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Gotham discourse: Batman is actually Mothman in disguise, proof below
1) Is summoned by a giant lamp
2) Only appears at night
3) Has cute ears
4) flies?
5) Weakness is a giant net
- Tim Drake blogging anonymously from an encrypted computer holding back tears because his dad said he couldn’t patrol with three broken ribs and a concussion.
okay but in all seriousness i dothink it’s interesting to break down the like. distortion and exaggeration of various elements of tim’s origin story, and track the probable course of that over time
like–tim is thirteen when he’s introduced, and imo leaving a thirteen year old at home alone for a week or two while you take a work trip isn’t thategregious, if you make the appropriate arrangements; it’s not exactly model parenting, especially if you do it as often as tim’s parents seem to, but the neglect is more in the accumulation of that time, and the way they seem to prioritize everything exceptbeing around and present for their son. (& tim is in boarding school during this period, so it’s only really during breaks that he’s potentially unsupervised.)
but the further you start extrapolating that into the past … like, leaving a nine or ten year old alone for multiple days? significantlyweirder. like, that’s the difference between “ehhhhh questionable decision” and “holy shit how has someone not called cps yet”.and if he’s being left alone at sixforany length of time that’s pretty unambiguously illegal.
this isalsoone of those things where the mores have changed significantly in the ~30 years since tim was introduced. like when i was looking stuff up for this post i kept running into suggestions that it might, if you were very sure of their maturity, be okay to leave your 16-17 year old alone at home for as many as two consecutive nights, and like … maybe this is a weird mommy blog thing and not a generational thing but when i was a teenager (some … 12-15 years ago?? gosh) i cannot actually imagine anyone suggesting that a 16 year old kid could not be trusted at home alone for any reason other than “they will definitely throw a party.” so like, something that when it was written was probably intended to be “this is iffy but well within the range of what normal parents try to get away with” is in retrospect made to look like “?!?!?!”
and that same principle applies to a lot of things about tim’s parents’ childrearing, tbh–that tim doesn’t know where his parents are at any given point in time, and doesn’t seem to be in regular contact with them when they’re away (canon) is … sad, but significantly more understandable in 1989, when international long-distance calling is complicated and expensive, than in 2015, when smartphones are commonplace and every mcdonalds in the world offers free wifi. (also way more understandable pre-online shopping and package-tracking: sending a birthday postcard/package that arrives late.) and that drift, in turn, creates the gap between “superficially loving but distracted” (probably, more or less, what the writers were going for) and “willfully indifferent” (how tim’s parents are overwhelmingly portrayed in fanon).
I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I absolutely hate the New-52-fication of Bernard Dowd. It’s neck and neck with Jason being besties with Roy and Kory on my list of New 52 atrocities. Bernard was such a funny gossipy tinhat, his expansive clownishness masking a shrewdness that made Tim have to put in some real work to deflect and side-step suspicion and really lean into his wry, aggressively normal civilian persona. Why they had to mangle him to produce a cute little blonde twink for Tim to date that doesn’t bear any resemblance to OG Bernard’s personality I don’t know.
The reboot signalled to those of us who had followed DC comics for years that DC no longer wanted or had any use for us. I thought we’d at least always have a separate Pre52 fandom, but canon just keeps cannibalising and warping Pre-52 continuity to service the reboot timeline’s complete lack of substance and legacy. I wish there was a way keep them separate.
The more fic I read, the more annoyed I’m getting with this “Tim’s parents never loved him uwu” crap. Are we supposed to pretend we never read any of the Pre-52 Robin comics or what? Is his canonical emotional neglect and being subjected to Jack’s and Bruce’s different but similar brands of self-absorbed hot-and-cold parenting not woobie enough? Is having systematically lost nearly everyone Tim cared about in the span of one year that had him canonically suicidally depressed not enough trauma?
Y'all know that Tim’s whole tragedy is that he was the most normal, well-adjusted Batkid ever until life robbed him of every bit of stability and normalcy and he ended up exactly the person he swore not to become, right? That it wasn’t “going evil” he was afraid of, but becoming like Bruce, unable to function without being Batman, mired in his own darkness and isolation? That even after becoming a more morally grey and manipulative asshole, he still prioritizes his friends and family even more than Dick does?
Why do people even like Tim Drake when their version has barely any resemblance to his canon incarnation?
