Tim, suddenlly looking up: Oh My God
Dick: What? are you okay? What happened?
Tim: I just realized why Jason keeps making jokes about how he died
Jason: Yeah, because I died. It was a fairly big thing
Tim: No, it's because nothing else happened when you were Robin
Jason: What
Tim: Dick's the original Robin and the first sidekick, not to mention Discowing, so he has a lot to joke about-
Dick: Hey! Discowing was cool
Tim: No it was not. Neither was Ric without a k. Never be anything but Nightwing
Dick: Aw, you like it when I'm myself
Tim: No, I'm less tramatized when you're yourself. Anyway, Steph started a gang war, Demon Brat died and came back to life and is still Robin, Duke's not Robin but he started We Are Robin and jumped out of a police car before being a vigilante and I have my own things that we don't need to discus-
Dick: Saved the world in a intergalatic baseball game-
Jason: Hid the purchase of your own batmoblie in the batarang expenses-
Dick: Sunk around and took photos of vigilante at the age of 9-
Tim: THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DISCUSS! Back to what I was saying, Jason's the boring robin
Jason: Rude-
Tim: You were the good robin, the little crazy shit you did like steal the tires off the batmobile were kinda overshadowed by the fact that you like Jane Austen and you been red hood is because you died so everything you've done since then still has to do with the one thing that happened to you as Robin
Dick: Oh My God. You said you were sticking to the same joke over and over again so it would have the same effect, but really you have nothing else to make jokes about
Tim: Exactly!
Jason: We really don't have to talk about this-
Tim: I need to go tell Steph immediately
Dick: I need to go tell everyone immediately
I'm retiring my Robin Wars poster, so here's a new one as requested by my insta followers lol. It's 2024, still drawing these boys in these old outfits haha YOU CAN'T STOP ME
Examples of Bruce’s “Dad Strength” as witnessed by various Robins throughout the years:
can and will bodily pick up any new Robin and bail as soon as gunfire starts on patrol
one time Bruce got out, physically ripped off a broken part of the Batmobile, and threw it in the backseat so he and Jason could keep chasing someone in the Narrows
ran home with Nightwing over his shoulder when he got shot
frequently lifts sewer grates/manhole covers like they weigh nothing
does push-ups with Robins on his back for a challenge
held onto the side of a building with just his fingers for ten minutes once when Steph’s grapple line broke and he had to help her back up
pulls hot dishes from the oven without mitts sometimes for Alfred (insists scar tissue on his hands means he can’t feel it, nobody fully believes him)
Damian swears he saw him kick a tree down once during training. A big tree.
Dick frequently catches him unscrewing screws in his prototypes with his bare fingers
Punches through walls????
can drink nothing but straight black coffee for several days before any signs of discomfort (this freaks out everyone but Tim)
idea: batman and the robins never acknowledge that there have been different robins. like they all act that there's only been one and that they're the same person basically.
Justice League who's used to teen dick not kid jason: who is this child?
Batman: what do you mean, it's robin.
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Batman and Tim walking through the watchtower:
Justice League who remembers robin literally dying: ...*side eye*...
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Flash: batman… who is this?
Batman: robin. you’ve met before. several times.
Flash: no, i met a black haired boy. this is a blonde girl!
Batman: her name is robin
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Superman: it's time for you to explain. where are you getting all these children?
Batman: i have no idea what you're talking about.
Superman *pointing to damian*: who is this kid?!
Damian: i'm robin. i'm offended you would even ask that? don't you remember *proceeds to recite a story dick told him of his robin days*
Bruce, exhausted and trying to prove a point: Look, if your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?
Dick: Oooh that sounds fun, actually. Do you think I could convince Wally to go bridge jumping with me?
Jason: If the person is Roy, then yes. I speak from experience. No, I don't want to talk about it. Fuck off old man --- you couldn't even be bothered to avenge me, what the fuck makes you think I'll tell you about the stupid shit I get up to?
Tim, sleep deprived and fueled by a dangerous nix of coffee and spite, taking a moment to consider before shrugging: Yolo I guess.
Stephanie: Yup. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt
Damien: I am no follower, father. I would take initiative and be the first to jump from the bridge, thereby setting an example for my inferiors.
the thing about the bats is that they're never lacking pockets. belt compartment, suit pocket, random reinforced lining in a glove, you name it. they've got a million gadgets and items hidden away on their person at any given time. getting them through a metal detector is a nightmare. and it's not all weapons -- it's weird multi-purpose tools, fear toxin antidotes in little vials, different clips for the grapple lines, etc.
the average person looks at a batkid and thinks they have ten, maybe fifteen items on them max. supers with x-ray or magic see a whole car's worth of items carefully layered under the various armor pieces and belts. and somehow every single bat knows where every single item is at any time. just like their dad <3
I really don't like the narrative of "Bruce thinks if he hadn't made Jason Robin, Jason would have ended up as a criminal."
I much, much prefer the narrative Robins (2021-) gave us. Jason knows he did illegal stuff to survive. He did what he had to do. But has been called a crook, a criminal, a kingpin and similar stuff so many times and yeah, he is one, that he believes this narrative of "oh, I so would have ended up as a criminal." Jason does not have a high opinion of himself. He knows his skills, he knows what he is, but his self worth isn't big.
And then you have Bruce. Who doesn't think that at all. He expects Dick and Stephanie to still be heroes if they hadn't been Robin. But Jason? No. Jason would be successful. He would use his skills, combine it with a passion and help others that way. In #5, they were all in a simulation based on Bruce's idea of what their lives would've been if they hadn't been Robins. And Jason? Jason is a famous race car driver. So good that he wins and wins and wins. He has his own charity dedicated to his mother. Every single penny he wins goes to that charity.