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Tim carved himself a place with the Wayne's. He bled for a chance to don a domino mask. He endured condescension, attempts on his life that were met with no reprimand, he even endured Robin - the one thing he had left - being taken and given to Damian. He went on a trip around the goddamn world just to find Bruce after he was lost in the timestream. He cried, fought, bled, underwent medical malpractice, and still found his adopted father. All to be met with no apologies for his eldest brother's threats of Arkahm, and a request for his emancipation so Bruce wouldn't have to run Wayne Enterprises.
Tim Drake-Wayne dropped the hypenation.
He was never a Wayne, and he finally realized it.
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Tim Drake is seventeen, orphaned, running his parents company despite having no interest in the business world, and has been running around Gotham at night for years following Batman and Robin on patrol, and maybe even learned photography along the way, who knows?
Everything was going just fine. So why was his annoying neighbour Bruce Wayne suddenly bothering him all the time about work and coffee and families?
(An AU where Jason and Tim were friends as kids, and Tim finds his way into the bat family by working with Bruce Wayne at Wayne Enterprises)
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PLEASE, DON'T SEND ME AWAY by LYAterallyMe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
24 Nov 2025
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Not Joker, not Harley Quinn, but their son.
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Tim's missing and a new anti-villain is on the loose.
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What does a Stray do, when they truly become a Stray by Nibgnahc
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Gotham City - Fandom, DCU (Comics), DCU
24 Nov 2025
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Tim is Stray. Has been since he was fifteen. Robin never fit, not the name, not the colors, not the legacy.
So what do you do when your mentor chooses the Bat over you?
What do you become when you're left behind, again, and all that’s left is silence, rooftops, and the city that keeps taking?
Tim doesn't have answers.
But Gotham isn’t done with him. And neither are the ghosts he tried to leave behind.
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Are you man enough (to take the blame for this)? by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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Tim misses his best friend. All his friends. His parents. Bruce. Everyone who has left him in the past two years, never to return. Bart is dead. Steph is dead. Kon is dead. Cassie is in a cult. Bruce is dead. Dick is too distracted with Damian to help.
Tim will do anything to feel close to them, to feel loved again. Anything.
Even if it means running away and taking on the world all by myself.
Even if it means killing that part of himself that drives everyone away.
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[PODFIC] Cardinal Kin by Heo_heno
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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Waking up in your 10 year old body is… jarring to say the least.
Presented with an opportunity he can’t waste, Tim fixes everything, but at a cost no one remembers. They’ve forgotten it all.
They’ve forgotten him.
He convinces himself it's better this way...because it is.
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Damian doesn't have the patience for high society, but if he has to conform, he might as well learn from the best.
A continuation of Brothers Fight (you can but don't have to read Part 1 for context)
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- Part 1 of [PODFIC] Better Off
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Three ex-Robins walk into a seedy club by Mewenn
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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Tim didn't exactly decide to create a drag persona and become the sidekick of Gotham's newest rogue. Jason needed help, and it's not Tim's fault that his idea of a second persona is even worse than Tim's. So you see, Tim has no time for this identity crisis thing, he's too busy making sure Jason doesn't die a second time. Also, that new Robin needs to get brought down a peg or two.
Jason knows change is scary but he also knows he's right about his plans for Gotham. He even has his list in priority order:
1. find and kill the Joker.
2. figure out what to do with the stray he's somehow acquired.
3. deal with Batman, Nightwing and the rest.
Now if he could just stop with the doubts and the soul-searching and get onto the murder and the explosions…Dick has a bad feeling about everything. This new Red Hood guy, his too-clever sidekick, the new Robin, Bruce's most recent bout of brooding… Even Barbara is acting like she's got something to hide and, worse, Tim has chosen now of all possible times to implode and disappear. Dick has no time for Gotham's bullshit. His little brother needs him!
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- Part 2 of Two ex-Robins walk into a bar
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The Cold in my Heart is Perpetual (When does it End?) by peonysmoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Nov 2025
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Waking up with the heating broken is far from ideal, when a massive blizzard is hitting Gotham, plunging everyone in cold winter days. Tim needs help, but Tim also doesn't know how to ask for help until he himself tried to help himself first.
He failed.Prompt: “Found family means you don’t have to be blood to be home.”
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- Part 2 of Prompt One-Shots
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i'll be your mirror by whatabeautifulhell
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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The last thing Tim remembers was falling. He remembers the sound of his beating heart and the whipping wind, the lights blurring past and remembering the grappling hook in his belt. But most of all he remembers the overwhelming calm that settled in his mind and numbed his insides, the foreign feeling of peace seeping into his bones. He completed his mission. For Bruce.
He shouldn't have survived a fall from that height, but judging from the unfamiliar location he's woken up to and the bandages currently covering his skin he must've had a little help. Tim is so not looking forward to another lecture.
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What if Dick wasn't there to catch Tim from falling but Jason was.
{Post-Battle for the Cowl and Red Robin #12}
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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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Invasion of the Peter Parker Body Snatchers by dragleban_deubra
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Marvel Cinematic Universe
21 Nov 2025
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"Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good." Peter looked down at his hands, taking a half step toward Tony. His spider-sense started buzzing like crazy in the back of his head. What was going on? They’d lost, but the danger was gone. Thanos was gone.
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After Peter Parker turns to dust on Titan, he expects to die just like everyone else, right? Then why does he wake in a coffin, six feet under in a graveyard?
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After Spider-man dies in the Battle on Titan, saving half of the universe but killing himself in the process, he wakes up buried in a coffin in Gotham city, favorite haunting grounds of the Bat family.
*on hiatus while I scratch a different DC itch*
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Months ago, Tim Drake was captured by the Joker and tortured into believing he is Harley and Joker's son, Junior. Harley decides enough is enough and gets Tim (or is it Junior now?) out.
(I'm horrible at writing summaries, sorry)
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“If something happened to me,” Peter says slowly, “would you tell them? That I was… that we were…”
Tim goes very still.
He pictures it in his mind: the empty rooftop, the silent phone, the absence where Peter’s laughter used to echo. He imagines standing in the Cave, wrapping words around that void.
He imagines saying, He was my boyfriend. He was mine.
The thought hurts. But underneath the pain, there’s something else. A steel line of certainty.
“Yes,” Tim says quietly. “I would.”
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The Possession of Damian Wayne by riversgoingnowhere
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics)
20 Nov 2025
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Tim had experience doing the impossible. And if saving Damian was impossible, then Tim would stop at nothing to succeed. If he could save Bruce from the timestream, even when no one else thought he was alive? He could save Damian from Ra’s.
He’d have to. For Damian. For his little goddamn brother.
Tim and Damian, despite their contentious and tenuous history, have reached an understanding. They are brothers, whether they like it or not.
Not long after (not enough time, never enough time), Damian is stolen from Gotham, plucked right out of Tim’s grasp like that wasn’t his little brother. Like they hadn’t just started getting along.
So Tim will steal him back. Even if it means he has to work for the man (the monster, the Demon) who stole his brother’s face.
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Tim Drake forgets to take his meds and falls into a manic episode. Good thing he has a support system.
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Lazarus Veins by GamerGal003
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Gotham Academy (Comics)
19 Nov 2025
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UPDATED SUMMARY (11-8-25)
Jason Todd didn’t plan on fatherhood.
But a daughter who heals like Lazarus water she’s never touched wasn’t supposed to exist either.Now the family death built in the shadows of crime and justices is bleeding out slowly, its veins full of memory and ruin.
Memory that Tim Drake feels shifting one at a time, an infection of the mind.
Ruin that Damian fears is his future as he reaches for a legacy not written in blood— trusting in a mirror who doesn’t know whether to stay.
Ra’s al Ghul’s empire is fracturing as his daughter builds her own from its wreckage.
Slade burns for revenge.
And LexCorp’s experiments have left Conner- Kon- scrambled between obsession, love, and identity.Meanwhile, Owls whisper the hunt of Lazarus Blood— and the very Pits they seek to control are ill and fractured in trading decay for something what is still alive.
Between chaos, comedy, love, and loyalty, we learn blood doesn’t make family.
But what’s in the veins can be the difference between the dead and the undying.
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- Part 1 of Bat Family Things
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Tim suffered long lasting effects from the attack on the Tower.
After getting replaced, bringing Bruce back and feeling tired he leaves to a secluded town away from any Bat related drama.
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Once, he was their brightest mind. The quiet heart that held a fractured family together. Then they broke him.
Years have passed, and winter returns to Gotham with its cold forgiveness. A single invitation arrives, summoning the one they abandoned to a house that no longer feels like home. Beneath the glow of Christmas lights, old wounds stir, and forgotten names begin to bleed again.
But some memories don’t return for warmth. Some come back to remind the living what they chose to forget.
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And the toughest part (is that we both know what happened to you) by Rinfcv
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
19 Nov 2025
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Tim Drake is an adult. He has his own suit, his own name, his own place in the world. Everything he ever wanted. But missions no longer fulfill him. Wayne Enterprises keeps him busy, and the Nest feels emptier than ever.
Something inside him knows that if he keeps on this way, he won't be around much longer. And if he's honest with himself, he's not sure that bothers him.
Or, Tim Drake made a mistake, and he doesn't know how to forgive himself. But he has too many siblings and friends to help him.
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- Part 2 of A Bat and his Birds
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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