Ok hear me out. Y’know the headcanon that Cass is ALWAYS IN HONGKONG? (This is not a Cass post I’m sorry) well imagine if that lead her to found out about the mistreatment and abuse that Chinese trainees suffer in those kpop reality program, so she decides that the best way to get information to take mnet down once and for all is to…infiltrate in one of those programs.
The plan is to infiltrate in the program and win, collecting data about the industry from the inside. But the main issue here was that there weren’t any female show auditioning right now, the only option available was the new season of Boys Planet.
Her first thought was Dick. He was charming and a really good dancer, and while his singing wasn’t the best he could still win because of charisma, his looks, his dancing, and the fame that came from the Wayne name. The one issue was that, by kpop standards, Richard is more close to retirement than to debuting.
That’s how Tim Drake ended up being part of Boys Planet 2025.
He despised it at first. He wasn’t really into boybands and the idea of having to fake his entire personality for MONTHS in front of TV really exhausted him; but, whatever, he couldn’t say no when Cass asked him so nicely.
Tim was a good singer, he knew that, Janet made him take singing lessons as a kid and he actually liked them so he kept going until he started training to be Robin.
But that doesn’t mean he stopped doing it.
He wasn’t MAIN VOCAL level singer, but he could handle himself on his own well enough to be a good Lead vocalist if he wanted it.
He also could rap and improvise really good since he spent really long nights doing rap battles with Young Justice as a teenager.
Dancing was something all the bats knew how to do, since some of their fighting styles implied that they move with the same grace and smoothness that’s needed in dancing, so it was an easy way to start training how to fight if you knew how to MOVE.
He also was part Korean (Janet’s side), so he knew how to speak Korean fluidly.
He also was strikingly pretty, he knew that, he had the delicate face that he knew how to use in his advantage, he was short and lean enough to pass as a Twink, but he had the arms and muscles that made every single 13 year old drool.
He obviously is accepted on sight.
His audition was dancing and singing to Rough by Gfriend.
His on-show audition is with two other boys singing Love Scenario by iKON and he had SO MUCH FUN training with those two boys and presenting the song. (You bet they stayed friend the whole show and he ended up being massively shipped with one of them which created a Xiaorina ending when Tim debuted and his friend didn’t)
The rest of the show is bad, but Tim is so used to much way worse this is like vacation to him, he is actually having a really good time and the trainees are jealous of him for that, but they like him because he is nice and a good team leader, he even helps people of other teams practice on his spare time.
He keeps the investigation, obviously, but it’s kinda in the back of his mind, he discovers how much he loves singing and dancing on stage and is kinda excited to win. He knows he’ll have to come back to Gotham and that taking the spot from someone just to later leave would be so rude, but he can’t help but want to be on stage a little more, to sing and dance and make little programs with his group, it will be like Young Justice all over again but with less deaths and more music!! But he knows this is a mission and he shouldn’t get attached.
He ends up winning, obviously. He gets the first place and is the 3 oldest in a group of nine and he was happy with the group he ended up with (He was kinda sad when his friend Ollie didn’t get to debut tho, he knew how much he wanted it)
He is the Leader, Lead Vocalist and Lead Dancer of the group and is ready to throw hand with Mnet for his little rascals. (“What do you mean Yujin has to stay past 12?!? He’s 13!!! No- He won’t- DONT RAISE YOU VOICE AT ME MY FAMILY CAN BUY YOUR FAMILY THE KID WILL LEAVE WITH THE REST-“)
Cass doesn’t have the heart to tell him that she closed the case while he was still in Boys Planet. But it’s good tho!! The kpop industry can be horrible to some, but for Tim, who is used to the Batman way of training, this is a walk on the park! AND he is making sure those kids are being taken care of, so maybe having an idol brother isn’t that bad.
