I just find it funny because I feel like as Robin everyone was like omg Dick is so cool and amazing and he’s got his life together
then as Nightwing it’s like “hey Tim have you seen my other glove?” “it’s in the crocky crunch box, not the one in the sink, the one crammed in the couch”
I think it’s more like Dick started living on his own so he let himself slack a little. He’d lived under the tidy and strict Batman and Alfred ever since childhood! So it’s more like he knows how to clean up he just rather not.
It’s a great comparison to Jason! it feels like Jason is very tidy as he’s older because he grew up where it’s dirty and dark and with no one cleaning up around him/ he had nothing so now that he CAN make things nice and neat he does! I think it’s really interesting!
Tim is pretty similar to Dick but he’s even more messy! It’s like everything that NEEDS to be tidy and neat, his case files, school work, etc. are arranged nice and if you look at him from outside it seems as if he’s got his whole life together and but then you see his room and…
au where under various changed circumstances jason decides to emulate his hero tom sawyer and return to life in the middle of his own funeral, so he does so and bruce leaps to his feet and crushes him in a bear hug and tim who was attending out of respect is all fanboying and jason doesn’t hate him and try to kill him and jason is like ‘hey bruce why the joker still alive tho’ and bruce is like ‘well son i had crippling depression following your death and broke my hand punching superman so ya know *finger guns*’ and jason goes ‘oh that makes sense’ and alfred takes a buffalo rifle and shoots the joker and they all live happily ever after
dick expectation: preppy af, popular, probably a jock, friendly with every one
dick reality: cheerleader, mostly liked but still gets into fights regularly, talks back constantly, on a first name basis w/ all the secretaries in the office (”hello again, dick. i think you’ve got blood on your face” “shannon hi!! how are the kids?”
jason expectation: Bad Boysupreme, in trouble 24/7, hated by teachers, smokes on school property, always getting into fights
jason reality: hugenerd, does all of his homework + extra credit assignments, lives for field trips, probably cries while reading books in english class, has like 2 friends, that one kid who reminds the teacher about homework
cass expectation: literally non existent?? i’ve never seen her in a high school au why
cass reality: puts effort into only the work she’s interested in, generally viewed as a good student, secretly breaks rules constantly but never gets caught
tim expectation: nerdy af, top of the class, probably bullied lowkey
tim reality: literally never does homework, stays up all night researching things that have nothing to do with school, constantly daydreaming in class and probably falls asleep, hated by teachers, students find him mildly terrifying, has really close friends