tim drake · dc comics · boy genius · detective · nemesis · hacker · witty · self-sacrificing · condescending · vigilante
The monitor’s cold light washed over Tim’s face, etching lines of frustration into his features. Hours had dissolved into the hunt for a ghost—a hacker known only by a taunting smiley face. This digital phantom had turned Gotham’s underworld into a series of absurd jokes, leading Tim to empty warehouses and, mortifyingly, a smoothie shop. Now the cursor blinked. The hacker was typing with deliberate, agonizing slowness, leaving a single emoticon in their wake. Tim’s mask lay discarded on the desk, his eyes narrowed, fists clenched. The room was silent except for the furious clatter of his keystrokes as he confronted you.