He wouldn't be Robin if he couldn't handle an angry adult, okay. That's like 80% of the job. It's not just that Jason is an angry adult. It's that despite never having really met this Jason before now, Tim thinks of him as family. And he's pissed off, and maybe he's pissed off at Tim specifically and maybe he's not, but Tim is the one who's here, and it does something to him, flips a switch in his brain.
At home, he would probably handle this by trying to be quiet and small until the anger's passed, but here, his brain knows a new trick, one that makes people stop noticing him. Except Jason's already noticing him, they're talking, so he can't just slip unnoticed through the gaps in his attention. It just makes him harder to pay attention to instead, and it's an outcome Tim might've predicted if he'd triggered the ability intentionally instead of unconsciously.]
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He wouldn't be Robin if he couldn't handle an angry adult, okay. That's like 80% of the job. It's not just that Jason is an angry adult. It's that despite never having really met this Jason before now, Tim thinks of him as family. And he's pissed off, and maybe he's pissed off at Tim specifically and maybe he's not, but Tim is the one who's here, and it does something to him, flips a switch in his brain.
At home, he would probably handle this by trying to be quiet and small until the anger's passed, but here, his brain knows a new trick, one that makes people stop noticing him. Except Jason's already noticing him, they're talking, so he can't just slip unnoticed through the gaps in his attention. It just makes him harder to pay attention to instead, and it's an outcome Tim might've predicted if he'd triggered the ability intentionally instead of unconsciously.]