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The kid was going to die at this rate, whether or not Jason had anything to do with it. Apparently dead Robins were just a thing, now, and Bruce didn’t give a shit whether they lived or died.
There was something almost comforting about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
There was something fucking infuriating about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
Well. If those fucks didn’t care about their baby bird now, Jason would just have to make them care. And he had a few ideas on just how to do that.
Robin might get a little broken in the process, but what was a little kidnapping and torture between friends?
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a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Steph. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. This is mainly hurt, angst, and reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come! There *will* be a happy ending.
[summary updated 1/21/22]
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- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood
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from every height I’d fall I’d call by CassandrasDreamworld
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Nov 2024
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Tim doesn't expect much after he's left for dead, bleeding out in the ruin that had once been Gotham. His family is dead, his friends as well, and there is nothing else to look forward to besides joining them in the beyond. Dying and delirious, he hangs on by a thread - Long enough for an offer to be made, a request for help and Tim has never been able to say no to that.
He doesn't expect much and he certainly doesn't expect a second chance but it seems like Gotham doesn't let go easily of what they considers to be theirs.
He dies and yet he doesn't. He dies but he lives.
He dies and he is taken back, time unwinding, the clock set back and he is born into a new life. A new him, and at a point where he can change things for the better, if he can survive.
Tahmid al Ghul (Wayne) is born in Spring 1997, as Heir of the Demon Head, as Ibn al Xu'ffasch - nearly twenty years before he died as Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne.
He just hopes he will be able to survive growing up in the League of Assassins, and that he will be able to go back to his family once more.
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- Part 1 of reach out for your hand
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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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Two Weeks Notice by wording
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
19 Oct 2023
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Tim Drake disappears without warning, and the bats blame the Red Hood. Jason doesn't know who took Tim or where he went, but he knows that finding out before the bats will be the sweetest revenge. What he finds only begs more questions, each one more uncomfortable than the last.
A parallel story to Early Retirement.
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- Part 2 of Life Down On The Farm
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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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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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The last thing Tim remembered was red stained sand. His hands pressed into Pru’s neck, blood spilling through his fingers—in Iraq.
He wasn’t in Iraq anymore.
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Or, Tim wakes up in a Gotham where he never existed.
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Banshee In A Well by bugbee, liverobinreaction (bugbee)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
02 Apr 2023
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Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.
But most of all, Tim is alone.
(If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)
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- Part 1 of bury the dead where they're found
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Running Rings ‘Round by justapoorboy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
14 Feb 2023
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The main point of the entirety of this story and the reason that Tim is slowly dying in a pharmacy is that Tim lost his utility belt in the water. While a practical idea at the time, what with the extended period of attempting to keep his head above water, it ultimately resulted in Tim losing his extra strength antibiotics that Leslie had specially tailored to Tim. Therefore, Tim went a day without a dose, a day in which he was dumped into the ocean in the middle of January.
His immune system is thoroughly displeased with him at the moment.
OR: Tim Drake’s… decent into villainy? maybe?? kind of???
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Jason died. But then he came back.
This keeps happening.
(Not a groundhog day loop, but something slightly worse.)
No. 8 EVERYTHING HURTS AND I’M DYING
Stomach Pain | Head Trauma| Back from the DeadSeries
- Part 24 of outrunning karma (whumptober '22)
- Part 1 of dead men tell no tales 'verse
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Now you will not swell the rout/Of lads that wore their honours out by SonoSvegliato
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics)
10 Jan 2023
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It’s been three months since Bruce accepted Tim as Robin, and every night Bruce still patrols alone while Tim microwaves frozen lasagna and finishes his algebra II homework. But Tim is tired of waiting to be ready, and takes up the totally safe, totally sane hobby of midnight streetfighting.
The new vigilante in Gotham takes notice.
Title taken from “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman.
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- Part 1 of To an Athlete Dying Young
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keep your brittle heart warm by yesbutactuallyno
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
10 Jan 2023
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She presses her crayon to the page one last time, adding the final finishing touch. The darkness of the cabinet casts shadows on the drawing, bringing it to life. She stares down at two bright eyes hiding in a swirl of fabric and blackness. The newspaper she’s referencing only has one blurry photo of the phenomenon, but there’s no mistaking the drawing for anything else.
Steph leans back, laying her head against the back of the cabinet to dream of the Batman finally coming to carry her away.
Or: Stephanie Brown is going to be a hero. No matter what it takes to get there.
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when doves cry by Scarlet_Ribbons for SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Jan 2023
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Tim is grateful Hood leaves promptly, in any case, because that means he doesn’t see Tim crawl the last few feet into his house.
[Jack and Janet die uneventfully— at the hands of a home intruder, at 3:41 in the morning on a Thursday. Two gunshots. Tim’s entire world comes to a screeching halt at 3:44, when he finds their bodies.]
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Something is wrong with Jason.
This is as much as Bruce can gather, and it’s what he’s known since the beginning. It’s frustrating enough to make him want to tear his hair out. Because there's nothing. No toxin or external factor controlling Jason. Nothing that could lend itself to explaining why Jason has practically changed overnight.
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A Collision of Masks by movaz
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DCU
05 Nov 2022
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Thirteen years ago, he emerged as Robin, partner to Batman, the infamous vigilante of Gotham.
Ten years ago, the Justice League formed, and Batman refused to join their ranks.
Seven years ago, he lost Robin, and found Nightwing.
Three years ago, he left Gotham for good.
Two days ago, the Justice League became aware of his actions in Blüdhaven.
Today Young Justice showed up at his precinct.Dick Grayson is about to find that none of his masks – Detective Richard Grayson of BPD, Big Brother Dick, or Nightwing – can hide him from the inevitable movement of fate.
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- Part 1 of The Many Masks of Dick Grayson
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“Replacement.”
Tim freezes, gaze still locked on Jack’s prone, silent form sprawled out on the floor, and pulls the phone back to look at the number.
It’s kind of funny, he thinks hazily. Of course he would accidentally kill his dad and then mistakenly call Jason, of all people.
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Jack Drake used Drake Industries to hide his white-collar crimes. Janet Drake used her socialite status to hide her participation in a group of assassins.
Really, they should have expected Tim Drake to reject the idea of being a normal child.
AKA
The Drakes, while criminals, do try really hard to be good parents and raise a normal child. Tim, who tries to be a normal kid, also really wants to be just like his parents.
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Philosopher's Stone (But this ain’t abt Rowling) by StarryKitty013
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Oct 2022
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It started with Jason. Let that be known.
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- Part 2 of Sibling Beta Test
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Parenting is Bruce's thing, and Jason isn't planning on messing with that. But when Bruce fails to spot the countless red flags about Tim's home life, it falls to Jason to step up. Of course it does. Because he's literally the only one in his family who knows how to be responsible, and if Dick disagrees, he can suck it.
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The valet opens the door as he places a ticket under the windshield, a hot breeze lazily snaking its way into the backseat. Then, he climbs out and shuts the door behind him, and the air falls as still as a crumpled quilt.
He doesn’t so much as glance at the backseat window as he walks away, leaving Tim alone to wait.
And that’s… that’s probably fine! His parents did say that going to a gala with them was something for big kids to do, and he already knows big kids are supposed to be able to be able to be apart from their parents without throwing a fit, so maybe this is why. Maybe waiting like this is part of every grown-up event, and that’s why he needed to be a big boy before he could come with them.
So yes. He can be a big boy. He can wait, alone.
It’s even kind of exciting! He’s not sure he’s ever been completely alone, without even a nanny nearby.
He just… well, he wishes they could have left the AC on while he waits.
Day 15 - FEED A COLD, STARVE A FEVER
delirium |fever dreams| beesSeries
- Part 9 of Whumptober 2021