metalogs | all that's done and gone and passed tonight (mix of open and closed)

Who: Tim Drake

overlyprecocious and friends
What: Tim is Coping and it's fine
When: late January, after the Hunger Games mostly
Where: Central City mostly. and Sky High.
Content Warnings: a little trauma related to being kidnapped into space by aliens (twice!! thanks, canon), a lot of anxiety, some unhealthy coping mechanisms like food hoarding and vigilantism

It's not like Tim is traumatized by his experience in the survival games. If anything, he's relieved that he was snagged by the aliens and not, say, a hapless seven-year-old. He has survival training, he has a magic restocking utility belt, he has family he was able to meet up with and work with. It was easy for him, comparatively speaking. It just - being kidnapped to space made him even more aware of the metaphorical sword of Damocles already hanging over his head whenever a Confluence finally brings him back home again. There's an extra cruel sting to being reminded that he's not even safe from being randomly yanked from his home and sent back into danger outside of Confluences.

Being more active as Robin is a reasonable precaution. He was already caught off guard once, and thankfully he at least had a minimum of supplies on him and the utility belt even if he didn't have the benefit of the full Robin suit. What he has on him here won't do him much good when he's yanked back home, but at least he's more prepared for anything that happens in this reality when he's suited up.

Threaded | Flat

He can't be Robin during the day mostly, for obvious reasons like Robin being a creature of the night and also government-mandated high school. Tim's not really the friendliest kid in the school - he specializes in being nice but bland and forgettable as much as possible, and mostly socializes with the people he already hangs out with outside the school.

Even people who don't spend a lot of time with him might notice that he's gotten more squirrelly than usual, even if he's trying to mask it. He's increased the Absolute Minimum number of objects that could be weapons hidden on his person (that he is absolutely not supposed to have, but what the school doesn't know he could use in a fight won't hurt them), and he's got roughly two days' worth of protein bars and one days' worth of clean drinking water stashed in his backpack. Bonus: roughly all of the security concerns that he'd been trying to pretend not to have about being in an unlocatable school in the sky have come back full force.

Right now, it's his lunch period, and he can be found in an unused classroom that he definitely shouldn't have access to but it's amazing what you can use as a lockpick these days. He's not hurting anything, anyway, just re-checking that he has all his emergency supplies and also maybe wondering if General Sense of Mental Unease counts as enough of an emergency to have Nico sneak him out. Probably not.

For the most part, Robin flying solo sticks to reconnaissance and lower-level crimes. It's how he was trained; Robin stays with Batman, Nightwing, or Batgirl if he's in Gotham, or the Team if he's out of the city. He spends a lot more time patrolling alone here, but he usually sticks to the base-level rules of Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew.

He may have taken a bigger bite tonight than he meant to. This gas station robbery has a lot more guns and perpetrators than any gas station robbery could ever possibly need. He expected one, maybe two guys, probably not exactly highly-skilled. There's four guys, and they're all armed. It's not an emergency, yet - he's not about to reach for the panic button - but that makes this trickier given that there's an unarmed cashier and a couple hapless late-night shoppers who could get caught in the crossfire.

"Isn't this kind of overkill? I'm pretty sure all you need is a super soaker to pull off a crime like this. No offense," he adds to the cashier, "it's just I'm assuming you're not paid enough to put yourself at risk for this job. Unless you have great hazard pay?"

Robin: a man of the people.

The new building that Dick bought is nowhere near "done" or "liveable" yet, but Tim still has access and can (carefully) explore the building if he wants, which is what he's doing now. He knows TJ's working on the security system, but right now Tim's exploring and looking for opportune places for hidden passages, nooks, and hiding spots. It would be difficult to put any in that the other bats don't know about at this stage, but shut up, he's visualizing. Manifesting. Being reasonably careful not to fall through any questionable structures.

[OPEN, high school] teenagers scare the living shit out of me

[OPEN, Central City at night]

[SEMI-OPEN (to people with building access), the new bat-building]