hello i am here to explain why this rant makes no sense canonically!
first of all, i'd recommend reading Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying carefully before speaking about how tim became robin since it is the storyline where tim becomes robin.
he was younger than 13 when he did all the "these people are so cool so i am gonna stalk them". he was literally a preteen fanboying on batman and robin who also had too much free time and no parental control over him. does that make the stalking okay? no of course not. but would he even be able to actually stalk when he was in a boarding school outside of gotham city, and a lonely place of dying takes place during vacation week which was his last chance? also you should be taking the fact that he was literally a child into consideration too.
it's also very funny that you kept repeating blackmail when tim was collecting photographs and newspapers for the sake of having a collection. like come on now. all of these happened between the ages of 9-13 and you are telling me batman let himself got blackmailed by a child who hadn't even hit the puberty yet.
continuing, tim didn't go to bruce telling him "make me robin because you need one and i have blackmail on you." tim went to dick (he actually went to haly's circus to find dick too) and asked him to return to robin (mind you he didn't know why dick wasn't robin anymore) and even cried when dick refused it. nowhere in those dialogues there is a part tim asking to be robin.
tim inserting himself into family? if he didn't put on that costume on a whim there wouldn't be a family left to "insert himself into." and it was alfred who drove him there too.
of course tim didn't need robin. the point of tim becoming robin was never about tim himself. it's batman needing robin. (also please pay attention to what tim says in panel 4). i don't want to put the entire comic into this and there's an image limit, but if you go check all of the panels tim is speaking with bruce in the comic there's not one piece of dialogue even implying there was blackmail involved. it's the opposite of blackmail even.
tim not becoming robin because he deserved it? welp! alfred and dick do not think so! neither does bruce! (robin (1991) #1)
i'm not even going to talk about how you compared tim drake to tony stark because that sure is a whole another monster to deal with.
also! if we are going to talk about stealing a title, it was jason who did it first when robin meant something special to dick, but i am neither a jason anti trying to paint him as a bad guy nor i am talking about jason becoming robin. would damian or steph be the arrogant little shit if tim didn't become robin and they were the next on the line? no! were they assholes for taking robin after tim? still no! it's called a mantle and it was jason who made robin into a title after dick.
was jason right on attacking tim for "stealing" robin? again, no. this might be subjective based on which perspective you are looking at the situation from, but i offer you this perspective (if you want to read, teen titans (2003) #29): jason broke into titans tower, hurt the entire team only to attack tim. and his reasonings? petty. "i was here first" "show me what you have that i didn't" "i was a titan too, why don't i have a statue?" (while knocking donna's statue down. like damn keep her out of this) and just,, generally implied jealousy for some reason and all the while he didn't even have the correct idea of tim's time as robin and before robin.
and please tell me you aren't defending jason for beating tim while telling him he isn't good enough to be robin, then writing "Jason Todd was here" on the walls with his blood and saying this was all because tim allegedly stole robin from him.
i am not gonna deny that tim sometimes gets the rich and white boy privilege, because we all know how elitist and misogynist dc writers can be. but people calling tim misogynist and a serial cheater (what the hell, which comics are you even reading because we sure as hell didn't read the same ones) is completely made up or writers like ch*ck d*xon projecting on characters they write. and you know it's projection from how it's not a consistent thing in his personality, and there are panels of tim being the opposite of misogynist and sexist. when it's y'all's favorite character you blame the writers (justifiably) but when it's a character you learned about from tumblr or various other fandom spaces without reading and seeing it for yourself, it's suddenly all blamed on the fictional character.
so basically, the rant you just wrote either consists of the stuff other tim antis picked and chose and warped to show tim as a bad person, or the jokes made inside the fandom that does not fit into the canon 😁
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