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Jason Todd thought he would die early on the streets. Instead he finds himself adopted by Janet Drake. Now he needs to navigate a new sibling, enough food, and plenty of Bat-Brand chaos before it all slips through his fingers.
Or: What would happen if my favorite middle children grew up together in a different family? Featuring my usual platonic A/B/O worldbuilding, peripheral Batman shenanigans, and completely different introductions into vigilante life.
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Contrary to popular belief, drakes don’t have wings and can’t fly. Drakes aren’t dragons, after all. But while drakes may not fly nor have wings, robins can and do; and that’s where Tim made his mistake. In trying to be a robin, he forgot that he always was, and always will be, a drake.
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5 times Tim mentions losing his wings +1 time he gets them backSeries
- Part 1 of If you Give a Drake Wings
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Does Beholding Dream of Electric Eyes? by Skull_Bearer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
23 Nov 2025
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Following Prentiss' attack and the destruction of the Not!Them, Jon and Martin negotiate new allies, new friends, and new enemies. And the demands of Beholding, steadily growing in It's power.
Sequel to A Shutter, Darkly.
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- Part 2 of Enlightened Self-Interest
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The Shadow of Helgen (Book 1) by C_R_Scott
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
22 Nov 2025
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One of Gotham City’s iconic “Robins”, Tim Drake was transported to a strange medieval world with no memory of how he arrived. Mistaken for a rebel soldier by the Imperial Legion, he found himself facing execution in the town of Helgen. His life was ultimately spared not by mercy or justice, but by the cataclysmic appearance of a black dragon that razed the town of Helgen and left him with agonizing physical and psychological wounds.
As he struggles to survive in this new land of Skyrim, Tim's main goal is to find a way home. However, this mission is continually derailed by the needs of the locals, his own near crippling injuries, and the looming threat of the dragon he had the misfortune to survive.
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Seth Ridley was back again. Tim, his newly assigned T.O. had no idea why he was even still trying and honestly just hoped, he'd quickly realise he wasn't cut out for it and quit once for all. But maybe things start turning out a bit differently.
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- Part 2 of Seth Ridley centred
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Hear it in your tone (you're slowly letting go) by sexyPineappleMan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
20 Nov 2025
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Ambitious like his father, the media preached as Timothy saved DI from collapse. Clever like his mother, they wrote as Timothy bought up small seemingly unprofitable industries and made them bloom under his company’s care, bringing DI’s stocks back to their former glory within a year. A true son of Gotham, they said as Timothy developed his offices in the city and went above and beyond to pay his workers fair wages. Selfless, they called him as Timothy reduced his own salary to ensure DI would survive these changes, sacrificing his time and dreams to keep the company afloat. Tragic, they all but wrote in every article, unable to keep themselves from rehashing his parents’ deaths.
At only 19, Tim is one of the youngest CEOs in the world. He’s certainly the youngest CEO of a fortune 200 company.
And yet, it takes little to make his empire collapse like a house of cards.
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for a pessimist, i'm pretty optimistic by celestialbodys
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
19 Nov 2025
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When Robin is presumed missing or dead by the public, and Jason Todd has been absent from school for longer, Tim Drake takes it upon himself to investigate his disappearance. The problem is, things get much worse before they get better.
AKA Tim Drake's no-good-very-bad summer break.
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- Part 1 of dog days
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He’s sore all over. He doesn’t remember going to bed. Did he have a rough patrol? No, he took the night off. It was his birthday, so Steph and Jason—
His birthday. He’d—Bruce had handed him a drink and he’d tossed it back without a second thought. He’d never imagined that it might be—that Bruce might—
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Tim belongs to Bruce now.
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- Part 2 of A Spoonful of Sugar
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Tim never felt seen. He was always in the background, there for convenience. He was never wanted, not by his parents, not by Batman, not by his supposed 'siblings', not by anyone. Fading in to the background wherever he went, giving away every part of him and never getting anything back, and turning into a shell of the boy he once was, Tim breaks.
or; a fic inspired by Invisible by 5 Seconds of Summer.
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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
17 Nov 2025
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Tim, the ever vigilant (always awake and never giving himself a break) vigilante, gets word of a drug bust going down. One he just so happens to be the only one available to stop. Which happens to be taking place in the very early hours of his birthday. Of course he goes on the highly dangerous bust alone. What could happen?
Or: Tim is used to being the Robin that gets thing handled, that doesn't need Batman to come rescue him. Bruce Wayne had made it very clear in the early days that Tim was not his son. Alfred Pennyworth was cold, allowing only the politeness and distance to show through his Iron Wall. Dick Grayson treated him the way he wished he'd treated his brother, Jason.
Tim was fine with this. He wasn't a child. Even if he wished for more of the small slivers of love the Wayne family were just starting to give him, he wouldn't dare take Jason Todd's place. He just hoped the support he provided for the grieving family would make Jason proud. But Jason Todd came back, and he sure made it known he wasn't. He made sure Tim knew exactly what he thought of the cuckoo in his family.
Now, the Wayne family has their lost son back and Tim has a job to do. Just, not in this dimension?
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- Part 2 of Imaginary Friend
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you can't understand (what you never learned) by krumthechair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Nov 2025
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When a petty thief activates an ancient artifact by accident, suffice to say Timothy Jackson Drake does not have a good time. With an 8 year old alternate version of himself to take care of, the next family gathering coming up, his Red Robin duties, and not enough fucks to give; Tim just wanted his coffee.
(Under heavy revision as of 09/05/2025.)
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- Part 1 of little by little
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The Rumor of a Ghost by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
12 Nov 2025
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Tim had patched up Jason after Bruce slit his throat with a Batarang.
Jason had offered Tim a place to stay after his sixteenth birthday.
They were brothers in a world that had left them behind. They were brothers in a world that had been cruelly unfair time and time. They were brothers in a world that hadn’t given much else.
So when Bruce nearly beat Jason to death, uncaring that his son had only shot Penguin with a blank? Tim did what he had to do.
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How Tim became Red Hood.
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When Damian gets sent to Bruce by Talia, it is far from easy for him to make sense of his new family: the interactions seem so foreign, and the relationships are too tangled. Not to mention that there seem to be doubles of Bruce's sons, for some reason.
His own harsh and rather traumatic upbringing is not helping matters, and learning to be a son and a brother is not going to be a smooth journey (for anyone involved).
(This is the reworked version of an earlier draft with a slightly revised plot, more details, and additional POVs).
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- Part 2 of Head above water
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Tim Drake's Guide to Getting Away With Murder (Twice) by kitfornow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
10 Nov 2025
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By choosing not to call the police ten minutes ago, and the hospital twelve minutes ago, and Bruce fifteen minutes ago, the decision has been made. There is no backing out, now.
His sweatshirt is still covered in blood, and soaked from the rain, but he ignores this. It’s fine. He’s fine. He’s the same calm, level-headed Tim he’s always been. So he plans.
Tim is a murderer. He murdered someone. It's an unchangeable, unshakeable fact...but no-one else knows about it. No-one knows what Tim has done. And if he’s smart, and careful, no-one ever will.
All he has to do is learn to live with it.
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Bad Things Happen Bingo by DahFloofySmol
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics)
09 Nov 2025
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In where Tim has a Very Bad Time and can't catch a break. Damian's vaguely impressed that the surprise adoptions haven't killed him yet. Jason and Dick are about ready to put him on house rest for the foreseeable future.
Bad Things Happen Bingo [Prompts]
1# - Poisoned, Delirious
2# - Caged, Muzzled
3# - Hypothermia, Suffocation
4# - Pushing, Pulling
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Nothing beats a Jet Two Holiday. And right now, you can save 50 pounds per person, that's 200 pounds off for a family of four. by rosered27
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU
08 Nov 2025
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"Please, Timmy.” Pulling him into his arms again, Tim didn’t protest it at all. “Just give us a chance to show you that we do, ‘kay? Please?”
Tim sunk into Dick's hug. Sad, hurting, a part of him upset with his parents, and very hesitant. “...I dunno if I can.”
“Then promise you’ll try? Can you do that?”
“....Okay.” He whispered, breath stuttering. “...I’ll try.”
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Tim hasn't had anyone to rely on, and he'd never planned on that being the case...
Maybe he should give it a try?
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- Part 5 of The Great Timboni
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The thought of Bruce being alive couldn’t be snuffed out of him. It wouldn’t leave his mind. He needed to search for him, alone if he had to. He was going to find Bruce and bring him home.
But, right now, all he can focus on is the terrible ache spreading across his body.
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Just want you to feel something by CastrianAmore, dragonssociety
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
04 Nov 2025
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Tim has a perfectly good reputation. Constantly volunteering to charity, cares for his employees. He brought the company record profits and all time employee retainment highs.
Kon-el Kent has a perfectly bad reputation of being a rebellious rockstar. Getting drunk. Crowd surfing, being exceptionally flirty and hot, the whole works.
By no means should their lives have ever crossed. Until a fateful New Year’s Eve party and too many drinks. The tabloids took it and ran…
“CEO of Drake Enterprises Timothy Drake dating lead singer of YJ?!?”
“Kon-el sharing a passionate New Year’s Eve kiss with a new boy? Is the heartthrob finally taken?”
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- Part 1 of Band AU
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Memory File Corrupted by Marsinyellow
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
02 Nov 2025
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“C’mon you don’t have to do the tough guy act with me,” Dick said, hiding what was probably broken ribs by the way he wheezed after Tim landed on him, “It’s only been a few days since you were shot.”
Tim sighed. He knew Dick was too busy to read the full debriefs for files he wasn’t actively working on, but for him to mess up such a simple bit of information was laughable. Instead of correcting his brother, or being pedantic about Dick’s word choice with “a few”, Tim took the high road and simply rolled his eyes and began to make his way up the stairs on his own again.
After all, Tim hadn’t been shot.
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Tim slowly loses his memory. And who is Tim Drake without his mind?
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Tim alone just like every night, chasing after the Bat and birds, finds his hero's in a bad situation. He's never been able to help until now that is... His body is all they need.