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Jason Todd awoke one morning from troubled dreams and found himself transformed into a monstrous—
No. God, he wished.
Metamorphosis, he could have handled. An easy fix. Hell, magic insect transformation was practically an everyday occurrence, in Gotham.
Just… not in this Gotham.
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Jason Todd awakes one morning in a Gotham that “doesn’t like chaos”, and finds his feet.
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bird balance, bleach by lux_et_astra for one_of_batmans_orphans
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Robin (Comics)
30 May 2023
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Tim Drake is sixteen, and Robin, and nothing will ever change that.
Tim Drake is not Robin, and never will be again.
Or, how Tim grew up.
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- Part 3 of a light and diplomatic bird
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The holidays are Tim's most favorite time of year.
He doesn't mean that like most people mean it, where they say "holidays," but they really only celebrate the one, and all the others are just happening at the same time. Tim celebrates ALL the holidays.
He's usually very good at keeping the various family tradition stories straight, too. He's been Jewish; he's been Christian; he's been pagan; he's been Muslim. Sometimes all at the same time. But this year...well, this year the Waynes are suddenly getting involved, and Tim starts to realize how hard it is to keep stories straight and less-than-stellar upbringings hidden when people are actually listening to you.
It's weird, Tim decides. And he's not sure he likes it.
(A year in the life of Tim Drake, as told through the various holiday parties of the Gotham elite and the unexpected lessons on privilege, bias, and various -isms that come with 'em. And maybe a little bit of friendship and understanding along the way, since we all know this has to end with Tim joining the Batfam early, right?)
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For Whumptober 2023
Days 7 & 9. Prompts Used:
Radio Silence, "Can you hear me?", Mistaken IdentityTim Drake, aged 11, finds an abandoned walkie-talkie and decides to start his own little personal radioshow to combat his loneliness. Jason Todd, Robin, happens to have the other walkie, and soon Tim doesn't feel as lonely anymore.
Tim Drake, aged 16, is lonely once again. But now he's Robin. He keeps talking into the walkie, and his one-man audience happens to still be the same... if a bit more murderous.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2023
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Considering the amount of bullshit Steph puts up with in her day-to-day, she deserves a night off from the emotional terrorism of being associated with the Waynes and their various love interests.
Unfortunately, Steph rarely gets what she deserves.
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Wherever I Am, I Am What is Missing by carolinaa
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
04 Dec 2023
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Damian's father has returned to the present day, and things should feel normal now. Instead, they feel more fractured than ever before. When Damian notices that someone's actually checking up on him, specifically, he drops everything to try and return that contact.
Why doesn't Talia want to talk to him?
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- Part 3 of bat things happen bingo
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There was an intruder in the tower. His teammates were vulnerable. The power was out. The comms were down.
Their only chance was for Tim to try to bring the Red Hood down on his own.
or;
Jason goes looking for a fight. He finds one.
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers by TheSilencer
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
27 Oct 2022
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"Oh." Nightwing said. "It's your first time."
"My what?" Jason said.
"It's like 'The Time Traveler's Wife.' Except I'm not your wife. Not that I'd be a bad wife, but not for you. That'd be gross - Wait, is that movie even out, yet?" Nightwing rambled, and Jason stood up on wobbly legs. "Shoot. I guess it doesn't matter. Not relevant -"
Or Jason Todd is a time traveler, and Dick Grayson is always his destination.
A story about brothers doing their best.
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Family You Made (Go Back, Do it Again) by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
23 May 2022
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He’s nine again– nine and new and knows so many things now so rather than try to go back–
He thinks he has the chance to make things right.
The bright blue trainers he puts on are a pair he hasn’t worn in forever, something he never thought about after he grew out of them (will grow out of?) a year from now, and sets off into the night and into the rain.
The plan he has in his brain is not really a plan, moreso just a couple of half thrown ideas and maybe five steps into building back the life he had in the most painless way he could.
Maybe, he thinks, maybe this plan can start off with the family he misses– because he’s sixty and most of them too injured or too old or too dead–
Call him selfish but he misses them. He would rather find them than get himself back into that lonely existence he called a life before he woke up at nine.
Dick makes do because that’s all he can do really.
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Dick gets sent back in time, but don't worry, he's got this. (Probably)
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Where is Damian? Why can’t he see anything clearly? Where is the little brat? Damian had been by him in the cave when everything had exploded, they had been arguing like always when the two of them had gotten the punishment to go clean the trophy room, stop yelling at each other, stop being at each other's throat for two minutes and go clean the goddamn trophy room-
They had been cleaning, got into another knock out drag out argument, and it had come so close to blows and they had been screaming more than cleaning and-
The stupid fucking shoe, in the magical section- exploded out-
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Tim and Damian switch bodies, the two of them realize exactly why the other does the things they do.
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You, Me, and the Humanity in Between by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
16 Mar 2022
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Bruce doesn’t know what’s wrong with his child, but he’s pretty sure kids aren’t meant to work like this.
From the day he had looked up into the tops of the circus tent and saw a frightened mirror image of a boy who had just experienced the worst day of his life, Bruce had instantly gone into emergency mode.
The Gotham PD had wanted to pass the boy off into the care of the circus. The circus had mumbled underneath their breaths about superstitions, about not having a boy like that with them, about not being able to handle something like Dick. So GCPD, not knowing what to do, had started talking about one of the handful of overburdened boy homes that handles a majority of Gotham’s unlucky orphans.
All the while, the camera lights flash bright and loud, wanting to know everything.
Bruce couldn’t let that happen.
Not then, not ever again.
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Bruce is trying his best to protect the city that he loves. He doesn't know how exactly his Robins came to be- they're not fully human, not even at all. All he knows is that he wants to keep them safe.
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In This or Any Other Universe by wildsofmarch for blueyeti
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
11 Mar 2023
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There was a new vigilante in his city: a man who smiled too much and talked too loud and knew his way around a fight a little too well. Bruce wasn't bothered by his antics. Except the man also seemed to know a little too much about him.
Who was this Nightwing, anyway?
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OR: Dick Grayson (DCU) accidentally lands himself in Battinson’s Gotham.- Language:
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Dark Angels and Demon Brats by RandomReader13
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Red Hood: Lost Days
11 Dec 2021
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After failing to kill Bruce with the bomb under the Batmobile, Jason accepts Talia's offer of training. Instead of returning to Gotham as the Red Hood, Jason devotes himself to protecting his little brother, Damian, as the boy's Dark Angel. But with the League becoming more dangerous, what will Talia do to protect her boys?
(Follows Canon until the end of Lost Days)Series
- Part 1 of Dark Angels and Demon Brats
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Team Player by RandomReader13
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Feb 2024
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Jason Todd is on the run from the League of Assassins, the only home he's known for the past 8 years. He doesn't really want to trade one organization specializing in espionage and assassination for another, but S.H.I.E.L.D. might just provide the safety he needs.
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Star Sapphire Jason by Do_not_careissa
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Green Lantern (Comics), Green Lantern - All Media Types, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
27 Nov 2020
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Children Will Listen by ParkerAvenue
Fandoms: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman - All Media Types
10 May 2023
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Jason Todd is good at extortion. He's what the adults call a snoop - nobody paid attention to the little kid with the big ears. Without even realizing, adults would hand him the keys to getting what he needed. Jason knew how to collect information, because adults found information valuable. And it was. It was free, easy to get, and easy to carry, so long as he kept his head clear and his facts straight.
Jason had information Batman could use. He knew it. He had thought it over all day, sitting on that moldy couch, eating stale saltines. Batman would definitely be interested in the information Jason had.Batman had become scary again, like the old stories Jason used to hear the goons in the area tell. Breaking bones, just barely keeping people alive. Batman didn’t kill, no, but sometimes? Sometimes living was worse, maybe.
Jason stayed crouched behind that dumpster, silent, because he simply couldn’t decide if Batman was far gone enough to make a kid wish he was dead.(Jason Todd knows how to get what he wants, and Batman tries to lure him to safety.)
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And hold to the low lintel up/The still-defended challenge-cup by SonoSvegliato
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
14 Jun 2023
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Tim is almost-finally training to be Robin, kind of. (Emphasis on the “almost”). (Emphasis on the “kind of”).
He’s been sparring with the Hood, Gotham’s newest vigilante, but Hood doesn’t know Tim as Tim, he knows Tim as Jason, but Tim knows that Hood is actually Jason, and honestly, Tim’s just writing the rules up as he goes.
And the stakes are only getting higher. After tragedy strikes the Drakes, Tim ends up in Bruce’s care just as a new series of gruesome crimes plagues Gotham. More than ever, Bruce is determined to keep Tim out of it.
Tim does not keep out of it. (And there are consequences to starting fights you don’t know how to win).
Title taken from “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman.
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- Part 2 of To an Athlete Dying Young
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Trade my Tomorrows (For One Yesterday) by Zell_Hatoule
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
07 Jun 2022
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Things I don't see in DC yet - Dick Grayson time travelling, deciding to join Talon just so he can fuck them up from the inside and then forcibly joins Bruce at 12. Bruce has no idea what to do with a murderous assassin kid who has more of his shit put together than he does. Also, not Dick vicariously adopting all of the Robins and Bruce faced with three smaller children sitting at his table every night looking at him accusingly.
[Taken from a prompt over on tumblr.]
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though your eyes will need some time to adjust by popsunner
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Nov 2020
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“I think…” Stephanie takes a deep breath, “I think I’m bad.”
“I don’t.”
“So what, I’m just supposed to believe you?”
“I am Batman.”
Stephanie snorts, “Yeah, you are… but what if I’m still bad?”
“Then I forgive you.”
_______Or: Stephanie and Bruce, figuring it out
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- Part 7 of DC One-offs
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Late Night Encounters by paperxcrowns
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Teen Titans (Comics)
02 Feb 2021
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Not long after Jason comes back to Gotham and asserts himself as the Red Hood, Tim meets Jason in a diner late at night and by some miracle he doesn't recognize him. After another chance meeting where Jason still doesn't make the connection between him and Robin, Tim decides that this might just his chance to get to know Jason Todd.
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- Part 1 of Brittle Heart
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