I would absolutely agree on the weirdness of fanon interpretation of Tim's character, and I'm glad that there are still comics geeks out there who still like him for having more character traits than a depressed coffee-chugger.
That being said, I can see where this interpretation came from. Tim was supposed to be made a most relatable Robin at the beginning of his run, which was pretty quickly negated by writers who kept on dragging Tim through hell for DC-customary levels of drama, loss, failure and consequential character building.
Tim's mother died, father paralysed, Robin mantle threatened - several times, father murdered, GF along with two BFFs and adoptive father supposedly killed, and I'm sure I'm forgetting more. Still, he lives through his drama - cries, has nightmares, doubts himself, and that's what I like most about Tim's character, - he juggernauts through it with his sense and morals intact. He falls more and more into the creep category as time goes on, but I think the whole DC agenda on that was to show how bread-and-butter boy can be turned malicious if pressed just right amount of times, and how with right people around him, this descent could be stopped. Malicious, but not barely functional twink he's sometimes pictured in fanon.
It was a long run from the 80s to 00s as the boy grew up from being a detective dork into a professional in his field, and DC did try to replicate this in New52 (parents alive, star athlete, organizes superhero team on his own), but it didn't stick exactly because of zero foundation under it.
Right now I cannot see old-school Tim Drake in modern comics character, neither as a dork teenager nor as a pro-vigilante. DC said that he is both, but never shown it on pages. It's hard to acknowledge character existence in fanon when he's all but cardboard cutout in canon. Then again, I'm always open to good reading suggestions, and always happy to be proved wrong.
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