#additional information for my eldrich horror tim au

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Tim, opening his thermos filled with water: “Look, I’m just saying that, as someone who has had a hand in participating AND founding many cults, you make more money as a leader but you have more fun as a follower”

Jason, holding a beer: “That’s what I’ve been trying to sa- wait how the FUCK do You know that”

Tim, takes a sip from his thermos that’s actually filled with vodka: “I’m actually a descendant from ancient beings and qualify as an eldrich horror myself”

Jason, already gathering blankets to make a Tim burrito: “Sleep deprived, got it”

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Tim finds it funny how many people mourn the loss of the Library of Alexandria

He lived through its destruction, read everything and came to the conclusion that it deserved to die

He’s the one who torched the library, the volcano eruption was just a happy little accident

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Hey, my bastard brain has developed another idea for my eldrich horror Tim Drake AU

You see, Tim Knows what he is, he knows that humans have converted his ancestors into legends and myths and fictional stories that serve to show the futility of humans in the face of the beings who have lived on Earth since the beginning

Tim is studious, he has accumulated every book regarding himself and his ancestors until he has amassed a large library, he likes to read the stories humans have written based on his ancestors and compare them to the truth

He finds it ironic that Damian is referred to as the Demon Spawn when he’s not the one capable of destroying galaxies and taking over planets

He sees Luthor’s point in not wanting to rely on Superman and give someone with essentially unlimited power without any mode of protection, of course, Luthor has escalated to trying to kill Superman every other Friday but he started his ‘super villain’ career out of this ideal; Tim finds it ironic that even after literal aliens have become part of Earth’s planetary defense, even after many failed alien invasions, humans haven’t approached the possibility of his ancestors being real, maybe it’s just humanity’s fear of being helpless, Tim can understand that

But, the thing is, Tim Knows he isn’t human, he knows he could crush Superman between his palms, he could eat the heart of the Amazons, he could leisurely pluck the wings of the Hawks, he could take apart the Martian’s brain to see what makes him tick, he could play around and fluctuate the speedster’s connection to his precious Speed Force, he could show the King of Atlantis what the true meaning of depth is as he dies from the pressure of an ocean that was supposed to be his ally, and easiest of all, he could make the Bat enact his every protocol, go through with every contingency, make him have hope of defeating a great evil just to demonstrate how futile his little strategy was, how he could never even hope to hide from the Earth and its first inhabitants, did he really think that he could hide from an ancient being such as Tim?

And it’s hard to pretend to be human when you have no humanity, when you have witnessed the rise and fall of countless empires, seen humans kill each other for mere land that will never truly belong to them, seen how many people need help, how much poverty and hunger and disease and fear and war and unemployment and loss there is, it gets old after a while, these aren’t Tim’s problems but humans are interesting, he’s seen what heroes can do, all the good that they bring, and it costs him nothing to try and also play nice, the Bat is very interesting and his Robin shines like a beacon, so Tim decides that he wants to emulate them, he wants to help protect Earth as it was home to his ancestors long before it housed humans, and so every time his skin feels too tight, his body too small, his hair too short, his skin too soft, his thoughts a little too dark for humans, Tim drops his costume, he enters Gotham bay and takes a trip to the world down below, lets his teeth sharpen and curve, lets his eyes change and glow, lets his body shift and change, lets his fingers elongate and his nails sharpen, lets tentacles replace human legs, lets fins grow out of his back, lets his mind adapt to drop his human facade, lets himself finally hunt and tear apart the predators who come after him as he travels to the depths, lets himself finally become one with the ocean and earth around him, lets himself have a reprieve from his porcelain mask of humanity, and after he feels more settled, after the urge to tear apart his enemies subsides (it never goes away, not completely), Tim goes back to the surface, he puts on his human visage once more, he knows that there will come a time when he will have to reveal his power against Earth’s enemies, when he will finally get to play and let them think they have the upper hand, and then he will enjoy tearing them apart as they realize the Earth has him as its protector, and he doesn’t take kindly to others threatening his home

Humanity is hard to achieve when you aren’t human at all, Tim knows that he will never truly have humanity, but it’s fun to fool everyone else

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Ok so, Tim definitely knew historically famous people like, he helped promote Will’s plays and they were rooming together once and it was very late at night and Tim was trying to sleep but Will had to ask him something and Tim’s mind wasn’t all there so it went like

[3:00 AM]

Will: “Psssst, Tim? You awake? Pssssssst, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim-”

Tim, who was just about to fall asleep and his brain isn’t at 100% there yet: “What? You egg, I swear if you wake me up again I will stab you”

A response which Will, in his sleep deprived mind, thought was the most hilarious shit he’s ever heard and promptly wrote it down so he wouldn’t forget it and thus was the birth of the phrase “What, you egg? [stabs him]”

The whole [exits, persued by bear] iconic bit was also prompted one late night at the tavern where Will, Tim and their friends who volunteered to be actors in Will’s plays were drinking

Pretty much every bit of bullshit was either just Will going ham on the script while in a sleep deprived state of mind or while being at the very least buzzed with Tim spewing bullshit in the background and thus many iconic phrases were coined

Tim, casually leaning against Will with one arm thrown over the other’s shoulders and holding a wine goblet with his other arm while gesturing aimlessly: “Love story, but base it on that annoying couple we met last week and make them both dumbassess and it’s just bad decisions all around”

Will, also buzzed as he sets down his own wine goblet and takes out a piece of parchment paper, and an ink and quill: “Let’s have their families be in an ancient rivalry that nobody remembers how it started but they hate each other, also they’re 14 and like 16”

Tim: “You’re a goddamn genius keep going my good bard”

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Funky little detail for my Eldrich horror Tim Drake AU

See, his ancestors come from the depths of the Earth, the Mariana Trench is considered shallow by his standards, so they have the ability to see in the darkest depths of the ocean, Tim has inherited this ability, he has no problem seeing in the dark

However, there is a side effect to this, when in dark places or places where there’s little to no light, Tim’s eyes start to glow and change color, the darker it is the more noticeable his eyes become as they take on a red tint that extends past his iris, his pupils change shapes to accommodate to the darkness, his Iris becomes an iridescent red, the white of his eyes begins to darken until it turns such a dark red color that it looks black, this change is caused due to his eyes being suited for deep sea waters where camouflage is needed and there’s only red light in the deep blue sea, so while Tim’s eyesight is turned up to an eleven, the red of his eyes isn’t noticeable to other creatures around him as it blends with the red light

This is why Tim always wears his mask/cowl in the cave, he knows that he’s not really human, he researched as much as he could and has gained a library of arcane knowledge of his ancestors, but he also knows that this truth about himself would throw out the balance of the Bats, so he uses his ‘always be prepared’ reputation as an explanation as to why he never takes off his mask until he’s out of the cave entirely, he knows it would concern the Bats if they saw what his eyes did and Bruce would be worried on if Tim was a meta and why he never knew and it would just be a little too much to deal with

There’s only two humans who’ve seen his eyes in the dark, the first was Lady Shiva as he said farewell to her, Tim took off his mask, knowing full well that his eyes marked him as something inhuman, and thanked Shiva for her lessons before leaving (that night Shiva questions herself for the first time on just what kind of being she had just taught how to fight; it isn’t the last time she does it either); the other person is Slade Wilson, Tim tracks him down during his years as Robin and later Red Robin just to show him that he can get to Slade at any time, no matter how much he runs, Tim will find him, every year he does this in secret and every year his message is the same, he waits for Slade to come into the room with his lenses retracted, red eyes in full view, he waits for Slade to make eye contact, then he smiles and disappears, the first time Tim decides to track Slade down as Robin he didn’t plan to retract the lenses in his mask, however, after he warned Slade to never again harm the Bats, Slade laughed in his face, so in the blink of an eye Tim was right behind him with his glowing red eyes, black sclera, oval slitted pupils and a very dangerous smile that seemed to have too many teeth and he assured Slade that there wouldn’t be any place on Earth where he could hide from him if he dared to hurt the Bats again (this is when Slade knew that the newest Robin wasn’t a meta, he was something completely inhuman and it was better to heed his words; this is one of the only times in his life where Slade has felt pure fear of the thing standing in front of him and every year Tim makes sure that Slade knows he will always be able to find him . . . no matter what)