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Tim Drake never actually wanted to become part of the Robin-Batman-vigilante outfit. No, really. But the last Robin up and died, and now Batman is going crazy, and no one else is doing anything about it, so...Tim decides to become Robin. He might as well, right? At the very least it'll give him something to do while his parents are gone.
Still, Tim's not taking up the mantle until he can put a couple of things in order. Step one? Making sure the Joker can't get it into his head to kill another Robin. Not ever again. (Good thing Tim's not the one with a 'no killing' rule.)
And then after that? Well, after that it's only just a matter of keeping Batman from learning Tim's identity and subsequently chasing him off. Not until Bruce can get back on his feet and pick a new Robin, a real one this time. Easy-peasy.
Sort of.
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05 Feb 2026
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And something exhausted and brittle in Tim just snaps. “Full disclosure: I don’t care what you think.” A thrill of fear shoots down his spine as he spits those words, but he pushes it down and steps forward, glaring. His heartbeat thunders in his ears. “Look, I’m here to make a deal and I am willing to pay. I want - ”
Between one blink and the next, a searingly hot palm presses against his chest. The demon is suddenly much, much closer. Her stare bores into him as she says, in perfect tandem with his own voice, “ - Jason Todd back from the dead."
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Or, alternatively: Tim makes a deal.
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24 Jan 2026
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“Are your parents not home?” Bruce looks at him evenly, not giving away what he is thinking. “The house was dark all week.”
“Yeah. They’re travelling for work,” Tim says, trying to save himself. He is not sure what Bruce would do with the truth, but his job is to be unobtrusive, not to be a problem.
“But they’re taking me out for dinner this weekend to make up for it.”
That has been one of his dearest fantasies as a child. That his parents would come back early from one of their trips and take him to eat whichever inadvisable food he was obsessing over at the time that was not allowed in the house.
It is an excuse that usually works well with adults. They only ever ask once, anyway, not interested in stirring up trouble.Bruce, of course, is not like other adults and keeps asking. Tim never stood a chance.
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14 Jan 2026
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Every witch needs a familiar, but not every familiar needs a witch. Tim, recently orphaned and freshly adopted, is a familiar that doesn't need a witch, but he needs to be a witch. Because Bruce Wayne, America's most famous familiar, only keeps company with witches. Dick is a witch. Jason is a witch. Robin is a witch.
Tim *needs* to be a witch.
But when Tim's mistakes begin to stack up, his big lie starts to come crumbling down, and his place in the family goes with it.
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