Mia Dearden In Green Arrow Vol. 3 #2 // Snow Angel By Rene Rapp

Mia Dearden in Green Arrow Vol. 3 #2 // Snow Angel by Reneé Rapp

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Cassandra Cain as Batgirl is at 159 comics read so far!

favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

about to say something controversial.

but. tbh. i think dick's taking in of damian as robin has far more in common with his taking care of tim as robin in prodigal than it does with bruce taking in dick as robin & that's interesting to me.

and i know this is 100% not intentional bc morrison hates tim & also doesn't like post-crisis continuity & also doesn't actually seem to particularly care about characters outside of only what they can do to service morrison's grand envisioned story but.

like. unlike the bruce-dick parallels of bruce seeing young dick lose his bith parents before his very eyes & knowing the horror that causes & having to take him in, damian is brought to gotham around the time of death and left there by his mother (who is still very much alive & damian is not an orphan & dick is well aware of that) & afaik did not actually...witness bruce's death. so you have a child, made robin by the death of a recent parent, who has a very complicated but (if we ignore some morrison) loving relationship with his alive parent (who he is returned to by dick the minute he is grievously injured & needs a parent to make medical decisions for him). who is choosing to be a hero. who needs dick's guidance on his journey to become a hero. who will eventually always be plan to be returned to bruce's care the minute everyone found out bruce was actually alive so that dick could return to the place he made for himself as nightwing (as implied at the end of gates of gotham).

and like, yes i will not deny that dick saw a lot of his own story in damian & probably saw a lot of himself & bruce & that i'm sure was very meaningful to dick. but what i can't get out of my mind is dick in prodigal. taking tim temporarily under his wing as he takes on batman's mantle for the first time. tim is different from him--tim was made robin by the death of one parent. tim has a complicated but loving relationship with his very alive dad. tim grows as robin & in his self-confidence as robin under dick's tutelage and approval. dick was always meant to return to the place he made for himself as nightwing and return to mantle to bruce once bruce was ready to come back.

and like. don't get me wrong. there's so much different there!! tim obviously was never under dick's custody the was damian was, he never needed to be. prodigal was a much shorter event with less room for expansion & tim and damian are very different characters.

but to me. there are more parallels between those situations for dick. idk.

He has to hear it from anyone who was anyone. It has to be a running gag.

Someone pointing out how disappointed 15 year old Tim would be. Someone showing him old recorded D.A.R.E. presentations. Maybe he had a collection of pencils or stickers, and people keep handing them back to him. Tim getting targeted ads for interventions. It needs to be relentless, and it needs to be by everyone who remembers that era of Tim..

Stoner Tim drake. Send post.

REMAKE b/c i forgot some methods.

let me know ! i really am curious