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hi, I was wondering do you have your own idea of the Batfamily's timeline and their ages? I would love to hear your version of it

Thanks and yes, I do actually.

Now ages of characters in comics are impossible to calculate, because so many events/stories are supposed to happen in a short period of time and because their ages are not consistent through the years or to other characters (Ex: Tim was 17 when Damian was 10, yet DC magically aged Damian up to 13 out of no where while still keeping Tim 17?) so there’s no right answer to this.

With that being said, here is my own interpretation of the Batfamily’s time-line.

(PS: I take the character’s birthday into account in this, so their age can fluctuate by 1 year depending on the time of the year. For example, if the age difference between Dick and Barbara is 3 years then it’s because the event happened before Dick’s birthday, but if it was 2 years then it happened after Dick’s birthday and etc...)

Bruce becomes Batman at 25.

He spends almost 2 years working alone until he meets 9 year old Dick in Haly's Circus after his parents death.

He adopt him and train him to become the first Robin by the time they are 27yo and 10yo old (of course for the first few years working together, he only brings him to missions that he doesn’t think are too dangerous)

Three years go by and most of Gotham Rogues have been formed. Meanwhile, 16 years old Barbara has become Batgirl to help fight them alongside 30yo Batman and 13yo Robin (who is starting to get a puppy crush on her)

Another 3 years go by and 16yo Dick leads the first ever batch of Teen Titans. (Bruce is 33yo and Barbara is 19yo)

However, two and a half year later Dick officially quits being Robin at 18yo to become Nightwing a few months later at 19yo.

During these months, 35yo Bruce meets 12yo Jason while he was stealing the tires of the Batmobile, naturally, he adopt him and make him the 2nd Robin because why wouldn’t you do that. (Babs is 21yo and chilling)

During his first year of being Robin, Jason learns a lot about all the people in Bruce’s/Batman’s life, including meeting his on-again/off-again lover 22yo Talia al Ghul whom he gets married to for half a year before she sadly suffers a “miscarriage” that results in them calling off their marriage.

Another 3 years pass, 22yo Dick is currently engaged to Starfire (which doesn’t last long), 25yo Barbara is thinking of retiring early and 39yo Bruce is having a difficult time working with 15yo Jason after he learned that Catherine Todd is not his biological mother. One thing leads to the other and Jason is sadly killed by the Joker after his real biological mother sets him up.

There was basically no time to mourn because in the same exact year that he killed Jason, The Joker shoots Barbara and paralyze her from the waist down.

These two horrific events that happened back to back take a toll on Batman, he became unstable and dangerous even to himself, until 13yo Tim Drake steps in and becomes the 3rd Robin to take 40yo Bruce from the darkness. (Dick is 23yo here, Barbara is 25 and officially Oracle)

Tim spends two years as Robin before he (at 15yo) meets Spoilers, AKA Stephanie Brown, who is almost one year older than him and they start dating.

Shortly after, 42yo Bruce adopts 17yo Cassandra to the family where she becomes the 2nd Batgirl (Dick is 25yo and still Nightwing, Barbara is 27 and is still Oracle)

Two years later, 19yo Jason returns to Gotham City as Red Hood. Not only that, but a few months later Talia reveals that she actually lied about the miscarriage in order to protect Bruce from putting himself in danger, so she drops Damian on his 10th birthday at the Batcave and Bruce re-gains two sons that he thought were dead in the same year.

After that, 44yo Bruce “dies” and leave Gotham City to 27yo Dick who is the new Batman with 10yo Damian as his Robin and 29yo Barbara as their Oracle. Meanwhile 17yo Tim has became Red Robin and went on to search for clues about Bruce being alive. At the same time, 18yo Stephanie takes the Batgirl role after 20yo Cassandra decided (for some reason, just roll with it) to become Black-Bat.

20yo Jason is just doing his own thing solo while all of that was happening.

This set-up only last less than a year before Bruce returns form being trapped in time (AKA being dead) and things change in the family once again.

Bruce is back to being Batman with Damian as his new Robin (even though they barely work together), he also gives 16yo Duke the role of The Signal and welcome him to the family. Dick is still Nightwing (after spending some time as a spy in Spyral) and Jason is still Red Hood. Barbara on the other hand has her paralysis “cured” by ableist writers/editors by doctors and she goes back and forth between being Oracle and being Batgirl (I hated writing that, but this is supposed to be a timeline of canon, not fanon, so I had to include it) which in turn makes Stephanie be Spoiler again with Cassandra back to being Batgirl/Orphan. Oh right, Tim is also there having an identity crisis about whether he wants to be Red Robin, Robin, Drake or some other identity (it really depends on DC’s mood smh)

So that takes us to present time where Bruce is 46yo, Barbara is 32yo, Dick is 29yo, Jason/Cassandra are 22yo, Tim/Stephanie are both 20yo, Duke is 17yo and Damian is 12yo.

#disclaimer: I'm not saying this is the only correct timeline #this is just my own personal interpretation you don't have to agree with this #Bruce wayne #dick grayson #barbara gordon #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #duke thomas #batfamily #Anonymous

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