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4.) The tag-teaming quips.

The top-tier tag team quippers. Legitimately these are only a few. If Dick and Tim are on the page together any time from like 1992-2006, they are spitting.

3.) Gassing Tim up because lord knows the boy won’t do it himself.

That’s right Dick. You tell him he’s perfect. (Lowkey I think there’s a lot of focus on the hero worship Tim shows to Dick, and that’s very present, but Dick glazes Tim at every given opportunity too. He just wants Tim to feel secure and confident in himself. It’s adorable.)

2.) Mutual dumbass-ery. It turns out if you combine two of some of the smartest people on the eastern seaboard, the brain cells short out or something.

Brother stop showing off your glutes and TURN THE OTHER LEFT. But also, stop screaming Tim??? There are people??? Guards??? You disasters?????

1.) Comfort Mode Engaged™️

His internal push-and-pull has always been about whether or not he would stay in the life at all, and any force that encouraged him away from Robin as a mantle was always external. (Although, I do want to also note that any time he quits or considers quitting, it always reinforces his decision to be a hero in the end via having that arc and continuing to make the decisions that he does, just quick sidenote.)

We also have a ton of proof, including his introduction itself, that he sees no contradiction or problem with having an adult Robin.

And thus, rather than "growing up", moving away from Robin specifically toward something else feels like "doing what other people tell you to".

It's not treating Tim as an adult with autonomy (in-universe, obviously he has no autonomy no matter what, he's a character). It's treating him like people treat children, and in a significantly worse way than even he was treated as a child on the hero side of things, since he actually had an unprecedented level of autonomy as Robin (Robin is, in fact, representative of an autonomy power fantasy in a lot of ways).

It's bending to other characters going "you don't know what's best for yourself, I do".

And while you can always write a character changing their mind (that was arguably what was done with Dick in the first place, and the idea of a universe where he just never stopped being Robin and there was only ever one is more than reasonable from the perspective of before they wrote him say the things he did later), but because of the history we do have Dick, and the specific ways Tim has been contrasted with Dick on this subject, and it being way more clear how Tim did already feel about it, doing that with Tim now would read like support of the general "you'll grow out of it" mentality that a lot of people have toward young people with strong opinions about things.

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