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You Don't Get to Call Yourself Family (Tim Drake is a Fenton)
part 1 , part 2
It starts with another of Dickâs attempts to be Timâs Big Brotherâą.
Itâs well-meaning, of course. Theyâre mid-patrol, crouched on a rooftop, when Dick gently brings it up.
âYou know, Tim, we could be family if youâd just let us.â
Tim freezes for a moment, his grip tightening on his grappling gun. But then he exhales, forces himself to focus, and mutters: âI told you. Youâre coworkers. Thatâs it.â
But Dick doesnât drop it. And when they return to the Cave, the rest of the Batfamily piles onâeach in their own way.
Jason: âCâmon, Replacement. Admit it. Weâre at least kinda family.â
Damian, sneering: âHeâs too much of a coward to acknowledge it.â
Bruce, quiet but insistent: âTim, this is your home. We are your family.â
And Timâwhoâs been holding this in for yearsâfinally snaps.
âFamily?!â Timâs voice echoes through the Cave, sharp and brittle like glass about to shatter. âYou think youâre my family?!â
Everyone goes still.
Tim takes a step forward, fury radiating off him in waves. âLet me ask you somethingâwhat kind of family depends on a thirteen-year-old to pull their grieving father out of the abyss because no one else could be bothered? What kind of family calls him Replacement and then beats him bloody because heâs not good enough?!â
Jason flinches, but Tim doesnât stop.
âWhat kind of family tries to kill him multiple times and laughs it off like itâs a fucking joke?â His eyes land on Damian, who looks like he wants to argue but doesnât. âAnd what kind of family stands by and watches it happen and does nothing?!â
The silence is deafening.
Timâs breath hitches, and he rakes a hand through his hair. âIf youâre family, then whyâwhy the hell did you all hurt me so much?â
No one can look him in the eye. Not even Bruce.
Timâs voice drops, tired and cracked. âI canât call you family. Because if I did, Iâd have to accept that my family treated me like shit. And I already have one family, that loves meâI donât need another one that makes me feel like Iâm nothing.â
He turns on his heel, heading for the exit. âYouâre my coworkers. Thatâs all youâll ever be, and honestly? It's more than you deserve.â
And then heâs gone.
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Later, Jazz calls him.
âYou okay, Timmers?â she asks gently, voice soft in that way only Jazz can manage.
Tim sighs, rubbing his eyes. âYeah. I just⊠lost it at them. Finally told them off.â
Jazz hums thoughtfully. âGood. They needed to hear it.â
Tim doesnât respond right away, staring at the faint glow of the Batcomputer across the Cave. âDo you think I was too harsh?â
Jazz doesnât hesitate. âNo. You set a boundary. Theyâve been pushing it for years. Let them sit with it for a while.â
Tim doesnât know if he believes her, but he nods anyway. âThanks, Jazz.â
âAlways,â she replies. âNow come home for dinner. Momâs trying a new ectoplasm casserole recipe, and Danny is threatening to âaccidentallyâ destroy the kitchen again.â
He laughs, already grabbing his things. âBe there in ten.â
#tim drake#batfam#batfam angst#tim drake is a fenton#tim deserved better#tim sets boundaries#danny and jazz are the best siblings#(couldn't say the same for the bats)#i really like the concept of Tim being a Fenton#it has so much potential#i have ideas for tim avoiding bruces adoption tendencies as well if you want to read those
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(spoilers for suicide squad kills the justice league)
I saw the leaks for the new Suicide Squad game and I'm gonna be so disappointed if they gave AK!Jason a offscreen death.
#TIM DESERVED BETTER#Also I know that the people who made the Arkham trilogy left but damn#rocksteady#arkham asylum
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The ultimate power of saying "I won't survive this, but I'll make sure you don't either."
i don't forgive you. but thank you for this
#Tim stoker#tma tim#tma spoilers#Tim deserved better#but damn did he go out with a bang#no pun intended
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Half the time I'm like, "can we have jason todd media not all about his death"?
Then I realize. If I died I would never shut up about it.
"Can you get up and grab that for me?"- absolutely not. My legs are tired from death.
"Will you go to the store with me?"- leaving the house?!? What if I die AGAIN.
So yeah, anyone who thinks jason talks about his death too much. Be honest. We'd all do the exact same thing.
#batfam headcanons#bat family#batfam#batfamily#jason todd#bat brothers#dick grayson#red hood#tim drake#incorrect batfamily#incorrect jason todd#jason todd incorrect quotes#jason todd deserves better#jason todd headcanon#red hood incorrect quotes#incorrect red hood quotes#jason todd and the crowbar#under the red hood#death in the family#cardinalcrap#500+
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âyour body my choiceâ. they are scared. they are scared because they are seeing the reaction of women, they are seeing the 4b movement, and they are scared. keep. going. women. you are so powerful right now, no man will ever change that. no matter how powerful he thinks he is.
#my body my choice#feminism#only the young#us politics#2024 presidential election#election 2024#us elections#swifties for kamala#kamala harris#tim waltz#women deserve better#pro choice#*
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[Jason and Steph hanging out at Jay's apartment]
Jason: So you and Tim are like, done, right?
Steph: Oh yeah, it's definitely over. It was pretty mutual, too.
Jason: Oh, thank God. I didn't wanna say it, but it was a bit annoying whenever I invited you over, and you dragged Tim with you.
Steph: yeahhh sorry about that
Jason: It's just nice spending quality time without the rest of the bats butting in. I already have enough to deal with whenever I visit the manor.
Steph: Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore. I'm gonna be 100% batboy/Robin-free from now on!
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Steph showing up to Jason's apartment 1 month later with Cass in tow: So here's the thing-
#steph: in my defence i didnt say any batgirls were off my radar#jason (100% supportive as long as it's not tim): you always do this.#listen i understand a lot of ppl ship timsteph but i feel like my girl deserves better đ© and theres no better than THE cassandra cain!!#dc let my girls smooch. just a lil kith pls#stephanie brown#stephcass#spoiler#cassandra cain#black bat#jason todd#red hood#dc comics#incorrect quotes#batfam#batfamily#batkids#crack#fanatical posting
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Hey full offense but if your excuse for not including Duke as Bruce's son and in Batkids/Batboys/Robins lineups is 'he already has parents' and you 'don't want to erase them',maybe you should consider Duke's parents literally can't take care of him and that you can have multiple parental figures.......and that Bruce and Duke have literally refered to eachother as father and son in the comics and even official arts frame them that way too.Duke was bullied all the time,kicked out of multiple schools,had a hard time making friends and keeping them too,was targeted by the cops AS A MINOR(which he still is!!!!),lost his parents or rather his parents lost their sanity to The Joker and now he's expected to self-rely when older and less good people were given more grace and care than him.I think y'all should drop the respectability politics and just let the black kid have a dadđIf DC stands for 'Disregard Canon',then DC also stands for 'Duke Counts'
#duke thomas#duke thomas deserves better#duke is a robin#duke is a batboy#batfanon slander#anti batcest#bruce wayne#good dad bruce wayne#dick grayson#jason todd#tim drake#cassandra cain#barbara gordon#damian wayne#stephanie brown#batfam#romani dick grayson#black jason todd#latino jason todd#afrolatino jason supremacy#blasian stephanie brown#arab damian wayne#chinese damian wayne#black babs#doug thomas#elaine thomas#trans 4 trans and autistic 4 autistic found family realness#đ#duke and jason are eachother's robin#summerposting
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This took me more than i expected... đŠ
#tim drake#timothy drake#dc comics#batman comics#red robin#red robin comics#Tim deserved better shut up#its so ass... it took me like 2 weeks đ#batfam#batfamily#im still mad at Nightwing for giving robin to damian sorry#joker junior#i love jj
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i think im not a fan of what dc keeps doing with jason because they keep having him, the abused, become an abuser in some way shape or form. and the classism they don't want to talk about (i am being so for real there is a genuine problem of both writers and readers who do not understand jason's background and it pissed me off so bad because it always shapes their opinion of him in the wrong way and they don't care to even try to listen). and how if they were going to have him come back they should have had delved into his identity crisis and the inherent horror of coming back but not knowing how or why or what to do about it and not knowing what you were doing while dead and having to deal with time jumping forward on you and the fact that you will never get the time back and no one will he the same as they were before you died and how isolating and lonely that would be. and they also definitely weren't prepared for the fact that jason was grieving his life and his death and his hopes for his mother and his dad who didn't get there in time and the dc writers are fucking cowards. which brings me to my next point: why do we keep listening to them about shit because they are quite literally always fighting with each other and projecting their own personal biases into characters (i.e. making them worse than they are/2 dimensional/trying to make them iredeemable so their favorite character gets to shine) and also they are all freaks of nature with a consistent problem of being God Awful People who why would we trust them with these characters. jason todd they don't get you like i do
#it's 3AM and i woke up out of a fitful sleep to write this post#i hallucinated jason todd while trying to sleep#(just like them bitches in the comics always fucking do can we point that out. actually. they always fucking hallucinate someone in their#family but mostly jason. when he was dead and stuff#more hallucinations or give me death#i meant that figuratively#the second part#i want more hallucinations or give me someone talking about how that used to happen to them and jason going âwtf r u good ?â or#âew keep me out of your brain freakâ#(second one directed at tim)#what was i saying#ummmm#jason todd#he deserves better#coming from a similar background means i am his number one defender#i have mommy issues too so tack that on there#the way people look at and treat the homeless makes me infuriated because you dont get it#you dont GET IT#until it's YOU mother fucker
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Jason Todd/Reader FIC RECS
If it is in red then it is smut. I selected a few but if you like it check the writers blog please!
Just Friends by @makethatelevenrings âHow on earth are we going to convince your family, the greatest detectives in the world, that weâre a couple?â
Dickpic!Jason x Reader (on going series) by @dxckgrxsonx He still has the habit of stashing food. Back in the manor he remembers hoarding non perishables, and remembers slipping food into his little pockets when no one was looking. He was young and still waiting for the other shoe to drop, still waiting for the moment that Bruce changed his mind, convinced that his time in that home was limited. (I've been wating for 2 years to read more of this and lemme tell you I'd wait a thousand more. When I'm old and have dementia, struggling to remember my children and grandchildren I WILL remember this fic; quote it if needed and yap about it in god-knows-which-language. Even if you don't like smut just check it for your own good! It is not like modern smut (porn w/o plot)! There is depth, there is longing, there is slowburn (it burns so good tho) THIS IS ART I TELL YOU! When future generations study literature they'll study this and wanna be us whom been so lucky to be born just in the right time to read it!! Omfg I fucking love it pls do yourselves a favor and just read it!
You're in love with me, ew by @lightwing-s "You're in love with meâ you blurted out in awe âAnd you have a crush on me, ew!"
Let's Fuck Up The Friendship by @igotanidea What kind of fool falls for his best friend?
If You Want Me, You Have Me by @deadrobinthoughts âno.â he took a slow step forward, shaking his head, a mix of disbelief and frustration in his expression. âno, weâre not brushing past that. you think i want someone else?â
Nice And Slow by @sobbingscripter No reason." Jason hums quietly. "I just saw a bloodstain that reminded me of you, so I ended patrol a little earlier."
Blink And You'll Miss It by @reds-hoodies -you waited your whole life to meet your soulmate and damn if youâre just going to let him slip through your fingers.
Who Needs Heaven? by @mostly-imagines â...This hasnât happenedâŠâ You frown at that, tilting your head. âWhat do you mean?â He breathes out heavy, âI think Iâm dreaming.âÂ
I Have A Door, Y'know by @vacate-et-scire âNo, but I nearly missed swinging my lamp at your head.â You crossed your arms, glaring. âI have a door.â
Outgoing Call by @dickgraysonisnothereforthis âYeah. Yeah, read it to me. Actually, wait. How long is it? How many lines?â Thereâs silence as the perp counts. âFour.â âFour?!â you shriek. âFour?! That dumb motherfucker ended a four month relationship in four lines of text?â
Late Night Talks by @jjenthusee (you can also find it on AO3) âDonât remind me, I was delirious from blood loss.â Jason winced at the memory. âNot my best moment.â
Worried by @weneeya He left you alone in your apartment before he left for his night patrol. So why werenât you here anymore? Where were you?
Idiot Boyfriend by @randomasfuk âYou wanna leave me? Fine, I guess, but can you at least tell me why you left? What did I do? You canât possibly think I didnât care because Iââ You paused, the words catching in your throat. âYou know what? Forget it.â
Firends Who Kiss! by @ebodebo "I think...just a small kiss won't hurt. Right?"Â
Anything&Everything (in literal sense) by @heavysighing-dreamyeyes I'm curently blocked so I can't quote anything but you should have to check it out! They are my fav blog rn.
@ghostybat as far as I know she doesn't do fanfiction but hell do I love her blog?! They post amazing art and fun to talk to!
@hecate-hollow I just can't not mention them! They are funny also has great ideas/opinions!!
If you came this far hear me out for a sec! I go in and out of fandoms randomly so I never been an active member in any of them. Maybe you are like me and hadn't had the chance to learn that we should support by commenting and reposting. Liking posts sometimes is not enough so please reblog as much as you can when you want to support your writter!!
(If wanted to get off tags let me know!)
#batfamily#dick grayson#tim drake#robin#damian wayne#jason todd#batman#soulmates#rec list#batfam fanfiction#fanfiction#recomendation#batfam#Bruce Wayne#fic recomendation#red hood#jason todd x reader#red hood x reader#dick grayson x reader#dc comics#dcu#dc#ao3#ao3 fanfic#adding loads of tags so more people see#cant believe it took me hours to make this#worth every second#we love jason todd#jason todd deserved better#jason is an angsty shit
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Love, in All its Impossible Forms
Tim Drake loves with everything he has. He always has. And maybe thatâs his fatal flawâhe doesnât know how to hold back. He throws himself into it the way he throws himself into everything else: completely, recklessly, without a second thought for his own safety.
But love, for Tim, is never simple. It comes in forms that twist and tangle, leaving scars even as it gives him something to hold onto. And if you ask him, he could probably tell you exactly what kinds of love heâs experienced.
Thereâs love that is doomed.
Steph was chaos, energy, and unrelenting determination wrapped in a bright smile. She was Timâs equal and his opposite all at once, and when he loved her, he did so fiercely, wholeheartedly. She didnât just step into his worldâshe tore through it, unapologetic and unstoppable, showing Tim a version of himself that didnât have to be so calculated, so controlled.
But their lives were chaos, a whirlwind of masks and missions, and when the dust settled, there was never enough left of them to make it last. Tim loves her in a way that feels like holding sand; no matter how tightly he grips, she keeps slipping through his fingers. And maybe thatâs why he held on so hardâbecause he knew sheâd never stay. Steph was never meant to be tamed, and Tim loved her too much to try.
Even when it ends, thereâs no anger, no resentment. They donât blame each other for the way things fall apart. They donât have to. They always knew, deep down, that no matter how much they wanted to hold on, it was never meant to last. It wasnât about a lack of loveâit was about the world they lived in, the lives they led, and the way they could never quite fit together the way they needed to.
Steph was the love that burned brightly but couldnât last, no matter how much either of them wanted it to. She was the fire he couldnât hold onto, the storm he couldnât contain, and the one who left her mark on him in ways heâd never forget. They were love, doomed from the start.
Then there's love that dooms them.
Kon wasn't just Tim's best friendâhe was everything. A partner in every sense of the word. Loving Kon felt like second nature, so easy and so effortless that Tim didn't realize how deeply it ran until it was too late. Until Kon was gone.
When Kon died, it destroyed Tim. Grief didn't come in waves-it came in obsessions.
Tim couldn't let go, so he didn't. He turned to stolen data and secret labs, creating clone after clone in a desperate attempt to fill the void Kon left behind
It wasn't about moving on. It wasn't about closure. It was about holding on to the only person who ever made Tim feel like he could breathe, even when it was killing him to do so.
When Kon returned, whole and alive, it should have been everything Tim had dreamed of. But the shadows of what Tim had done lingered between them. The lengths he went to, the obsession that fueled himâit left cracks in the foundation of what they once were. Kon loved Tim, he always would, but part of him wondered if he'd ever been loved for who he was, or for what Tim couldn't let himself lose.
And Tim, for all his brilliance, couldn't figure out how to bridge the gap he'd created. He oved Kon with everything he had, but love born out of desperation carried its own weight, and he wasn't sure how to lay it down.
So they stayed in the gray space between what they were and what they could have been, bound by love so fierce it hurt, but too fractured to fully mend. They were doomed by their love.
Finally, thereâs love that dooms anybody else.
Danny is chaos, but not the kind that breaks Timâitâs the kind that grounds him. Danny exists between worlds, between life and death, and yet heâs more alive than anyone Tim has ever met. He doesnât fit neatly into any box, doesnât follow any rules, and yet thereâs something about him that feels inevitable, like gravity or the pull of the tide.
Danny doesnât ask for Timâs sacrifices. He doesnât need to be saved, doesnât want Tim to burn himself out in the name of love. Instead, Danny challenges Tim to slow down, to stop trying so hard to hold the world together and just be. With Danny, Tim learns how to live in the moment, how to breathe without feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders.
It isnât an easy love, but it isnât supposed to be. Itâs a love that demands courage, the kind that doesnât come from donning a cape or taking a hit for someone else. Itâs the courage to be vulnerable, to stop hiding behind plans and strategies, and let someone see every cracked, raw piece of himself. Danny is relentless in breaking down Timâs walls, not to fix him but to show him that heâs worthy of being whole.
Together, they are something untouchable. Their love is an anchor and a storm, a lighthouse and the waves crashing against the shore. Itâs a love so big, so consuming, that it leaves no room for anything else.
And thatâs where the doom lies.
They are the kind of love that consumes the world around them, leaving it scorched and battered in their wake. Not because they want to hurt anyone, but because their connection is so fierce, so all-encompassing, that nothing else can survive in its shadow. They are the eye of the hurricane, calm and steady, while everything outside is chaos.
Itâs the kind of love that makes people ache to touch it, to understand it, even as it destroys them. The kind of love that people will write stories about and linger in though, long after the last page has turned. Love, that will echo through time in whispers and legends. But no one will ever truly understand it, because no one else could ever bear the weight of it.
Danny is the love that makes Tim believe he might deserve to be happy after all. Together, they are the love that dooms anybody elseâunapologetic, overwhelming, and utterly unforgettable.
#tim drake#batfam#danny phantom#danny fenton#brain dead#dead tired#stephanie brown#kon el#steph deserves better but tim also deserves better#kon and tim: tragic best friends to kinda lovers to emotional damage pipeline#danny phantom: love that would start a war if it had to#kon and tim could also be a love that dooms everyone else#i saw a tiktok abt how every fictional couple follows one of three stories:#orpheus and eurydice: love that is doomed#romeo and juliet: love that doomed them#odysseus and penelope: love that doomed anybody else#and i knew i had to make a post about it
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Yk what dc definitely needs? An ao3 cameo bc have you seen your fan base, there is definitely some rando writing Batman/Brucie fics in Gotham because Batman Is Not beating the sugar baby allegations.
And have you seen the fucking batfam, Jason writes BatBruce fanfics whenever he feels Chaotic and Tim edits them whenever he get pissed at Bruce
Now I really want to see like fandom wars in the DCU but it's just the Batkids fighting for their ship bc they want [blank superhero] as their step parent
Imagine going on Tumblr and it's just like the same 10 blogs threatening each other because they don't agree with who's fucking batman? It'd be hilarious
Twitter fic this Twitter fic that, what about tumblr fics, huh?
#I can see Jason w/ Talia because WW deserves better than bruce and Dick with Clark bc he's a superman fan/neg#oracle isn't formally in this shipping war but she's laughing at them definitely or maybe she is idk#tim drake#batman#bruce wayne#jason todd#dick grayson#damian wayne#stephanie brown#Jason todd#batfam#batfam fic ideas#have some pride for the hellsite smh
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TIM DRAKE | âWeâre not quite lovers. So I tell everyone weâre just friends. Itâs easier that way.â
Itâs easier that way. To explain the way my gaze lingers on your lips when weâre alone, curled up in the quiet of my room during our late-night hang outs. Our voices lower, close to a whisper and our noses brush just enough to make my heart race. For a second, I could swear you feel it too, the pull. But I donât ask. Itâs easier not to.
Itâs easier that way. To explain the way, even though I have plenty of friends, itâs always you I find myself turning to. The one I can laugh until I canât breathe, cry, then laugh again. The only one whose face I search for in a crowd. The one whose eyes I lock with across a street, like we already know the otherâs there, even before we see it.
Itâs easier that way. To explain how we can talk for hours without it ever feeling like enough. Without running out of things to say or jokes to share. I donât know how you do it. How you always come up with the most ridiculous things to make me laugh. And I do. I laugh, because I want to hear you laugh. I want to hear your voice when it cracks with laughter, the way you say my name so breathlessly, how I can picture your face so perfectly in my mind. You on the other end of the phone, with your nose scrunched up from laughing. Hair a mess, as always. Yet so beautifully captivating.Â
And sometimes, in those quiet moments, when itâs just the two of us, the air is thick enough to touch. To cut. I catch your eyes. And for a moment I think I see something there. An intensity, a depth of a feeling that scares me. But maybe itâs just me, wishing for something more. Wishing to see something that isnât really there.
After all, weâre just friends. Right?
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sorry not sorry for the Tim Drake angst đââïžâđ»
#tim drake#tim drake x reader#tim drake x you#tim drake fic#tim drake headcanon#tim drake fanfiction#tim drake red robin#timothy drake#dc tim drake#tim drake x fem!reader#tim drake x y/n#tim drake x male reader#tim drake drabble#tim drake dc#tim drake deserves better#tim drake angst#x reader#reader insert#red robin dc#red robin x you#red robin x reader#red robin x y/n#red robin fanfiction#dc red robin#red robin#dc robin#dc x reader#dcu comics#dcu#dc comics x reader
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Wade Grey, Seth Ridley, Lucy Chen & Tim Bradford The Rookie 7x10 Chaos Agent
#timbradfordedit#wadegreyedit#sethridleyedit#lucychenedit#chenfordedit#therookieedit#Tim Bradford#Wade Grey#Seth Ridley#Lucy Chen#Chenford#The Rookie#spoilers#7x10#the rookie spoilers#patrick keleher#richard t. jones#eric winter#melissa o'neil#justa's edit#i came back to queue you#how fast he changed from beginning to threatening#he showed his true face there#and they don't even know about his mistake that almost got them killed#you can see how difficult this is for lucy#i'm so glad tim and grey took this over#and weren't afraid of seth's threats#lucy deserved better#so glad she has tim and grey on her side#hope seth won't try anything stupid
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Dick: so bruce-
Jason: one second, I gotta call the cops!
Dick: wait what-
Jason: all my fucks went missing!
#batfam headcanons#batfam#bat family#batfamily#jason todd#bat brothers#dick grayson#red hood#tim drake#incorrect batfamily#batfamily shenanigans#batboys#batkids#batman#batfam incorrect quotes#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect batsibling quotes#incorrect batman quotes#dick grayson incorrect quotes#incorrect jason todd#jason and dick#jason todd headcanon#jason todd incorrect quotes#jason todd deserves better#incorrect dick grayson#nightwing incorrect quotes#incorrect nightwing#nightwing#incorrect red hood quotes#red hood incorrect quotes
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Tim is likely Bernardâs emergency contact and to me that is both sweet and tragic.
Like itâs not the woman who gave birth to him, not the man who raised him, itâs his bf who heâs only been with for maybe a year and whoâs in space and/or dressed as a bird half the time. Thats who the hospital calls if heâs admitted to the ER.
#Iâm having a lot of thoughts about Bernard Dowd#he deserves so much better#bernard dowd#timber#timbern#tim drake#dc comics#robin
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