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scans_dailyTim Drake is confirmed as the first canonical, queer Bat boy!
Do you guys have ANY idea how long I've wanted to post something like that?
I mean, we've had subtext aplenty (especially with Tim and Kon and Dick, well, pretty much everyone), and yes we've got Kate being her awesome lesbian self, but to have a long established male member of the Batfamily officially come out as anything other thn straight is... look, it shouldn't feel like it's a big deal, but all darn well know it is!
In an earlier post, Tim met up with his old friend Bernard O'Dowd (a minor character from years back in his solo title) and it definitely had date vibes to it, but as so often happens, Bernard was kidnapped by a new villain called the Chaos Monster who had been taking kids for some time.
It took a while, but by allowing himself to be captured, Tim has tracked down where the kids are being kept by what turns out to be a gang of "Chaos Monsters" who aim to sacrifice kids to their deity.
Yes, Tim's friend is also this issues "damsel in distress"... that feels so right somehow.
So of course, as Robin, Tim free's Bernard and, in the course of facing down the bad guys...
Tim is super intelligent, but gloriously clueless sometimes, isn't he? :)
And as Bernard proves hismelf to be a dab hand at hand to hand himseld...
Of course, they DO make it out, and later.... well... this happens!
So whether this means that Tim is gay or bi or even bi curious is unclear as yet, but my money is currently on "bi" as it won't start the kerfuffle that Bobby Drake got, since it's not "invalidating" his previous relationships with Steph and the like.
A BIG thank you to Meghan Fitzmartin and Belén Ortega for giving us this!
(even if we DO have to wait for December for the next part of this story!)
And just to add that this was posted by former Robin artist Marcus To, who has been shipping Kon and Tim for a VERY long time
Do you guys have ANY idea how long I've wanted to post something like that?
I mean, we've had subtext aplenty (especially with Tim and Kon and Dick, well, pretty much everyone), and yes we've got Kate being her awesome lesbian self, but to have a long established male member of the Batfamily officially come out as anything other thn straight is... look, it shouldn't feel like it's a big deal, but all darn well know it is!
In an earlier post, Tim met up with his old friend Bernard O'Dowd (a minor character from years back in his solo title) and it definitely had date vibes to it, but as so often happens, Bernard was kidnapped by a new villain called the Chaos Monster who had been taking kids for some time.
It took a while, but by allowing himself to be captured, Tim has tracked down where the kids are being kept by what turns out to be a gang of "Chaos Monsters" who aim to sacrifice kids to their deity.
Yes, Tim's friend is also this issues "damsel in distress"... that feels so right somehow.
So of course, as Robin, Tim free's Bernard and, in the course of facing down the bad guys...
Tim is super intelligent, but gloriously clueless sometimes, isn't he? :)
And as Bernard proves hismelf to be a dab hand at hand to hand himseld...
Of course, they DO make it out, and later.... well... this happens!
So whether this means that Tim is gay or bi or even bi curious is unclear as yet, but my money is currently on "bi" as it won't start the kerfuffle that Bobby Drake got, since it's not "invalidating" his previous relationships with Steph and the like.
A BIG thank you to Meghan Fitzmartin and Belén Ortega for giving us this!
(even if we DO have to wait for December for the next part of this story!)
And just to add that this was posted by former Robin artist Marcus To, who has been shipping Kon and Tim for a VERY long time
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Date: 2021-08-11 09:36 am (UTC)Much like with Korrasami, the 'all or nothing' attitude some people have isn't helpful. The meaning here is still clear, and it's an important first step.