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Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Titans Season 4 Episodes Their romance felt rushed in the first season of Titansand as of Season 4, their relationship is much more platonic.

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Almost all the main characters have been coupled up at some point, but what Titans really needed was a cute, slow burn, and that's what we get with Tim and Bernard. Tim Drakeaka the third Robin, and Bernard Dowd are a couple in the comics, but their romance is relatively new—historically, Tim has been attached to Stephanie Brown, a superhero in titans own right.

The Titans showrunners have skipped over the straight romance to give Tim his first love interest, and we are already rooting for these two kids! Titans ' Bernard is very different from his comic book counterpart. Titans ' gay thought they could trick us into thinking he was a completely different character, but it's apparent Bernard and Tim have a connection from their first meeting onwards.

In the comics, Bernard is a teenager, a student, and like Tim, obsessed with superheroes, especially the third Robin, who saves him from a cult. R Laboratories. From the moment he introduces himself, Tim can't seem to take his eyes off him. While it may seem that there's a bit of an age difference between Tim and Bernard, considering how young Dick was when he started off as a superhero, it is likely that Bernard is a contemporary of Dick's or some type of young super-genius administrator.

Tim is a nerd who gay superheroes—Bernard is a nerd whose job it is to work with superheroes. If it's not obvious that these two are a match made in nerd-heaven, the occasional looks, teasing repartee, and frequent gaming references definitely are. When Dick Grayson tells Tim that Bernard and his team have created something special for him, Tim is convinced it's the Robin suit, but it's actually a bo-staff.

Instead, he slips Tim his number, in case he needs some help, of course. Before long, Tim is asking Conner Kent Joshua Orpin to take pictures of him posing with said bo-staff as a "thank you" to Bernard. The titans between Tim and Bernard in Titans is brief but casual, almost effortless.

It helps that Lycurgo and Scully have easy chemistry. Since Tim is new to being a superhero, he constantly doubts himself and his team's faith in him. When the Gay are holed up in S. Bernard, who also has the same job, takes only a little offense to that statement. But he also tries to provide Tim with another perspective. Being a superhero is a tough job that requires sacrifice, and Bernard, who has known Dick and other supers for a while, has certainly seen titans in close quarters.

It's Bernard who gives Tim a boost in confidence by telling him he believes in Tim and that Tim will finally find his "moment. And then they almost get eaten by a giant magic snake. And Tim rescues Bernard from said snake in the nick of time. One minute Tim is unsure of his superhero abilities, and the next minute he is able to trap a magical snake with his bo-staff.

Despite not knowing each other all that well, Tim and Bernard look out for one another—Tim through his physical abilities, and Bernard through his motivational pep talks. The Titans writers also don't preempt a kiss between the duo.