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[PODFIC] Cardinal Kin by Heo_heno
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
11 Oct 2025
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Waking up in your 10 year old body is… jarring to say the least.
Presented with an opportunity he can’t waste, Tim fixes everything, but at a cost no one remembers. They’ve forgotten it all.
They’ve forgotten him.
He convinces himself it's better this way...because it is.
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Damian doesn't have the patience for high society, but if he has to conform, he might as well learn from the best.
A continuation of Brothers Fight (you can but don't have to read Part 1 for context)
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- Part 1 of [PODFIC] Better Off
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Ruin the Friendship by stormpilot_obsessed
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU
04 Oct 2025
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Tim can't help but wonder if he should've just kissed Kon anyway.
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In high school, Tim has some moments where he almost kisses his best friend, Kon, but doesn't. They drift apart in college until one day Tim gets a phone call.
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walking the path by TheQueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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It was Barbara who brought it up first. The Drake Kidnapping hadn’t pinged as high priority on Batman’s To Do List. That is until Bruce started looking into their son. For Tim’s part, he never wanted to be a hero. It seems like the universe has other ideas.
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- Part 1 of The Inevitable Batman (AU)
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Voices caught his ears and the shine of candlelight from a nearby window caught his eyes.
Turning towards it, he could hear the happy laughs of the Waynes and their shadows peering onto the ground.
Tim harshly bit his lip to try and stall the tears, but it was too late. It seemed like all Tim’s fate will ever be is to stare into people's windows, transfixed by rose golden glows.
"I look in people's windows, transfixed by rose golden glows."
Isolation | Candlelight | Found FamilySeries
- Part 3 of Whumptober 2025
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Running an auto shop by day and careening around the streets of Gotham by night, Jason has been enjoying his retirement from being the Red Hood until a mysterious driver appears, forcing him to confront the ghosts of his past.
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Jason and Tim never really got along. It wasn't anything bad—certainly nothing like what Jason had first planned for when he first came back to Gotham—it was just never anything more than what he would describe as coworkers.
So, really, Jason would say Replacement was at fault that night he was hopped up on Pollen and some mystery drug that had taken Jason three hours to find an antidote for in the cave he had no plans on breaking into until a little bird decided to confuse him for Batman. And of course, he would never be close with his Replacement.
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- Part 2 of My JayTim
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Deus Ex Felis by MrNotABoy
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
23 Sep 2025
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'He could probably argue that he wasn't, actually, stealing these artifacts; all of it was already stolen. He was just returning things to their rightful cultural owners, honestly. Even when the museums and collectors that held those treasures disagreed.'
The obligatory Stray fic.
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Tim Drake is not Bruce's son. He has two dead parents and he's happy that way.
Can people please realize that?
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Lights, camera... paperwork? by Rustcoloredraccoon
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
19 Sep 2025
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There was a beat of silence, but Tim knew what was coming. He could feel it in the way Bruce's hand twitched under his own on his thigh, could see it in the way the angry fire in his eyes morphed into a different type of heat. Because Tim knew that Bruce had a type, had met them in person after Selina acted circles around Bruce on set or when Thalia had the entire Wayne Label in a chokehold as they negotiated transferring Jason's contract.
And that type was people who weren't scared to say no to him.
Actor-turned-CEO! Bruce and Photographer! Tim's story in my Portfolio AU.Series
- Part 3 of Portfolio
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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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Tim finds out he's part of a system in likely the worst way imaginable; through teleporting to a different dimension after he's killed. Of course he can't be a system that's insane, but it's not like he has a ton of free time to research anything when he has to figure out a way home and try to survive with this new but old family he's found himself with.
Or; Tim is attempting to figure out if he's a DID system or not and is in extreme denial about it for a long time.
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Leaving the nest (I'm better off alone) by Anarchyshere
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Sep 2025
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After Tim disappeared to God knows where right as Jason and Bruce reunited, Jason was left reeling, convinced there was something bigger behind it. You don’t just resign from being a hero.
He searched for him, going as far as to ask Bruce about the kid and yet- nothing.
(The thing is, Tim was doing abolutely amazing.)
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Tim finally letting go of Robin mixed in with a sprinkle of brotherly bonding and an awkward parent-son relationshipSeries
- Part 2 of The birds are singing
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It's a normal night when Jason realizes that he loves Tim Drake. The following days and weeks of avoiding the man is purely for the best. After all, people like him don't get a happy ending and it's simply not fair to drag others into it.
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- Part 1 of My JayTim
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Hopscotch by messy_spammy_18
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
05 Aug 2025
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My retelling of Under the Red Hood. Red Hood has recently risen to power in Gotham and has caught the attention of some powerful people. The GCPD (funded and controlled by rival syndicates) assign the Red Hood case to one Officer Dick Grayson. By day he might hunt the crime lord, but by night he finds them aligned in their goals, if not the methodology of getting there. Tim knows Batman's secret identity, but never confronts him about needing another Robin. Coincidentally he is never adopted by Bruce, and Bruce is worse off for it. Nevertheless Tim has a good heart and helps to improve his community with some good old fashion sleuthing and some anonymous tips.
Inspired by the movie Hopscotch (1980).
My head cannon ages: Dick is early 30s, Jason is late 20s, and Tim is early/mid 20s.
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Is it really the gas? Or is it something worse. by overlyroastedcorn
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
28 Jul 2025
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Jason was briefed on the kid's weird protocol for dealing with fear has exposure but nothing could have prepared him for dealing with the real thing
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The Making Of A Villain by TeenageMutantNinja_NOTturtle
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, The Batman who Laughs - Fandom
24 Jul 2025
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Tim Drake is witness to Batman's darkest time. He gets attacked constantly and there's no one to patch him up. Then his friend dies.
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I saw a Tumblr post that got moved to TikTok and got inspired maybe five months ago.
I also have compulsory Welsh Bacc lessons that suck my happiness from my living corpse, so here you go!
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It's Fine to Flirt Until Someone Gets Hurt by Fanfic_addict_Sunshine
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Jul 2025
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Dick Grayson loves to play games with his boyfriend Jason Todd. When the game leads to violence, Tim is the one caught in the middle.
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Tim's mom finds out who Batman is and stops Tim from becoming Robin in this AU.
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After Tim tries to save Batman from himself as he's self-destructing in his grief, Tim is severely injured (to the point of permanent injury). Now Tim is deciding that he will have to become something else to save Batman and Gotham. To honor his hero Robin (the deceased Jason), Tim will become a shadowy figure who builds a team of misfit heroes to combat Gotham's darkness and Batman's grief.
When Red Hood debuts in Gotham, there will be some confusion on Hood's part. Who are the Guards? Why do they not get along with Batman? What is going on? But once he meets them and their leader, he makes a lot of realizations as he grows closer to Sentry and his people. -
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When Jason emerged from the Lazarus Pits, his eyes didn’t blaze green…they blazed red.
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“Do you think you’re that good now? Do you really Tim?” Jason snarled.The Replacement had the faintest of smiles on his face, even as it was clear he was clinging to consciousness by the tip of his fingers. “Yes.” He whispered.
Jason pounded his fist into that insufferable face one last time and it was lights out for the Replacement. Jason had officially won. Not easily, taking down a Robin could never be described as ‘easy’, but he had won. The kid was unconscious in front of him, sweet-smelling blood leaking from several wounds. He had done it.
Jason fucking Todd was here.