping it out, tries to save two boys tied with active grenades by himself, walks into a room full of mobsters with guns without having any protection himself. Tim implies that he’s worried Bruce might die, and he’s right to be worried.

But even with Nightwing there, Batman only worries when things go wrong. He doesn’t see Dick as his scrappy little sidekick anymore, he sees him as an adult. And it’s only when Dick’s in trouble that Bruce reverts to treating him like a child.

Robin makes Batman stop and think before they go in. Robin makes Batman patient. Because Bruce cares about Dick and Jason, and he comes to care about Tim too.

Tim wins him over by being clever, but later comics show that they have to build trust in each other. Tim trusts Bruce completely, right off the bat, and that’s overwhelming for Bruce. But Bruce stops being overwhelmed and starts feeling fond.

Because despite everything I said, Tim is a good person. He’s so worried about Bruce that he’s willing to search everywhere to find Dick to try and help him. He’s so worried about Bruce that he spends his vacation week slumming around on his bicycle trying to save Bruce’s life. He dives down a coal chute without a second thought, and he pushes with all his might to unbury Batman and Nightwing. He cares about them, and it’s painfully obvious that he does.

Tim doesn’t want to be Robin. Like, okay, he would love to be Robin, but that’s not why he’s here. He doesn’t want to tell Dick his first name, and it’s only after seeing that Dick isn’t taking him seriously that he spills the beans. He didn’t want to tell Dick, because that would hurt Dick. He says “B-Batman, it’s hard for me to say this to you” because he’s about to tell Bruce off for being reckless and he doesn’t want to. Tim wants to know that Bruce and Dick are safe, and that’s the only thing he wants.

Yes, Tim is definitely a stalker. He literally said himself that he followed them, and even if it was only through newspapers, it still counts as following. Now, maybe he doesn’t fit this dictionary definition of a stalker: “a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention,” but I think he does fit this dictionary definition: “a person who hunts prey stealthily.” Tim is stealthy and quick.

I read an article that said his weakness was unexpected situations, but I would argue that that’s bullshit. Tim is great in unexpected situations. Did he expect Two-Face to start trying to beat him with a crowbar? No, but he managed to avoid being hit and plant a tracker on him. Did he expect Two-Face to crush the Batmobile he’s sitting in with a wrecking ball? No, but he managed to jump out and hide and tried to warn Batman and Nightwing to watch out. Did he expect Bruce to agree to let him train to be Robin? No, but he’s going to do the best he can now that he has the chance.

From the very beginning, we can see that Tim is someone with an answer to just about everything. He knows things, he notices things, and he’s good at reacting. Later comics don’t dispute this, that I know of. Tim is the Robin with multiple contingencies for his contingencies, but he’s also the Robin who is most likely to say “oh shit I did not see that coming.” He’s a surprised sometimes, yes, but that doesn’t mean he’s unprepared.

All in all, Tim Drake is a fascinating character study of a rich kid who talks like an elderly woman providing therapy for a man who is at least two, if not three, decades his senior. Tim doesn’t quite understand at any point that monitoring isn’t the same thing as showing affection, which is why he and Bruce get along swimmingly and why Tim is often slated to be the Robin most alike to Batman.

Congratulations, Tim.

Also, I really truly believe that Tim had his first crush on Dick, which is why he couldn’t stop staring at him. And I didn’t mention he said this, because it wasn’t important to the points I was making, but it’s important to this one. Tim says “…I kept staring at you, and your circus costume.” The circus costume being similar to Robin’s is never brought up, only the fact fact that Tim couldn’t stop staring at it. I’m telling you, his first crush was here, it’s so obvious, just look at my corkboar-

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.| Farid “Rook” Thorne | Saboteur | Rogue | Tool Maker |.

.Farid went by the given nickname of Rookie from the first day of his Warden conscription, one which all others outgrew, and he did not, instead shortening it to Rook when the novelty ran out.

.As the eleventh son of Admiral Therasia Thorne of the Sea Ships, Farid was given captaincy at the young age of fourteen, having proven a keen tactical mind and an adventurous heart. He co-captained a small selection of frigates with his older brother Galo, which served as an arm of their mother’s fleet. Their purpose was to raid mercantile ships along the eastern coast of Thedas, and it was Farid who took the initiative to lead them into bell diving and tomb delving; there was treasure waiting in places others couldn’t get to, and Farid was apt at figuring out how he could.

.This forward thinking would be the seed of a constant one-up-man-ship between the siblings, with Farid enjoying the competition and Galo becoming more and more irritated with his much younger brother. Eventually it would accumulate into Farid stealing Galo’s most precious treasure; his wife Aadiyah. A three month affair led to the birth of Farsi’s sixth illegitimate child, and years later his own arrest at the hand of Galo’s schemes.

.Survived by his now nine bastard children, Farid was set upon the gallows in Amaranthine. His list of crimes ever grew into him taking the blame for many of Galo’s own activities alongside his own, and his reputation as a warmongering raider was tied around his neck as much as his noose. It would only be good fortune that he was conscripted by a man he had helped some years before, the Warden Commander looking to flee the grasping hands of the Inquisition as it formed in its early months.

.It would be at his Joining where he decided to keep his past to himself, denying all others the attempt to know his name should word somehow reach the ears of his family. He remains as a Junior Warden, despite serving in the order for several years, due to his insubordination and reputation for acting against direct orders.