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for a pessimist, i'm pretty optimistic by celestialbodys
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
11 Dec 2025
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When Robin is presumed missing or dead by the public, and Jason Todd has been absent from school for longer, Tim Drake takes it upon himself to investigate his disappearance. The problem is, things get much worse before they get better.
AKA Tim Drake's no-good-very-bad summer break.
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- Part 1 of dog days
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-The boy, whatever his name was, finally looked around, Harley and Joker standing on both sides of him, staring down at him. He was the puppy. Joker stepped away for 2 moments and then turned back, his hand forcing more pills into him. His vision was swimming, from all those pills, that electricity, he couldnt name it anymore, but he was sure he knew what it was called once.
"Swallow, boy." Joker said, oddly calm, but the grin stayed.
He gulped it all down hard, nearly chocking on it. his whole body was trembling, and he didnt know if he was even existing anymore. Was this all just a dream, a cruel living, or...hm. Interesting thoughts.-I havent even seen the movie, so this just popped out of my head :D Also english is not my first so sorry for any typos
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The Rumor of a Ghost by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
11 Dec 2025
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Tim had patched up Jason after Bruce slit his throat with a Batarang.
Jason had offered Tim a place to stay after his sixteenth birthday.
They were brothers in a world that had left them behind. They were brothers in a world that had been cruelly unfair time and time. They were brothers in a world that hadn’t given much else.
So when Bruce nearly beat Jason to death, uncaring that his son had only shot Penguin with a blank? Tim did what he had to do.
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How Tim became Red Hood.
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Bad Things Happen Bingo by DahFloofySmol
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics)
09 Dec 2025
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In where Tim has a Very Bad Time and can't catch a break. Damian's vaguely impressed that the surprise adoptions haven't killed him yet. Jason and Dick are about ready to put him on house rest for the foreseeable future.
Bad Things Happen Bingo [Prompts]
1# - Poisoned, Delirious
2# - Caged, Muzzled
3# - Hypothermia, Suffocation
4# - Pushing, Pulling
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11 years have passed since the events of Marble Hornets, and Tim has tried his best to move on. But his mental health is at an all-time low. He hates his job as a gas station attendant and is incredibly suicidal. After a failed attempt to end his life, he wakes up to find a dead man, a dead friend that he killed, standing in his living room, asking him for help.
Brian, Jay, and Alex have come back from the grave, and they've come back wrong. Their souls degrade the longer they remain in the living world, their fate to become twisted into unspeakable horrors. Each of them has their own motives, finding their way back into Tim's life from the Ark, but only he, as their anchor, can restore their humanity and save their souls.The question is, will he? Because not all of them want to be saved...
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Contrary to popular belief, drakes don’t have wings and can’t fly. Drakes aren’t dragons, after all. But while drakes may not fly nor have wings, robins can and do; and that’s where Tim made his mistake. In trying to be a robin, he forgot that he always was, and always will be, a drake.
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5 times Tim mentions losing his wings +1 time he gets them backSeries
- Part 1 of If you Give a Drake Wings
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“My panic’s at the ceiling, but I’m face down on the carpet.”
Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia
_______Tim hates goodbyes.
He should be used to them, should be old enough to accept that sometimes people are going to leave and that sometimes you can do nothing to stop the hole that burns through your chest when they do. The worst part, he thinks, is that once upon a time, he was used to them. He was used to the hollow feeling, used to the resentment, used to the ache.
Then he met Jason.Series
- Part 5 of Whumptober 2025
- Part 3 of alone with you
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Stay Tuned by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
08 Dec 2025
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A gun is set level with his head and oh boy, that's a new sensation. For a kid who spends his nights just barely adjacent to vigilante brawls and gunfire, this is the closest Tim has every actually been to a firearm. And it's pointing at his frightened face.
He didn't go down without a fight, he didn't. He swears. But he also doesn't want new holes in his limbs. He's letting the men roughly manhandle him out of the narrow aisle and through the warehouse when something smacks his skull. He has just enough time to think how rude it is to do that when he is already complying before the lights turn out and he's rushing to meet concrete, a soft cry of "Batman" on his lips.
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Someone notices the Batman superfan. That same someone wants to know exactly what Tim knows. Whatever it takes.
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- Part 5 of Tim Joins BatFam AUs
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Seth Ridley was back again. Tim, his newly assigned T.O. had no idea why he was even still trying and honestly just hoped, he'd quickly realise he wasn't cut out for it and quit once for all. But maybe things start turning out a bit differently.
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- Part 2 of Seth Ridley centred
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Dead Boy's Coffin by Wri7e_as_Rain
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
05 Dec 2025
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In Tim’s defense, he hadn’t meant for it to happen. Who knew patrolling alone was such a bad idea? Him. That’s who. But he would vehemently argue his actions were 100% justified and necessary considering the extenuating circumstances. However, that was before his little solo jaunt around Gotham had landed him… well… stuck. With the rest of the bats not in Gotham, it wasn’t like there was anyone around to get him unstuck either.
And he was running out of oxygen, dammit.Thankfully, (or in Tim’s case, ‘concerningly’), there happened to be a Crime Lord on the case who would be absolutely
notdelighted to rescue a little birdie from his cage.(As the tags can tell you, this is not as cracky and cheery as it sounds.)
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- Part 1 of You Are Enough
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Just want you to feel something by CastrianAmore, dragonssociety
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
03 Dec 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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The Multiverse theory by PULLTHATL3V3R
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman (Comics)
03 Dec 2025
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Peter is going through it okay. He’s had a rough year. And now he’s god knows where with god knows who? No wonder he runs, and fights,
And just cut him some slack! Gotham is not a nice place. Even though he gets taken in by the hot-who said that-guy named Jason.Or.
Peter lands in a pile of green sludge in a place called Gotham. He makes some friends. Some enemies. AND WILL GODDAM BRUCE GET OFF HIS BACK! Oh and a (sorta) familiar face!
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When the Bats are enlisted to rescue the Red Hood, Tim is unknowingly exposed to fear toxin.
His reaction is far from typical.
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Jason Todd thought he would die early on the streets. Instead he finds himself adopted by Janet Drake. Now he needs to navigate a new sibling, enough food, and plenty of Bat-Brand chaos before it all slips through his fingers.
Or: What would happen if my favorite middle children grew up together in a different family? Featuring my usual platonic A/B/O worldbuilding, peripheral Batman shenanigans, and completely different introductions into vigilante life.
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Does Beholding Dream of Electric Eyes? by Skull_Bearer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
23 Nov 2025
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Following Prentiss' attack and the destruction of the Not!Them, Jon and Martin negotiate new allies, new friends, and new enemies. And the demands of Beholding, steadily growing in It's power.
Sequel to A Shutter, Darkly.
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- Part 2 of Enlightened Self-Interest
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The Shadow of Helgen (Book 1) by C_R_Scott
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
22 Nov 2025
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One of Gotham City’s iconic “Robins”, Tim Drake was transported to a strange medieval world with no memory of how he arrived. Mistaken for a rebel soldier by the Imperial Legion, he found himself facing execution in the town of Helgen. His life was ultimately spared not by mercy or justice, but by the cataclysmic appearance of a black dragon that razed the town of Helgen and left him with agonizing physical and psychological wounds.
As he struggles to survive in this new land of Skyrim, Tim's main goal is to find a way home. However, this mission is continually derailed by the needs of the locals, his own near crippling injuries, and the looming threat of the dragon he had the misfortune to survive.
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Hear it in your tone (you're slowly letting go) by sexyPineappleMan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
20 Nov 2025
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Ambitious like his father, the media preached as Timothy saved DI from collapse. Clever like his mother, they wrote as Timothy bought up small seemingly unprofitable industries and made them bloom under his company’s care, bringing DI’s stocks back to their former glory within a year. A true son of Gotham, they said as Timothy developed his offices in the city and went above and beyond to pay his workers fair wages. Selfless, they called him as Timothy reduced his own salary to ensure DI would survive these changes, sacrificing his time and dreams to keep the company afloat. Tragic, they all but wrote in every article, unable to keep themselves from rehashing his parents’ deaths.
At only 19, Tim is one of the youngest CEOs in the world. He’s certainly the youngest CEO of a fortune 200 company.
And yet, it takes little to make his empire collapse like a house of cards.
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He’s sore all over. He doesn’t remember going to bed. Did he have a rough patrol? No, he took the night off. It was his birthday, so Steph and Jason—
His birthday. He’d—Bruce had handed him a drink and he’d tossed it back without a second thought. He’d never imagined that it might be—that Bruce might—
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Tim belongs to Bruce now.
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- Part 2 of A Spoonful of Sugar
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Tim never felt seen. He was always in the background, there for convenience. He was never wanted, not by his parents, not by Batman, not by his supposed 'siblings', not by anyone. Fading in to the background wherever he went, giving away every part of him and never getting anything back, and turning into a shell of the boy he once was, Tim breaks.
or; a fic inspired by Invisible by 5 Seconds of Summer.
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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
18 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