I like to think that DC doesn't know what to do with Tim Drake and Jonathan Kent.
WARNING: ITS MESSY AND ALL OVER THE PLACE AND FILLED WITH HOT TAKES.
It's not unusual for a company to let them come out in a very unexpected way That didn't exactly feel earned to the character, Especially if they don't know what to do with that character. I feel like they really didn't know what to do with Tim, so in order to make him more interesting, they said, here's your tokenized bisexual Robin, and then made him leave the Robin mantle Just to solve the problem of "there were two Robins so one had to go".
Tim is mischaracterized a lot, and recently, especially in DC Comics, he has been giving me the vibes of more, like, what the fans have been portraying him as in headcanons mostly, like the uwu soft boy. I'm not blaming the fans at all. I'm blaming the writers who don't know how to write Tim. Tim is going through whatever Jason Todd is going through when it comes to the types of writers that he's getting.
As soon as Tim got a boyfriend, he started acting like a soft boy. He started leaning more towards how some fans depicted him as.
Just to clear things up, I'm really happy that Tim is bisexual, and I love it, and I don't personally care who he dates (yes I do, Timkon for life) But as long as they don't bring him down when it comes to his character. I don't care when characters want to settle down and all of that, but this is Tim we're talking about.
The red robin.
The leader of young justice.
The boy who found out who Batman and Nightwing really were as a kid and made himself Robin.
You really think that after everything, after his best friend dying, after trying to revive him and clone him back obsessively, after everything that he's done, you really think he's gonna just quit the mantle?
Nah.
Not to mention, this puts Damian in a place where he feels like he HAS to be Robin.
Damian did want to quit the mantle, but for a good cause. He wanted to learn medicine and help people medically. He wanted, he still wanted to be a hero, just not Robin. And I think it would be very interesting to see where that could lead for Damian.
And Tim quit the mantle. why? Oh, for his tokenized boyfriend, of course.
I like the characterization that Bernard got. It's honestly better than Jay Nakamura, in my opinion. But I don't believe that he is gonna last, especially now that, um, Tim quit the mantle. Now we know Bernard is fucked.
But moving on, after the Jon age up, it's safe to say that DC didn't know what to do with his character. At all. Recently, Jon has been feeling, like, different, and I feel like it's because us as the viewers, we didn't see him grow. But it's just mischaracterization after mischaracterization with him. Most of us loved the SuperSons days, Mostly because we got to see Superman's literal son Growing up, experiencing how it's like to be Superman's son and the expectations that come with it. Same thing that's happening with Damien. You have two characters who are like the kids of two very important heroes, and we get to see them grow up and learn from each other with each other's support because only they know what it's like to be the children of superheroes.
Or better yet, how it's like to grow up as a gay kid who is also gonna be in the legacy of Superman or something. Even exploring how it's like to be a gay kid, we can maybe see how John copes with his crush on Damien, because let's be for real, he definitely did have a crush on him. But we've all been there as gay kids. We have all had a crush on someone as kids, or like a very close friend, even if they were straight or not. Maybe some of us got together with them. Maybe some of us didn't.
It would have been such a great opportunity to see how Jon realizes that he is LGBT and, like, how he comes to terms with his sexuality, because I know for a fact, gay kids definitely need that kind of representation.
To let them see that whatever they're experiencing is normal.
To not let them feel alienated by everyone else around them when they think they like someone else of the same gender.
But they didn't do any of that, because they don't know what to do with and Tim.
So they grew Jon up, gave him a basic-ass college life. We never got to see his trauma coping when it came to like getting stuck in that volcano on a different earth, or the fact that he got his childhood ripped away from him.
Not to mention how he has a fucking journalist job. It's so clear that the writers are aiming for him to become just like his father.
This might be a stretch, but I see the parallels when it comes to Nia, Jay, and Jon. Jay is supposed to represent Lois, Nia is supposed to represent Wonder Woman, and Jon is supposed to represent Superman.
They're aiming for this fuckass love triangle like when Wonder Woman and Superman have been a thing, and the whole situationship issues when it came to Superman, Lois, and Wonder Woman.
Jon Kent would be a scientist, and I stand by that firmly. He has a love for the stars, for the universe, for all of that. He would definitely want to know how our galaxy works. He is that bright-eyed curious boy.
Y'all remember the whole drama and shenanigans that happened when jon and tim came out as bisexual? Especially with the headlines and everything that it got, and how out of context it all was? Especially for Jon.
I think all of this was prepared in such a way to make it as big as it seems and made it into some kind of spectacle, because right now...Majority of the people that are not comic fans or something would just look at Jon and say, "oh, that's the bisexual Superman."
compared to when they looked at him before and said, "oh, that's Superman's son."
Can't it just be, "oh, that's Superman's son, who so happens to be bisexual."?
and then we can get to see who he grows up to be, maybe outside of Superman's shadow. We get to see him grow as a person instead of becoming Clark Kent 2.0.
Now what the hell is Tim gonna do? Is he just gonna sit on his ass while, I don't know, while crime is still happening? What about young justice? He could at least just say that he's going back to Young Justice, that he's maybe going to help with the Teen Titans or something. But no, he just up and quit the mantle for no reason but his boyfriend. That's literally it. And it's so strange to think about that, because Tim Drake was always someone who would go above and beyond when it came to a case or just something that he thought was right. Even when it came to cloning Kon, he didn't sit on his ass and accept the fact that kon died.
Once again, I'm repeating myself. I absolutely love that Tim and Jon are bisexual and they came out and stuff like that, but the execution could have been way better.
