what do u think about a dicktim arranged marriage? maybe everything is the same… tim is still robin, RR still happens, but then when tim turns 18 his parents lawyers are like “oh btw to get ur inheritance from ur mom u have to honor this marriage contact” and it turns out Tim has been engaged to Dick for like 10 years and he lowkey doesn’t have a choice
yeeeees fun. At the bare minimum Bruce must have known about it, and Dick would have at some point found out, so there's that element of betrayal because Tim has been in their lives for YEARS and no one told him anything. Even if they assumed he knew...it should have come up! It really doesn't help that Tim has lived with Bruce on and off and to the public (and most people around them!), he thinks, he and Dick are like brothers. It sucks!!!! Even tho....the thought of being contractually bound to Dick for the rest of his life would have been a wet dream for his younger self
So much has gone on, his relationship with Dick has changed permanently since BftC and Red Robin, and now they're going to have to pose for pictures and kiss and hold each other on camera...the WE/DI marriage is practically a Gotham royal wedding.
dick maybe even thought that Tim's obsession with he and Bruce had something to do with the arrangement, and he was determined (after yk, initial meetings) to be nice to the kid just because the whole thing was screwed up, and each of them had this bit of freedom taken away long ago...he excused Tim's puppy crush as a fascination because of the marriage contract, and tried to keep his only feelings under wraps as tim got older. But then red robin happens and tim almost *dies* and well. Maybe dick welcomes the opportunity to keep tim by his side, at least theoretically :3 but once again, tim is betrayed and angry because dick kept something from him,...
