Robin Respect

Just a Tim Drake stan trying to make it in the world and this is my sideblog

[wanderintofics]

Batman’s compassion for criminals and murderers is fascinating when put up against his anger and distrust and sometimes contempt for Jason and Helena, again and again the one thing he truly can’t stand is murder in the name of some greater good

he understands and forgives greed and anger and fear and desperation as a reason for killing but the second you try to smear a bit of righteousness over that death he is disgusted, he is actively less empathetic, he wants nothing to do with you personally

I think one of the key things here is also that Jason and Helena operate in Gotham and Bruce is driven enough by favouritism and territoriality that this contempt gets driven to the forefront and he feels he has more say in what goes on in his city

[umbrellajam]

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

the delicious thing about the mess that is canon is there are so many layers and complications and lenses you can use to dissect the different alignments and frictions that make up the relationships of the Fam at any given time and a really interesting lens imo for the mess of Damian and Tim in particular is—

setting aside the murder attempts, the childhood trauma and abuse, the nuanced complications of Damian's specific upbringing, a potential lens for ongoing tension between them is that Tim is a kid who is easy to love who has told himself that he is hard to love. His parents didn't seem to love him, or when they did it was mixed with anger and neglect and punishing standards, so clearly the problem is him, that he, teenager Tim Drake, is just difficult to love. But then he meets the Fam, and Dick and Alfred take to him instantly, and even Bruce's attitude is so clearly not about Tim that even Tim sees it... And then here's Damian. And Damian, for reasons of his own, finds Tim as difficult to love as Tim always feared, even more so than his own parents, no matter what Tim tries to do, and so the grit at the center of their friction is, at least in part, Tim's own reaction to seeing his deepest fears confirmed.

[bichenart]

The irresistible urge to clone ur dead clone best friend….

Oopsies

[teratocore]

Evil Tim Drake being popular is so funny when you consider that canonically this guy would literally rather shoot himself in the head than potentially become evil. He threatened to do this while looking directly at an evil future version of himself btw.

[theresamouseinmyhouse]

5 things u need to understand abt tim drake

dick grayson fanboy

he genuinely does care about people. its not fake or insincere even if hes kinda weird about it. he does really care about people

carguy

goof ass dweeb (whether that makes you feel affection abt him is entirely up to you)

half the time he creates his own issues and its usually real funny but the other half of the time his issues are inflicted upon him in ways that are irreversible and beyond his control

[mogamoka]

Superman & Batman scene redraw

[justiceleaque]

i feel so embarrassed whenever i tear up reading batman comics. it's just a weird dude in a bat costume man get a grip we cant let him win

[hoodiemanic]

Titans tower summary ft that 1 quote

[marionmorse]

The cowards of twitter are afraid to admit that Batman represents love

[the--firevenus]

OP don't hide this gem in the tags 🫵😭😭

[bowditch]

all this but he's afraid of bats 😅

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

batman enjoyers when writers acknowledge bruce’s biggest weapon is his love for people

[silentgroves]

thy father's spirit

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

82 YEARS AGO - BATMAN DEBUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME Eighty-two years ago on March 30, 1939, Detective Comics #27 hit newsstands, introducing the Caped Crusader for the very first time in a featured story called “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.”

“And for all that fierce exterior, I’ve never met anyone who cared as deeply about his fellow man as Bruce Wayne.”  - Amanda Waller, Justice League Unlimited, Season 2 Episode 13 (2005)

[michaeljoncarter-deactivated202]

dying @ the fact that Blackest Night: Batman #3, where tim has to fight off the evil reanimated corpses of both his parents and their murderer, Adventure Comics (2009) #3, where tim sees kon for the first time after his resurrection and has a nervous breakdown in the parisian sewers, and Red Robin #5, where tim almost gets assassinated & loses his damn spleen, all came out on the exact same day. october 14 2009 first international tim drake fucking struggles day

[burritowitch]

happy tim drake fucking struggles day

[silverwhittlingknife]

tim drake's no good very bad day

[wolfae34]

Jason: “They’re children, Bruce! They shouldn’t be soldiers in your crusade!”

Bruce: “The children, Jason. They yearn for the capes.”

[everwalldigan-deactivated202602]

EXACTLY this is what always pisses me off when I see people say things like “Batman goes shopping for orphans to put in suits and send them to die!!” (Exaggerated) when Bruce is on his knees BEGGING his children to not be vigilantes

Bruce: chum PLEASE let me give you a normal childhood I’ll literally give you anything you want just don’t wear a traffic light and go fight crime

Literally any of his kids: you DENY miette this wish? You FORBID miette from beating up criminals? Oh! Oh! So much cruelty! You hate miette! Cruel bat furry! Jail for you!

[basalting]

literally sick with grief that Bruce never got to have a baby

bruce never got to stumble, bleary-eyed in the predawn light to a crib already gently shushing and hold a small, warm body to his chest.

never got to sing a silly song about tying your shoes or help sound out words on a page.

all of bruces babys came to him half grown already, small enough to hide in his shadows but big enough to already dream about stepping out of them

[zeetannas]

do you think he’s capable of love even though he’s from new jersey

[martyrbat]

batman: the knight #6

[ID: Bruce Wayne crying after shooting someone. He throws the shotgun down and stutters out, “I d-didn't- I didn't have a choice, I-”. The man he shot warns him, “you may not even survive...” as Bruce starts to sob. END ID]

[grizzlee30]