Tim Drake knew he wasn't the best Robin. He knew that. He knew Dick was more graceful, flexible, faster, made everything look easy. He knew Jason was stronger, more determined, brutal and fierce. Tim knew he wasn't like them....and yet...he wanted to be more like them. He would do anything to be more like the, Train, stop eating, he even gave up all the sleep he could just to be like them. To finally fill the boots of Robin that seemed far too big. No one notices as he burns himself dry until a motorcycle crash. "Why is everyone better than me?"

Jason Todd loved the Robin uniform. He really did. The cape? Iconic. Dramatic. It flared just right when he jumped, snapped in the wind like it was alive, like it knew it was important. The shirt fit him perfectly-tight enough to make him feel strong, loose enough to move. The gloves were awesome, actually. Flexible, grippy, made his hands feel like weapons. What the Robin uniform did not do-what it absolutely, criminally failed at-was keeping him warm. !!!!!!!!!! Or: Jason Todd is freezing on patrol and gets a concussion.

Tim had a lot of things to think about but first things first: He had to sneeze BAD. Second: He had a concussion and Dick was drugged and they had both been kidnapped. But he REALLY needed to sneeze. ////OR Tim Drake is 16 and sleep deprived on the wrong week when he as Robin and Dick as Nightwing are kidnapped and it's up to Tim's last two awake brain cells, and that neuron that ate Dick's crappy cooking when he was 13, to get them out of the pickle.

Tim made the easy decision to never listen to Bruce ever again. Look where that got him? Chains, broken ribs, and so high on drugs he couldn't see straight. Yeah, this sucked. This sucked so hard. All because he had obeyed orders instead of following his own gut. Aside from that, he didn't like how Poison Ivy was looking at him. OR///// Tim Drake gets kidnapped, has the worst two and a half weeks of his life and goes out of the frying pan into the Red Hood fire. PLEASE!!!!! THIS HAS SA IN IT AN IMPLIED RAPE!!! SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL! THIS IS CARETAKER JASON TODD VIBES ALSO!!! NOT BATCEST.

It had taken three hours to trace the bullet. Three hours to hunt. Three hours to find him. It took less for Tim to decide to flip the killing switch on OR//// Tim Drake finds his parents dead and goes kinda crazy.

Tim used to talk a lot. He used to love to talk. When did he stop talking? When had he become quiet? When did he stop feeling comfortable talking to Bruce and Dick? He didn't have to think long before it was supplied helpfully by his brain. Oh, right. That's why. ////// OR! Tim learns to shut up so he doesn't love Batman and Nightwing.