So honesty hour I already read this comic but forgot to record my thoughts so we're going to reread and record my thoughts!
And so we continue! Part Three:
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Robin III (1992)
I didn't mention before but this one is titled "The Cry of the Huntress" And I am very excited to meet Huntress and see how she and Tim get along. I've heard she and Timmy have a very brother-sister bantering relationship and I'm here for it!
She looks so cool! But what is this mask hidding exactly? For real, how does this hide your identity? It whoudl actually be better than robin's if she had the white lenses but right now it's just dumb.
ARIANNA THERE YOU ARE! I am excited to meet Timmy's first girlfriend (who he cheats on with Steph? Sort of? She kissed Tim without his explicit consent maybe... I am unsure it seems more of a miscommunication trope than anything malicious...Idk I'll have to decide when i get there).
AH! The Cold War Personified! He does seem like a cool threat and very campy! Perfect!
If I had a nickle for everytime Tim is introduced to a badass, strong woman who saves his ass and helps him defeat Lynx I would have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but insteresting it's happened twice
But honestly, Huntress is a very fun character for Tim to interact with. Especially because this run involves Tim rebelling (softly) against Bruce by going around him and trying to take down the Russian Mob while Bruce insists Tim wait until he's done investigating. I don't know anything about her yet but she clearly had beef with The Bat.
So remember how I said Jack Drake is very jealous of Bruce Wayne... Well I guess we're letting go of subtext and going straight for text :D
But honestly Tim really really struggles with the secret identity. In every comic I've read so far with his perspective, he finds the secret identity grating. He is terrible at seperating Robin from his day to day life no matter how hard he tries, gives terrible excusese to duck out of meetings with friends and family even when he would love to stay because he can't help trying to save you, and finds the inability to explain himself infuriating.
But even then he adores being Robin. He doesn't want to stop being Robin even if it hurts. And knowing what the future will hold (the death of his father, the temporary deaths of his friends and girlfriend, the injuries he will face) it makes his reaction to Damian getting the suit in four years all the more painful.
WTF is height in comics. Tim is supposed to be a runty 14 yr old! Who is that 5'10 man!
So Tim is spiraling. The girl he was trying to save was killed by Russian gangsters. And now he's beefing with his dad and snapping at Alfred! I love it!! Perfect! This is the good Tim Whump I'm looking for :D But for reals, his parents, according to a canon comic panel, missed his birthday more than once. Yeah he's not neglected as badly in the comics as he is in fanon but that doesn't change the fact that Tim had very absent parents. GO OFF TIMBO!
NEVERMIND I AM IN PAIN! TIMBO NO!!! (oh that some good angst tho)
Woo! Tim just figured out Huntress' real identity. He is too good at this. Plus I love when he brags about how he outsmarted Dick and Bruce as an 8 year old. Tim the ultimate Civilian ID Finder! XD
yes.
God I love this flavor of Tim Whump!!! Tim you are Robin. Robin is you. You cannot runaway from yourself!!!
Okay! So Timmers is having a rough time at school. He gets a black eye. He's cutting school to avoid people thinking Bruce Wayne is abusing him. Then he's in the guidance councilor's office before running away and now his dad is like "off to boarding school!" Which I was just starting to feel bad for Jack Drake. It felt like he was trying. But to have him go "Oh my kid is lashing out and struggling so I'm going to ship him off to boarding school!" WILD! That is just a wildly BAD take Jackie Boi.
Why is Tim convinced Bruce is going to drop him? In Robin II he was nervous if he couldn't defeat the Joker (after less than four months of being Robin!) that Bruce is going to drop him. Now again, Tim is rebelling he is going against Bruce's wishes but why would that be enough for Bruce to drop him? Dick did the same on more than one occassion? I really need to read some more Batman/Detective Comics because clearly there is something going on that I am not getting. Is this just Tim's insecurities or is Bruce's behavior informting this thinking? Has Bruce threatened to take Robin away?
Alfred's response seems to imply its mostly in Tim's head. Someone give this boy a hug and self confidence. Damn.
MY SMART BOY! Tim is such a good detective <3 I love him! I love his big brain and awesome internet skills (which by the way this is pre-google and yahoo search engingines so that is very impressive!)
So I just realized Tim saves Arianna the same way he saves Bernard. A kidnap victim they save from servitude! Its very surface level but still neat! Also I knew she couldn't be dead! :D
Timmy! You clever boy!!! XD
Side note can't believe this comic predates the European Union!! WILD! Time is a lie!!
Oh Tim! You poor thing!
ON TO THE NEXT PART! XD