#tim's 16th birthday

[arrowheadedbitch]

Tim's Birthday, he's about to open Bruce's gift

Tim, dead stare at Bruce: If there is any form of hologram in here, I am killing everyone in Gotham, including myself

Bruce, terrified: Oh..., uh, well good thing there's not

Tim: Are you sure?

Bruce: Yes

Tim, opening the present: Oh, a new camera. Neat.

Everyone:

Tim:

Everyone:

Jason: Okay, what the fuck was that about

Tim: He knows what he did.

[shadowsh00ter]

Jason: What was it like to be sixteen?

Dick caught off guard: Huh?

Jason: I didn’t really get to have the sweet sixteen experience you know.

Tim: Consider yourself lucky.

[brucewaynehater101]

The Memory of Bodies AU:

Jason has been making amends with Tim in his own stilted way. He keeps his distance, but he'll put a blanket on Tim when the kid passes out somewhere (since Tim is always falling asleep in random places). The teen will find his favorite snacks in various places. Red Hood has shown vicious protection for Red Robin.

Tim has noticed and acknowledged these changes. As far as Jason is aware, Tim's forgiven him. They're good.

During a YJ mission, a magic user "gifts" Tim nonconsensually with a spell that makes him forget some of his more traumatic memories. One of the memories targeted was the TT attack.

At first, the Bats don't realize Tim's missing any memories. They don't like to talk about it and usually avoid that topic.

All the Bats see is that Tim's shoulders have lost a tension they didn't realize he was carrying. He allows himself to be physically closer to Jason, even going as far as falling asleep on him during a movie. The teen smiles more, makes more jokes, and isn't as guarded around the Waynes.

He wasn't unhappy or distrustful with them before, but he wasn't nearly as open as he becomes post spell.

Eventually, someone makes a comment about TT. Tim asks them what they mean by that.

Cue the Bats freaking out.

Once they figure out it was magic, they have a discussion on whether Tim *should* get his memories back. He's obviously happier like this.

Tim is extremely uncomfortable with the idea of someone controlling his memories and him being unable to remember such important details. He doesn't care if it will cause him to be more stressed out and cold. The idea of him not knowing freaks him out. Besides, what other memories could he be forgetting? What if none of the Bats were there when they happened? What does he not remember?

Anyways, Tim's having a few mental breakdowns.

Jason's having a few mental breakdowns (he thought they were good. He thought Tim trusted him. He thought he made it up to him).

The Bats restore Tim's memories, and he can feel the weight of them as they settle. His eyes become sharper, less bright, and they keep track of the exits as well as everyone in the room. The other Bats knew better, but they still feel slightly disappointed and sorrowful.

[iloveteawithmilk]

it's 2 AM and I'm actually crying about Tim's 16th birthday, God, I wouldn't want to age anymore either if I went through that shitshow

[sporkberries]

Sweet 16

[humblefryingpan]

So much of the robins' "training" is literally just abuse and I'm using Tim's birthday to prove my point

So on Tim's 16th birthday got a box from a "mysterious stranger" (a paid actor) that couldn't be opened and he thought it was a bomb so he immediately tried to get it as far away from his family as he could.

When the box opened it played a holographic video of Alfred (who Tim should be able to trust) sending a message back in time from the near future telling him someone he was close to would betray them and that it was up to Tim to stop it happening.

So Timmy was under loads of pressure, had a nervous breakdown and stopped trusting everyone from his friends to his girlfriend and brother. He spends several days and nights spying on his allies waiting for someone to slip up.

Eventually he figures out Bruce is behind it all and goes to find him. Bruce didn't care Tim was upset and congratulated him for "passing the test" (and also tells him he should've done better). Tim, understandably, yells at him and nearly quits being robin for good (he later comes back for another fucked up thing Bruce does but that's another thing).

It's not psychological abuse, it's ✨training✨

(also I'm so glad Tim yelled at him and didn't just accept it because he's right, it isn't okay)

[scintillyyy]

tbh the thing about tim's 16th birthday is that while he was angry when it happened, i genuinely don't think he particularly cares about it in the long run. and i also don't think he's super upset that he got a weird paranoia-inducing present from bruce and nobody else did. also. i don't think he was weirdly sad about the forever altered bruce he got because he liked the bruce he got (most of the time). even if it wasn't all great, that bruce was there when tim's mom died. and when his dad died. and that's the same bruce that tim saw at the circus the night dick's parents died. and that's what matters more than anything else.

[setare7x]

okay so if you read batfam ff (about tim) you can sort them into two categories: bad parent bruce and good parent bruce (or good and bad family), but i always get so angry if the whole family treated tim so badly and then something happens and he just forgives them?? like what😭 i love those fanfics where they realize they treated him wrong but he already moved on (like with young justice for example)

(so if you know a fic like this pls share it with me xx)

(and this doesn't mean I dislike all the reconciliation fanfics, I just really like the trope of him moving on and not going back into this (probably toxic) family)

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

OK so now I'm thinking about birthday's

And everyone in this fandom seems to know the 16th birthday from hell and I'm gonna touch on it

Growing up, I had pretty shitty parents. I know I haven't talked too much about it, but my father was the king of fucking up my birthday and whatever, and would never get me a gift like this man was incapable of practically, remembering my birthday.

But I want you to think about that for a moment Bruce Wayne, who, for all intensive purposes, was a father figure to Tim went out of his way to psychologically torture that poor child on his birthday, and it is like never brought up again like the angst potential of the entire family finding out is astronomical.

But also, do you know how fucked up it is to feel on your birthday the day that is supposed to be about you your father literally going out of his way to fuck it up. That's not something you forget that is a vivid memory. 

That shapes you for all of your life never mind the fact that time travel is a big thing in the DC universe. That was a perfectly tailored way to destroy Tim Drake and I mean I talk a lot of shit about Bruce Wayne but I almost feel like that's worse than a lot of shit he's done in my personal experience some shit sticks with you my most traumatic memories are not actually physically abusive in nature it's the psychological shit that fucks with you.

So RIP Tim Drake and his emotional well-being because every bit of paranoia, every bit of his personality, his lack of trust all can stem back to the 16th birthday from hell.

I love when we can literally dig to the cause and the cause of every contingency Tim Drake has ever fucking written. Is Bruce motherfucking Wayne.

I can never not stop hating on Canon Bruce Wayne I don't care if we have him, hugging Tim in one comic

That man is a piece of shit and I will stand by that statement 

[rock-in-robins]

Bruce handing Tim a birthday gift: Happy birthday

Tim holding it like the box is going to bite him, immediately going to the cave putting it in a containment box and burning it while glaring at bruce: no. just no. I fucking refuse.

Dick: Hey tim wtf??

Tim: Would you like to explain my trauma response to birthdays gifts, huh B? what bout you Alfie?

Bruce looking very uncomfortable: There was a training incident that I deeply regret.

Alfred:

Tim: is that what were calling psychological torture these days?

Dick turning to Cass: you get a go at Bruce if I get Alfred?

Cass already rolling up her sleeves: deal.

[arrowheadedbitch]

Thinking about the person who said that Tim and Damian's stories are so tragic when compared to eachother because Damian got to learn that he wasn't a tool and all Tim ever got was confirmation that he was

So, I'm imagining a one-shot were Tim walks in on Bruce telling Damian that he'd do anything to make sure he could trust him and just absolutely LOSES it

Because when Tim was Robin, Bruce went out of his way to MAKE SURE Tim didn't trust him, and now he's going out of his way to make sure Damian does? What the FUCK! What happened to "I'll never trust you again" "Good" !??? What happened to making sure everyone has the same amount of trust issues as you???

Bonus points if Alfred catches some strays because it isn't often that he deserves that and this is one of those rare moments where he definitely DOES.

If Alfred ever DESERVES to catch strays, it's gotta be for Jason's Memorial Plaque (a good soldier??? Fuck you, Alfred!) And Tim's 16th birthday. And I *love* 16th birthday related angst.

I want to see Tim lose his cool in a way none of them have ever seen, I want him to scream and cry and throw stuff and then run away, I need it to be BAD

Tl;dr- I wanna see Bruce give Damian things he refused to give Tim and I want Tim to be rightfully upset about it

[justiceiscalling]

What the Future Holds

What the Future Holds by justiceiscalling on ao3

“Sweet sixteen.” He lets out a low whistle. “You gotta tell me how it is. Cause, you know, I never had one.” The moment he says it, everyone in the room is groaning in annoyance.

“We get it, you died.” Tim comments from where he’s seated eating pancakes and staring at a computer. “It’s getting old, Jason.”

“Correction, it’s been old. Far too many people have died. It’s hardly a flex.” Damian says, earning a snort from Tim.

“That’s what I’ve been saying!” Stephanie says, making her way back to her seat.

“Happy birthday, Damian.” Tim says with an awkward tight-lipped smile that Damian returns with a nod.

OR Damian gets a message on his sixteenth birthday that’s all too reminiscent of Tim Drake’s sixteenth birthday ‘training’.

Inspired by Robin (1993) #116-120

chapter one of seven.

[avayarising]

Tim Drake’s 16th birthday AU…

…in which Tim thinks he’s the traitor (because Evil Future Tim has him half-convinced it’s inevitable) and locks himself in a holding cell in the Batcave and won’t come out

…in which Tim thinks he’s the traitor because of Evil Future Tim and leaves his Robin suit folded up in the Batcave with a resignation note and leaves Gotham only to stumble into Red Hood in his Lost Days

…in which Tim thinks he’s the traitor and does nothing because he thinks this is an attempt by Evil Future Tim to make him cause it by trying to prevent it (Bruce is waiting for the other shoe to drop)

…in which the Message From The Future was actually sent/orchestrated by Evil Future Tim to break Current Tim

…in which the Message From The Future is real and really does refer to Evil Future Tim

…in which Evil Future Tim actually turns up halfway through to advise Current Tim

…in which Good Future Tim (Red Robin) turns up halfway through to advise Current Tim and manages to make things worse

…in which they both turn up and fight each other

…in which it was all a fear toxin nightmare.

[gennydreams]

Bruce to Tim after his 16th birthday:

“Fear heightens your senses, fear keeps you alive. Arrogance gets you killed.”

[gretahayes]

Do you think Bruce wakes up and goes “ah yes today I will ruin my child's life” or is it a thing that just happens

[comics-nerd-number-3001]

I love Tim Drake's problems!!!

I know there are alot of angsty Tim does not believe he is part of the family takes but consider a hilarious twist on this where Tim 100% separates being a bat verses being a Wayne like its more of a family business type of situation. 

Like Jason goes on a full ass monologue about how Tim stole Robin and his place in the family as Dick’s brother and Bruce’s son and Tim is like??? chill I’m an employee dude. Damian tries to kill him to prove that he is the superior son and Tim is super confused because shouldn’t he go after one of Bruce’s sons instead of an unpaid intern?

Bruce has a whole heart attack when Tim tries to ask if he has a retirement plan or benefits lmfao 

Cue everyone trying to show Tim he’s part of the family except he is dodging attempts left and right (like that time he created a fake uncle just so he wouldn’t get adopted)