How would the batfam react to tim being part of the Kobra cult? How would they react to danny?
I feel like Bruce (and maybe the others) forgot how much tim could be involved in things he shouldn't be and this would wake them the fuck up (again) lol
Honestly you are so very right.
With the amount of friends and connections Tim has, I have no doubt that if he gave up all his assets right now, Drake and Wayne and everything else.
He would never be poor or live in poverty.
He knows a king for fucks sake, is friends with him too. The Kobra Cult gets their money from somewhere. Ras would probably pay to have Tim train and work under him.
Hell what about all the companies trying to hire Tim Drake? The perfect worker, born and bred as such?
Any who.
I knows one could write this as a ha ha funny kinda way. But since when do I write that?
I think they should be horrified.
Tim Drake goes off the grid, no one can find him for four months, he's just gone with the wind.
The public thinks Tim Drake-Wayne is vacationing in Ireland, and it's a "mental health break" or whatever the rich do.
Red Vulture is just gone, no note to anyone, and none of the supers can even hear him.
The bats and the whole hero community has not a clue where Tim disappeared to, and they're a little concerned.
The last time Tim went off the grid with little to no contact with the others was his Bruce Quest, but even then Kon was able to find him really easily!
(In my opinion Kon and Danny should despise the other)
Then Tim just shows back up, he's back, like nothing happened. The last person who saw Tim in person was Dick and Cass, and they saw Tim with a broken leg, a broken collarbone, and he was beaten and bloody.
Tim just shows back up like nothing at all happened, all healed and he seems to even be a little more toned then last time.
Tim is back and there's this guy who seems to be head over heels for Tim, like Tim's little lap dog.
That's how Tim thinks they see it, but it isn't, because Danny isn't "harmless" or "like anyone else"
Bruce sees Daniel Temple, the leader of murder cult, the Kobras. He sees a grown man in his twenties who by no limitations is normal. He sees a grown man who has likely killed because no one gets that many scars from sitting around.
He sees the very boy turned man that he called the enemy, because Danny is the enemy, he remembers telling Tim to stay away from Danny.
Dick sees a grown man who is around the same height as him, and Dick notices that Danny has two looks to him.
One look that Danny has is when he looks at Tim, one that's full of love and admiration for Tim. Like Danny is completely enamored with his brother, like there isn't a single mistake, there isn't anything that could ever make Tim cracked or flawed.
The second look is one that scares Dick, its a look Dick recognizes from Tim's Red Robin arc. Its a look like Danny knows how he could take out everyone in that room, knows every escape and how to close them off. Danny looks at each one of them like they could be threat, all but Tim, and he knows how to eliminate them, lethal or not Dick doesn't know.
Jason sees someone who seems to control every word they say, like they know what to let go and what to keep under lock and key. Sentences re-thought 10x before anyone actually gets to hear what Danny has to say. As if when Danny is talking to them, he's giving a speech that is going to be broken down to every letter.
Cassandra sees somebody like her, somebody who has keen eyes and is analyzing just how much he can trust everyone else. She sees someone who has run their whole life and is ready to run forever if they need to. She sees one thing about him though, its as if, this time, Danny is ready to run and take Tim with him.
Duke feels on edge around him, feels a prickle in his skin when Danny lingers too long, when some of his words feel heavier then they should. When Duke is around Danny it feels like he's being analyzed, and sure Duke knows the feeling with Bruce and Tim. But it's different, Tim and Bruce were gathering knowledge, making a mental file about you to remember. Danny feels like he's breaking you down into pieces that are vulnerable and breakable.
Damian recognizes the way an assassin holds themselves, the way a killer stands. He sees it Danny, he sees that split second flinch when someone manages to sneak up on him, like he reaches for a weapon that isn't there. Or when someone approaches him, the way his grip tightens on the pencil, the knife, the fork, the item in his hand. The way his grips loosens again, before he turns to you with a smile that isn't quite real.
One thing every single one of the family (Right now these are my thoughts on the family family, bio & adopted & foster) is that Danny isn't normal. Danny has killed and they can feel it, they know for a fact that he isn't an angel.
***Thing is, Tim knows that too. Tim knows to have led a cult that big, Danny must've made choices and sacrifices too. Tim knows what handling the Spiders means, what that really means, something similar to him and Pru. Tim isn't an idiot.***
[Side bar : I disagree with people who think of Tim as innately good or innately bad. Because he isn't either, he is not black and white at all, he can't be. Tim's moral compass does fluctuate and change, it does also become effected by who he surrounds himself with. We know how alternate Tim's handle losing the good influence in his life, and how they can turn to killing. The BIGGEST thing about Tim's moral compass, is truly. "If I didn't deliver the final blow, if I, Tim Drake, didn't see their last breath. Did I really kill them? Or was it a situation of circumstance?"]
Danny should seem attached to Tim by the hip, in the way you can't get Tim alone. He's always there like a shadow, like this force that will break anyone who touches Tim. It scares them.
So simply : They don't like Danny, they doubt him and he scares them.
