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A Ghost of Yourself by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
05 Nov 2025
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Tim Drake died when Robin cut his line. There was no flag pole or ledge to catch himself on. No backup grapple at the ready. Lucky for him, Gotham has never been one to give up her soldiers. Now an undead that is permanently bound to Gotham as her protector, Tim learns the importance of self-worth. And that maybe his "family" isn't what's best for him.
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Tim heard Jason joking about being a zombie and said, "hold my beer." Featuring semi-sentient Gotham.
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- Part 1 of Memento Mori
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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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Tim, the ever vigilant (always awake and never giving himself a break) vigilante, gets word of a drug bust going down. One he just so happens to be the only one available to stop. Which happens to be taking place in the very early hours of his birthday. Of course he goes on the highly dangerous bust alone. What could happen?
Or: Tim is used to being the Robin that gets thing handled, that doesn't need Batman to come rescue him. Bruce Wayne had made it very clear in the early days that Tim was not his son. Alfred Pennyworth was cold, allowing only the politeness and distance to show through his Iron Wall. Dick Grayson treated him the way he wished he'd treated his brother, Jason.
Tim was fine with this. He wasn't a child. Even if he wished for more of the small slivers of love the Wayne family were just starting to give him, he wouldn't dare take Jason Todd's place. He just hoped the support he provided for the grieving family would make Jason proud. But Jason Todd came back, and he sure made it known he wasn't. He made sure Tim knew exactly what he thought of the cuckoo in his family.
Now, the Wayne family has their lost son back and Tim has a job to do. Just, not in this dimension?
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- Part 2 of Imaginary Friend
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I Keep my closet free of Skeletons (Cause I’m much better at Digging Graves) by AnUnfathomedAffair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
03 Nov 2025
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It always starts with a concussion that you decided to ignore- Next thing you know, you’re traveling across time and space landing with a mangled arm in an unfamiliar- but oh so god damn familiar place.
Why the hell is Gotham so bright and why aren’t the people any different than before?
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i can listen by oopshenangians
Fandoms: Red Hood: Resurrection (Fan Series 2024), Batman - All Media Types
31 Oct 2025
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“Because you never listen.”
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Tim knows how to listen. He really does, but some nights he's so bad at it. He's ready for the lecture that will come.
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- Part 39 of Red Hood: Resurrection
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提姆准备采取必要措施，以确保当处于昏迷状态的杰克·德雷克不可避免地离世时，布鲁斯不会觉得自己有义务收养提姆。但是，还有什么能比避免让布鲁斯最终拥有一个他不想要的儿子更好呢？那就是带回他真正想要的那个儿子。
杰森同意了替代品那愚蠢至极的计划，也就是邀请一个他从未见过的陌生成年男子来和他一起生活，哪怕只是为了让这个白痴多活一段时间，让他能在红头罩的宏大复仇计划中发挥出自己的作用。
这种新的室友情况，会对他们两人的世界观产生影响吗？肯定不会吧……
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Tim had been on his way to the city for his usual vigilante photography (and resident 911 caller for the destruction Batman left in his wake), when he decided to take an impromptu pit stop by Jason’s grave. He had gone there a couple times before, the first time to check if he really was dead, and the second time to check if he hadn’t imagined it the first time.
But when he entered the graveyard and made his way to where Jason’s grave was, instead of a clean and maintained grave with lots of flowers (probably by Alfred, Tim had guessed), there was an entire boy sitting in front of his broken grave.
A boy with torn clothes, bruised face and body, panting heavily with his eyes glazed over.
A boy who looked a lot like Jason Todd.
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Tim adopts a fresh-from-the-grave Jason Todd fic.
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(Together) In This Incomplete Fever Dream by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
25 Oct 2025
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The old man turned to him in shock at his hurried entrance. "Master Tim? What's the matter?"
Tim— Tim didn't know. It was too much. Too many things at once. He didn't know where to start. What if Jason was going to die? What if Bruce was already dead? He didn't know. This was too big, this was—
Facts. He just needed the facts.
Fact #1. "Batman's comms and cowl footage went static," Tim said.
Fact #2. "Nightwing and the others are looking for him, but he and Spoiler are caught up in a fight."
Fact #3. "Jason has a fever of 104."
Fact #4. "There's no one in the manor available except us two."
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Tim had been travelling with High King Phantom for months searching the time stream for Bruce.
After everything, Tim knew one thing for certain: Phantom travelled with him because he was bored. So, Tim didn't see any reason to reveal the truth of his secondary gender to the king. It wasn't like the denizens of the Infinite Realms had designations, after all! (If Phantom found out, would he leave? Abandon him like everyone else in Tim's life already had? Tim couldn't risk it. He wouldn't survive it.)
There was just a small problem with that, though: Tim's heat started.
And Phantom noticed.
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- Part 1 of Pact With An Eldritch God
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You died for me (I'm living for you) by NamiThorne08
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
22 Oct 2025
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“Hey b, you think you could make it over here?” He asked over the coms, praying silently that the man was actually wearing his com this time.
Tim often wondered when he would die in the field. There had never been a doubt that he would, it was just the fact.
Sometimes he wondered if it would be at the hands of Batman himself, but he always pushed those thoughts away as soon as they came up.
No, he would most likely die in a moment like this.
Needing back up and realizing he was alone in this.
Like always, right?
“Seems like you’re losing, Replacement,” a distorted voice said from behind him
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When Jason Todd and Tim Drake were kidnapped by the Joker, Jason died. Later, he comes back to life, but he thinks Tim died in the kidnapping too. Little does he know that the "replacement" he's set on killing is his long-lost best friend. And his best friend seems to have a strange talent in finding abusive adults to be around.
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Tim's numb, distant, dissociating as his dad beats him up and spits harsh words at him. He's going through the movements, barely taking anything in...
When somehow, Jason appears. What was his Robin doing here? Was he hallucinating or had he died, finally killed by his own dad's hand?
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Meanwhile, Jason is furious.
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“Oh, Mr. Batman, sir!”
He froze.
“I’m so glad I found you!”
“What happened?”
He was dead, he was dead, he was going to die. The people said that the Batman didn’t kill, but no one knew for sure. And Jason was currently holding a jacked tire of his very expensive and probably very precious car. He was dead.
“I saw the man who mugged my sister running over there.”
Wait, what?
“Come on, come on, he’ll get away!”
Jason watched as the kid’s small shadow tugged at Batman’s cape and started leading him away from the alley.
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Jason and Tim street kid runaways AU
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A Younger Brother Will Step Up When Needed by DigitalOracle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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Tim is sick, but only him and Dami are at the manor sooo.. he belives he’s stuck with it himself, like he thinks is all he deserves, and therefore doesn’t not have to bother with keeping his pained voice down.
But damian is set on taking care of him, strangly going directly as all guides hes read as young… is that really a google guide hes using? But still, it’s sweet and that’s all that matters.Series
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The Spring You Met Your Son- by Elysians_Ichor
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
17 Oct 2025
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Tim gets thrown into a different dimension where he doesn’t exist, and it’s a few years behind his, and he learns how to live in a family that show their affection, instead of hiding it. But only for a limited time, cause one day he’ll be brought back to his dimension, back to his real family.
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The Future Is Set In (Eroding) Stone by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2025
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It was a normal enough night. Nothing was out of the ordinary during patrol and no major rogues had been spotted. Everyone was home and at ease. It was quiet, pleasant and calm.
So no one had given a second thought when Bruce disappeared into the medbay, muttering about getting an aspirin for a headache. That was the first sign.
He was in his Batman suit despite the fact that they had already changed half an hour ago. That was the second sign that they all missed.
Tim should have known something was up. Then maybe, what happened next could have been avoided.
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Gun Batman (Evil Tim from the future) comes back.
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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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(Never) Good (Enough) by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
15 Oct 2025
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“I love all my children equally,” Bruce said, smiling at the camera.
At the millenia-old answer to the equally old question of “Who is your favorite child”, the people in the interview laughed. As was the only appropriate reaction to the answer.
Tim laughed too. Along with his adopted siblings next to him. His lips parted in a wide smile and his eyes scrunched up as a soft chuckle left his throat.
But inside, Tim was seething.
I love all my children equally.
Bullshit, Tim thought through clenched teeth. Bull-fucking-shit.
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Tim was used to being on his own. That’s why it wasn’t until he was alone in his room in the early hours of the morning doing research (he couldn’t sleep) that he noticed something was amiss.
He went to mutter a curse under his breath, and his lips wouldn’t open.
In other words, Tim gets cursed to remain silent. No one notices.
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- Part 3 of Crayon’s Whumptober 2025
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I'm Not Here to Ask You for a Way Out by WhenTheStarsFall22
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Oct 2025
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UPDATE TO ALL MY FAITHFUL READERS: I will be putting a brief pause on this series so I can practice my lines for a play (the Crucible). See ya’ll soon.
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Sanguine Clouds Through Hazy Thought by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
10 Oct 2025
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As he meandered through the hallways, he barely acknowledged the whispers until two words caught his ear.
“Gutter rat.”
He turned from his course and walked straight to the freshman douche who said it. Without hesitation or thought, he pulled his fist back and punched him.
It was the same punch Jason taught him how to use.
He punched him again. Then he couldn’t stop. All he could hear was the sound of fist on flesh. All he could see was blood pooling under his fists.
Someone pulled him away, but the haze of anger and grief still stayed. He didn’t struggle. Numb to his bones.
He wondered if this was how Jason had felt, in that warehouse before he died.
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Tim goes to school after Jason's death
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He hesitated, hesitated but nonetheless replied, “I got blasted by cuddle pollen. It’s why I tripped. It’s why I got caught.”
The line went dead silent.
Tim clenched his fists as the pale figure uncovered his face. “I’m sorry.”
The line split off into a cacophony of sounds. But Tim couldn’t hear any of it, because the stone and crumbles of cement and wood slipped off the purple suit and the pale man sat up, a hand going to his sickeningly green hair.
He was trapped. Trapped within a building’s remains with a conscious Joker, dipped head-to-toe in cuddle pollen which was already starting to become close to unbearable without human touch.
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A cuddle-pollened Tim gets stuck in a collapsed building with the Joker.
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