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I like to think that Tim has unnerving eyes. People joke that he doesn’t blink because he is always looking very intently at everything around him. If you meet him, you’ll feel like he is staring straight into your soul with the way he just takes in your entire being with a look up and down. It’s a good thing that they wear masks at night because he has very recognizable eyes. There are gothamite memes about Tim Drake Wayne either being able to see your future and tell you your death date just by looking at you, or about there being nothing behind those eyes.

He knows about them and purposefully doesn’t debunk them. He fuels them by barely blinking the next time he attends an event. it’s very funny

Current favourite headcanon: Tim is supremely unbothered by truth serum/truth serum-adjacent toxins and spells because a) he's excellent at manipulating the caveats of an order/question and b) he has so many fucking secrets that broad questions only lead to the person asking getting traumatized by the answer

I hc Tim as simultaneously highly competent and completely useless at taking care of himself. Like, you know these expensive y-food meal-bottles that are supposed to contain all the nutrients of a balanced meal without the time-consumption and come with the flavouring options vanilla, watermelon and cum? He drinks one of these for each meal while at work without taking a break for it, along with his iron supplement, protein shake ane vitamin D supplement because God forbid he stops doing things for something as stupid as a walk.

But don't worry! He's well aware than downtime, hobbies and having a social life are necessary for a healthy and balanced lifestyle and development, which is why he has plenty of those! How unfortunate that he is both platonically and romantically attracted to people with a propension for dying and intense levels of flirting with danger, and that his hobbies are photography (of vigilantism and crime scenes), skateboarding without a helmet (not bad but the fact that this is safest is funny) and vigilantism.

Thankfully, Tim understands that many of his life experiences can be detrimental to his well-being (he did the Childhood Adverse Experiences tally and was unimpressed with the implications for his score), which is why he goes to therapy. Unfortunately, as this therapist is a civilian, he goes as Alvin Draper and has devised a complex backstory and code to talk about his issues in metaphors, which has become intricate to the point of uselessness because the therapist is now taking very good care of Alvin Draper instead of Tim.

Sleep? That's useful! Unfortunately, it's also hard to go by, but he calculated he can go at 80% of his capacities by sleeping exactly two sleep cycles less than what would be healthy, leaving him a little tired all the time but alert enough to function well. Thankfully his rigid schedule in which he writes everything helps him stay on top of things, as well as the modified energy drink he engineered to give him three times more caffeine than store-bought options with zero sugar in it (because you gotta stay healthy!!!) that tastes amazing with peach and mango flavours.

Everything is fine. Tim is doing great. He is absolutely in control, and has a perfectly adequate handle on the situation that will definitely not send him into a crisis if something unpredicted happens (which it won't, since he has contingency plans for everything, of course. As stated, he is in control).

I really like the idea that Tim is the only one in his entire family who actually takes care of himself, and still looks like a mess. He's the one who correctly takes his antibiotics, he's the one who goes to a therapist, the one who falls asleep on a regular basis, and yet he's still a complete mess. Like, sorry Tim, the literal universe is against you, sorry

Character design ideas for Tim, you know the drill

-black fingerless gloves. His hands may be cold but by god is he gonna show that black nail polish

-on that note: black nail polish. Tbf I'd give like half of the batfam black nail polish, and Tim is one of them for sure.

-sleep apnea. Idc that making that fit with canon is impractical, I saw that image of Tim falling asleep on a rollercoaster on a date and my brain decided he has sleep apnea.

-active noise-reduction earphones so he can hear himself think.

-I already ranted about this but that man doesn't drink coffee: he drinks energy drinks and these yfood bottled meals that got a meal's worth of nutrients in them, and he takes vitamin pills and protein supplements when necessary. My man knows the importance of a balance alimentation, but he's on a schedule.

-intense fixed blank stare. Oh, he's looking you in the eyes alright; and then he's not looking away.

-sensory issues around food; another reason why my Tim likes liquid food is that he doesn't have to handle and process all the different and weird textures. This isn't developed enough or associated with an emotional state of mind enough to classify as ARFID, but it's still important. (I describe it a little in The Protector).

-he has an elbow scar from a really stupid skateboard accident where he fell and then the skateboard fell on top of him snapped in half. He lies and blames the injury on Ra's.

- We know that Tim plays off-brand dnd, but what are his favourite builds? Easy: he's tried to recreate his perception of all of his teammates and family members as dnd characters, even the ones he doesn't like, and circles through them depended on his state of mind. (one day I might make a "batfam dnd build but according to tim drake" post idk). One time, his Nightwing insert dropped to 0 (didn't even perma die and got healed immediately) and he screamed like someone was getting murdered irl. Sometimes when he's in a particularly petty mood and upset at someone he'll get into a game playing that person's character and try his best to perma-die. One time he was so pissed at Jason he joined the party as Jaybin, got himself killed (by jumping into the dragon's mouth to stab it from inside), pulled out a backup character that was Red Hood and got himself killed again. He has a mini for each and everyone of his close ones' vigilante personas, which he has hand-painted himself.

-his right eyebrow tilts upwards when he is stressed.

-Sometimes my Tim is half-vietnamese (from Janet's side). That's because one of my favourite Tim fanartist draws him as vietnamese and their art and headcanons have imprinted in my brain.) so, no reasoning here, just a big shout-out to @axiliern for being cool af

-somehow he always has a human bone available when you need it. This is unrelated to any question about the no-kill-rule, he will not explain whose bones they are or where they came from but you need a femur? If he's at the nest or any of his safehouses, he'll just hand it over to you no question asked. He's the embodiment of that meme.