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The Burden of Wings by Casey_Bones
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Nightwing (Comics)
25 Nov 2025
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Ra’s al Ghul’s failed experiments left scars the Batfamily can’t hide. Jason lost his hearing. Dick lost his voice. Tim lost his sight. Damian was paralyzed before he was even born. Adopted by Bruce Wayne, innovative technology keeps them in the field, but it can’t shield them from stigma, or from their own demons.
Jason believes family is all they need. His overprotectiveness clashes with Dick, who wears the mask in public, using his silence to distract the world from the truth about his brothers. Tim and Damian, meanwhile, are desperate to prove they’re more than fragile pieces of a broken team.
But when Ra’s returns and the past resurfaces, the fragile balance shatters. Secrets unravel, trust fractures, and each brother must confront what it means to be broken, to be enough, and, despite everything, to still be a family.
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It's Called a Murder by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
22 Nov 2025
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Two weeks and four days after Jason Todd’s funeral, Tim Drake realized Batman couldn’t be Jason’s legacy. He was eating cereal while watching the news, typing up notes about what had been going on in Gotham and occasionally remembering to actually take a bite of his breakfast. Batman was getting worse; it was only a matter of time before someone died. And not someone like the Joker (who honestly deserved it), but somebody who had no other option than to hold up the local corner store. So what could he do?
Looking back, he wasn’t entirely sure why he’d decided that becoming a Rogue was his best option.
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Tim leaves Gotham after burning all his bridges with the Batfamily and starts to discover who he is outside the cape. Meanwhile, back in Gotham, the Batfamily begins to realize just what they lost. Set to What Ifs from Mean Girls the Musical.
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- Part 3 of On Wednesdays We Wear Kevlar
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Bruce didn't like ghouls, he spent majority of his time as Batman fighting them so it was hard to digest when Jason turned into one. And when a hungry Damian arrived on his dor steps he promised himself that he wold raise him like a human boy, it was for the best.
Luckily a not as human as Bruce tought Tim woldn't let his brother starve, and if he got something for himself... well that was a plusor
in wich Tim is very hungry and he doesn't care if Bruce thinks eating humans isn't appropriate
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A Ghost of Yourself by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
11 Nov 2025
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Tim Drake died when Robin cut his line. There was no flag pole or ledge to catch himself on. No backup grapple at the ready. Lucky for him, Gotham has never been one to give up her soldiers. Now an undead that is permanently bound to Gotham as her protector, Tim learns the importance of self-worth. And that maybe his "family" isn't what's best for him.
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Tim heard Jason joking about being a zombie and said, "hold my beer." Featuring semi-sentient Gotham.
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- Part 1 of Memento Mori
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Jack Drake dies, becomes a ghost, watches his son suffer, and makes one wish: to go back and do better. The universe agrees, because clearly, someone needs to be the emotionally competent adult in the Batfamily.
Now back, Jack is determined to be the father Tim deserves. He just didn’t expect to also end up co-parenting Gotham’s most dysfunctional collection of emotionally stunted vigilantes.
Somehow, he’s become the Batmom and he’s rolling with it.
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- Part 1 of Hit the Road, Jack
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The Boy Who Was Both (A Maze Runner x Batfamily Story) by CrimsonNova
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner, The Maze Runner (Movies)
02 Nov 2025
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He was Tim in Gotham.
He was Thomas in the Maze.
And somewhere along the way, he forgot how to be either.After escaping WCKD, Tim Drake returns to the Batfamily—but nothing fits. The memories are fractured, the scars are deep, and the Gladers? They’re only alive in his nightmares.
Until black-veined bodies start showing up in Gotham.
Until a Griever bleeds out in a sewer.
Until Minho crashes into the Batcave and says two words:
“They’re back.”And so is WCKD.
A story of fractured identities, lost brothers, twisted experiments, and the impossible question:
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IT’S BIG V E N T I N G HOURS TONIGHT!!!
no really, the notes are Once Again jam packed with venting, be ready to scroll. I have a lot of feelings. too many feelings. I need the fucking catharsis (and You Also need the fucking catharsis, so feel free to vent back).I’m feeling much better now that I yelled…and made Tim say hella violent things. it’s what he deserves for surviving as much Wayne bullshit as he does.
side note: Jordanna Spence could save us. she could defeat the evil. I know it.
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- Part 1 of #NotMyDickGrayson
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you didn't plan (on the bombs in the sand) by lost_in_the_oranges
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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When Sheila Haywood learns her son has been adopted by Bruce Wayne, she writes a letter to him, asking for help.
It gets delivered to Tim Drake, who thinks there's something weird going on.
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If Tim wants to be Bruce's kid, he'll have to face his parents and Gotham's legal system first.
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The Bird Buried In The Backyard Belongs To No One by Thefablecollector
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Death in the Family (Movie 2020)
24 Sep 2025
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Jason Todd-Wayne dies at fifteen. He doesn't come back. The world moves on.
Bruce adopts more children, they don't even know his name. No-one talks about those three years between Dick and Tim, the memorial in the bat-cave, or the old kid's drawing stuck to the fridge with a bookfair magnet.
But the falling books in the library remember, the flickering lights, and the chandelier they've had to replace three times.
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The Weight Of Robin by Leedley
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
24 Sep 2025
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Tim Drake knows Gotham never sleeps—and he refuses to, either. But exhaustion leaves cracks, and Black Mask is waiting to exploit them. A botched mission turns into a brutal trap, leaving Tim broken and bleeding, forced to face the weight of his choices.
“Tell me,” Sionis whispered, his tone dripping with mockery. “Does Batman ever think about how easy you make it for me? Or does he just keep sending birds into the storm, waiting for each one to break its wings?”
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“Because he isn’t a good man Tim. Bruce Wayne…Batman….whoever, is not a good person. He has always been that way. And if you go to him now and try to be his Robin, he will hurt you constantly. He will punish you for not being Jason Todd and he will abuse you. And it will go on for years.”
Tim stared up at his older self as if he had grown two heads. “What? No, he wouldn’t! He’s Batman and even if he’s a little crazy now, Batman doesn’t hurt kids!”
His older self looked at him sadly. “That’s a lie Tim,” he said quietly. “I’ve got the scars to prove it. He will hurt you and he will allow others to hurt you as well.”
OR, the night before little Tim Drake goes to Batman to convince him to take him on as Robin, he gets a visit from an older version of himself who tries to convince him to go a different route in life, one that just might make him happier than being Robin ever would.
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After an accident on patrol, Bruce decides to send Damian back to the league.
Tim is not having it though, and the two boys devise and execute a plan to run away.
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i bet it never ever occurred to you that i can't say "hello" to you and risk another goodbye by thepurplespirit
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
03 Sep 2025
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It’s been eleven months since Jason walked out on Tim without warning.
No fight. No final words. Just a locked burner phone and a city of cold silence between them.
Now, a pattern of near-misses and brief sightings has haunted them both—Jason watching from rooftops, Tim glancing over his shoulder on patrol, unspoken grief simmering beneath every mission report.
And then, a League splinter cell forces a recon mission that neither can avoid. Bruce assigns them together.
Jason almost says no.But this time, he doesn’t.
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- Part 11 of song fics
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Your Room Was Square, I Once Noticed From There In Your Bed, As You Slept, And I Held My Breath by StarDustOnTheMoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
04 Aug 2025
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It had been months, and yet he could still feel unwanted hands dancing across his skin. Those deceptively soft touches that left him sore and covered in bruises for weeks... he swears sometimes that he was still there, that these past few months had simply been a dissociative illusion.
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Even though these encounters were only casual, Tim knew exactly where he wanted to be.
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How To Kill The Batman: Guide For Dummies And Reincarnated Souls Alike by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Jul 2025
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Thrown into the DC world, a world she thought only fiction, June would like the record to state that she is so, so unbelievably screwed.
She has never read comics; has only seen Teen Titans and a few episodes of the animated series. Sure, she knows things about the comics, but she never read any directly. All she knows is from friends, Tumblr users, and shitty fanfic on the internet!
Is this because she went on a month-long comic-fan-content binge before she died? Before that month of craziness, she hadn't even known how many Robin's there were! Was this cosmic punishment, for how many times she uttered “At least I'm not a comics fan” before making a hypocrite of herself?
Now, her favorite Robin (tied, of course, with Dick Grayson, which her brother would undoubtedly agree with and co-sign) is her brother!
Which iteration is she in? What does she need to be prepared for? Joker Junior? Ra Al Ghul? How shitty is this version of Bruce Wayne?
It's time to put her money where her mouth is: she always said, during that last month of life, that if she was ever transported to the DCU, she'd do one specific thing.
“I have to kill Batman,” June Drake swore.
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The Mountain Keeps What It’s Given by Ireadtoomanybooks, Iwritetoomanybooks
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
06 Jul 2025
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Tim Drake disappears without a word. No final message, no clue—just silence. Far from Gotham, deep in the haunted belly of the Appalachian wilderness, he finds what he’s been denied his entire life: peace. But the mountains are old and hungry, and they remember every wound he ever carried. While his family begins to understand the depths of their failure, the forest sings lullabies to the broken boy it refuses to let go
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When Damian accidentally reveals he's been meeting with the very-much-alive Jason Todd—who the Batfamily still believes is dead—he panics and claims he’s a medium who speaks to Jason’s ghost. The lie spirals into full-on ghost fraud, with Damian solving murder cases using “spiritual guidance,” Jason playing along with increasingly chaotic antics, and the Batfamily growing emotionally dependent on the idea of Ghost Jason. But when a real cult tries to resurrect the dead, the truth—and Jason—come crashing back into the light.