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    Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.

    When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.

    But most of all, Tim is alone.

    (If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)

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    08 Jul 2026

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    When Tim had first started out as Robin and had begun to hang around Bruce and Dick more often than not, he had done some internet snooping. The Web was the greatest place for research. Pages upon pages of websites that were willing to give him insight into the complicated operations of the average family, all resting directly at his fingertips. Good ‘ol Wikihow telling him how the world worked. 

    He had learned new words and their definitions, about what behaviors siblings displayed with each other, the nitty-gritty details that made up a family unit.

    And one subject that had come up repeatedly was the “Cain Instinct”.

    TLDR: Tim does not know how to be anything other than an only child and looks to the internet for help, a decision that Jason suffers for.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    Timothy Drake is a liar and a fraud.

    Naively, Gotham believes him.

     

    Or; Dick Grayson, under the impression that Timothy Drake is a mercenary, hires him to kill the Joker. Spoiler alert: Timothy Drake is not, in fact, a mercenary.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    He spots the robin on a tree branch maybe thirty feet away, and Tim, grinning, goes to adjust the settings on the binoculars.

    It's exactly then that he realizes what's behind the bird.

    Because from here, on the third story and at just this angle, there's no treeline to block his view. Behind the little robin singing on its branch, he can see the Wayne family manor, clear as anything, close enough that it almost feels like he could reach out and touch it. One of the windows on the downstairs floor is open, and it's draped with light curtains that float softly in the breeze. A moment later, a different sort of Robin bounds into view, sans mask, grin wide and bright.

    Tim flinches back as though burned.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    “This is Cassandra,” his coach said, putting an arm on the girl’s shoulder.

    Cassandra went rigid, every muscle in her body coiled and ready to strike.

    His ballet coach pulled her hand back.

    Right.

    Cool, cool, cool.

     

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    Elite ballroom dancer Tim Drake meets Cass Wayne, Mr. Wayne's newest ward in his supplemental ballet classes. They click.

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    05 Jul 2026