I want to read more fics that address his time in Robin training with Bruce and Dick, Jason, and/or Damian find out.
Like, they're all sitting around talking about fun or silly things that happened in training or on patrol with Batman. And Tim is just doing his thing, reminiscing about pictures he took of Dick’s and Jason's Robin, wondering if he could take time off somewhere to get some of Damian's Robin when the others get his attention and ask about funny stories from his time as Robin. He blanks, because nothing with Batman was fun, that was why he was Robin. So he says Lady Shiva getting him ice cream once and leaves.
Or they're going over protocols for Robin to follow with Damian and Tim is just sitting there confused, because it's all stuff he got in trouble for with Batman. And when Dick or Jason tell him that “you can jump in anytime, baby bird”, Tim gets up, leaves, and returns with a surprisingly worn binder he puts down.
Then he opens it, flips to a point about a third of the way through, and turns it to face them. He points at a chart and says, “I made this when the results of your advice weren't what you said they'd be. I didn't know you were supposed to wait 3 days after fear gas exposure to go back out. Bruce didn't wait and if I didn't follow, petty thieves ended up in the ER.”Dick is horrified, Jason and Damian confused. Tim continues. “This binder has the protocols and methods I followed as Robin. I wasn't Robin to contrast Batman's shadow. I was Robin to remind Batman of his morals. I have no advice to offer Damian that is relevant to his Robin. You were offered Robin, one way or another. I had to take Robin before Batman did something he'd regret.”
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
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This has little bits of how Tim is treated differently than the other batboys and shows how it affects how he views his relationship with the family.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
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Tim's experience as Robin was massively different from every other Robin. Maybe only Steph can compare, but she didn't last long and probably doesn't talk about it.
A good chunk of Tim's formative training as Robin wasn't even under Bruce. Instead Bruce shipped him off to his own former teacher, and then Lady Shiva trained Tim, after the old teacher Bruce sent him to was killed.
Bruce didn't really want him in the beginning, but Tim forced the issue. Then Batman kept a distance between them for a while because he kept telling himself he's not Tim's parent and Tim already has a dad he should be spending time with.
Tim had to manage Bruce's mental health and drag him out of depression, grief etc. While Bruce tried to stay hands off.
But this made Tim largely unsupervised a lot of the time. He probably patrolled alone as Robin more often than other Robins, especially when as young as him. He probably did all kinds of things Bruce never would have allowed Dick or Jason to do, either supervised or solo. Tim had an entire team of teenybopper BFF super kids that went on space roadtrips with zero adult supervision.
The closest thing Young Justice had to adult supervision was Kon. But Kon had only been alive and free for probably less time than Tim has been alive. From what I understand, Kon wasn't aging because of being a clone, but had been in Dick's Titans before becoming friends with Tim. But Bruce seems to have had little to no idea what Tim and his friends got up to as Young Justice.
So their relationship was much more of a partnership (with Tim sometimes being the babysitter) than father-son. Tim even made up a fake uncle to take him in after his parents death to avoid being adopted by Bruce. It took a long time for them to admit to each other, and themselves, that they had gotten emotionally attached and considered themselves as father-son.
Bruce really dropped the dad ball with Tim. And Tim has a lot of valid reasons to have insecurities and issues with being parented (or lack thereof).
Have you ever saw a small child trying to take a big dog for a walk?
Just thinking about the risks of falling, of losing control, of being drugged on the ground by a beast you love
(It doesn't always end up with a skinned knee)
After all is said and done, after he got B back from the time stream and Jason back to the family and Dick wasn't dead and-
(After he pulled himself from the ground, purely by spite and the numbing knowledge that no one's coming. No one ever does.)
After all of it, he doesn't think about the R. He doesn't think about the way that it was always taken. He doesn't think about the way nothing ever stays, how everything good is going to be taken away, no matter what he does.
Well.
He tries not to think about it.
It was just a job. It was good to have, but that's it.
(He naver was there for revenge or hope or honour. He wasn't a flame, a candle to light up the dark knight. He was the leash on a hellhound, staring into the shadows and saying "enough!")
After it all, he is.
Well.
(He isn't sure who he is supposed to be, now.)
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It's a family night. And Dick and Jason takes it as an opportunity for "How To Robin (with og!Bat) 101" for Damian.
(he's not bitter about it. He's Red Robin. It's okay. He's over it.)
His brothers talk about being Robin and silly things and
Some of those things he remembers
(watching out of carefully cleaned lens, staring into the night and hearing the echoes of a laugher in his ears. Falling asleep with a sttaic record of a child and his father, playing on repeat in the cold and empty house.)
And that was okay.
It's okay.
He's okay, always.
Even when Dick mentions Bat Bruce staying in three days after fear toxin, watching movies and staying together and hot chocolate and-
Even when Jason mentions moments of comfort and holding his hand as he got stitches and letting him have ice cream for dinner after-
(He stare into the eyes of his own black dog, and keep a leash on it.)
He's fine.
(It was before, he knows. It was Before, and he came After, and there's nothing he can so about it. It doesn't matter.)
And he's good, he's Gucci, he's great at this Faking Being Human TM.
They talk about fun with the bat, and all the silly little things they used to do. And Tim would be fine just sitting there, listen to their stories and trying not to cringe, but.
But they start telling the Brat about protocols. Silly things like "stay inside three days after fear gas"
(No, you don't. You don't stay inside because he won't stay inside and you can't let him go on his own.)
Things like "Robin leaves patrol at 1 am during school nights".
(No, he doesn't. 2-4 AM are the worst hours to do crimes. For the criminals. After four B starts getting ready to go back to the cave, but left alone he is an unstoppable force.)
They tell him all those stupid things, like it's real, like it's not gonna get someone killed.
(and even if he isn't Robin anymore, he still remembers why he became one in first place.)
And Tim may hates that little brat, but Damian is a kid.
(And this isn't about him. It never was. It's about Gotham city and Batman and people and doing what's right, not easy or comfortable.)
So he goes upstairs to his room, and pick up the locks behind the hidden door at the back of the closet, and take The Book.
(well, he call it that. In reality, it's an unholy combination of three school-notebooks, 2 industrial binders for the printed pages, and a folder for the index.)
"Yo, Timbo!" Jason calls him when he walks back into the living room. "We're telling the Bay Bat funny stories from training! C'mon, what you got?"
"Umm... Shiva got me Ice cream once," is what he comes up with. Though it doesn't seem to be the right comment.
(There's a child inside of him, pounding at the closed doors of the manor and screaming "Why am I never enough?" There's an inner child he lock inside, that never sees the night.)
It doesn't matter.
He put the pile on the table, and dust it a little bit.
"I don't know what this two have told you," he says carefully. "But this are the things that you need to know and memories, as now Robin. Those are the current protocols, organised by area, severity, and alphabetical order. This is the index."
Damian doesn't speak, for once. Small mercy.
"I always knew someone else is going to get the suit after me. I guess I just thought it would kill me first."
(He is tired of pretending it wasn't the unspoken deal from the first day - that he won't leave until one of them is dead. He's tired of pretending that this is something he can actually control. He's tired of pretending he's holding the leash.
He is bound to it, forced for the ride, even as his flesh is cut on the hard ground. He sacrifices his blood and his pain, trying to slow down the hound.)
He's staring at Damian, and something dark inside of him whispers
(You deserved it. It's your fault. You were never a demon, to tame a hellhound.)
Black dog - a pretty famous metaphor for depression. But it's also fits the theme here so well.
(to) Hound - to chase someone or to refuse to leave someone alone, especially because you want to get something from them.
(Also a type of dog used for hunting.)
Damian means Tamer
If you liked it, you might also like Who am I? (to disappear). This one is Cass-centric, but I feel like it has a similar vibe.
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Me? Depression? IDK what u talking about 😭
*staring into my struggles with ADL and everything in my life rn*
Idk where you got this idea from.
(Depression is really hard. Like, I knew it would be, bc April is always a bad month for me, but. Yeah. it's hard.)
One time my bf was telling me about people who argue about intelligent creation by saying “the earth is perfectly round!” And I said “but it isn’t!” And he was so proud of me
Sorry, peeps, but this is mislabeled. As should honestly be pretty obvious when you compare it to a picture of Earth from space:
However, I can’t entirely blame people for being fooled; reverse-google-imaging it will give you hundreds of shady gif-collecting sites labeling it “earth without water.” But this is also not true.
This is where it originally comes from (hooray for Tineye). If you don’t want to bother to check the link, it’s the page for a Matlab program designed to image geoscience data. That gif is a map of gravitational field strength across the earth… exaggerated by a thousand. Here’s what it looks like not exaggerated:
As you can see, significantly less potato-y. But still lumpy, because that’s the whole point of the program: to show areas where the numbers are higher as higher and areas where the numbers are lower as lower.
As the page itself points out, in real life, the Earth is very close to a sphere. However, there’s a pretty simply and logical reason for this: gravity. Things that are in higher areas relative to the center of the planet will tend to move downhill, resulting in the lower parts being filled and the higher parts getting shorter.
So, you know, if you ever run into any of those loony intelligent-designers an earlier commenter mentioned, now you know the REAL reason they’re wrong.
they probably cant love me back in a human or even mammalian sense, but my goldfish with their smooth pea-sized brain have learned to trust that i will make them better when they are sick. i feel like crying about this often
Maybe Princess the tarantula never had anything resembling what we as humans know as emotions, but she still came out of her burrow and up to the glass when we’d talk to her and used to stare at the drawing I’d tape to her terrarium. Maybe she couldn’t even comprehend what we were, but she knew we were there to take care of her. And even if she never showed that sort of curiosity or trust we’d still love her.
Idk if Munchie the praying mantis felt love for me, but I do know he trusted me enough to climb onto my hand when offered and was comfortable with allowing me to carry him places despite me being absolutely massive in comparison to him. So that's close enough in my book.
This also applies to wild animals/birds you might encounter in your garden. The feral city pigeon with the distinct white spot on his head will never love me, and will probably never be brave enough to eat from my hand. But I don't feed him in the hope of making him love me. I feed him because I love seeing him, doing his little spiny walks on my balcony, cooing up a storm, and not flying away immediately when I open the balcony door to bring him some seed. His presence brings joy to my heart, and I'm blessed to see him every day.
I'm not naïve enough to believe an animal can love me the same way a human can, but to know it trusts me enough to feel safe in my presence is an honour I strive to maintain as a sentient human.
My tortoise who is older than me just ran up to me when I was bringing her lettuce. Head and forelegs as high off the ground as possible looking at me like :-} I don’t know if she loves me but she recognizes me as the source of food and she lets me scratch her head
With my will, with my deeds, with my hands, I can create a world which is less brutal, less savage, less cold; I can craft with these hands a world where a bird may trust an Eldritch monster of strange and incomprehensible power; I can be a benevolent god to insects and plants; with my heart and my deeds and with kindness for beasts great and small, I can create a world where a child can trust a stranger and a women can trust a man and neighbors can trust each other.
This power is not mine alone to wield. Do not let anyone take it from you. Do not let anyone convince you that each tiny act of kindness does not accumulate. The universe does not round off even the smallest iota.
Our preferences are included in the pressures of natural selection, and civilization is founded on the principle that the world can be made better.
Who cares if they can love you back.
You made the world a little kinder! That’s actually reason enough!
I will never get over how brilliant this comic is. The artist could have just drawn a single image in response, but instead we have this masterpiece. The world doesn’t deserve @iguanamouth.
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this was so funnn
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thanks for the tag ana!!
i uh. dont know who to tag FHSJHGHSFJ if anyone following me wants to participate feel free!!
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@starry-wren @ramthestressedgoat @Anyone else who sees this post
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tags (no pressure!) @rainbowr0ses @pandazenie27 @shimshamshimsham @ghostcat404 and anyone else who sees this and wants to participate
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thanks for the tag!!
tagging @gendrsoup @feeble13 @idislikefrenchclass @axelaxolotl09 and anyone else who wants to join!!
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Yippee! Tysm for tagging me
@satan-wishes-he-was-me @wingstobetorn and anyone else :3
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thanks for tagging me i love doing stuff like this!
tagging: @adventures-in-mimesis, @nondescriptloin, @dies-somniator, and anyone else who wants to do this!!
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this is such a fun little questionnaire! thx for the tag <3
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OOO thx for the tag!!! <3
@ms-katalee-flavour @shooting-the-stars @jervis-tetch-my-beloved @mimic-of-hysy (no pressure!!)
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Thank you for the tag @white-flower-blooming 💕💕
Been a while since I’ve joined tag games ☺️ tagging @liziocit , @blackbeads , @rojaloca , @jaydenuniverse , @lanwangjisnow if you guys wanna join in 💕💕 hope everyone’s having a nice weekend 🤗🤗
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thanks for the tag @hualianaddict :)))), I am having a nice weekend thank u
tagging (no pressure): @a-random-brown-girl , @jiaoji, @anjimimimoo, @wishingicouldcontroltime, (i would tag vi but she’s already been tagged) and everyone else who wants to join in!
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Tagging: no one specific, but everyone who wants to participate <3 Thank you for tagging me Liz 🫶
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Tagging: I'm not gonna tag anyone specific so anyone can play ^-^
i want to thank my friends who voted for wangxian despite other things pulling them back, you all deserve cake, a good day and a lovely nap: @jiaoji, @a-random-brown-girl, @wishingicouldcontroltime, @hualianaddict
Lan WangJi would do everything again if he could. The pain on his back was nothing compared to losing the pretty cheerfull fox. Even if Wei WuXian didn't return his feelings, he was his friend and a good pearson with a high believe that he always stand for, without fear.
The hunt of foxes were illegal but the Jin Clan still tried. They ignore the morals and law stablished just because arrogance and hurt pride.
How ridiculous.
Maybe Lan WangJi shouldn't needed to get in front of Wei Ying, but he still didn't think straight way, he just wanted to protect him. He thought his scales would at least protect him better.
Everything went black while the ambulance's noise get more and more distant.
"Get lost!", thats what he heard Wei Ying say, exactly like he said to Lan WangJi before he jumped in front of the arrow, but there's something more, like he was holding tears.
Lan WangJi opens his eyes and he is on a hospital bedroom. His tail is out of the bed and some scales have come loose of his body but was not painfull. His eyes can't open too much, but he can see a black silhuet and Wei Ying's voice.
"I'll kill this stupid peacock!! He dares to shoot me and then hits a dragon Lan arm?! If something happen to Lan Zhan, i will broke his neck with my hands!!!"
Lan WangJi is flustered even with the pain on his back. Wei WuXian is holding his hand and calling him Lan Zhan again, not Lan WangJi, like he was doing all these months.
He closes his eyes and feels Wei Ying getting closer and caressing his cheeks, he's pretty sure that whatever was with then in the room before have leave. He can smell Wei Ying's scent, still sweet but something sour coming with it too.
"You foolish dragon.", he says, his soft tails intertwine with Lan WangJi's, like was protecting him from everything.
He asks himself if Wei Ying knows he is awake, when a soft press on his lips made his brain almost shut down again.
Wei Ying kissed him, is holding so close and so gentle.
Lan WangJi is almost passing out again, probably because of the medicine, when he open his eyes and calls Wei Ying by his name. Wei WuXian eyes open comically, but when his mouth open, Lan WangJi already sleep again.
He sleep happy, waiting for when he can provoke Wei WuXian about the kiss and for when he will start to court the pretty fox.
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I love how WangXian male me feel like they are a suñer helthy and amazing couple, they are so pretty but also... so mundane? And i love it? Like, they hang out together and work, and have couple trips... just... married. A total normal and peacefull marriege couple doing marriage couple things without drama
