Fractured Reality App
Player name: Zoë
Journal: zoe_chan
AIM: W1ndrBoy003
Email: nutterzoi@hotmail.com
Other characters: N/A
Character name: Tim Drake/Red Robin
Age: 17
Canon: DC Comics (Preboot)
Canon point: The end of the Red Robin series.
Totem: Batarang (Bat-style). In normal limbo, it would be perfectly balanced, and during a fissure, it would be off-balance and wobbly when thrown.
Weapons: Utility belt containing: 4 smoke pellets, 2 tanglers (explode into goo that traps people), 2 flash-bangs, 6 batarangs (well, the Red Robin equivalent thereof), collapsible staff.
Abilities/powers: Unlike many DC heroes, Tim does not have any “special” abilities. He has the strength and endurance of a teenage athlete, and is very intelligent. He has been trained by Batman in a number of varied fighting disciplines, as well as forensics, criminology, acrobatics, stealth, disguise, and criminology. He has naturally strong deductive skills, which make him a good detective, and he has a firm grasp of computer science, biology, and genetic engineering (as seen in his attempts to clone his dead best friend). His time as leader of Young Justice and then the Teen Titans has proven him to be a skilled leader and strategist.
Location: The former site of the Monarch Theatre, the place where Bruce Wayne's parents were killed. The theatre has been remodeled into Tim's pretty swank multistory apartment, which hides the base of operations for his Red Robin activities. It's three stories, plus a subbasement level, and has underground vehicular access and aerial egress. It has a training level, crime lab, communications array, and a seriously high-tech computer system that will be mostly a database in limbo, without access to the internet.
Also, there's a popcorn machine.
It looks like this.
Personality: Tim is serious and emotionally reserved, and does not open up easily to strangers. He's very slow to trust, and even when he does trust people, he never trusts absolutely. There's always a little voice in the back of his head (and it sounds a lot like Batman) asking “If this person turned or became a threat, what would be the most efficient way to take them down?” This is just as true with his friends, family, and closest allies as it is with his enemies.
This is not to say that Tim doesn't love. He believes strongly in the acquired family and cares very deeply for his friends and those he considers to be a part of his family. He would do just about anything for them, including compromising his principles, and working with supervillains like Lex Luthor and Ra's al Ghul for their welfare. This is, in fact, one of his greatest fears about himself. During a time traveling adventure with the Teen Titans, he met a version of himself as Batman who - for love of his family - had compromised every principle Tim held, including the one he considers to be the most inviolable: We don't kill. When he returned to the present, he swore that he would never allow himself to become that, but the fear that he could has never entirely left him.
Since meeting his future self, Tim tries to be a bit more open with the people he cares about, and uses them to help him check his moral compass--especially with the return of Conner and Bart. He has, however, considered taking himself out of the equation in a more permanent sense if the future does begin to look inevitable. He does not want to lose sight of the greater good, and he doesn't want to be the reason his friends lose sight of that either.
As a lifelong resident of Gotham, and a vigilante, Tim doesn't believe that the world is a “fair” place. He's seen too many bad things happen to good people, and vice versa, to believe that. He does, however, believe in justice, and Batman's mission to take care of the people of Gotham. That's why he decided to work with Batman in the first place, and why he continues to follow his mission and his rules, even though the man himself is missing.
As a result of a childhood spent sneaking around and lying about taking pictures of vigilantes, and an adolescence sneaking around and lying about being a vigilante, Tim has become very good at lying and hiding what he's doing - and what he's feeling. He prefers to deal with - or repress - his emotions on his own, and doesn't like to share them with other people. Especially if something's wrong. He doesn't like to become a burden on his family and friends, and tends to push people away while he's dealing with whatever is wrong with him. He won't open up about a problem unless someone close to him forces the issue - and they really have to work at it to get him to say what's wrong. He doesn't like to be seen as anything but perfect and in complete control.
Tim has a very overdeveloped sense of personal responsibility. He feels responsible for his friends, his family, and his city, and if something does go wrong on his watch, it's difficult to convince him that he is not somehow responsible for what happened - and worse if there is a way he can blame himself. He's still haunted by the death of his father (who was murdered because Tim was Robin and someone wanted to send a message to the world's heroes), and he remembers all the people he's failed to save.
His initial reaction to Limbo is going to be a cautious suspension of disbelief. DC continuity has enough canon interaction with alternate universes and times that he's going to assume for a while that that's what Limbo is. Seeing his apartment and being able to change the dream is going to throw him a bit, but it's not going to change how he views Limbo particularly. It may be an alternate reality, or may be in his head, but in the end he needs to get back/wake up, and go back to what he was doing.
As for the people he encounters, he's not likely to open right up and share all of his secrets. He's private--even with the people he considers friends. Still, he will be friendly and polite while he gets their measure and decides whether or not he can trust them--and whether or not they're real, which will definitely be a question when he realizes they're in a shared dream.
History: As a very young child, Tim Drake went to the circus with his parents-Jack and Janet-where he witnessed a horrible crime-the murder of Dick Grayson’s parents, whom he had met prior to the show in which they died. The memory of that day haunted him, and he became obsessed with it. At nine years old, he saw a news-clip of Batman and Robin and recognized Dick as Robin. From there, it was an easy jump to Bruce Wayne as Batman. At thirteen, following the death of Jason Todd (the second Robin), Tim approached Dick to ask him to become Robin again, believing that Batman needs a Robin for balance. When Dick refused, Tim took up the mantle.
While Tim was working toward becoming Robin, his parents-often away-were attacked and held hostage. His mother died as a result of this, and his father was put into a coma. While Jack Drake was in the hospital, Tim stayed with neighbor and family friend, Bruce Wayne, and began working with Batman as Robin.
When Tim’s father came out of his coma, he was paralyzed, and Tim had a new secret-his Robin ID. His father eventually made a full recovery with the aid of a physical therapist-Dana-whom he fell in love with and married. Tim and his father’s relationship became strained as Jack tried to reconnect with Tim, who was keeping secrets and spending a lot of time with Bruce Wayne.
As Robin, Tim worked with and was trained by Batman and-briefly-the Lady Shiva (a world-class assassin). He was a hero in Gotham during a number of city-wide crises, including catastrophic earthquakes, deadly viruses, and gang wars. It was as Robin that he met his long-term girlfriend, Stephanie, who died in the gang wars after a brief time as Robin (Tim quit for a while after his father found out about his activities). Shortly after the death of his girlfriend, his father was also murdered, and his stepmother suffered a mental breakdown, causing Tim to move to a different city to get a little distance.
Tim has also led two teams of young superheroes-Young Justice, and then the Teen Titans. It was in Young Justice that Tim met his two closest friends-Kon-El/Conner Kent (Superboy) and Bart Allen (Impulse/Kid Flash). During a huge, multiverse-wide crisis, both Kid Flash and Superboy fought a duplicate version of Superboy (Superboy Prime). Superboy was killed trying to stop him, and Kid Flash was aged a number of years. A year later-as the Flash-Bart Allen was murdered by the Rogues. Both deaths devastated Tim.
After Superboy’s death, he left on a year-long trip around the world with Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne, who later adopted him when they returned to Gotham City. Tim also adopted new costume colors, and a slightly different design-the current Robin costume-in honor of Superboy's memory.
Death, however, is rarely permanent in DC comics, and it was soon discovered that Stephanie was not dead, as previously believed, and she returned to Gotham to begin working with the Bat family again. Superboy and Kid Flash likewise returned, but then the unthinkable happened. Batman was killed.
Dick Grayson took up the mantle of Batman, replacing Tim as Robin with Damian Wayne, Bruce's biological son. Tim was hurt, but he didn't believe that Bruce was truly dead, and so he left Gotham as Red Robin, and began the search to find out what had really happened to Bruce Wayne. During this time, he allied himself briefly with Ra's al Ghul, the head of the League of Assassins. Together, they discovered that Bruce had not really died, but been sent back in time. While allied with Ra's he secretly began to work to take down the organization from within, and succeeded by blowing up the League's base and crippling the organization
He soon returned to Gotham to stop Ra's from taking over Wayne Enterprises and killing Bruce Wayne's allies in the city. While his friends protected the targets from Ra's assassins, he was made CEO of Wayne Enterprises, so that Ra's would be unable to destroy the company. When he confronted Ra's, he acknowledged that Tim had actually beaten him and called him “Detective,” a title he had previously reserved for Bruce alone.
After the confrontation with Ra's, Tim began operating out of Gotham again. He made up with Dick, though he still had an adversarial relationship with Damian, and he started to take up a more active role in Wayne Enterprises. In this role, he came into conflict with a pair of dirty cops who tried to have him killed. Instead of shooting Tim, however, the assassin they hired shot one of his friends, a shape-changer who was doubling as him. He took the opportunity to throw off two people who were trying to link him to his secret identity by faking a spinal injury with a long recovery time. As Tim Drake-Wayne, he now walks with a set of crutches.
With Bruce's return-not from death, but from being lost in time-the Batclan is more or less working together again. Bruce is the World's Batman, while Dick (as Batman), Damian, and Tim take care of Gotham. While Bruce doesn't always approve of Tim's decisions, in the end he is no longer Batman's sidekick, and is starting to make his own way as Red Robin.
3rd person sample:
Tim was pretty sure that there shouldn't be ocean sounds in his apartment. No, not pretty sure; definitely sure. He wasn't that close to the harbor, and... Gotham Harbor didn't really sound much like a beach, even if he had been. And he didn't use one of those white noise generators, so... no. There really shouldn't be ocean sounds in his bedroom.
Were those really waves?
He opened his eyes and squinted against the brightness in the sky, then pushed himself up onto his elbows to look around. Waves. Sand. Crumbling buildings that were almost certainly some kind of condemned. “Hn,” he muttered, raising an eyebrow. “I don't think we're in Jersey anymore, Toto.”
He glanced down. Well, at least he was dressed, and had his utility belt. That was something. “Winged monkeys and Wicked Witches of any cardinal direction, beware.” He got to his feet and brushed the sand off his pants, glancing toward the buildings. Skyscrapers meant city, right? He was good at cities-even dilapidated ones.
After all, he was from Gotham.
He glanced back at the sand to make sure he hadn't left anything behind. Nothing. Good. He turned toward the city, hoping that whatever alternate reality he'd found himself in wasn't too far from his reality. He had things to do in Gotham.
1st person sample:
[audio; Tim thinks he's connected to the Bats' comm network]
Well, at least this thing's working. I'm setting this up to broadcast my location to anyone who receives this message. Look, I'm not exactly sure where “here” is, and honestly I have no idea if any of the rest of you are here, too, so if any of you are listening, please respond. I'm headed into the nearest city-I'll include its name in my next communication-so if any of you are listening, head that way, and we'll find a way to meet up.
...Even you, Damian. I know we don't like each other much, but if you're stuck here too, we're going to need to work together to get home. So don't ignore me, or I will find you and kick your ass.
Journal: zoe_chan
AIM: W1ndrBoy003
Email: nutterzoi@hotmail.com
Other characters: N/A
Character name: Tim Drake/Red Robin
Age: 17
Canon: DC Comics (Preboot)
Canon point: The end of the Red Robin series.
Totem: Batarang (Bat-style). In normal limbo, it would be perfectly balanced, and during a fissure, it would be off-balance and wobbly when thrown.
Weapons: Utility belt containing: 4 smoke pellets, 2 tanglers (explode into goo that traps people), 2 flash-bangs, 6 batarangs (well, the Red Robin equivalent thereof), collapsible staff.
Abilities/powers: Unlike many DC heroes, Tim does not have any “special” abilities. He has the strength and endurance of a teenage athlete, and is very intelligent. He has been trained by Batman in a number of varied fighting disciplines, as well as forensics, criminology, acrobatics, stealth, disguise, and criminology. He has naturally strong deductive skills, which make him a good detective, and he has a firm grasp of computer science, biology, and genetic engineering (as seen in his attempts to clone his dead best friend). His time as leader of Young Justice and then the Teen Titans has proven him to be a skilled leader and strategist.
Location: The former site of the Monarch Theatre, the place where Bruce Wayne's parents were killed. The theatre has been remodeled into Tim's pretty swank multistory apartment, which hides the base of operations for his Red Robin activities. It's three stories, plus a subbasement level, and has underground vehicular access and aerial egress. It has a training level, crime lab, communications array, and a seriously high-tech computer system that will be mostly a database in limbo, without access to the internet.
Also, there's a popcorn machine.
It looks like this.
Personality: Tim is serious and emotionally reserved, and does not open up easily to strangers. He's very slow to trust, and even when he does trust people, he never trusts absolutely. There's always a little voice in the back of his head (and it sounds a lot like Batman) asking “If this person turned or became a threat, what would be the most efficient way to take them down?” This is just as true with his friends, family, and closest allies as it is with his enemies.
This is not to say that Tim doesn't love. He believes strongly in the acquired family and cares very deeply for his friends and those he considers to be a part of his family. He would do just about anything for them, including compromising his principles, and working with supervillains like Lex Luthor and Ra's al Ghul for their welfare. This is, in fact, one of his greatest fears about himself. During a time traveling adventure with the Teen Titans, he met a version of himself as Batman who - for love of his family - had compromised every principle Tim held, including the one he considers to be the most inviolable: We don't kill. When he returned to the present, he swore that he would never allow himself to become that, but the fear that he could has never entirely left him.
Since meeting his future self, Tim tries to be a bit more open with the people he cares about, and uses them to help him check his moral compass--especially with the return of Conner and Bart. He has, however, considered taking himself out of the equation in a more permanent sense if the future does begin to look inevitable. He does not want to lose sight of the greater good, and he doesn't want to be the reason his friends lose sight of that either.
As a lifelong resident of Gotham, and a vigilante, Tim doesn't believe that the world is a “fair” place. He's seen too many bad things happen to good people, and vice versa, to believe that. He does, however, believe in justice, and Batman's mission to take care of the people of Gotham. That's why he decided to work with Batman in the first place, and why he continues to follow his mission and his rules, even though the man himself is missing.
As a result of a childhood spent sneaking around and lying about taking pictures of vigilantes, and an adolescence sneaking around and lying about being a vigilante, Tim has become very good at lying and hiding what he's doing - and what he's feeling. He prefers to deal with - or repress - his emotions on his own, and doesn't like to share them with other people. Especially if something's wrong. He doesn't like to become a burden on his family and friends, and tends to push people away while he's dealing with whatever is wrong with him. He won't open up about a problem unless someone close to him forces the issue - and they really have to work at it to get him to say what's wrong. He doesn't like to be seen as anything but perfect and in complete control.
Tim has a very overdeveloped sense of personal responsibility. He feels responsible for his friends, his family, and his city, and if something does go wrong on his watch, it's difficult to convince him that he is not somehow responsible for what happened - and worse if there is a way he can blame himself. He's still haunted by the death of his father (who was murdered because Tim was Robin and someone wanted to send a message to the world's heroes), and he remembers all the people he's failed to save.
His initial reaction to Limbo is going to be a cautious suspension of disbelief. DC continuity has enough canon interaction with alternate universes and times that he's going to assume for a while that that's what Limbo is. Seeing his apartment and being able to change the dream is going to throw him a bit, but it's not going to change how he views Limbo particularly. It may be an alternate reality, or may be in his head, but in the end he needs to get back/wake up, and go back to what he was doing.
As for the people he encounters, he's not likely to open right up and share all of his secrets. He's private--even with the people he considers friends. Still, he will be friendly and polite while he gets their measure and decides whether or not he can trust them--and whether or not they're real, which will definitely be a question when he realizes they're in a shared dream.
History: As a very young child, Tim Drake went to the circus with his parents-Jack and Janet-where he witnessed a horrible crime-the murder of Dick Grayson’s parents, whom he had met prior to the show in which they died. The memory of that day haunted him, and he became obsessed with it. At nine years old, he saw a news-clip of Batman and Robin and recognized Dick as Robin. From there, it was an easy jump to Bruce Wayne as Batman. At thirteen, following the death of Jason Todd (the second Robin), Tim approached Dick to ask him to become Robin again, believing that Batman needs a Robin for balance. When Dick refused, Tim took up the mantle.
While Tim was working toward becoming Robin, his parents-often away-were attacked and held hostage. His mother died as a result of this, and his father was put into a coma. While Jack Drake was in the hospital, Tim stayed with neighbor and family friend, Bruce Wayne, and began working with Batman as Robin.
When Tim’s father came out of his coma, he was paralyzed, and Tim had a new secret-his Robin ID. His father eventually made a full recovery with the aid of a physical therapist-Dana-whom he fell in love with and married. Tim and his father’s relationship became strained as Jack tried to reconnect with Tim, who was keeping secrets and spending a lot of time with Bruce Wayne.
As Robin, Tim worked with and was trained by Batman and-briefly-the Lady Shiva (a world-class assassin). He was a hero in Gotham during a number of city-wide crises, including catastrophic earthquakes, deadly viruses, and gang wars. It was as Robin that he met his long-term girlfriend, Stephanie, who died in the gang wars after a brief time as Robin (Tim quit for a while after his father found out about his activities). Shortly after the death of his girlfriend, his father was also murdered, and his stepmother suffered a mental breakdown, causing Tim to move to a different city to get a little distance.
Tim has also led two teams of young superheroes-Young Justice, and then the Teen Titans. It was in Young Justice that Tim met his two closest friends-Kon-El/Conner Kent (Superboy) and Bart Allen (Impulse/Kid Flash). During a huge, multiverse-wide crisis, both Kid Flash and Superboy fought a duplicate version of Superboy (Superboy Prime). Superboy was killed trying to stop him, and Kid Flash was aged a number of years. A year later-as the Flash-Bart Allen was murdered by the Rogues. Both deaths devastated Tim.
After Superboy’s death, he left on a year-long trip around the world with Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne, who later adopted him when they returned to Gotham City. Tim also adopted new costume colors, and a slightly different design-the current Robin costume-in honor of Superboy's memory.
Death, however, is rarely permanent in DC comics, and it was soon discovered that Stephanie was not dead, as previously believed, and she returned to Gotham to begin working with the Bat family again. Superboy and Kid Flash likewise returned, but then the unthinkable happened. Batman was killed.
Dick Grayson took up the mantle of Batman, replacing Tim as Robin with Damian Wayne, Bruce's biological son. Tim was hurt, but he didn't believe that Bruce was truly dead, and so he left Gotham as Red Robin, and began the search to find out what had really happened to Bruce Wayne. During this time, he allied himself briefly with Ra's al Ghul, the head of the League of Assassins. Together, they discovered that Bruce had not really died, but been sent back in time. While allied with Ra's he secretly began to work to take down the organization from within, and succeeded by blowing up the League's base and crippling the organization
He soon returned to Gotham to stop Ra's from taking over Wayne Enterprises and killing Bruce Wayne's allies in the city. While his friends protected the targets from Ra's assassins, he was made CEO of Wayne Enterprises, so that Ra's would be unable to destroy the company. When he confronted Ra's, he acknowledged that Tim had actually beaten him and called him “Detective,” a title he had previously reserved for Bruce alone.
After the confrontation with Ra's, Tim began operating out of Gotham again. He made up with Dick, though he still had an adversarial relationship with Damian, and he started to take up a more active role in Wayne Enterprises. In this role, he came into conflict with a pair of dirty cops who tried to have him killed. Instead of shooting Tim, however, the assassin they hired shot one of his friends, a shape-changer who was doubling as him. He took the opportunity to throw off two people who were trying to link him to his secret identity by faking a spinal injury with a long recovery time. As Tim Drake-Wayne, he now walks with a set of crutches.
With Bruce's return-not from death, but from being lost in time-the Batclan is more or less working together again. Bruce is the World's Batman, while Dick (as Batman), Damian, and Tim take care of Gotham. While Bruce doesn't always approve of Tim's decisions, in the end he is no longer Batman's sidekick, and is starting to make his own way as Red Robin.
3rd person sample:
Tim was pretty sure that there shouldn't be ocean sounds in his apartment. No, not pretty sure; definitely sure. He wasn't that close to the harbor, and... Gotham Harbor didn't really sound much like a beach, even if he had been. And he didn't use one of those white noise generators, so... no. There really shouldn't be ocean sounds in his bedroom.
Were those really waves?
He opened his eyes and squinted against the brightness in the sky, then pushed himself up onto his elbows to look around. Waves. Sand. Crumbling buildings that were almost certainly some kind of condemned. “Hn,” he muttered, raising an eyebrow. “I don't think we're in Jersey anymore, Toto.”
He glanced down. Well, at least he was dressed, and had his utility belt. That was something. “Winged monkeys and Wicked Witches of any cardinal direction, beware.” He got to his feet and brushed the sand off his pants, glancing toward the buildings. Skyscrapers meant city, right? He was good at cities-even dilapidated ones.
After all, he was from Gotham.
He glanced back at the sand to make sure he hadn't left anything behind. Nothing. Good. He turned toward the city, hoping that whatever alternate reality he'd found himself in wasn't too far from his reality. He had things to do in Gotham.
1st person sample:
[audio; Tim thinks he's connected to the Bats' comm network]
Well, at least this thing's working. I'm setting this up to broadcast my location to anyone who receives this message. Look, I'm not exactly sure where “here” is, and honestly I have no idea if any of the rest of you are here, too, so if any of you are listening, please respond. I'm headed into the nearest city-I'll include its name in my next communication-so if any of you are listening, head that way, and we'll find a way to meet up.
...Even you, Damian. I know we don't like each other much, but if you're stuck here too, we're going to need to work together to get home. So don't ignore me, or I will find you and kick your ass.