C H A R A C T E R; NAME: Tim Drake CANON: DC Comics (pre-reboot); Postgame @ Thoughtformed. POINT IN CANON: Gates of Gotham #5, after the end of Red Robin. AGE: 21. APPEARANCE:5’5”, pale, black hair, blue eyes, and the build of a gymnast or a professional martial artist. Well-dressed in civilian style, he also has his Redwing suit - a semi-bulletproof armor-quality red and black outfit with a high-tech mask and a utility belt full of superheroish accessories. CANON HISTORY:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Drake#Introduction CANON PERSONALITY: Tim Drake has been defined by three things from a young age. His intelligence, his determination, and his desire to do good. Raised in a rich, privileged, and happy family, he had the support to believe he could accomplish anything he set his mind to -- and the independence and drive to actually try to do it. At nine years of age he deduced the identities of Batman and Robin, based on a glimpse of Robin’s acrobatics and a memory of his family’s friendship with the Graysons. Keeping this secret, but continuing to observe, he first entered the world of superhero vigilantes at thirteen, when he presented Dick Grayson, who had left the position of Robin to become Nightwing, with a statistical analysis and argument showing that without Robin, Batman was self-destructive and prone to taking too many risks. When he failed to convince Dick to return to being the Boy Wonder, with both Batman & Nightwing in a high-risk situation, he donned the costume himself, with no prior training, and successfully saved them both, thereby effectively hiring himself as the new Robin.
Behavior like this is characteristic of Tim. Thoroughly analyzing (and often over-analyzing) a situation, he will decide what’s right, what he feels needs to be done for the greater good, and he will pursue that course regardless of any other considerations, with our without support. Tim is a crusader as well as a detective.
Always protective of his friends and family, Tim is gradually made a grimmer person by a long series of tragedies, including the loss of his father, his best friend, and his girlfriend (among others) within the space of a single year. While this does not alter his character, exactly, it makes him more determined, to or past the point of obsessiveness, and accentuates his tendency to be high-handed and controlling when he believes he’s helping others by doing so. But even in the darkest places he’s been, Tim has always managed to cling to his touchstones and his grasp of what was right, often surprising everyone around him by sudden reversals when he realizes he is about to cross a line or moral threshold.
Tim also has a tendency, always present but more accentuated after his string of tragedies, to compartmentalize his life. What he is doing as Tim and what he is doing as Robin are treated like the actions of separate people, which can be incredibly damaging to his social life, but is also part of his sudden reverses and unpredictable behavior, as he leaves one persona or identity to enter another, thereby changing the rules he follows and the priorities he holds.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: After the end of Red Robin, Tim spent four years trapped on the island of New Moore, an SoL jamjar setting with regular reality distortions shaking things up. In the small community there, without his usual multi-million dollar budget, he had to go back to the basics to continue as a vigilante, building (inferior) equipment when his broke down, setting up his own surveillance network, doing his own computer security. At various times, working with Torchwood, the Young Avengers, the Avengers, and the Persona 4 Investigation Team, Tim came face-to-face with his own issues about control, secrecy, and surveillance. Gradually, usually while being dragged kicking and screaming, Tim became more relaxed and more open - which isn’t to say he’s not still a highly compartmentalized total paranoid; only that he’s learned to respect a few more boundaries and situational ethics and be aware of his own tendencies. Over those years, Tim earned a BS in Criminology & Chemistry (although he was pulled across universes before graduation); continued his typical string of romantic disasters, and inherited a coffee shop - the front business behind which Torchwood New Moore operated.
Given the unpredictability of the reality-shifting phenomena, the small population, and the density of heroes and vigilantes, Tim became gradually frustrated with his effectiveness as a vigilante and the poor security of his secret identity. For quite some time, he nearly stopped rooftop patrolling, preferring to work remotely, Oracle-style, monitoring his surveillance network and doing communications and tech support for the New Moore Torchwood & Avengers teams. When he returned to action, however, he ‘came out’ as Red Robin, reasoning that a secret identity was no longer a practical possibility and that he needed to control the release of the information so it could not be used against him. Finally, in recent months, using his considerable savings & profits from the coffeeshop & his work with the Avengers, he started to go high-tech again, designing the Redwing suit & identity to be more publicity-friendly than Red Robin.
ABILITIES: Tim’s main skill is being a superlative detective and an incredibly fast learner. However, he is also in peak physical condition, although in no way superhuman. He is proficient in a wide variety of martial arts, including aikido, bailangan, capoeira, judo, jujitsu, karate, kung fu, ninjitsu, and savate; & is acknowledged as being the world’s best bojutsu fighter. He’s also an incredible gymnast and acrobat, with extensive skill in escapology and parkour. As a teenager, he’s also a world-class expert in several scientific field, including computer science, chemistry and genetics; conversant in biology and mechanical engineering, well-read in military and scientific history and classical literature, and speaks at least some English, Arabic, Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Navajo, and Russian.
INVENTORY; Tim would have arrived in his current vigilante outfit, made of high-quality bullet-resistant material, with night-vision goggles and a bluetooth device embedded in the mask. He would also have a smartphone (actually, a Starkphone) loaded with a number of hacking and surveillance-related apps & high-security cryptography, a collapsible staff, a few dozen throwing discs, and a grapple gun, plus lockpicks and a few other miscellaneous utility belt tools.
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NAME: Tim Drake
CANON: DC Comics (pre-reboot); Postgame @ Thoughtformed.
POINT IN CANON: Gates of Gotham #5, after the end of Red Robin.
AGE: 21.
APPEARANCE:5’5”, pale, black hair, blue eyes, and the build of a gymnast or a professional martial artist. Well-dressed in civilian style, he also has his Redwing suit - a semi-bulletproof armor-quality red and black outfit with a high-tech mask and a utility belt full of superheroish accessories.
CANON HISTORY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Drake#Introduction
CANON PERSONALITY: Tim Drake has been defined by three things from a young age. His intelligence, his determination, and his desire to do good. Raised in a rich, privileged, and happy family, he had the support to believe he could accomplish anything he set his mind to -- and the independence and drive to actually try to do it. At nine years of age he deduced the identities of Batman and Robin, based on a glimpse of Robin’s acrobatics and a memory of his family’s friendship with the Graysons. Keeping this secret, but continuing to observe, he first entered the world of superhero vigilantes at thirteen, when he presented Dick Grayson, who had left the position of Robin to become Nightwing, with a statistical analysis and argument showing that without Robin, Batman was self-destructive and prone to taking too many risks. When he failed to convince Dick to return to being the Boy Wonder, with both Batman & Nightwing in a high-risk situation, he donned the costume himself, with no prior training, and successfully saved them both, thereby effectively hiring himself as the new Robin.
Behavior like this is characteristic of Tim. Thoroughly analyzing (and often over-analyzing) a situation, he will decide what’s right, what he feels needs to be done for the greater good, and he will pursue that course regardless of any other considerations, with our without support. Tim is a crusader as well as a detective.
Always protective of his friends and family, Tim is gradually made a grimmer person by a long series of tragedies, including the loss of his father, his best friend, and his girlfriend (among others) within the space of a single year. While this does not alter his character, exactly, it makes him more determined, to or past the point of obsessiveness, and accentuates his tendency to be high-handed and controlling when he believes he’s helping others by doing so. But even in the darkest places he’s been, Tim has always managed to cling to his touchstones and his grasp of what was right, often surprising everyone around him by sudden reversals when he realizes he is about to cross a line or moral threshold.
Tim also has a tendency, always present but more accentuated after his string of tragedies, to compartmentalize his life. What he is doing as Tim and what he is doing as Robin are treated like the actions of separate people, which can be incredibly damaging to his social life, but is also part of his sudden reverses and unpredictable behavior, as he leaves one persona or identity to enter another, thereby changing the rules he follows and the priorities he holds.
POINT OF DEPARTURE: After the end of Red Robin, Tim spent four years trapped on the island of New Moore, an SoL jamjar setting with regular reality distortions shaking things up. In the small community there, without his usual multi-million dollar budget, he had to go back to the basics to continue as a vigilante, building (inferior) equipment when his broke down, setting up his own surveillance network, doing his own computer security. At various times, working with Torchwood, the Young Avengers, the Avengers, and the Persona 4 Investigation Team, Tim came face-to-face with his own issues about control, secrecy, and surveillance. Gradually, usually while being dragged kicking and screaming, Tim became more relaxed and more open - which isn’t to say he’s not still a highly compartmentalized total paranoid; only that he’s learned to respect a few more boundaries and situational ethics and be aware of his own tendencies. Over those years, Tim earned a BS in Criminology & Chemistry (although he was pulled across universes before graduation); continued his typical string of romantic disasters, and inherited a coffee shop - the front business behind which Torchwood New Moore operated.
Given the unpredictability of the reality-shifting phenomena, the small population, and the density of heroes and vigilantes, Tim became gradually frustrated with his effectiveness as a vigilante and the poor security of his secret identity. For quite some time, he nearly stopped rooftop patrolling, preferring to work remotely, Oracle-style, monitoring his surveillance network and doing communications and tech support for the New Moore Torchwood & Avengers teams. When he returned to action, however, he ‘came out’ as Red Robin, reasoning that a secret identity was no longer a practical possibility and that he needed to control the release of the information so it could not be used against him. Finally, in recent months, using his considerable savings & profits from the coffeeshop & his work with the Avengers, he started to go high-tech again, designing the Redwing suit & identity to be more publicity-friendly than Red Robin.
ABILITIES: Tim’s main skill is being a superlative detective and an incredibly fast learner. However, he is also in peak physical condition, although in no way superhuman. He is proficient in a wide variety of martial arts, including aikido, bailangan, capoeira, judo, jujitsu, karate, kung fu, ninjitsu, and savate; & is acknowledged as being the world’s best bojutsu fighter. He’s also an incredible gymnast and acrobat, with extensive skill in escapology and parkour. As a teenager, he’s also a world-class expert in several scientific field, including computer science, chemistry and genetics; conversant in biology and mechanical engineering, well-read in military and scientific history and classical literature, and speaks at least some English, Arabic, Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Navajo, and Russian.
INVENTORY; Tim would have arrived in his current vigilante outfit, made of high-quality bullet-resistant material, with night-vision goggles and a bluetooth device embedded in the mask. He would also have a smartphone (actually, a Starkphone) loaded with a number of hacking and surveillance-related apps & high-security cryptography, a collapsible staff, a few dozen throwing discs, and a grapple gun, plus lockpicks and a few other miscellaneous utility belt tools.
S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON:
http://thoughtformed.dreamwidth.org/1129271.html
THIRD PERSON: http://synodiporia-ooc.dreamwidth.org/6327.html?thread=57527#cmt57527