13 Works in Grieving Tim Drake (DCU)
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Janet and Jack Drake Fucking Die (NOT CLICKBAIT) by sch0lar
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
09 Aug 2025
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Tim spares one last look at the bodies on his living room floor before dialing 911.
“911, what’s your emergency?” the person on the other end of the phone says.
Tim doesn’t even notice himself speaking until he hears his own voice.
“My parents are dead.”
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Janet and Jack Drake die, and this changes things.
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Tell the Bees by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
23 Jul 2025
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"What did you throw at him?"
"A week of a now wasted experiment," the child grumbles, flipping a small container over in his hand, "father will be most displeased."
"What?" Tim furrows his brow.
"I was studying bee culture," the stranger gives a spectacular sigh.
Tim sputters.
"You threw a bee at him?"
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He is halfway home, later, when he realizes.
Batman and Robin have been facing off against some sort of meta criminal who can control bees.
The kid who keeps bees in his backpack is Damian Wayne.
Robin.
And he's kind of an asshole.OR
When Damian joins the Wayne family early, there are consequences. While Jason lives, Tim's parents both are murdered overseas and he is left alone - for now.
_Febuwhump 2023 | Day #23 | You'll Have To Go Through Me
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- Part 9 of batfamily vibes
- Part 9 of Febuwhump 2023
- Part 10 of Tim Joins BatFam AUs
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Janet Drake, beloved wife and mother, gone too soon.
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"My mother was buried on this day, years ago."
"Why come if you don't wish too?"
Tim leant forward, tracking Damian's movements with his eyes. Then he whispered, like it was a secret, like it was something shameful,
"Because she deserves it. I deserve it."
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DAY 2: Holding back tears
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Four: Blossoms by aethernaut1
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Superman (Comics), Superman: Son of Kal-El (Comics 2021), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics), Super Sons (Comics)
11 Sep 2024
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As the date of the Winter Formal draws near within the hallowed halls of his prestigious academy, Damian Wayne finds himself in need of a companion to grace the public sphere alongside him to effectively keep up appearances. In this moment of urgency, he becomes acutely aware that in order to attend with the person of his choosing, he must embark on a profound introspective journey to reconcile with the depths of his own sexuality.
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- Part 1 of Four, a DC Comics Tetralogy
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Forgive Me by Lulu_Rhythm
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
09 Sep 2024
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Two weeks in, Tim Drake struggles to adjust to his new family, the family that lost his doppelganger, the family with a Tim-shaped hole in their hearts. There are a lot of uncomfortable conversations in the way, but what other choice does he have? Going BACK?
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- Part 2 of Family: Take Two
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the centre cannot hold by centreoftheselights
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
23 Jun 2024
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After Bruce’s death, Dick becomes the head of the family.
A triptych on the theme of “not good enough.”
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- Part 3 of something lost, something gained
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That's the Kind of Heartbreak Time Could Never Mend (I'd Never Walk Cornelia Street Again) by dreamsoflovingness
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
10 Apr 2024
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“Why isn’t it working?” He whimpered, feeling the pressure of Jason’s hand on his back. He couldn’t feel the warmth through his suit.
“Just breathe for me,” Jason said softly, “it’s alright Tim, it’s alright.”
“I did everything right,” Tim whispered, “and I couldn’t-”
“I know, baby bird, I know.”
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Tim and the year he spends grieving Kon. -
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A kid has been stealing flowers for the Wayne's manor's Garden. Bruce had which this happened every week for a month. Until his curiosity got the better of him. Bruce needed to find out where the boy was taking the flowers.
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i'll still be here when the sky falls down by dunneltag879
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics), DCU (Comics)
03 Jul 2023
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“It’s all gone, Conner,” Tim’s voice was raspy, almost as a plea, but what could the kryptonian really do for him?
Kon looked around at the horrid scene. Snow fell along side the ash, covering the city in what looked to be a winter wonderland but, instead managed to feel terribly grim. He didn’t know what to tell his Robin. What could he really say? Gotham was gone, and it was just the two of them left in the rubble.
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After a brutal attack on Gotham, the city is left in ruins. The world is quite literally collapsing around Tim Drake, and he finds himself having nothing or no one else to hold on to, except for his beloved Superboy.
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The Darkness You Left Behind by timbitsandpieces for Everyone Who Suffered The End Note
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
06 Jun 2023
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He really wanted Robin to sign his essay. He’d printed out a paper copy just for that, and he was sure Robin would do it if he asked nicely.
But even though Tim waited an hour and a half, Robin didn’t show.
He didn’t appear the next night, or the night after that. In fact, a week later, Tim stopped trying. There were no reports of Robin. Maybe he’d gotten seriously injured, a broken bone or something. Tim kept hoping,
Tim’s hope died when he saw the news.
Five times Jason is grieved. (And next time, when he is found)
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- Part 2 of Nerdy Robins Club
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Remember Me by Lulu_Rhythm for siren_of_the_ocean
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
19 May 2022
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"I'm you. If everything went wrong."
The sequel to siren_of_the_ocean's "If Everything Went Wrong".
What if Tim Drake found what he was looking for?
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- Part 1 of Family: Take Two
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If everything went wrong by siren_of_the_ocean
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
07 Jan 2021
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What if everything went wrong?
What if Kon and Bart never came back? What if people kept dropping like flies?Tim meets an alternate version of himself who has lost everything.
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- Part 23 of Tim Drake AU's
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southern nights by dunneltag879
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Red Robin - Fandom, Superboy - Fandom, Young Justice
22 Sep 2020
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In an act to escape his grief, Tim Drake finds himself at the one place furthest away from home he could think of: Kansas.