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“I thought we were here to talk, Hood,” he says conversationally.
The man behind him hums. He’s taller than Roy had imagined, the sound coming from right by his ear.
“We’ll talk,” comes the equally casual reply. “Just had to make sure we’re on the same page, here.”
Roy snorts.
“Not sure we are, mine didn’t have ‘threaten with bodily harm’ written on it, for one,”
“My, my, Speedy, I’m impressed,” Hood drawls, one gloved finger tapping against his blade. “I wasn’t sure you could read.”Or: Roy and Jason over the years, in an amalgamation of canon interactions and appearances Pre-New52.
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we're all reaching out to find another hand by soter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
10 Oct 2025
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“I know you’re a meta,” you blurt.
Jason stares. “What.”
“I saw your hand—I saw the cut and the blood, but then, it was healed, somehow, right, and like, I know I wasn’t supposed to see that and then I felt really bad about it and I wanted to let you know that I know but I didn’t want you to think I was going to, like, blackmail you—”
“Blackmail me?”
“Of course not,” you quickly say. “Never. No. That’s horrible. Can you imagine what would happen if it got out?” You wince. “Sorry, stupid question, you probably have.”
or in which you discover that your neighbor, Jason Todd, is a metahuman, try to compensate, and things get a little... weird.
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Warmth by Sonic_Rider
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
26 Sep 2025
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Tim doesn't know the last time he's had a good rest. Cassandra decides thats a Crime.
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Sarcastic Mister Know It All by palmanatomy
Fandoms: Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
24 Sep 2025
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Tim moved to Metropolis for two reasons.
The first was obvious, Metropolis University had the best engineering course on the East Coast. Even though it meant he was moving to Gothams rival city, he would gladly do so for the second reason that was whistling “California Girls” as he walked down the hallway to the bathroom.
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Tim goes to Metropolis University. So does about half of his previous love interests.
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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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Innocent by Val_Creative for Kitsune_Scribe
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, New Teen Titans, DCU (Comics), DCU
03 Sep 2025
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"First time we met... I gave you back your mother. She was hurt. You were under Brother Blood's control. You saved her and me."
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i want your things in my room by Nightmare_Before_Light_109
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
15 Aug 2025
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Cassandra Cain wakes up in her Blüdhaven apartment, light streaming through the windows and distant clattering in the kitchen. She knows by the sound of the footstephs that Steph is awake, making coffee just before she heads out to class. Cass also knows that this is a dream. Blüdhaven is a crater and Stephanie Brown has been dead for a year.
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Selina Kyle finds the poor kitten young, much too tiny, with a thin layer of baby fat still coating his gangly form.
She hadn't intended to keep him.
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In which Jason dies, Tim ends up in Selina's care instead of Bruce's, and all he wants is to claw the Joker's heart out of his chest.
He never expected his poor little dead bird to fly back home.
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- Part 1 of Earth V9 (StrayTim)
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Cat Communication by strawberrykitkat
Fandoms: Batman: Gates of Gotham (Comics), Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
10 Aug 2025
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Being back in Gotham - permanently - means getting used to the newer inhabitants of the manor. Cassandra can't read cats' body language as well as humans, but bonding with Damian's cat Alfred is a bridge to bonding with her new sibling.
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- Part 8 of DC G4G fics 2025
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The Warden by LycorisGrayson
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham - All Media Types
16 Jul 2025
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A stroke of paranoia mixed with good intentions motivates you take the position as the warden of Arkham Asylum. Maybe someone like you is exactly what the city needs, but since Gotham could be a whole lot safer when the authorities aren’t corrupt. You're personally invested in this city, and you’re determined to win on your own terms.
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When the World Looks Back, When the Face Looks After That by Jestmancer
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
12 Jul 2025
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“Hand over the drive and combine whatever other info you’ve put together with the League intel, and we can work out the situation on the Watchtower. You’ll know what we know, no funny business. Sound good?”
“Not particularly, no. Though I’m not seeing a second option.”
After one of his street-level dealers steps far enough over the line to draw his attention, Jason's sent to Keystone City in pursuit of the transgressor and the conspiratorial side gig he signed on as delivery for. But when the Flash's sudden intrusion on his stakeout snowballs into his case being annexed by the League, a highly inconvenient head injury, and the threat of detainment on the watchtower, Jason strikes up a last-ditch deal at the cost of working in close quarters with an team of distant acquaintances he'd do anything to avoid, and who seem to share the feeling. -
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...is that at least you know your wayward brother is still in the same dimension as you.
Or: While jumping around in the multiverse, Tim meets the pre-new 52 Bats.
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Drive On by Vampykitty_kun for blurryyou
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
05 Jul 2025
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He felt like he had stepped out of that Arkham transport truck straight into the twilight zone. Never in a million years would he have thought he would have two tagalongs, not after so many years of being alone, let alone one being Tim Drake after he had turned down his (crazed) offering the year before during his own psychotic break.
But nothing had ever really been normal, had it?
(Post Batman and Robin /and/ Red Robin Comics)
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[PODFIC]: Have You Heard (About the Flightless Bird) by SeaSkate
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
04 Jul 2025
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When Ra's al Ghul reaches out to the bats, asking for them to mediate a meeting between the high ranking members of the League of Assassins that he wanted to hold in Gotham, they agree, hoping for a chance to gleam information from the shadow society.
Tim doesn't show up though, at least not in the way that they had expected.Series
- Part 12 of Podfics
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Shadows Of Before by Vampykitty_kun
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
30 Jun 2025
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Tim, following the 'Death' of Batman, finds himself unable to cope with the sudden loss of yet another of his loved ones. Believing that Bruce will return only manages to unnerve a grieving Dick, who honestly thinks Tim might be cracking under the onslaught of tragedy. Fearing being sent away, Tim sets off on his own, and quickly learns just how much he had come to rely on his Robin persona and the family he had gained from the position. - Jason hadn't been able to save himself, yet here he was trying to give a broken bird back his wings. At the same time, Tim may very well be slowly piecing HIM together once more. - Harley was far from being a hero, having long since lost herself to her own madness, but perhaps by saving someone from a similar fate she could salvage herself. Once upon a time she had wanted nothing more than to help others. - Selina needed to come to terms with her loss, and what the Bat meant to her. Found family might just be the thing she never knew she needed. - Meanwhile, the Joker is LIVID.
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- Part 1 of Earth V44 (Shadows Of Before)
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the marks on my skin (come from you) by SeaSkate
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DCU
07 Jun 2025
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Tim Drake has not been the same since he returned to Gotham fully after completing his hit list. All of the bats notice it, see the way that he eyes the shadows as if they might attack, hear the snipe in his too sharp voice, know of just how withdrawn from them he had become. They all notice it, but none of them speak of it, not to Tim at least.
Jason never really had been too good at following rules though, not unspoken ones, and especially not ones made since his own return to Gotham a handful of years earlier. Curiosity is a powerful motivator after all.—-
Or: Tim is bitter and when Jason decides to press, he decides to express his emotions through sparring, something that Jason is all too happy to agree too.
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- Part 1 of The Colors of You and I
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Have You Heard (About the Flightless Bird) by SeaSkate
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
02 Jun 2025
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When Ra's al Ghul reaches out to the bats, asking for them to mediate a meeting between the high ranking members of the League of Assassins that he wanted to hold in Gotham, they agree, hoping for a chance to gleam information from the shadow society.
Tim doesn't show up though, at least not in the way that they had expected.Podfic: https://youtu.be/faovYgxa2ts?si=Yn4I1H_H0oNh960m
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- Part 5 of Tim Drake AUs
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After a supposedly disastrous mission, Tim wakes up nauseated and missing his uniform. And with no sign of Jason.
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3 of Batman (3SF 2025) by RavenLilyRose for QuailFence, Word_Devourer, Riona, embraidery, DoreyG, laufire, raisedbymoogles, priama
Fandoms: DCU, Batman (Comics)
12 May 2025
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Any, any, dysfunctional found family
any, any, "let me/us help"
DC Comics, Bruce Wayne, breaking character
Any, Any, Nobody likes me. What now?
any, any, biting the hand that feeds you
Any fandom, any characters: a moment of honesty, but only a moment.
any, any, "I love you." "It'll pass."
Any, any, If time stood still, I'd take this moment, make it last forever
DC Comics/pre-reboot, Dick Grayson/Helena Bertinelli, undercover.
any, any, a slip of the tongue
any, any, I have no confidence / And I can't see why I should / But I could do most anything for you / And you know I would
Any, any, The news that truly shocks is the empty, empty page
DC comics, cassandra cain, climbing the ladders just to fall / uncontrollably to heaven
any, any, play the part with me
any, any siblings or close friends, inside jokes from a third party POV
dc comics, cassandra cain, this is not who i want to be
Any, any, meeting a past version of a loved one before they knew youSeries
- Part 3 of 3 Sentence Ficathon 2025
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“Try harder, next time.”
Sound leached away slowly like a volume knob turning, static buzzing faintly up in its place.
Tim stared at Bruce’s back, uncomprehending. “Me?” he wanted to say. “Me? Try harder?” But all that came out was a strangled puff of air, mouth framing the disbelief he couldn’t seem to voice.
(Bruce gives feedback poorly. Tim handles it equally so.)