“You don’t understand. Everything was going well - well, not well, but if you leave off being zapped through the multiverse, things have been… pretty good with B, overall, considering that everything’s being graded on a huge curve since…”
Since Alfred was murdered, but Bart wouldn’t know about that. Tim packs that particular thought away for some other time (like never).
Tucks away the one about this likely making Bruce knuckle down harder after Dick having such a target on his back. That’s what’s going on at home. It doesn’t matter here. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll recover, but he’s not going to let me help with the Joker, especially not now that - that happened. He’ll keep the bike to keep me out of it so I don’t react like Jason.”
Tim feels like he failed in not spotting the trap, in not escaping sooner - and unlike a normal job, the stakes here were huge. And almost disastrous. And his boss is his adoptive father, who has incredibly high standards for Robins.
It’s so hard to differentiate not meeting the mark from not letting his family down. It feels like he did and will continue to feel that way until Tim feels like he’s earned approval again, somehow. He can’t admit to that, though. Bart would rightfully dismiss it as Tim not seeing this clearly. “Do you think he’d accept bike would let me get chilli dogs as rationale to release it?”
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Since Alfred was murdered, but Bart wouldn’t know about that. Tim packs that particular thought away for some other time (like never).
Tucks away the one about this likely making Bruce knuckle down harder after Dick having such a target on his back. That’s what’s going on at home. It doesn’t matter here. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll recover, but he’s not going to let me help with the Joker, especially not now that - that happened. He’ll keep the bike to keep me out of it so I don’t react like Jason.”
Tim feels like he failed in not spotting the trap, in not escaping sooner - and unlike a normal job, the stakes here were huge. And almost disastrous. And his boss is his adoptive father, who has incredibly high standards for Robins.
It’s so hard to differentiate not meeting the mark from not letting his family down. It feels like he did and will continue to feel that way until Tim feels like he’s earned approval again, somehow. He can’t admit to that, though. Bart would rightfully dismiss it as Tim not seeing this clearly. “Do you think he’d accept bike would let me get chilli dogs as rationale to release it?”