sometimes seeing classic Tim Drake makes me sad because it just reminds me no one remembers how to write that character hardly ever anymore
like he was genuinely such a good character, but then everyone had to go and forget what made each of the characters special, because toxic positivity made everyone turn things into the most simplified inoffensive garbage ever, and unfortunately sometimes the actual comics try to pander to that
i know sometimes writers that are fans of Tim Drake are legitimately fans of them, but sometimes i feel like that means they can't write him objectively, the same way someone that hates him would, but possibly in a different direction
couldn't care less if his writer liked or disliked them, i'd just want them to be capable of writing him objectively as he is. no gimmicks, no favoritism, no pandering to the fan fic/WFA style of Bat-Family, no trying to darken him up in a lame attempt to be trendy, just actually the damn character
it needs to happen more than every so often if we're lucky
The trouble is trying to have character dynamics evolve. Like, with the other main bat-cast, Tim is closest to Dick, Bruce, Steph, and Cass. But all of those relationships would evolve with time, but we didn't get to see them evolve because of the New 52. So, DC is stuck. And it hurts Tim (and Steph and Cass) most of all because in Tim's case, his character in the New 52 was so radically different; and in Steph and Cass's case, they initially did not exist.
