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example app: tim drake | dc comics
Player name: Rae
Contact: gothmoth#3738 @ the Disco(rd)
Referral: I’m conducting this trainwreck.
Current characters: Jack Munroe
THEM
Character Name: Timothy Jackson “Tim” Drake, aka Red Robin.
Character Age: 18
Canon: DC Comics (Rebirth)
Canon Point: Detective Comics #940 (as the second wave of drones hits, but before he’s whisked away to a holding cell in time prison, a point which will leave Tim with the belief that he has been killed).
History/World: ... Look, comics are a disaster, not even DC knows what's up with continuity, it's a nightmarish tangle of retcons and rewrites. Here’s Tim at Wikipedia and DC Database (one, two.) Rebirth re-retcons a lot of the dumb ideas about Tim's origin story and history that New 52 introduced so you can probably disregard most of that.
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. When taken to extremes, Tim’s dedication, determination, and passionate beliefs 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. He even sometimes takes that stupidly high sense of responsibility entirely too far. (Lookin’ at you, Dystopian Future Bat-Tim.)
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, isolate himself from those who tether him to the world, reject communication and attempts at outreach, and withhold information.
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.
Items: The battle-torn Red Robin uniform he’s wearing, including: arm gauntlets with limited computer tech; utility belt, empty except for grappling gun and cable, set of 3 batarangs, 1 smoke canister, and a set of lockpicking tools
Powers/skills: Tim is a mere mortal, but he possesses natural gifts and a lot of top-tier training. He has a genius-level intellect (his IQ is recorded as 142) and is noted as the most intellectually gifted of all the Robins. His skills in investigation were evident even as a child, since he was able to deduce the true identities of Batman and Robin by the tender age of 9, and they’ve only increased under Batman’s training. 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. 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.”
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 several 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 also handy with throwing weapons like batarangs, shuriken, etc. 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 highly skilled in operating computers, hacking, and programming. His accomplishments in this arena include building a supercomputer and its programs from scratch, as well as hacking an entire drone army and reprogramming their targets, and he’s also shown to be capable of hacking Kryptonian tech.
SAMPLE
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