strange bird
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Robin is a hero. Tim becomes Robin. The hardest part, he thinks, is that he barely feels like a hero at all, and he’s not sure what he’s doing wrong. Day after day something in his chest will crack and itch, but he will not scratch it. He’ll be afraid of what’ll come spilling out if he does. He’ll wonder if it’s a speck of rot. One day they’ll be going over the rooftops, he and Dick, and Dick will crack a joke Tim doesn’t understand, and it’ll hit him that it’s likely something Jason would have understood immediately. Tim will glance over his shoulder and say, half-jokingly, It sort of feels like I’m chasing a ghost, and Dick will look at him like he’s already dead, like he has just realized Jason is dead all over again, and Tim won’t speak again for the rest of the night.
He wonders what it would be like to be missed like Jason is. He doesn’t think he’s ever been missed before.
In which Tim Drake ponders on what a hero isn't, and what a brother can be.
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- Part 1 of strange bird
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In some tellings, Cain is described as biting Abel to death. Jason imagines what that first moment felt like, the one in which Cain realized his brother was no longer breathing. Did he stare down at the blood on his hands? Or did he reach for his brother’s face, forgetting himself, staining the side of his mouth with red? Was his first thought to pray to God to save him, before he recalled that God loved Abel more than he loved him? Did he try to shake his brother awake, did he bring his fingers into the open wound? Did he think, Oh, God, what have I done? What have I done?
In which Jason Todd reckons with the Cain complex, the fact of the father, and death, conceptually.
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- Part 2 of strange bird