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CHARACTER
Character Name: Timothy Jackson“Certified Disaster” “Tim” Drake, aka Red Robin.
Character Age: He’s only described as a teenager, but he’s college aged, so ... /vague hand gestures. Probably 17-18ish, fight me, DC Comics.
Canon: DC Comics (Rebirth)
Canon Point: end of Detective Comics #966 (after he’s been shocked unconscious by Bat-Tim)
History: HOLLOW LAUGHS. DC Comics continuity is a goddamn mess, but. Here’s Tim at Wikipedia and DC Database one and two. Just … ignore the New 52 bullshit, New 52 was a fever dream, shh, it never happened.
Some important highlights for Tim’s life are:
Personality: Tim Drake is defined first and foremost by his beliefs; what he believes and how strongly he believes in those truths shape his actions, time and time again. Tim’s beliefs that Batman is important to Gotham and that Batman needs a Robin to be not only functional but his best self are at the heart of his origin story, the sequence of events where he, a mostly ordinary young teenager, ended up taking on the mask and cape in order to become the very Robin that Batman needed after the post was left vacant by Jason Todd’s untimely death. Batman is, in Tim’s mind, a force for good, and Tim passionately believes in doing good – as much of it as he possibly can. If sorted using D&D alignments, Tim would most likely be assigned Neutral Good – he has no qualms about working outside of the law as a vigilante, or about using violent methods to achieve his goals of fighting crime, but his actions are all guided by his belief that he is doing the right thing, which is simply to do good.
In comics, there’s often a great personal cataclysm that sets off the chain of events toward adopting a masked persona – for example, Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, and as a way of avenging that injustice, he made a vow to wage war on crime for the rest of his life. How that turned out is that Bruce dresses up like a bat night after night, breaks and enters all over Gotham, and usually punches the shit out of whatever criminals he ends up facing before turning them over to the GCPD. Tim, on the other hand, experienced no such personal upheaval – he came from a stable home life and didn’t lose his parents until quite a bit later on in his (still young) life. Tim simply wanted to help. Tim believed in what Batman means to Gotham, and he believed in what Robin means to Batman, and he believed in himself - not in arrogance, thinking that he was the best person to fill this role, but because he was there, he saw what needed to be done, and he was willing to make it happen.
Clearly, Tim displays an extremely high sense of responsibility. He’s dedicated to the cause of doing good – which, at the moment, happens to be fighting crime as a masked vigilante, but he doesn’t view his role as Red Robin as the entirety of his existence. “A hero doesn’t need a mask,” he says (Detective Comics #965), “but it helps.” And he believes there is more good that he can do in the world; before he was “taken off the board” in the guise of his apparent death via drone army, he’d planned to hang up his cape for a while and attend university, with the aim of tackling the problems of the world beyond Gotham, by means that don’t involve breaking laws and bones.
And when Tim Drake decides to take up a cause, there’s very little that can stand in the way of him reaching his goals. He isn’t ruthless or reckless in his approach (well, maybe a little reckless, that’s the Batfam way); he’s decisive and determined, confident in his abilities, and remarkably self-aware for a teenager. Tim follows a strict moral code – Batman’s code. There are lines he won’t cross – namely, he won’t kill. Yet as much as Tim believes in the importance of Batman, and as much as he respects Bruce, he doesn’t want to be exactly like him, and he doesn’t want to be Batman, either.
Is Tim a perfect human? Of course not; he’s a teenager, after all. He still makes mistakes, holds on to insecurities, allows his emotions to get the better of him. In fact, under emotional distress, he tends to shut out the people who care about him and isolate himself from those who tether him to the world. His passionate beliefs sometimes nudge into the realm of obsessiveness, and he sometimes takes that stupidly high sense of responsibility entirely too far. (Lookin’ at you, Dystopian Future Bat-Tim.)
But all in all, Tim Drake is a good bean. He’s a legitimate hero, and while he’s Seen Some Shit, he still manages to hold on to his ideals, and something even more important - hope.
Inventory: As Tim was taken to time prison directly from a firefight, he will be wearing his battle-torn Red Robin gear, including his utility belt. This belt is ridiculous and holds things like a grappling gun and cable, batarangs, a rebreather/gas mask, a flashlight, smoke cannisters, some basic first aid supplies, lockpicking tools, a ridiculous assortment of other tools, some zip ties for tying up bad dudes, and a distress beacon to signal Batman to his location (which obviously won’t work here). There’s also some computer tech inside his arm gauntlets, because #comics.
Abilities: Good grief - despite having no actual superpowers, this kid is actually pretty damn overpowered, but apparently that’s what happens when your mentor is the goddamn Batman. To start with, Tim has a genius-level intellect (his IQ is recorded as 142), so he’s incredibly smart, noted as the most intellectually gifted of all the Robins – where Dick excels in athletics and acrobatics and Jason excels at shooting guns and excessive displays of force, Tim has his brains and his analytical abilities. Even Bruce Wayne has remarked that Tim could someday surpass him as the world’s greatest detective, a title currently held by none other than him, so that’s high praise for Tim’s abilities. His skills in investigation were evident even as a child, since he was able to deduce the true identities of Batman and Robin, and they’ve only increased under Batman’s training. Tim’s also extremely skilled in tactical analysis, able to formulate and execute plans of attack on the fly, noted by Batman as having “the best tactical mind of any partner I’ve worked with.” Tim’s got excellent leadership skills, but he also knows how to fall in line and follow another leader, when the situation calls for it.
Other than his mental abilities, Tim is also in peak physical condition, and well trained in hand-to-hand combat by none other than Batman himself, in addition to several other experts in those fields. He’s a master of a number of martial arts, including judo and karate, and is highly skilled in fighting with a bo staff, which is his weapon of choice, though he’s pretty handy with throwing weapons (batarangs, shuriken, etc.) as well. He’s been trained in acrobatics and gymnastics, though it didn’t come easily for him, and he also learned stealth, disguise, and escapology during his training as Robin.
Finally, it’s worth noting that Tim is something of a tech wiz – he’s highly skilled in operating computers, hacking, and programming. His accomplishments in this arena include building a supercomputer and its programs from scratch, hacking an entire goddamn drone army and reprogramming their targets, and hacking some Kryptonian tech while in time prison.
Flaws: Tim is a good bean, but he is far from perfect. Although I place him as a Neutral Good type, his actions can frequently be categorized as falling under the Chaos end of the Law/Chaos scale. Tim’s a vigilante and has been for years; he fights on the side of good, but he does so outside of the law, and his methods are violent and disruptive.
When taken to extremes, Tim’s dedication and determination start to look more like obsessiveness. He can be singular-minded in his approach, and incredibly stubborn; when he’s got an idea in his mind – say, that Dick needs to be Robin again, or that Bruce was still alive despite all appearances of being dead – Tim can be like a pitbull, refusing to let go until he’s satisfied with the outcome.
Perhaps Tim’s biggest flaw is the measure of emotional dishonesty under which he sometimes operates. When distressed, he tends to refuse to acknowledge his emotions, shoving them aside in favor of putting a plan of action into place, refusing to talk about why he’s upset with the people who care about him. Even though Tim is arguably one of the better adjusted members of the Batfamily, he still has experienced significant emotional traumas (such as finding his father murdered in their home, after leaving to work with Batman and thus not being there to save him), and his coping techniques leave quite a bit to be desired. He will shut out those people who care about him, reject communication and attempts at outreach, and withhold information.
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Action Log Sample: Just another day in the life of Red Robin.
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Timothy Jackson
Character Age: He’s only described as a teenager, but he’s college aged, so ... /vague hand gestures. Probably 17-18ish, fight me, DC Comics.
Canon: DC Comics (Rebirth)
Canon Point: end of Detective Comics #966 (after he’s been shocked unconscious by Bat-Tim)
History: HOLLOW LAUGHS. DC Comics continuity is a goddamn mess, but. Here’s Tim at Wikipedia and DC Database one and two. Just … ignore the New 52 bullshit, New 52 was a fever dream, shh, it never happened.
Some important highlights for Tim’s life are:
- As a child, he met Dick Grayson, who would become the first Robin, at the circus performance that claimed the lives of his parents. Guess who else was at that performance? None other than Bruce Wayne, the goddamn Batman, who helpfully swooped in to take the newly orphaned Grayson under his wing.
- By the tender age of 9, Tim had deduced the identities of both Batman and Robin, thanks to Dick Grayson’s inability to keep from showing off – Tim saw Robin perform a quadruple somersault, a move that only three people were ever rumored to be able to perform – the Flying Graysons. And since two of them were dead, that just left Dick. Knowing that Bruce Wayne had taken Dick in after his parents’ deaths, Tim was able to connect the dots back to Dick as Robin and Bruce as Batman.
- Tim kept that information to himself until at age 13, he approached Dick – now grown up and making poor fashion choices as Nightwing – and implored him to return to Batman as Robin after the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. See, Tim paid attention; he recognized that another boy had taken up Robin’s uniform, and he saw that without Robin’s influence, Bruce – and Batman – “went to pieces,” in Tim’s words. Batman was becoming reckless and brutally violent; he was losing fights he should’ve easily won, and he was hurting people in a way that wasn’t in line with Batman’s code. “There’s always been a darkness in Batman,” Tim explained, in issue #965 of Detective Comics, “and without a Robin, that darkness was consuming him.” Batman needed Robin to be the glue that held him together, a light against his darkness, and it only made sense to Tim that Dick return to that role.
- While Dick did return to Batman’s side, it wasn’t as Robin, but rather as Nightwing, which Was Not The Same, in Tim’s opinion. Nightwing was a hero in his own right, separate from Batman, and while it was still Dick under the mask, the dynamic between them wasn’t the same. Tim was convinced that Batman didn’t need Dick the person, but Robin, the symbol. Tim never intended to become Robin himself – he believed that if he presented a compelling enough case to Dick, he’d go back to Batman as Robin, and Tim would have nothing more to do with either of them. But since Dick didn’t really listen to Tim, and since there was no one else to take up the cape, Tim took it upon himself to fill that role. “I was the one who saw what needed to happen, when nobody else did. I saw the big picture … I could fix things, and nobody else would. Nobody else could.”
- Luckily, Tim happened to be a decent fill-in Robin, having already trained himself for several years in things like martial and investigative arts, and he was able to come to the aid of both Batman and Nightwing when Two-Face had them both down for the count. Bruce agreed to take Tim on as Robin full time, with the stipulation that Tim undergo a period of thorough training, so as to prevent making similar missteps as Bruce believed he made with Jason.
- Tim was a good Robin! He wasn’t as physically gifted as Dick and wasn’t as emotionally disturbed as Jason, but he was highly competent and much more analytical than the other Robins, so he was able to do a lot of good work at Batman’s side. Even Jason, who ended up coming back from death like the proverbial bad penny, begrudgingly admitted (after beating Tim unconscious) that Tim was pretty good.
- Unlike Dick and Jason, Tim wasn’t initially an orphan, though he later became one and was also adopted by Bruce “Gotta Adopt ‘Em All” Wayne. In some earlier stories, Tim even took the hyphenated last name Drake-Wayne, though that seems to have been retconned in Rebirth, as he’s listed simply as Drake.
- Tim’s overdeveloped sense of responsibility later saw him taking up Batman’s cowl after Bruce’s apparent death, when Dick Grayson again refused to do the necessary thing (in Tim’s opinion) and keep Batman’s legacy alive by acting as Batman himself. This once again put Tim in Jason’s path; Jason had decided to be the Batman that Gotham really needed, since Bruce was now gone, except his idea of Batman was one who used guns to shoot and kill people. A lot of people. (Jason, no.) Tim decided that since no one else was willing or able, it thus fell to him to stop Jason’s rampage, and all he got for his efforts was a batarang stabbed into his chest. He faked being dead and was able to escape while Dick dealt with Jason, who decided he’d rather take a swan dive into the river than accept help from the Batfam. (Jason … no.)
- Dick finally got his head on straight and stepped up as Batman, HOWEVER. He ended up handing the role of Robin to Damian Wayne instead of Tim, which was pretty fucking rude and unfair, in Tim’s opinion. This gave birth to a new alter-ego, Red Robin, the moniker under which Tim has continued operating to the current day. Convinced that Bruce Wayne was still alive but lost in time, he set out as Red Robin to prove his suspicions were correct – and hey, they actually were! How about that. Bruce eventually came back, picked up as Batman, things were set right in the world again, and Tim decided to keep on fighting the good fight as Red Robin.
- Something something New 52 was a fever dream, shh, it didn’t happen.
- Tim was recruited by Batman to be part of a new team (which Tim took to thinking of as the Gotham Knights), including Batwoman (Bruce’s cousin, Kate Kane, who was suggested to Batman by Tim to lead the group), Spoiler (Stephanie Brown, former temp-Robin and Batgirl, also Tim’s current girlfriend), Orphan (Cassandra Cain, Tim’s adoptive sister and another former Batgirl), and Clayface (reformed villain Basil Karlo, who possesses superhuman shapeshifting abilities). Tim designed a supercomputer for their new base of operations, the Belfry, as well as a training room for intense combat situations modeled after Clayface’s altered DNA.
- The team’s first big obstacle was facing The Colony, a secret military group headed by Kate Kane’s father, Jacob Kane, with a mission to eliminate suspected sleeper agents located in Gotham for the global terrorist organization, the League of Shadows. In reality, there were no sleeper agents; the Colony’s army of drones was sent in to target innocent civilians. These drones were programmed to operate without a shutoff mechanism, so instead of stopping them, Tim reprogrammed them for a single target – himself. He fought off the first wave of drones and won, though badly beaten by the battle. With the second wave of drones incoming, Tim said his goodbyes to Bruce and Stephanie, and readied to fight, knowing this would be Red Robin’s last stand.
- However, because comics are bullshit, Tim did not actually die in that fight with the drones – he appeared to be incinerated to nothing more than ashes, but in reality, he was whisked away to a holding cell in space/time prison by the mysterious “Mr. Oz,” who turned out to be some version of Jor-El, the father of Kal-El, aka Superman. After several months in holding, Tim was interrogated by Jor-El about why he became Robin, and he used that opportunity to hack the holding system and turn the interrogation around on Jor-El instead, who claimed to have taken Tim off the board, so to speak, in an attempt to save him. Jor-El implored Tim not to go back to Gotham, to make the selfish choice and stop trying to save everyone, and vanished, leaving Tim with more questions about why he’d been brought to the prison than he had when he first arrived.
- During his attempted escape from time prison, Tim came across none other than Batman in another holding cell – however, it wasn’t Bruce Wayne but an older, fascist future version of himself. Tim was horrified by what Bat-Tim told him his future held, disclosing the path he would take toward taking up Batman’s cowl himself after Bruce’s death - which entailed killing a lot of people, including Damian Wayne, a choice that Bat-Tim justified as “I did what I always do … I did what was necessary.” Bat-Tim transported both of them back to Tim’s Gotham, shocked Tim unconscious in an alley, and set out to alter his own timeline by searching out Batwoman with the intent to kill her.
Personality: Tim Drake is defined first and foremost by his beliefs; what he believes and how strongly he believes in those truths shape his actions, time and time again. Tim’s beliefs that Batman is important to Gotham and that Batman needs a Robin to be not only functional but his best self are at the heart of his origin story, the sequence of events where he, a mostly ordinary young teenager, ended up taking on the mask and cape in order to become the very Robin that Batman needed after the post was left vacant by Jason Todd’s untimely death. Batman is, in Tim’s mind, a force for good, and Tim passionately believes in doing good – as much of it as he possibly can. If sorted using D&D alignments, Tim would most likely be assigned Neutral Good – he has no qualms about working outside of the law as a vigilante, or about using violent methods to achieve his goals of fighting crime, but his actions are all guided by his belief that he is doing the right thing, which is simply to do good.
In comics, there’s often a great personal cataclysm that sets off the chain of events toward adopting a masked persona – for example, Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, and as a way of avenging that injustice, he made a vow to wage war on crime for the rest of his life. How that turned out is that Bruce dresses up like a bat night after night, breaks and enters all over Gotham, and usually punches the shit out of whatever criminals he ends up facing before turning them over to the GCPD. Tim, on the other hand, experienced no such personal upheaval – he came from a stable home life and didn’t lose his parents until quite a bit later on in his (still young) life. Tim simply wanted to help. Tim believed in what Batman means to Gotham, and he believed in what Robin means to Batman, and he believed in himself - not in arrogance, thinking that he was the best person to fill this role, but because he was there, he saw what needed to be done, and he was willing to make it happen.
Clearly, Tim displays an extremely high sense of responsibility. He’s dedicated to the cause of doing good – which, at the moment, happens to be fighting crime as a masked vigilante, but he doesn’t view his role as Red Robin as the entirety of his existence. “A hero doesn’t need a mask,” he says (Detective Comics #965), “but it helps.” And he believes there is more good that he can do in the world; before he was “taken off the board” in the guise of his apparent death via drone army, he’d planned to hang up his cape for a while and attend university, with the aim of tackling the problems of the world beyond Gotham, by means that don’t involve breaking laws and bones.
And when Tim Drake decides to take up a cause, there’s very little that can stand in the way of him reaching his goals. He isn’t ruthless or reckless in his approach (well, maybe a little reckless, that’s the Batfam way); he’s decisive and determined, confident in his abilities, and remarkably self-aware for a teenager. Tim follows a strict moral code – Batman’s code. There are lines he won’t cross – namely, he won’t kill. Yet as much as Tim believes in the importance of Batman, and as much as he respects Bruce, he doesn’t want to be exactly like him, and he doesn’t want to be Batman, either.
Is Tim a perfect human? Of course not; he’s a teenager, after all. He still makes mistakes, holds on to insecurities, allows his emotions to get the better of him. In fact, under emotional distress, he tends to shut out the people who care about him and isolate himself from those who tether him to the world. His passionate beliefs sometimes nudge into the realm of obsessiveness, and he sometimes takes that stupidly high sense of responsibility entirely too far. (Lookin’ at you, Dystopian Future Bat-Tim.)
But all in all, Tim Drake is a good bean. He’s a legitimate hero, and while he’s Seen Some Shit, he still manages to hold on to his ideals, and something even more important - hope.
Inventory: As Tim was taken to time prison directly from a firefight, he will be wearing his battle-torn Red Robin gear, including his utility belt. This belt is ridiculous and holds things like a grappling gun and cable, batarangs, a rebreather/gas mask, a flashlight, smoke cannisters, some basic first aid supplies, lockpicking tools, a ridiculous assortment of other tools, some zip ties for tying up bad dudes, and a distress beacon to signal Batman to his location (which obviously won’t work here). There’s also some computer tech inside his arm gauntlets, because #comics.
Abilities: Good grief - despite having no actual superpowers, this kid is actually pretty damn overpowered, but apparently that’s what happens when your mentor is the goddamn Batman. To start with, Tim has a genius-level intellect (his IQ is recorded as 142), so he’s incredibly smart, noted as the most intellectually gifted of all the Robins – where Dick excels in athletics and acrobatics and Jason excels at shooting guns and excessive displays of force, Tim has his brains and his analytical abilities. Even Bruce Wayne has remarked that Tim could someday surpass him as the world’s greatest detective, a title currently held by none other than him, so that’s high praise for Tim’s abilities. His skills in investigation were evident even as a child, since he was able to deduce the true identities of Batman and Robin, and they’ve only increased under Batman’s training. Tim’s also extremely skilled in tactical analysis, able to formulate and execute plans of attack on the fly, noted by Batman as having “the best tactical mind of any partner I’ve worked with.” Tim’s got excellent leadership skills, but he also knows how to fall in line and follow another leader, when the situation calls for it.
Other than his mental abilities, Tim is also in peak physical condition, and well trained in hand-to-hand combat by none other than Batman himself, in addition to several other experts in those fields. He’s a master of a number of martial arts, including judo and karate, and is highly skilled in fighting with a bo staff, which is his weapon of choice, though he’s pretty handy with throwing weapons (batarangs, shuriken, etc.) as well. He’s been trained in acrobatics and gymnastics, though it didn’t come easily for him, and he also learned stealth, disguise, and escapology during his training as Robin.
Finally, it’s worth noting that Tim is something of a tech wiz – he’s highly skilled in operating computers, hacking, and programming. His accomplishments in this arena include building a supercomputer and its programs from scratch, hacking an entire goddamn drone army and reprogramming their targets, and hacking some Kryptonian tech while in time prison.
Flaws: Tim is a good bean, but he is far from perfect. Although I place him as a Neutral Good type, his actions can frequently be categorized as falling under the Chaos end of the Law/Chaos scale. Tim’s a vigilante and has been for years; he fights on the side of good, but he does so outside of the law, and his methods are violent and disruptive.
When taken to extremes, Tim’s dedication and determination start to look more like obsessiveness. He can be singular-minded in his approach, and incredibly stubborn; when he’s got an idea in his mind – say, that Dick needs to be Robin again, or that Bruce was still alive despite all appearances of being dead – Tim can be like a pitbull, refusing to let go until he’s satisfied with the outcome.
Perhaps Tim’s biggest flaw is the measure of emotional dishonesty under which he sometimes operates. When distressed, he tends to refuse to acknowledge his emotions, shoving them aside in favor of putting a plan of action into place, refusing to talk about why he’s upset with the people who care about him. Even though Tim is arguably one of the better adjusted members of the Batfamily, he still has experienced significant emotional traumas (such as finding his father murdered in their home, after leaving to work with Batman and thus not being there to save him), and his coping techniques leave quite a bit to be desired. He will shut out those people who care about him, reject communication and attempts at outreach, and withhold information.
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Action Log Sample: Just another day in the life of Red Robin.