new Tim drake head cannon
After the whole joker junior thing Tim has the smile scars on his face but they’re keloid scars so they’re puffy and red and so so fucking noticeable. They’re the first thing anyone notices about him and it hurts and itches and some nights he just sits there frantically clawing at them to get them off nails catching on the raised tissue until he’s sedated.
When Jason comes back he finds him in titan’s tower but the sight of the red scars through as him into a flash back and all of the sudden he’s back in that warehouse with the joker and he’s fighting for his life except this time he’s winning and he’s finally gonna kill that son of a bitch until he’s not. Until he’s standing over the broken body of a boy. Until he looks at the blood coating his hands and he’s hyperventilating and he can’t see Tim’s chest rise and fall panic clouding his gaze because oh god he just put another bird in the ground. The red hood just killed another robin.
When Damian first sees him he is terrified. The scars meant he fought a brutal battle. The scars meant he faced enemies with no mercy. The scars meant he lived to tell the tale. And he was meant to kill him? To take his place? To be better? Better than the boy who bested his father’s worst enemy, who killed Jason. He had to aim to kill. He had to outsmart him undermine him before he became nothing but another battle scar that littered his skin, raised and ugly.
Bruce can’t look at the scars, can’t look him in the eye. Too overwhelmed by guilt and only able to the monster that carved them into his face and not the boy underneath.
Oh that got a lot darker than I meant it to sorry guys. Anyway the scars are genetic he gets them from his mom’s side of the family.
