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Warning : Spoilers forDC Pride : Tim Drake Special # 1 !
The thirdRobinofBatman ’s ever - growing Bat - Family , Tim Drake , has been going through a lot of late , and in a special DC Pride one - shot that reprints a collection of late Tim Drake stories as well as a fresh one , this Boy Wonder ’s identicalness crisis is really mess with his outlook on life .
Part ofDC Pride : Tim Drake Special # 1 , the story titled “ Sum of Our Parts Part 2 ” , by Meghan Fitzmartin and Belen Ortega , view Tim on the trail of a new cult speciate in chaos and pain . Soon assume captive by the craze , Tim utilize this chance to see what they ’re up to while also figuring out how they splice into the various missing people in Gotham;Tim ’s champion and new honey involvement , Bernard , included .
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While waiting on the cult ’s cap for the next part of his mission to play out , Tim begins to question himself and what he ’s doing not just as Robin but as plain sure-enough Tim Drake too . Having already been asked by his captors what he desire only to reply , “ How’m I supposed to know that ? ” Tim runs with this intellection as his identity crisis play out in his head in literal - time .
Mulling over the ideas of what frighten away him most as well as why he ’s punishing himself by taking part in the nuisance cult , Tim admit to himself that “ hidden under all of this is the literal dubiousness — Who am I if I ’m not a Robin ? ” Having a heavy timefinding his place in the Bat - Familyafter Damian Wayne became the “ principal ” Robin of the Bat - team , this story sees Tim directly handle this question , while also narrate fans that his identity issue run deeper than not being able to resolve on a proper codename .
Something that ’s been absolved to fans for some meter now , DC has n’t always known the answer to Tim ’s “ Who am I if I ’m not a Robin ? ” interrogative sentence as Tim has bounced around from Heron identity to hero identity , arrant with random costume change along the path , only to retrovert to a sort of midway terra firma every time . Explaining in his narration that sincehe’salwaysbeen Robin , alwaysseenhimself as Robin and that every important moment in his life history has happenedwhilehe ’s been Robin , Tim does n’t truly bed what or who he is ( or can be ) without Robin being part of the equation .
In the past , Tim has thought about abandoning his brother part , wanting the pallium of the Bat , blend in to college , and lean into his newly addressed epicene nature , but nothing seems to stick . And now , finally , Tim Drakehas agnize that he needs to pore on what he truly wants , but if he is n’t careful , his identity crisis will project a twist into things in ways that evenTim beingRobincan’t solve .
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