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When your parents have just died a few weeks prior to the current time, you would think you would get the utmost comfort and care.
Especially when you go home after a long night with Batman and find their bodies.
Especially when you are this close to ripping yourself to pieces.
Comfort and care seem to be the best thing to be received, right? Perhaps a hug, or maybe reassurance that it would “all be okay in the end”, and that “we’re here for you”.
Or maybe a break from being the Boy Wonder.
That's what Tim wanted, at least.
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- Part 1 of Bad Bat AU [PLACEHOLDER]
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Puzzles Made of Broken Glass by thatcuriouscat for ramblingwildrose, TheMaidenOfWords
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 Oct 2025
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Sherlock Holmes retreats to his Mind Palace to think, to problem-solve. Superman has his Fortress of Solitude, reportedly.
9-and-five-sixths-year-old Tim Drake has his Blanket Fortress.Timmy Drake’s parents go missing.
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sinking (with outstretched arms) by mercury_hyperfixates
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
02 Oct 2025
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Whumptober 2025
“You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.”Prophecy| Sewer | Taking Accountability_______
That is what Tim had been doing tonight.
Protecting Jason Todd. Protecting Robin.
He just. Well, Tim hadn’t realized that in all four thousand one hundred and seventy-seven days of his life, he had never learned how to swim. Why would he need to? Gotham may be surrounded by water, but it’s water that’s more polluted than Los Angeles and the Mississippi River combined.
Still, his lack of competency would’ve been useful to remember before he decided to leap off a boat pier in an attempt to escape a very angry, very trigger-happy Falcone Family enforcer.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2025
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“I don't think they’ve ever been in the Batmobile. Have they?”
“They haven't! You think they’re going to like it?..”
“Hmm.. I think so. We can just drive around the city, yeah?”
But like everyone, Bruce had lied.
Bruce had lied.
[ This work was originally named "The Lie Between Your Teeth".]
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- Part 2 of Bad Bat AU [PLACEHOLDER]
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The Executioner by Chemical_Processes, GalaxyThreads
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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The Executioner has been dropping bodies. Damian Wayne is missing. And the bats are stretched a little too thin to realize these two things are connected.
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- Part 1 of The Executioner (Synder cut)
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Costochondral Separation by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
12 Sep 2025
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Tim is having a very bad not good time. He is struggling under the many pressures of his life and gets real introspective. And that’s most of the fic.
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And The Sky Wept With Him by Smileorelse906
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
30 Aug 2025
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Dick didn’t have a problem; he was fine.
He wasn’t hiding an injury, he wasn’t faking his death again, he was completely and utterly fine... not that they would have cared if he wasn’t.Please read the tags!
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Banana-Chip Pancakes by GothamsRedRetribution
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Young Justice (Cartoon)
26 Aug 2025
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Things happen a little bit differently this time, and Jason's death effects the Bat Pack a little(a lot) more than originally expected.
They're in shambles, and then he comes back.
But just like everyone else after his death, he came out the other side different.Things go wrong a lot for Jason.
Then, things go a little right for him too. Getting hitched. Having a family with the man he learned to love. Getting to be the parent he always wanted, and dealing with an ever expanding pack of bat brats who disrupt his coffee time in the morning.
He loves the family life- he really does, but sometimes a guy has just gotta bust some heads.
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- Part 1 of The Bat Pack
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The Pain of Duality by Resident_Sunshine
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Moon Knight (TV 2022), Marvel (Comics), X-Men - All Media Types
25 Aug 2025
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Tim knew Jason was alive, there was no body, thus no proof of death. He knew Jason was alive, because somewhere out there in the wide depth of the multiverse, he knew his spark still shone. He knew this to be true, and he was going to find him. He was going to prove that he wasn't losing his mind (even if it felt like it) that he could do this.
But what will he do now that he found a way to travel to a whole other universe? Will he find his way to Jason? Will he be able to go home again? Will Jason even want to come with him? And why is he starting to lose so much time again?
But more importantly, who are all these people that seem so set on making sure he is ok? He's fine. Completely fine. Even if the voices are getting worse and he feels a bit like he is breaking. He'll be fine, he just needs to get Jason home. Then everyone can be normal again.
Or: the Tim focused sequel about found family and rekindling bonds. A character study into trauma, and a deep dive into Tim and Jason's complicated sibling bond.
Follow up to Stray Little Bat (but works as a stand alone). Going to be super slow to update until SLB is done, but I wanted to get it in chronologically.
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- Part 6 of Guide to Co-Parenting the Multiverse
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Webs of Friendship by Scififan33
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
22 Aug 2025
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Tim Drake's life couldn't get any worse. His dad and friends were dead, so was his ex. And now Damian was making his life hell at the Manor. And Bruce was making sure he attended school, after enrolling him in a new one. What he didn't expect after missing a few days due to injuries was to meet a new student. Peter Parker was different to the others, a scholarship kid with a bright smile and a brain that Tim could respect. Maybe being friends with a civilian was crazy given everything, but he just needed something to him himself.
And now there was a new vigilante making waves in Gotham. One that no one could get a good look at. At least they weren't killing or targeting Robin like Red Hood had.
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Just want you to feel something by CastrianAmore, dragonssociety
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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Tim has a perfectly good reputation. Constantly volunteering to charity, cares for his employees. He brought the company record profits and all time employee retainment highs.
Kon-el Kent has a perfectly bad reputation of being a rebellious rockstar. Getting drunk. Crowd surfing, being exceptionally flirty and hot, the whole works.
By no means should their lives have ever crossed. Until a fateful New Year’s Eve party and too many drinks. The tabloids took it and ran…
“CEO of Drake Enterprises Timothy Drake dating lead singer of YJ?!?”
“Kon-el sharing a passionate New Year’s Eve kiss with a new boy? Is the heartthrob finally taken?”
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- Part 1 of Band AU
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Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind by BootyCrusade
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Aug 2025
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Diana and Bruce are celebrating the birth of their son Timothy, until an old enemy shows up and places a curse on the child.
Diana and Bruce wake up the next day, having forgotten that they ever had a son.
And Timothy Jackson Drake grows up alone in a large, empty house.
These two things are more related than one might think.
In which Tim gets cursed that the more someone loves him, the more they forget about him.
Comes with sporadic art :)
Currently on hiatus, but stops at a very hopeful point :) -
don’t wanna be alone (when these bones decay) by mercury_hyperfixates
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
14 Aug 2025
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Jason might have a stalker.
Okay, technically, Robin might have a stalker. That, or Jason is having a stress-induced psychotic break or being routinely dosed with fear toxin every few patrols. Not that he’s scared, because, well, he’s not. It’s just. He’s supposed to be watching the streets, not vice versa.
It takes him a full week to find (circumstantial, at best) evidence.
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Or… Jason is trying to adopt his eleven-year-old stalker and Tim just wants Robin to accept his apology granola bar.
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Trust by Ariya_Chistikh_Nebes
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Batman (Comics), Batman: The Telltale Series, Batman: The Animated Series, DCU
07 Aug 2025
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Bruce has the responsibility of the peace of Gotham on his shoulders, especially now, that the threat of the Court of Owls has been destroyed and in the newfound freedom the criminal world started to get _ideas_.
Bruce’s default response to emotions also has been either angsty brooding or attempts to solve things with violence for a whole 23 years of his life, and it worked great so far! While he was alone. But now he has not one, but THREE children (plus some more crazy that are occasionally barging into his house like it's their tree house) on his hands that need his care. He is an adult, but he struggles.
He needs an adultier adult. Send help.Or
Bruce tries to un-fuck up his relationship with Tim and, while he’s at it, not to get demolished by said kid’s two new rather small but very determined friends (and roasted by his own colleagues) for fucking things up in the first place.
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- Part 4 of A robin and an owl met in a fight (Talon & Escobar paradox)
- Part 11 of Slowly, it will get better
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Damian didn't see Tim as a brother.
Tim used to think Damian was starting to see him as a brother.
But not after their punishment together he doesn't.
He's insufferable and irritating why would he ever consider him a brother anyways?
He doesn't even say please.
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Tim and Damian where on punishment together, thinking it was a good opportunity to at least get to bond together Tim tries to reconcile and maybe do something for Damian. When it doesn't work however he didn't even want to even put his energy and effort on someone who doesn't even consider the stuff he does for him.So when a mass causality happens, what would the Waynes think of each other now?
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- Part 3 of We die hard like the Robins many deaths
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just lowering your expectations by the_star_catcher
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
21 Jul 2025
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For a long time, Tim doesn’t know his parents are dead. Maybe that makes him a bad son, for not knowing. When he reads about death, or when he watches people die in movies, their loved ones always know. There’s a gasp of pained revelation, an instinctual loss.
Tim doesn’t feel that. He wouldn’t have noticed at all, except for that he likes to keep track of the things going on in the places where his parents visit. Sometimes, it means he can ask leading questions, on their mostly-weekly phone calls, and Janet will spiral off into some tangent about these people and their lack of work ethic, and she’ll talk for minutes on end before realizing she’s still on the phone, getting bored, and then ending the call. So he keeps an alert system on his phone, for news, so they have some topics in common to talk about. It’s only luck he sees the article before anyone else does.
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- Part 1 of author's favorites
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Not All Vampires Wear Capes // Batfamily Vampire AU by LuKuXing
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), DC Extended Universe
18 Jul 2025
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What if a Vampire Hunter had vampires roaming around right in front of his nose without him bat-ting an eye? Nevertheless, those vampires are his dearest.
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Batman didn’t kill humans; that was a line he wouldn’t cross. He had his codes, unyielding and unwavering. No matter the crime, no matter the depravity, he would not take a life unless there was no other choice. But for the vampires, the creatures who had taken so much from him, the rules were different. Their kind had torn apart his family, murdered his mother and left him with nothing but shadows and pain. To them, he had no mercy. Behind his cape, hidden in the folds of his armour, a stake always waited. The night was his domain, and anyone who preyed upon the innocent would meet their end by his hand.
-------------Basically, a fic where Bruce isn't the vampire's head, but rather quite the opposite.
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Black Sheep by Plaintea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU, Young Justice (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types
16 Jul 2025
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“Brother … stop!”
“It’s us! … family.”
“Snap out of it! What’s wrong with you?”
The words intertwine with the insane ramblings within his own mind.
There’s a blade in his hand. It’s resting precariously over Damian’s pulse point.
He digs it in deeper.
He could kill him now. He really wants to.
His eyes meet Ra’s, waiting for permission.
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There was a time when people used to call Jason the black sheep of the family.
Turns out the Robin mantle wasn’t the only title that Tim inherited.
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- Part 1 of When The Dead Don’t Stay Buried
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***PODFIC***
It was easy to figure out that Jason Todd was the Red Hood and even easier to figure out what came next.Jason wasn’t really doing much to hide his plans—Tim could see how he hated the Bats and could hear every comment he made about the newest Robin and it was obvious he was planning something.
The guns on his hips didn’t leave him much doubt as to what those plans were.
The hard part was coming to terms with it.
The hard part was looking himself in the mirror and knowing he was living on borrowed time. It was going out each night looking for a red helmet, only ever seeing it hidden in shadows behind him—always watching, always waiting. It was staring at his laundry basket and wondering if he should take care of that or if he’d have a bullet in his skull before he could move it to the dryer.
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Tim figures out that Jason is going to kill him so he can take back his rightful place and join the family again.
He decides to do the only reasonable thing and minimize the fallout of his death before it occurs.
According to Jason, this is the wrong thing to do.
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- Part 17 of holy bedtime time story batman!
- Part 47 of Moth's Bed Time Stories
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“Where are you going, Tim?”
Freezing, Tim blue-screened. What was he supposed to say? Luckily for him, Bruce broke the small silence himself.
“Sorry, Tim. My bad. When one of the boys is sick, I usually take the other with me to the office. You couldn’t have known this,” the man gently explained.
Tim’s eyebrows rose. Which parent willingly took their children to work?
OR: Bruce takes Tim to the office as part of a family tradition
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- Part 4 of The Robin Chronicles