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detectivewonder) wrote2013-07-15 06:29 pm
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PLAYER INFO
Name: Matt
Age: 29
Timezone: CST
Contact: c.matthew.smit@gmail.com, mattnificent @ plurk
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne
Canon: DC Comics, pre-reboot.
Reference: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/
Appearance: http://fuckyeahbatkids.tumblr.
Character Info: 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.
Memory Loss Considerations: Tim without memories is Tim without loss. From the closed-off, secretive, obsessive control freak chessmaster of eighteen, he would again become the energetic go-getting paladin he was at thirteen, thoughtful and yet certain of his own rightness, eager for action, more trusting, less inclined to elaborate ploys, but still someone who fights smarter rather than harder because he’s smaller and weaker than most of his opponents.
Skills: 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.
Of course, without his memories, many of these skills will be removed, neutralized, or greatly reduced. He would still presumably have excellent physical conditioning and martial instincts, his deductive reasoning skills should be unaffected, and presumably he’d still be just as adept at learning new things. But his expertise in all these fields, martial or scientific, would be gone.
Team Considerations: Tim is a good team player (especially without his memories). Quick and analytical, he’s at his best when he can co-ordinate his teammates, sometimes taking charge and sometimes simply offering strategy and perspective. While he can be slow to figure out how to navigate interpersonal conflicts, he can often make up for his emotional clumsiness with analytical skill.
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