Strong desire to read your yelling about why n52 Tim is Bad
So to start-- as a character,Ā why n52 Tim is bad as a representation of Tim is because heās selfish (Tim is loyal), was never Robin (that was an enormous part of Timās character AND the Batman Universe) and heās flat as a character (Tim evolved and grew so much). + a bunch of other issues I have with him and the way people treat him and interact with him but thatās not the point of this. Ā
But my theoryĀ for that, plot-wise, in-story, however you want to phrase it-- is because itās not... actually... Tim?Ā
Essentially, when the universe reset, everyone kind of got shifted over one slot. Everyoneās essence got transferred from one universe to another and that got used as the building block for who they are in the new universe. Except, Timās, for some reason, didnāt get the memo everyone was jumping ship. They pulled one big cosmic Home Alone on Tim, somehow.Ā
So there was just this big ~Tim Drake Shaped Gap~ in the universe blueprints for the N52/Rebirth universes. So the Cosmic Powers That Be were kinda likeĀ ālol o shit what do we do we kinda need a tim drake in here somewhereā and kind of reshaped the life of the next bestĀ āTim Drakeā understudy they could find.Ā
Which happened to be a dark haired, blue eyed prodigy kid who lived in Gotham, with rich parents and a craving for heroics. (I call him Nathan.) So when he fucks up trying to play hero and has to go into witness protection, heās given the name Tim Drake and falls into Batmanās hands and the universe powers are like:Ā
So it explains why heās similar looking, why he acts kind of like Tim but heās missing some of those crucial characteristics, why his real name isnāt even Tim Drake, why heās just a little bit Tim but not quite right.
And because I love death and dying, I decided to try to coherently flesh all of this out so I could write a fic where The Actual Tim Drake comes back instead of Tim_Drake_2.exe and is likeĀ āguys what the actual fuckā.
