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We could have been a great many things-- by Constant_Vacillation for MysteryMoth
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
20 Oct 2025
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Tim may or may not be a stalker. He hasn't quite decided yet. Like, yes, he stalks Jason Todd... but Jason Todd is dead...
Maybe Informant was a better word for him.
Without Jason around to photograph, he didn't have many options left. Yet, if there was anything ever true about Tim Drake, it was his need to insert himself in Batman's life, even if that meant forcing Batman to Batman.
And if Batman wanted him to get intel on Red Hood, then he supposed he would... No one said anything about not dating him too...
(Or, Informant Tim x Red Hood Jason where they start dating before Tim knows it's Jason and then stuff happens that moves plot.)
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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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The Science of Falling Apart (and the Art of Being Found) by NocturnalAnomaly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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Tim Drake never became Robin. Instead, he became a ghost with a trust fund, a bad habit, and no one who cared enough to stop him.
When Jason Todd finds him half-dead in an alleyway, the overdose is only half of the problem.
Saving someone's life is easy. Keeping them alive after, not so much.
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A story about recovery and finding the people who care.
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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)
19 Oct 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 Odds are Never in Our Favor by Goodluckandgodspeedgoodsir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
18 Oct 2025
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Static buzzed in Tim’s ears as the ceremony began. A pale woman with a slender frame and short ebony hair slinked towards the stage, waving happily to the audience.
“Welcome! Welcome! To the 74th Annual Hunger Games!” The capitol woman chuckled merrily. “This is gonna be such fun! I look forward to another entertaining year!”
SLOW UPDATES, BUT I DO PLAN ON FINISHING THIS!🫡
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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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“I want to thank you,” he said. “For being there for Tim when he needed it.”
Jason squeezed his eyes shut and clenched his fists in his pockets.
“Shit, Dick.” Jason shook his head. “His dad was about to fucking kill him, of course I would come to get him.”
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you can't understand (what you never learned) by krumthechair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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When a petty thief activates an ancient artifact by accident, suffice to say Timothy Jackson Drake does not have a good time. With an 8 year old alternate version of himself to take care of, the next family gathering coming up, his Red Robin duties, and not enough fucks to give; Tim just wanted his coffee.
(Under heavy revision as of 09/05/2025.)
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- Part 1 of little by little
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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
17 Oct 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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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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walking the path by TheQueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
16 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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(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's Not So Sweet Weekend by TimDrakeIsMyPatronus
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
15 Oct 2025
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In which Tim almost dies (again) under Jack's supervision, which somehow leads to Jason Todd coming home.
WT Day 12: Withholding Medical Treatment
WT Day 13: Never Enough
WT Day 14: "In the end, it's worthwhile"
WT Day 15: "You can take a break, if you just tell me that it hurts"Series
- Part 11 of Whumptober 2025
- Part 8 of Diabetic Tim Drake
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copycat by putyournamehere
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
14 Oct 2025
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Tim was always cunning, but in that quick-witted, charming way he had. This cunning was Tim giving him the same look Jason had seen in the mirror after he had stuffed ten mutilated heads in a duffel bag. The same reflection Jason saw in himself after he had slit Tim's throat, sent mad by the Lazarus Pit.
That was the moment he knew - whoever this was, it wasn't his brother.
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Something is wrong with Tim. Jason is the only one to notice.
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You died for me (I'm living for you) by NamiThorne08
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
13 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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Does Beholding Dream of Electric Eyes? by Skull_Bearer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
12 Oct 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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I Thought a Performance was What you Expected. by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
12 Oct 2025
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The bad ending to part one in the series.
While I recommend reading part one as it isn't very long this can also be read as a standalone with the context that Tim was JJ but has "recovered" and still became Red Robin . But things come to a head when he has a laughing episode on patrol after finding out that his sister went out with Kon, who she knows that he has liked for a long time, without telling him. This causes Tim to flee to the Monarch Theatre when approached by Batman afraid that the man will send him to Arkham.
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- Part 2 of Am I a Joke to You?
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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: UPDATEDDDDD
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Times are gone for honest men by Beasoc
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Detective Comics (Comics)
11 Oct 2025
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Whumptober 2025 - Day 31 & Day 3
Bleeding out | gunshot wound & Isolation
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"Arms collapse around him, drawing him into a tight embrace. A voice he hasn’t heard in so long. Arms he hasn’t felt in even longer.
“Tim,” Bruce breathed, clutching the back of his neck. “You’re alive.”"
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Red Robin gets transported to Oz's dimensional prison, only Batman comes out.
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- Part 6 of Bea's Whumptober Fics