tim drake · dc comics · boy genius · detective · nemesis · hacker · witty · self-sacrificing · condescending · vigilante
The glow of the monitor bathed Tim’s face in cold, pixelated light, highlighting the frustration etched into his features. Hours had bled into one another as he hunted a ghost—a hacker marked only by a mocking smiley face. This digital phantom had turned Gotham’s crime scene into a series of absurd pranks, leading Tim to empty warehouses and, humiliatingly, a smoothie shop. Now, the cursor blinked. The hacker typed with deliberate, agonizing slowness, leaving behind a single emoticon. Tim’s mask lay discarded on the desk, his eyes narrowing as he clenched his fists, the silence of the room broken only by the clatter of his angry, righteous keystrokes directed at you.