somehow you were not yourself

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Someone on scans_daily intimated that "nice" and "normal" are words that might possibly apply, in some way, shape or form, to Tim Drake.

*dies laughing*

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[elf]

"Normal" in the sense of "grew up with parents in the suburbs," I s'pose. He's got a context for understanding a lot of the people they meet, that much of the rest of the BatClan lacks. If "normal" is an external label, he's the most normal of the swarm, except for Steph, who has enough "normal" in her background to wield it like a club for smackdowns.

Nice. Nice? ::ponder::

Maybe in the archaic meaning of "precise?"

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It was in reference to Kon recently breaking up with Cassie and citing as an excuse the fact that he wanted to have a normal life when he wasn't, y'know, fighting monsters from outer space. Which is really not Tim.

Something normal? Like that nice boy in Gotham you've been making eyes at for the last couple of years now?

Nice as in precise? Yeah, probably not. But I leave it to your discernment. =P

[elf]

With Kon's perspective, he might think "normal" means "lacking in metahuman powers." (Okay, not quite. But I don't think Kon's got *any* ability to have a "normal life," even if he figured out what one is. "Bored in a week" is the phrase that comes to mind.)

And I'd vaguely known Tim's background was wealthy; I'd forgotten how wealthy. Okay; apparently Steph is the only person in the entire batclusterfuck with anything like "normal" in her background.

On the other hand... if enough of us insist that Tim is nice and normal, will DC give us canonical Kon/Tim? I'd sign petitions for that.

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On the other hand... if enough of us insist that Tim is nice and normal, will DC give us canonical Kon/Tim?
*laughing* Not while the DCU is still mostly run by cis-gendered, heterosexual white males. The comment was made on a Teen Titans 91 post, by (I think) a frustrated Tim/Kon shipper, and had nothing to do with the post except tangentially.

As for Kon, what he said to Cassie in the comic, verbatim, was: "I want to try having a life that isn't only being Superboy, isn't only about Wondergirl. I want to have a life as Conner, too. Something simpler. Normal. I need that right now."

You could argue that he could have that kind of relationship with Tim out of costume, but you could make the same argument for staying with Cassie. It's pretty obvious that what he wants is someone unconnected to his life as a superhero. Which is understandable, especially considering that he's already died once saving the Earth.

Kon's changed a lot since his resurrection. He's calmer, more focused. He's growing up, discovering who he wants to be as opposed to just reacting to things. If you're not reading the new Superboy series, I recommend it. He's got a good writer, who will, I think, do him justice, and a promising cast of secondary characters.

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grew up with parents in the suburbs

Ah, not really? His dad, before his financial downturn, was rich enough to move into the same area as Bruce after Tim's mom died. Tim spent most of his childhood in boarding schools. By the time he got any kind of "normal" he was in high school and a Bat. Tim's no more normal than the rest of them.

[sinatra]

They must be new here.

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I know, right?

[delfinnium]

That is a REALLY odd way of saying it...

Well, if you argue that normal is middle-class values... Then Steph is the only one approaching it.

If you argue normal according to the usual class, then Tim IS normal by their standards. Well.

He had a normal enough background.

It's just that HE himself is hardly normal. Freaky kid was born to be a Bat.