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ASK AWAY I LOVE TO RAMBLE 'morally grey' tim drake is pure fanon based on either mischaracterization of red robin tim drake or people's unbridled desire to have him and jason bond over hating bruce or whatever else. i made like a giant thinkpiece for oomf about a personal hc on how tims nightmares affected his moral compass but absolutely, tim is PURE super ego. given the trolley problem, tim would probably throw himself on those rails to die. he has proven it many times.

in robin #4-5, given the choice of putting steph in danger by letting her confront her father or killing arthur brown, he chose option 3: throw himself in the truck, which ended up with him nearly suffocating to death. what i personally find interesting of this is less his actions per sè and more his thoughts; every second a thought about ‘doubling air supply’ comes to his head, he punishes himself for it. he is only afraid of 'disappointing bruce', finding himself in a situation where he even had to choose 'who to save'.

in one of my favorite stories, 'batman: contagion', tim would rather die than let is father know he was dying. he wanted to avoid giving his father thta heartache and make sure that batman and robin's identity were safe so he preferred wallowing in his pain instead.

in the titans of tomorrow storyline, he didnt hesitate to put a gun to his head and nearly pull the trigger and it has to be noted that the only reason why he failed to take his own life was external factors. if it meant saving others, he was willing to let himself die.

finally (because i have too many examples LOL) a lonely place of living. too good. between letting the kanes become the target of the bombs or letting people perish, he chose the final option: redirect all explosives towards himself and let himself die.

tim counteracts hedonism, he is a pure self harming machine and most importantly, he is a masochist and a hypocrite. in his fantasies, he wishes for an easy life yet does everything in his power not to achieve that. he dates ariana, a girl whos life (as troubled as any gothamite’s can be) is fairly uncomplicated, overly accepting of his committment behaviors yet cheats on her with steph, someones whos life is an absolute mess and does nothing but make it even more complicated by being a vigilante and choosing to be involved in the vigilante life.

he says he wants to eventually quit robin and have an easy life yet, when offered the chance of actually quitting, he is trembling in his boots and afraid of a life without being robin. he comes back to bruce all the times, no matter how many times bruce disappoints him and manipulates him. he needs that complicated life, he needs to be a part of that change. he needs that pain.

What’s with the killing our gay situation ships? Huh? Like what’s going on dude?

We got Kon

And then we also got Lonnie

This narrative is starting to get on my last nerve.

The Tim in BTAS is his own character, it is by no means Jason with Tim's name, like what the fuck?? Okay, yeah, he was taken in from the streets like Jason, but I didn't see him jacking any Batmobiles either.

Tim was the main Robin at the time. He had just appeared as Robin, of course they were gonna use him, but doing Tim's story right means delving into a lot of his personal backstory that the show just had no time or space for.

If you're doing Tim's Robin, you have add his family lore and how hard it is for him to hide Robin from them. Even that is if you're starting post Jack's coma. If you're adding Tim, you're adding the trip to Paris and training with Lady Shiva and Stephanie and Cluemaster and Ariana and Huntress and so much more.

The series is about Batman. It's focused on Batman and his villains and his relationships and they gave Tim the poor orphan backstory because it's familiar and easy to work with.

"He has Jason's personality," yeah, because Robin Jason would have totally sneaked into the Batcave. Because Jason was the one known for stealing the Robin suit and getting himself in the action. Because Robin Jason would totally tie Batman and leave him stranded and see through his lies and yell at his face "you can't!" when he insists he can handle Crane's gas.

Also, y'all seem to think this show was faithful to the characterization of every character other than Tim– as if I didn't have to sit through that godawful Dick and Selina kiss.