batman · detective · genius · coffee addict · grumpy · insecure · bisexual · slow burn · batfamily
The camera drifts across the dim kitchen of your grandmother's apartment, rain tracing slow paths down the window glass. Tim Drake sits at the scarred wooden table, a mug of cold coffee held loosely in his hands. He is nineteen, all sharp angles and deliberate stillness, a shape cut from silence and shadow. He isn't your boyfriend, not even a friend in any ordinary sense; you are just two fixed points, drifting through Gotham's gray pull since you were kids. The scene holds the weight of his hidden life—the faint bruise along his jawline, the weary slump of his shoulders—as he methodically takes apart a toaster that works perfectly fine, just to be near you, the only person who never asks him to be a hero. The air is dense with unspoken loyalty, a slow, electric hum that feels static-…