Originally Posted by
Restingvoice
What did DC say about Tim?
The Robin thing is true, but I don't think the blood son thing is confusion because fans weren't angry about blood son thing before the reboot, even when Damian's already a Robin at that time, because there wasn't as much focus on there being blood or not.
Fans were angry that Tim is ousted as Robin, but the anger was more about Robin.
But once they rebooted (new 52), DC gave Damian Batman and Robin where the focus is being the blood son and Bruce acts like he never raised a kid before. Then comes the mini Damian Son of Batman, Robin Son of Batman the animation and Robin Son of Batman comic.
In comparison, Tim's series was never referred to as Robin Son of Batman, even when he's adopted, proving that DC does differentiate between blood son and not.
At the same time to all of that Son of Batman promo, the adoption status for the others is unclear. Dick was the only one mentioned to be adopted but it's only on one panel in his first issue that a lot of people including New 52 readers forgot about it. Then there's the 5-year timeline that limits each Robin to a year except Damian who's the current Robin, which in New 52 makes Damian the longest running Robin. This further fuel the perception that DC just wants to promote Damian and discount everyone else.
Now as you said, Damian's been denied the privilege of Robin since Rebirth. I don't know exactly why, but I think it's because the DC editorial no longer enforcing direction as they did in New 52, beyond the baseline setup by Geoff Johns, so the writers just do what they prefer.
Super Sons were supposed to launch early with Rebirth but got delayed. That's the only DC mandated series with Damian The Son status, which, during New 52 they never have two ongoing Damian The Son focus going on at the same time. So it's consistent.
So King did his own thing, Snyder already said he doesn't like to write Damian so he continues to do so, Tynion focused on bringing back Tim's connection to the Batfam. Seeley, Tomasi, and Gleason still want to write them, but their main job is to write Nightwing and Superman blood family respectively, so they're limited. Tomasi can only write Damian in Super Sons until Tomasi returns to Detective Comics.
Then there's Teen Titans, where to justify Damian's inclusion, they make it like Damian never had friends beyond one mention of Dick while Bruce is a nonexistent father, ignoring everything else that came before, and during, since Seeley write Bruce as a good father to Damian at the same time.
Oh and Damian's inclusion in Teen Titans was caused by his inclusion in the New 52 animation movies, so this time, the Damian promo backfired unexpectedly.