βWhy didnβt Dick and Cassie Sandsmark believe Tim about Bruce being alive?β
He didnβt actually give them any evidence for it before running away. Didnβt even try to convince them beyond saying βheβs alive, Iβll prove it.β
Heβd spent the past year trying to resurrect his dead family and friends. After 100+ cloning attempts and almost stealing Lazarus pit water, this just looks like Timβs typical grieving pattern.
Dick, Tim, and Clark personally examined Bruceβs dead body and determined it was his!
Timβs inner monologue in Red Robin 1 shows even he knows heβs driven by desperate hope and compounded grief: βHeβs all I have and he has to be aliveβ¦Please, god, donβt let me be crazy.β
If Tim had turned out to be wrong I honestly believe he still wouldβve gone looking for a way to bring Bruce back. Just like he did with Kon, Bart, Steph, Jack, and Janet.
Red Robin follows so clearly from Timβs grief from losing Jack Drake and everyone else. DCU Halloween Special β09: βOur Fatherβs Sinsβ made this even more obvious by showing Red Robin Tim reflecting on his grief over Jack while heβs searching for Bruce.
Of course his friends and family think heβs grieving! He is! He just also happens to be right. Nobody is completely unjustified here.
