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Rated T For Traumatised by WibWoby
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU (Comics), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types
11 Aug 2025
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What was the fun in collecting trauma like pokemon cards if you couldn’t play them?
Peter trades in his gallery of trauma for the Bats’ rogue gallery as he adjusts to living in Gotham, losing his entire universe, and living with the ghosts of the Avengers. It’s not a fair trade—Peter is definitely being scammed for the damned shiny Jigglypuff—but at least he is getting out of this alive. Mostly.
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- Part 1 of Bitsy and the Bats
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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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Peter the Pizza Guy by Irisen
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
20 Jan 2025
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Strange’s second spell does not have anything to do with memory. Maybe Peter should have expected it, as the previous one acted in the same way.
Instead of erasing the memories of the ones he loves across the world, the incantation plucked him from his universe, erasing all traces of his existence, and threw him into a new one.
Now seventeen, having lost his family and friends, he finds himself in a strange world, alone in one of the most dangerous cities across all dimensions.Or : Peter needs money to survive Gotham and picks up a pizza delivery job.
Spider-Man/DCU (Specifically Batman) Crossover
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- Part 1 of Pizzaverse
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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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Dark Matter by mysterycyclone
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Jun 2024
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The last thing Peter sees is Tony's horrified, heartbroken expression leaning over him. The guilt in his eyes is almost worse than the burning pain that's taking Peter apart piece by piece. The world starts to go dark.
There's a flash of gold and green. For one moment, he finds himself standing amongst the Guardians and others. And then darkness again. It feels like blinking; an extended period of nothingness that ends as abruptly as it begins. One moment there’s nothing, the next there’s light.
“Easy,” a woman says. Her words are gentle, and carry a slight accent that he can’t place. "I'm called Wonder Woman. What's your name?"
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- Part 1 of Dark Matter Multiverse
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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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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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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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Gotta Get To Rock Bottom! by emmacortana, tinkerslut
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Feb 2023
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One would think that Peter would learn to keep track of his notebook by now.
One would also think that said notebook wouldn't land him in the middle of a hostage situation.
In other words, Peter's having a horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad day—but, then again, what else is new?
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The Other Side of Freedom (That Little Death) by RandomReader13 for OliOcelot
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
02 Feb 2023
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The BAU gets called in to apprehend Jonathan Crane, a psychopathic mass murderer from Gotham. Between the fear toxin and entering the Red Hood's home city, the team is more than a little concerned. But help might be coming from an unexpected quarter.
AKA
“Batman, BAU. BAU, Batman.” Gordon squinted at Batman. “They’ve agreed to work with you and your team as consultants. Try to avoid incriminating yourselves.”
Batman grunted.CM/DC Week Day 1: "Wheels Up In 30"
CM/DC Week Day 2: Gasses and Toxins
CM/DC Week Day 3: BAU vs DC VillainsSeries
- Part 2 of The BAU Goes Batty
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Held Hostage by lame_unicorn
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
30 Jan 2023
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If someone had asked Jason five years ago where he saw himself in the future, he’d probably have said dead.
He certainly wouldn’t have said the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit.
But in a way, it sort of makes sense.
Even with cases that strike too close to home, he’s so much better off than the way he was before. Even with cases like this one.
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- Part 1 of Held Hostage ‘Verse
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In Tim’s defense, there had never been anyone around to tell him not to drink the water.
All in all, Tim thinks he turned out quite alright. All things considered.
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or: Tim grew up drinking Gotham's tap water. He developed some weird abilities as a result. Bruce, Dick, and Jason react.
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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