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Road to Hell by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
15 Oct 2025
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Tim is frustrated, bored, and at the end of his rope.
He seeks a solution more permanent than the constant cycle of catch and release they currently have for Gotham's various vigilantes.Or
Tim Drake’s temporary descent into villainy. Featuring numerous ride or die friends, a historic crashout, and canon-typical emotional incompetence.
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By day, Tim Drake is Gotham’s enigmatic Drake Industries heir—charming, polished, untouchable.
By night, he is The Rook, a shadowy kingpin running a network dedicated to protecting the city’s most vulnerable.
When a mysterious killer begins targeting workers under his protection, Tim must race against the clock to uncover the culprit before everything he’s built comes crashing down. The clock is ticking, the bodies are piling up, and Gotham’s Bats are circling too… curious, relentless, and dangerously close.
This time, the game is personal.
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For as long as Wally could remember he was told stories of mermaids. Stories of their ethereal beauty and overpowering allure, but also their viciousness and danger to any and all who had the misfortune of encountering them. Sure there are some who are said to tolerate sailors if they’re respectful enough, maybe even help them if they’re offered something in return, but they were few and far between. Most used their beauty to lure sailors in, singing about a heart's deepest and truest desire to draw them towards the waves, only to shift once their victim is close enough, becoming monstrous and deadly in a blink, dragging the sailor to the depths of the sea with needle like teeth and nails that shred through flesh like butter to feast on their corpse.
Despite the horrific tales he was told, he still wanted to meet one.TLDR; A story about the residents of Watchtower Island and their life changing encounters with a pod of sirens.
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- Part 1 of Called By Sirens
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Lenses Stained Red by ZF (ZFeasal)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
12 Oct 2025
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You're an out of state student from Star City ready to start abroad in Gotham University.
A fresh brand new start.
Until a certain birdy catches interest in you.
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Please read the tags before you start to read the book as this may contain triggering material.
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AStray by Izanae
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Maribat - Fandom
08 Oct 2025
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Tim gets his hands on a ring which could change his life and the course of his future forever.
Whether or not that is a good thing, well, I'll leave that up to you to decide.
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- Part 14 of Timari/Timinette
- Part 50 of Izzy's Maribat
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the lie in temporary by Chubby_P1nk, Take_Me_To_My_Fragile_Dreams, WindyEngel
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
07 Oct 2025
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Phantom’s claws tighten against Tim’s back in subtle warning. His voice slides through the air, velvet and steel all at once: "Pleased to see me… and my Temporary Consort."
The word lands like thunder.
Tim freezes. Consort. It's exactly what he was aiming for when he propositioned Phantom the night before and still, to hear it out loud feels final. He's taken a step out into the unknown and has yet to find if there's something there to actually support him.
The shift in the air is immediate—murmurs, restrained outrage, a spike of cold hostility that presses in from every side.
Phantom only smiles wider, lowering his head until his lips brush Tim’s ear. His whisper is a growl, a caress, a threat all in one. "Stand tall, little bird. Let them look… and know you are mine."
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Or the story of how High King Phantom met his High Consort and the journey between Temporary and Permanent.
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- Part 1 of the deaths I've lived for you
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“Bruce is going to erase your memories.” Jason says.
Tim, still in his Robin costume, turns from the Batcomputer to Jason. “If you're going to lie, lie like you mean it. Otherwise don’t bother.”
Bruce had made him believe a ridiculous story from the future for his 16th birthday. Jason can be more convincing than this. It's an insult to Tim’s intelligence really.
“I’m not lying.”
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A morally grey Tim gets caught in a murder and Batman is going to apprehend him but a darker Batman from another dimension happens upon them and takes Tim with him.
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Echoes of Silent Tomorrows by N_udel
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics)
05 Oct 2025
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TimCon - Clone baby AU
After Kon’s death, Tim spirals into obsession, isolating himself to bring back his best friend. But with every failed attempt, he risks losing himself and everyone he’s trying to save.
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Jason's decision to not be part of the Batfamily is final. He doesn't want or need those guys. But Tim Drake has a way of wiggling his way into people's lives and hearts and Jason is helpless to stop him (correction: he doesn't want to stop him. The kid is not bad company and he knows how to enjoy a good explosion every once in a while. He can stay.)
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- Part 2 of family can be whatever you want
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Perpetually Cold Coffee and Literal Frosted Flakes by DecaffeinatedApollyon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
01 Oct 2025
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The cold has been one of the only constants in Tim’s life.
From the empty halls of Drake Manor to the long nights spent stalking the streets of Gotham - Tim had grown used to the cold.
So much so that he didn't even notice it anymore…Or:
Tim Drake is a meta - not that he knows it.
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heart in a vice by tworedlights
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
28 Sep 2025
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After their last case, Dick and Tim are at war with the League of Assassins. But Tim finds himself fighting on two fronts. His relationship with Dick is new, and a certain bat is proving to make things difficult as their soul-bond begins to settle.
__Sequel to Soul On a Platter
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- Part 4 of The Soul Series
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Walking the Tightrope by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
24 Sep 2025
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Tim has shared his head with Junior since he was thirteen years old.
Occasionally, he has relied on his friend for solace when things get rough.
But he has not relinquished his time at the forefront in some time, even at the tower. Even when his little brother tried to kill him. Several times.
Junior is Tim's protector, his friend. And, well, circumstances arise when he is drawn out again.Series
- Part 2 of System of the Tim
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You steal my spleen? Fine. I steal everything you own by Geminycain
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types
24 Sep 2025
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Ra's stole Tim's spleen and threw him out a window, so Tim retaliated by stealing every single asset in the league's possession and then blowing every major League of Shadow base in the world to smithereens, as one does.
Or cue the one where Tim gets his hands on all the league's material assets, and I mean ALL OF THEM.
Money, Weapons, Poisons, information, surveillance, Lazarus pits, magical artifacts, and of course the nuclear bombs that he found in the basement. All of which, now belonged to Tim.
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What's a Dah'kad? by TicciJack
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
23 Sep 2025
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Timothy Drake has done it again! He's survived the unsurvivable and done the impossible, in the process making his own life infinitely more difficult for himself.
Yay for him.
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Tim has used the last ditch effort doomsday device and saved his world from ruin; the catch is that an exact copy from the moment of the device's activation will be flung to the far reaches of the multiverse, possibly into another dimension's universe entirely.
This is definitely another universe.
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- Part 1 of What's A Bird To Do In Space?
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Tim has become a capable member of Gotham City, and no one would dare say otherwise. Well, the new Robin might, but everyone else?? They relied on him too much to do so. It'll be fine. Now he just has to figure out how this whole "brothers" thing works...
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- Part 4 of A Robin in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
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*Not completely canon, will have canon scenes and stuff but it is fanfiction*
Batfam reacts to Tim Drake, except he has secrets. Oh, and surprise it's a mix of music videos and musical songs. Well that'll be fun.
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Violet Birds in Emerald Skies by Niveara
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
13 Sep 2025
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Hal.exe stopped working. This child, this Sparrow, was THE Sparrow? Like the Champion of Predator, Wielder of Violet Light, Paragon of Love, Sparrow? The Star Sapphire with ‘rings for eyes’ that Kilowog, Green Lantern 1-9-8-6, was always going on and on about? The individual Carol, Star Sapphire 1-9-6-2, was always saying was a 'stain’ against the Zamaron’s Star Sapphires Corps?
But they were just an itty bitty little baby.
“You’re joking right” he teased assuming this was just Sinestro trying his hand at humor “please tell me your joking. Surely a 6 year old human child isn’t THE Sparrow”
“You are correct” Sinestro agreed flatly a small smile forming upon his face as Hal relaxed at his response “a 6 year old human child is not THE Sparrow”
“Oh thank-“ Hal started only to get cut off as Sinestro finished his thoughts.
“It is my understanding that the child is only 4 and a half”
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Tim Drake becomes a Star Sapphire shortly after watching the Flying Graysons fall. This has consequences.
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Standing alone in front of an empty cave wall, Tim realizes Bruce is dead and whatever trail he's been following is gone (if it ever existed). Before he can fully process this revelation, Ra's Al Ghul forcibly pulls him into the League of Assassins' war with the Council of Spiders. The mission brings him all around the world, and delivers him into the hands of a man from Bruce's past that everyone calls the "Ghostmaker."
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Tim avoids breaking down about being wrong that Bruce is alive by becoming Khoa's protegé and getting way too deep into the underbelly of South East Asia.
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In Triplicate by foxgloveingloves
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons), Robin (Comics)
10 Sep 2025
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Timothy Drake, as of right now, is living three lives: that of the highschooler, that of the vigilante, and (slightly more pressing), that of the changeling, working to free Gunmar from the darklands, set off the Endless Night, and subsequently kick off the end of the world as we know it.
Here's the kicker, however - Tim doesn't actually want the world to end. No, he quite likes it as it is, with its energy drinks, and its older-brother-figures, and its photography, and its Steph. Ideally, things can continue on as they have: Tim feeds information to the Janus order, so they don’t hunt him for sport, and the Killahead bridge is never completed and Gunmar never escapes – everyone’s happy and Tim’s not exposed or dead. Yay!
Of course, things are never that easy.Or: Trolhunters in Gotham AU that nobody asked for, with Tim as a changeling and Trollhunters taking place in Gotham City rather than Arcadia Oaks. Because I can.
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Caveat Emptor (Buyer Be Ware) by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
06 Sep 2025
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Tim has spent the last two years on his own, since his parents abandoned him and left him to provide for himself. Expected him to.
Turns out that maintaining a consistent income is difficult when no one wants to hire some [now formerly] rich eight year old.
So Tim created his own business, under the guise of anonymity and the name the Plotter.
He has two open cases: Catwoman's heist at the museum and Killer Croc's revenge on Cluemaster.Series
- Part 1 of The Plotter: Plans by Design