Their relationship is both less complicated and more complicated than it should be. On one hand, you’re Tim's older sister-caretaker-parental figure-best friend- who can’t be categorized neatly into any singular category. On the other hand, none of those categories matter when you are the person he trusts more than anyone else in the world. More than he trusts himself.
Your parents do not hate you. You were an accident (huge, immensely big, giant accident) but they do care for you in some nebulous, difficult to discern, rich-people kind of way. They give you all the money you could want. They teach you the rules of high society and how to deal with the company. They try. Sometimes.
In many ways, you are their protege and student before a lot of things but you are still your mother’s child. A reflection of Janet Drake in every way that matters with a mind like a steel trap and a mouth that murmurs sweet poison. It is one of the main things Tim notes as a child when he thinks of you and mother.
The biggest mark against your parents, really, is the neglect. Their children weren’t their number one priority and both you and Tim knew. They could be worse. They could be better. C+ parenting all around.
Tim’s view on Jack and Janet are a bit fickle? Inconsistent? Complicated? He had wished for a very long time when he was younger for them to come home more often but he never really processed the whole situation until you forced everyone to get therapy. There’s quiet sadness in his feelings about his parents but not really resentment, not like you.
Not that those feelings have anywhere to go anymore. Both of you still grieved during their funerals.
Tim gives you gifts on mother and father's day and overtime the message written in the cards attached get longer and sillier. He still remembers the stillness of your initial reaction when he first presented you with a card.
He hadn't really noticed how much you did behind the scenes until he got older and realized you were internalizing a hell of a lot of things. His early days of existence are marked by your ever encompassing presence in his life. His parents leave. You stay. You always stay even as he digs himself into the pit that is becoming Robin.
He can always rely on you. If there is any truth in his life then it is that you will always be there for him. So, when you tell him with dark shadows cast upon your face that he shouldn't go out as Robin tonight, he accepts with minor protests.
You keep detailed reports on patrol to keep everyone updated when you're filling in as Robin and the ones from Tim's early days are... rough. Tim reads them because of course he does, and talks with you about it. A lot. You insist that he shouldn't have to deal with Batman because Tim is like 13 and Tim keeps saying that he chose this. So, the two of you compromise on it. Teamwork makes the dream work, right?
No one else really reads the old patrol reports. What happens during the early days stays between you and Tim and Bruce. Tim thinks Bruce still feels guilty about it, about both him and you.
Tim shows affection for you the same way you show affection. He'll go to company meetings in your stead. He learns to cook and bring meals to you when you're too busy. He orders materials for your hobbies whenever he notices you're running out.
Your relationship is not immune to normal sibling shenanigans though. You yell, you fight, he stands a centimetre away from the entrance of your room for no apparent reason, the two of you want to kill each other sometimes because "mother and father always liked you better-" and "I never wanted to raise you-"
You and Tim are so crazily co-dependent even if it isn't obvious. You're a bit less dependent than he is but you've also revolved your life around him and everything you do is basically for him so how true that statement is can be debated.
Sometimes you think you need him in order to be allowed to exist. There is no role for you except in reference to him, to your little brother who you'd give the world to.
Tim literally doesn't know how he'd survive or live without you. You taught him unconditional love. You're his favourite person. You've always protected him. He can't fathom the idea of existing without you.
You're impossible to separate from him and him from you. Aren't the two of you one and the same? Where does one end and the other begin? Who is he if not a reflection of you and who you raised him to be?
The way they just sandwiched in the flashback episodes is so weird to me. Like, there was so much plot going on (Ceres attacking Earth, Uranus leaving the solar system, the Sun thinking everyone abandoned him, some moons trying to become planets) and then all of the plot just got completely paused so we could focus on a love triangle that happened billions of years ago for 10 episodes. It was excusable in the Planet X arc since it was only 3 episodes, but we're 8 episodes in and there's still 4 episodes left before we go back to the actual plot of this arc. I feel like this really breaks the immersion the audience may have had when it comes to the plot happening in the present. It'll be so jarring once the flashback episodes are over and we're thrown back into the real plot.
cringe sys culture is having headmates based/ that are personification of some of your collective sexuality identities. Like frayromantic is just in our head as a guy. He’s chilling. And can’t forget cupio
do i know who cecil or kevin are? no. are they my beloveds? yes. - ⛈
very valid!! They’re both from welcome to nightvale which is.. very unreality all the time (be careful for that) but Kevin comes from like. A more terrifying place??? He’s from a one off episode but like. Its so cool
storm anon, no worries about the tags! It’s tagged appropriately, I just got curious, I wasn’t trying to make it like you didn’t tag it. and uhhhh for Black Friday I loved it, James Tolbert is my new favorite and I’m so happy they brought him back for choreo and to act this time! and I have so far shipped almost every character, and I have absolutely latched onto Gary as my self insert character because we have the same glasses
I love James with all of my heart! I really hope that he sticks around for future StarKid works! And Gary is wonderfully chaotic. Jon definitely has range when it comes to acting. I almost forgot that Gary and Paul were played by the same person. I'm glad you liked it!
