10 Character Notes about MockingbirdVerse!Tim Drake

  1. At the time of this story, Tim’s about 25-26 years old.  Seven years have passed since the events of “Innocence Lost”.
  2. His current day job is as a high school math teacher, focusing on teaching college/AP math courses, like Calculus.  He’s currently in his second year of teaching.
  3. Tim’s night job is as the covert commander of the reestablished Secret Six mercenary group.  He’s actually been working on this incarnation of the Secret Six for going on five years, though the group itself has only been active on missions for the past three.
  4. Amusingly enough, Tim is the first and only son of Bruce Wayne who’s finished college.  He’s got a PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge University, where he also minored in robotics.
  5. Tim currently lives in New York City in a lovely brownstone home in a historic neighborhood a few blocks away from Central Park.
  6. He wears glasses now because he developed myopia (near-sightedness) while at university.  Initially, Tim chose to get glasses instead of contacts because he was curious if the “Clark Kent” effect would work on him as well.  When people rarely recognized him as “Timothy Wayne” with the glasses on while out in public, he was quite pleased and so the spectacles stayed.
  7. Tim has disassociated himself almost completely from the Wayne name, even though he is still legally Bruce’s adopted son.  He’s never used the “Wayne” name once since going to university.  The only person at the school he works at who knows about his family is the principal.  For a few years, there was a big thing in the society gossip columns about wild rumors of how “Timothy Wayne” had a huge falling out with his adopted father.  While in university, he had a few issues with the paparazzi stalking him.  Enough time has passed, though, and his life has become mundane enough now that he never gets pestered by them, which suits him just fine.
  8. Unfortunately, Tim has not had any sort of serious relationship since leaving Gotham.  The rape he suffered scarred him badly when it comes to relationships with women in general.  He doesn’t date.  He goes to great lengths to avoid casual physical contact with most women.  Aggressive women who try to come on to him in public settings ALWAYS put him on the defensive.  If ignoring them doesn’t get them to back off, he will not hesitate to verbally lash them into pieces to send them packing.  He will almost always feel bad about it afterwards, though.
  9. The only people Tim remained close to and in contact with after leaving Gotham were Alfred (who he calls “Grandfather” now), Dick, Cass (Cain), Steph, and Tam.  When he made it clear that he wanted to return to civilian life, many ties he had with people in the Justice League and Titans were severed in a “burning bridges” fashion.  For reasons not yet clear, Tim and Bruce did have a bad falling out over something while he was in university and they have rarely spoken with one another over the years because of it.
  10. The only people among Tim’s friends & family who know about his rape and the daughter he gave up are Bruce, Alfred, Dick, Damian, Barbara, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie, Tam, and Donna Troy.  Only they know that this was the real reason why Tim “retired”.  Others in the Justice League and Titans know something bad happened to Tim because of the League of Assassins… Something bad enough to “break” him.  However, no one was ever able to learn the details, and no one in the Bat-clan was ever going to tell them the truth.

6 ♥ / 4 months ago 29 January, 2012
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