(It's All Right) They Know Me

This newfound sense of cooperation stemmed less from sociability, like his family had initially hoped, and more from a general detachment from life and its motions, as his family had learned to their dismay.See, three months ago from the present moment- nearly down to the second- a mysterious book had fallen straight into the laps of his loved ones, a book that had documented all of Red Robin's exploits and mild criminal activity.And then, out of nowhere, he'd woken up and realized...he wasn't just the eponymous hero the novel was based on. He was a part of that narrative. In the worst way possible.Timothy Jackson Drake was nothing but a figure made of twelve or thirteen lines, some pre-determined dialogue and a little too much perception for his own good.Or, after the Red Robin comics have been thoroughly cross-examined by his loved ones, Tim wakes up one morning to find a non-existent fear of being fictitious becoming alarmingly real.