Don't Ghost Me
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The ghosts we don't grieve by BronzeLining
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
08 May 2026
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Your world is gone. Your life is forfeit. Those are two things I cannot change, the voice warned him gently. I can give you another version of your family. But I must tell you, this world and the people you will see won't be the same. A silent death may be better than this fate.
Once, Tim had dreamt of silent death. Once, Tim had yearned for unearned peace.
Tim didn’t speak, and still the voice sighed. I see. I will choose a good world for you. You will fall in love with it. It will break your heart. It spoke with certainty that rang with great weight. Do you still want it?
Tim thought of family. Of loneliness. Of all that lay in between.
Forcibly, painfully, Tim parted his lips. Breath rattled free, and he croaked out, “Yes.”
Oh, child, it mourned, and then a hand pressed against his chest and a scream ripped free from his body. Like the howling of a beast.
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Tim's family, planet, and universe are destroyed in a matter of years. He dies, too, in the end, but is given a second chance at existence in a different world. A world where Damian is the first Robin and everything is backwards.
He takes it.
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- Part 1 of Don't Ghost Me
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Outtakes by BronzeLining
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
13 May 2026
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Moments that didn't fit in "the ghosts we don't grieve". Mostly angst, so beware.
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Winners might write history, but it’s the losers who make that history possible. Their footprints could be found everywhere if you looked hard enough. If you cared enough to look.
But the thing about losing this kind of war meant that there was no one left to look. The Corruption didn’t win; it took everything, mercilessly. There were, quite literally, no winners. Just the dead and the soon-to-be-dead.
Tim was the last to remember, and then after him, there would be no one.
There would be nothing.
Series
- Part 2 of Don't Ghost Me