There are millions of songs out there, and in those songs, there are near close to a million lines that fit Robin, or could potentially fit him depending on how I mold them. I'm excited about this, with already 29 chapters in mind. The title of the chapter is the name of the song, so yeah.

Everybody's Fool Part 1

Without the mask, where will you hide?

He hated his eyes. He always had. From the moment he had first grown old enough to remember looking at his eyes, he remembered how much he had wanted different ones. They were too innocent to be his. He grew up being called cocky, selfish and disrespectful, seeing to his sense of humor. Only those that didn't know him thought he was innocent. He deserved black eyes or brown eyes, or something dark and evil like that; not a pretty and perfect blue like he had.

When Batman had finally agreed to train him, he was overjoyed at knowing he could hide his eyes. He didn't want the world to know that his eyes were like that. No one would take a sidekick seriously when they see that his eyes belonged more to a baby kitten or a newborn baby, not a boy who kicked ass on a regular basis. He knew that even if Batman hadn't made him wear a mask, he would've worn one anyway. He was the one who chose his originally costume anyway, in which he had proudly worn his mask to keep Tony Zucco in the dark and clueless.

The girls in school loved his eyes though. They were always coming up to talk to him, just to get an excuse to look into his eyes. Bruce loved his eyes, although he would never make a comment to it. Alfred had often told him to his face that his eyes were the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen in all of the years in his life. Other than Gotham Academy and 'The Bat Family' as it had been christened, no one else was still living that had ever seen his eyes, besides Zucco who was safely locked behind bars.

The team was used to seeing the black and white of his little mask, or the dark tint of his sunglasses, or even closed eyes, but they had never seen the beauty of his eyes that made him as self-conscious as he was. He knew it shouldn't matter; they were his friends and they shouldn't care what his eyes looked like. And he didn't care what they thought. That was the trigger to his self-consciousness. Some would go as far as to call him vain, but he only cared what he thought, and his opinion mattered most to him. If he didn't love himself, then who would? [1]

Even if he ended up wanting to show the world what his eyes looked like though, he wouldn't be able to. Batman made him hide from the world. But what if something happened to the mask? Simple, he would still hide. The world wasn't ready for Robin to have innocent eyes. The world wasn't ready for Robin to stop hiding. Even if the world was ready though, he still wouldn't stop hiding because even if the world was ready, he'd still be Robin and Robin wasn't meant to have innocent eyes.

[1] Speaking from experience… stupid self-consciousness…

And if any brown eyed or black eyed people get offended, I have brown eyes too. Before you chew my eyes out for calling Robin 'cocky, selfish and disrespectful', do remember how he laughs when his friends get hurt and he insulted Red Tornado… Ah, but that's just another reason to love him. Anyway, this is just going to be a bunch of one-shots. Three more from this song… review?

-F.J.