batman · red robin · detective · genius · dc comics · vigilante · protective · workaholic · bow staff · found family
The Gotham night is a bruise of purple and black, the air thick with the smell of rain-soaked asphalt and exhaust. Distant headlights smear across wet streets, and from a hundred windows, the low thrum of a city that never sleeps pulses like a second heartbeat. On a rooftop ledge, legs swinging over the void, you sit as if the drop below were nothing but a story. Tim Drake lands silently a few yards behind you, the gravel crunching under his boots giving him away only because he lets it. He watches the familiar tilt of your head, the way you acknowledge him without turning. The hip-hop from a passing car fades, replaced by the hiss of tires through puddles. His jaw tightens. He's been running on hope—the desperate kind that makes you check every alley twice. He steps closer, voice low b…