Characters More People Who Write About Tim Should Know About
Dana Drake (formerly Winters) - Tim's step-mom. Because Janet actually died right *before* Tim became Robin officially. Was Jack's physical therapist. In her 20's, so...that's a thing. Tim never calls her "mom", but he considers her family. To be real, Tim and Jack's relationship, which was already complicatedly rocky, would have been worse without her, Bless.
Helena Bertinelli - Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I see Helena more than I see Dana, I might have put my girl Helena at number 1. Tim's second sibling (after Dick). People too frequently forget their relationship because unlike him being brothers with Dick, it wasn't "verified" or whatever by Tim's adoption, since Helena isn't part of that family, but he *actively calls her his sister*, and they do have a close sibling-like relationship. I once saw someone call fanart of them together a reference to a particular fic even though it wasn't because they just had zero awareness of how canon that relationship was and I almost died on the spot.
Ted Kord - Similarly sad amounts of people don't think Tim has an older-generation hero outside of Gotham-adjacent he particularly admires that he met with during his time as Robin. Ted Kord's Blue Beetle erasure. You're killing me.
Members of Young Justice outside the Core 4 and sometimes Cissie - At the very least know who Greta Hayes (Secret) and Anita Fite (Empress) are, I'm begging you. Also note they didn't know Greta's name for a good long while, because she didn't remember it. They called her "Suzie" for a while as a stand-in. Also if you are using Core 4 as friends in a civilian situation, *always* include Cissie. She is not a Lesser Friend in that situation, she's just Retired. ALSO SUPER-CYCLE. Find out about Super-cycle. Tim had a special bond with Super-cycle.
Any number of Tim's civilian friends - Sebastian Ives gets used the most and he *does* earn it, but I still think that's a rather sad percentage of acknowledgement.
Other Gotham Heights friends - Hudson, Hudman, Callie Evans. Ariana Dzerchenko was his first girlfriend - and apparently you can *currently* list them as friends - she's come up in a comic less than a year old.
Brentwood Academy had Buzz Cohen, Kip Kettering. Danny Temple who was also friends with him as Robin - *actually knew his ID*.
Star is older and didn't go to school with him but she *taught him how to skateboard*.
Louis E Grieve is better known now that he's dating Bernard Dowd, but for reference Darla Aquista is the other important name there, who post-res goes by Laura Fell.
Gotham City High most important is Zoanne Wilkins, who he also dated, but also Jared Walton is worth a mention, even if he was a dipshit imo lol.
Just in general more awareness that Tim had a bunch of friends. He might be a nerd, but he's like, a cool nerd with lots of friends that isn't really in the bullying demographic.
This isn't written to limit your creativity, but rather to expand it. Know About More People, then that gives you more stuff to play with.
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