Robin!tim - Blog Posts
I’ve seen a lot of post lately about how Tim has no traumatic backstory to justify becoming Robin and I just have to say: THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT!!! Tim was very much created to be a self-insert for young boys reading comics in the 90s. He was meant to a vessel for the fantasy of “what if I was Batman’s partner?” He was meant to represent someone who saw a person in need and decided to help, simply because he felt like it was the right thing to do. He was meant to represent what an average person can do to make the world a better place. His story wasn’t never meant to be driven by trauma, he was never meant to be stuck in the past or bound by fate. Tim doesn’t need a tragic origin to explain why he became Robin; he can help simply because he wants to help.
