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****************Character Info*********************
Name: Timothy "Tim" Drake Wayne
Fandom: DC Comics
Age: 18
Point in Canon: just at the beginning of Red Robin #13
History:
Tim is the son of Jack and Janet Drake, who both spend most of their time travelling through the world to various historical sites (Janet being an archaeologist) while Tim stays at home or boarding school. Sometimes around the age of six, they take him to visit Haly Circus, where he meets young aerialist Dick Grayson and his parents, and later watches as the Graysons fall to their death and the Batman appear. He has nightmares of the night for years. Eventually Tim watches a broadcast that revealed footage of Batman and Robin and after recognising Robin doing a quadruple somersault (the very same Dick had promised to do for him in the circus years back) he concludes that Dick and Robin must be the same. Further he realises that since Dick is Robin, his guardian Bruce Wayne has to be Batman.
He doesn’t act on this knowledge, at least not until the months after Jason Todd’s death, when he notices that Batman had become more violent and reckless. Tim decides to search out Dick Grayson and ask him to return as Robin since "Batman needs a Robin". He finds him at Haly Circus and after the series of events, including the circus almost being ruined and Dick becoming it's Co-owner, he manages to convince Dick to return to Gotham, even though the older man refuses to become Robin again. Instead, Tim himself ends up taking the suit when he figures out that Nightwing and Batman are about to be trapped by Two-Face. Together with Alfred he manages to help them out, and later makes his case in front of the Batman, who accepts him as Robin-on-trial despite his words never to take on another Robin again.
In the middle of his training, Tim’s parents are kidnapped to Haiti and despite the Batman’s best efforts both of them end up being poisoned and only Jack Drake survives, but is left paralyzed and in coma. He later awakens and starts physiotherapy under the eyes of his later wife Dana Winters. In the meantime Tim proves himself as Robin and is sent to Europe to further his martial art education. He starts to learn from Rahul Lama in Paris, but then ends up under the wing of Lady Shiva, a member of the League of Assassins who travels the world to test herself against the best martial artists, killing them after their defeat. Together they follow a trail left by Sir Edmund Dorrance (“King Snake”), who tries to release plague that was created by the Nazis - first to Hong Kong, later to Gotham. After that Tim truly starts to embrace the mantle of Robin.
During the events of KNIGHTFALL, Tim is the first to suggest that the new player of the town, a man named Bane, might be the one who freed the inmates of Arkham Asylum to exhaust Bruce. He witnesses Bane breaking the Batman’s back and helps to secretly bring him back to the cave. When Bruce declares Jeanne-Paul Valley (Azrael) the interim-Batman until he is well enough to take up the mantle again, Tim is tasked to be his guide. However Jack Drake ends up being kidnapped and Bruce and Alfred race to rescue him. In the meantime Valley grows obsessed with the mantle, becoming more and more aggressive. He throws Tim out of the cave and almost strangles him when confronted about it.
Tim continues to work solo, mostly in the Gotham Heighs with help of Stephanie Brown, the daughter of a second-string villain “Cluemaster”, who took the name “Spoiler” to help bringing her father to justice. When Bruce returns after rescuing Jack and being healed by Dr. Kinsolving, Tim is originally reluctant to tell him about the situation, as Bruce is wondering about letting Valley be and retiring as Batman. However after realising just how out of control “Azbats” had grown, Bruce decides to seize back the mantle of the Bat. He succeeds after training with Lady Shiva, only to give it to Dick Grayson - so he can leave on a journey to reinvent himself.
Sometimes after Bruce’s return, Gotham is hit by an advanced Ebola virus, the clenches, which Tim ends up contracting, but is thankfully healed in time. Sometimes later, he ends up founding and leading a hero team together with his best friends Superboy and Impulse: the Young Justice. They are soon joined by other young heroes their age: Wonder Girl, Arrownette and Secret. The group is later dissolved, and it’s core members eventually join the Teen Titans.
When the earthquake that levels most of the city hits Gotham, Tim is just returning from another trainings journey. Despite the attempts of the Batfamily to help the city through this catastrophe, the government declares the City to No Man’s Land and Batman sends Robin and Nightwing away, to take care of their own beats - the Gotham Heighs and Bludhaven. Tim continues to work with Stephanie and starts dating her as Robin.
Due Gotham’s destruction Jack decides to relocate the family to Keystone City. Robin ends up teaming up with the Flash, who brings him to Gotham when Stephanie goes prematurely into labour. Jack is furious when he finds out that Tim had travelled back, but agrees to return to Goham Heighs as he hadn’t liked Keystone very much anyway. Shortly later, Tim gets a call from Bruce, asking him to come and help him in No Man’s Land.
After Gotham is liberated and No Man’s Land lifted, life continues fairly normal for Tim - as normal as life is for a member of the Batfamily anyway. He continues his relationship with Stephanie/Spoiler as Robin without revealing his true identity, despite facing difficulties such as his father sending him to a private boarding school. However things start to become rocky when Batman breaks his trust by revealing Tim’s identity to Stephanie without asking him beforehand and which leaves them at odds. Soon after that Jack goes bankrupt and has to take Tim out of boarding school and move the family to the City.
When Bruce is accused of murdering Vesper Fairchild, Tim finds himself on e of the family members who are unable to deny the possibility that he indeed did kill her, a argument that almost threaten to break the Batfamily.
After the true murderer is found, things return more or less back to routine; at least until Jack searches Tim’s room one day and finds his spare Robin uniform. After confronting Bruce and Tim about it, later promises him to quite as Robin in order to keep Batman’s identity a secret.
With Tim out of the game, Stephanie eventually approaches Batman and is taken in as Robin-on-trial, but is soon fired for disobeying his orders. When Steph, determined to prove her worth to the Batman, accidentally triggers a large gang war that consumes almost all of Gotham, Tim, unable to keep staying on the side lines, returns as Robin. The gang war ends as quick and violent as it started, and not without victims: Spoiler was captured and tortured by Black Mask, dying due her injuries.
When Jack Drake is shot to the heart only days later, Tim packs his things and leaves Gotham for Bludhaven. He even goes as far as inventing an Uncle to keep himself out of the Foster system, avoid having to answer Bruce’s proposal to adopt him and to be able to fight crime without having to worry about minor detail like school or a social life outside the hero community. Batman uncovers the ruse soon enough, but he decides to let Tim do as he likes and even helps Tim to cover his tracks completely.
After INFINITE CRISIS leaves Bludhaven completely destroyed and Tim without his best friend, Bruce asks him to accompany him and Dick on a trainings journey that retraces the steps Bruce took when he originally started out to train. One year later, Tim returns to Gotham and Robin finds himself framed for the murder of Lynx. After proving his innocence (and finding out that the true murderer was Cassandra Cain), when not working with the Batman, Tim has his own fair share of cases to solve and returns to co-lead the Teen Titans with Wonder Girl. He also finally accepts Bruce’s offer to become his son. When Talia Al Ghul resurfaces and reveals her son with Batman, Damien, Tim finds himself doubting his relationship with his adoptive father, despite Bruces attempts to reassure him.
Eventually Tim comes across a new vigilant “Violet”, who is more interesting in making profit from her victims, than protecting the city. When he finds himself losing while confronting her since she reminded him too much of Stephanie, Spoiler suddenly appears. Stephanie, as it turns out, hadn’t actually died in the gang war, but had been cured and hidden in Africa by former Batfamily doctor Leslie Tompkins. Tim is relieved to see her alive, but also angry that she allowed him to believe her dead.
As BATMAN: RIP unfolds and a new organisation named Black Glove begins to make noise, Tim is forced to consider the possibility of Batman going insane and how he is to react in that case. Spoiler secretly hampers his investigation on request of Batman, as he wants Tim to become the best Robin he can be - something that additionally strains their relationship, especially after Tim is blown up in the hideout of his old enemy Armstrong.
After FINAL CRISIS, the remains of the Batfamily finds themselves hard-pressed to Gotham from exploding in violence. Robin manages to negotiate a temporary truce between the gangs, but with Bruce apparently dead, the city seems worse than ever and forces Tim to suggest that either he or Dick should take up the cowl.
When he finds a note proclaiming “I AM BATMAN” and word of a murderous Batman starts to spread, Tim sees no choice but to borrow one of of Bruce’s old suits to go after the new ‘Batman’. He eventually tracks down the other Batman’s Cave, where he finds himself confronted with a homicidal Jason Todd. As they fight, Jason offers to spare Tim and take him as Robin and stabs him with a batarang after he refuses.
Fortunately for Tim, Bruce’s old suit shattered the batarang and leaves him able to drag himself away when Jason is distracted with the arrival of Nightwing. When Jason’s cave collapses, Damian and Squire arrive just in time to pull him out.
However after recovering from his wounds, Tim discovers that Dick, who had finally taken over the role of Batman, had decided to make Damian Robin, as he saw Tim too much as his equal to keep him as “his” Robin. When Damian jokes about Tim taking the Batgirl suit instead, he leaves the Batcave angrily, not able to accept the way things have changed. When he finds a picture of Bruce as Brother Mordecai, he realises that Bruce isn’t dead after all.
Determined to find more concert proof, Tim takes the Red Robin suit and after pretty much blowing off most of his friends and family members, he disappears to Europe to search for clues of Bruce’s whereabouts. He is sidetracked a few times but eventually is assaulted from a group of assassins, ordered to meet him by Ra’s Al Ghul, who is interested in the nature of Tim’s quest. Tim escapes to Berlin where he breaks into a museum, while staying in contact with Ra’s. From Berlin he travels to Iraq, only to find that Ra’s assassins had caught up with him and had bin ordered to aid his mission. With their help Tim travels to a cave, where he finds the Batsign drawn into the wall, confirming what he had suspected all along: Bruce Wayne is alive, but trapped in the past.
However his victory is lived short as the group is attacked by a member of the “Council of Spiders”. Tim and one of the assassins (“Pru”) narrowly survive, but are injured heavily. Tim drags both of them back to one of the Wayne apartments where they are found by Tam Fox, daughter of Lucius Fox who was asked to search Tim and bring him back to Gotham, and kidnapped by the League.
After having them taken care of, Ra’s asks Tim to aid the League against the Council, threatening Tam to ensure his cooperation. Tim agrees to help, but makes his own plans - he wants to bring down the League from the inside. After accessing the Leagues database, Tim orders three stimulant hits, which are all intercepted by the council; only Tim and Pru’s group manage to catch their assailant.
However the Council had already found the Cradle, the place where Tim had left Tam, thinking her reasonably safe. Tam escapes her attackers long enough for Red Robin to arrive to rescue her, but he finds himself confronted by all members of the Council. He manages to hold his own long enough for Pru and the White Ghost to arrive and to destroy the whole digital network of the League. He escapes with Tam as the Cradle is destroyed, but Ra’s contacts him shortly afterwards, warning him that punishment awaits.
Upon this, Tim returns to Gotham, where he eventually reunites with Stephanie, who had by then taken up the mantle of Batgirl, and together they manage to protect Leslie Tompkins, before she could become a victim of Ra’s plot. They reunite with Pru and manage to press the rest of the targets out of another assassin. With the help of the Teen Titans and Batfamily allies, Tim manages to take all the hits as he moves to confront Ra’s Al Ghul by himself.
In the middle of their fight, he reveals that he had known the true motive behind Ra’s attack: to take over Wayne Enterprises, which is prevented thanks to Lucius Fox transferring Bruce’s shares to Tim. After being kicked out of a window by Ra’s and being caught and brought to safety by Dick, Tim recovers in the Batcave, where he reveals his findings to the rest of the Batfamily and finds out that apparently he missed that he has gotten engaged to Tam sometimes along the line.
Even so he is glad to be back to Gotham and is just about to reintroduce his new self to the city, when he is drawn to the Isola di Sorte.
Personality:
Tim’s character has changed a lot between his introduction and the now. While once far more optimistic, loss and grieve have made him into a rather sullen young man, with a sardonic wit and a hang for brooding in private. Partly to fault is Tim’s own drive to self-loathing; he tends to blame himself for not being there to prevent death/injury of a friend/innocent/ect or not spending more time with them and appreciating them more when they were still alive. This more than often leads to phases of self-isolation and Tim needing some one to hit/kiss/shock him out of his mood.
Another thing to be considers is Tim’s intelligence - his most defining trait, which made him unique as Robin. While Dick and Jason before him were stronger/more physically pronounced, Tim was already a detective before he formally met the Batman. Over the time many others have noted the similarities between Tim and the original Batman Bruce Wayne, as Tim has become is inclined to brood and has it almost as easy to detach himself from his feelings, or at least act detached to do what needs to be done. However over the time Tim has become rather wary of the thought of wearing the cowl, especially because of the similarities between him and Bruce and because of the alternate future, in which he has become a Batman who kills.
Originally Tim took great care to separate his lives as “Tim Drake” and “Robin” and always was troubled when thrust into situations where both of them blend together. Then again… at that time he was very intent to stop being a vigilante eventually. By now, Tim has long reached the point beyond wanting and being able to quit; all of his friends and family are part of the hero community and this is quite frankly the thing he is the best at. Violence is very much part of his life; he expects it and tends to reacts with violence in return.
Items/things:
- Red Robin Costume and amore
- Fully stocked utility belt, including but not limited to grapnel gun, batarangs, first aid kit, flash and gas grenades, binoculars
- Collapsable Battle Staff, with hidden blade at the tip.
Abilities:
While Tim might not pose any superhuman abilities, he is an accomplished martial artist, who has trained under not just the Batman, but also Dick Grayson, Lady Shiva, Connor Hawke and other masters of the trade and is starting to reach the point where he can be considered a master himself. However he does not solely rely on his skill in a fight as much as that he knows how to use his head and plan effectively ahead. He is not oppose to fighting “underhanded”, if he needs to (for example: When Lady Shiva challenges him to a final fight, he poisons the chocolates in her hotel in order to defeat her).
Aside of that, Tim has been trained in acting and disguise by Bruce and Alfred and has become a very skilled undercover operative, he has been seen infiltrating several youth groups or once deliberately made himself a target for kidnappers under his real name.
Tim is a very skilled hacker; though not on Oracle’s level, he is more than often the second choice as Bat-clan hacker and Computer specialist.
First Person Sample:
Uhm, is this recording? It, isn’t it?
Of course it is.
I’m sorry, this so weird. I mean I thought I’d been expecting it, that I’d be prepared when it happened but this is just… I mean in a world where thing like amazon attacks or well… zombie invasions happen in freakingly regular interval, you’d think it’s only a matter of time until you end up right in the middle of one of those things.
Guess I wasn’t as prepared as I thought… and I think I’m rambling. Am I rambling?
Anyway what is this… alien abduction? Government experiments? Just curious, really…
Ah, I’m Tim by the way. Tim Drake.
I’m sorry, whoever is out there, but I guess I’m freaking.
Uhg… way to make a first impression, Drake.
Third Person Sample:
At one moment everything was right; he was swinging side on side with Dick and Damien - Batman and Robin - around them Gotham was singing her song, telling of crimes already done and yet to be, whispering to her knights to defend her, to keep her safe and Red Robin was only all too eager to follow her call. Things were right. Bruce was alive.
And then at a moments notice everything turned black and he was falling (and strangely weightless), instinctively jerking on his line, but not feeling any resistance, and then he hit a rooftop, immediately rolling of into a crouch - lower, simpler than any of Gotham’s. Within seconds he is certain; he was not in Gotham anymore (and certainly not in Kansas either).
He breathed deep as he sunk back into the shadows; his only shield for the moment. He needed to think. While he had certainly been dropped at strange places in and through time and space before - normally it went with a warning at least. To be hit so unprepared was… troubling. Unnerving even.
But there was no use getting nervous, not when he could be working on finding out what had actually happened. A much more productive notion.
One he would follow in any case, before he made himself much more of a target than he already had. It was time to find someone to press for information; not too different to what he probably would have done tonight anyway. Really this was just another night in the life of Red Robin.
Wanted Characters: n/a
Unscreen?: Sure
Other: Out of paranoia and habit Tim will of course try to keep his double life up; by day Tim Drake the quiet, but friendly, normal teenager; by night Red Robin/Tim Drake teenage vigilante (even if there isn’t much need for that; but you know; it’s hard to break old habits and and never hurts to have loads and loads of contingency plans). And since double lives tend to be a little difficult when you have to fear discovery from your roommate, I’d like Tim to claim one of the apartments in the vacant buildings as new Robin’s Nest (I’ve been thinking of R D3). He’d tag it as occupied by Dr. Fledermaus and Alvin Draper, who of course will never show their faces to anyone. |D
Is that okay?