CynicalRainbow
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While on the hunt for Horcruxes, a chance encounter with Death Eaters ends with Harry being sent back in time to 1942 and de-aged to five years old. The horcrux inside of him leads Headmaster Dippet to the absurd conclusion that Harry must be Tom Riddle’s son from the future. Dippet believes it is best for model student Tom to take care of Harry until they find a way to send him back to his time.
Tom is not happy with this arrangement at first.
Previously titled Learning to Love
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- Part 1 of How to Love
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Alternate POVs, unwritten scenes, peeks in the future...this fic is a place to post bonus content for my series How to Love for Dummies.
Post suggestions for chapters in the comments.
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- Part 2 of How to Love
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Jason Todd gets a dog (and a brother) by CynicalRainbow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Oct 2025
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While on patrol, Jason Todd finds a tiny, shivering puppy behind a dumpster. He can’t just leave it there. Bruce shouldn’t be the only one who can take in strays.
Tim Drake did not expect to be transformed into a dog while stalking Batman and Robin. He certainly didn’t expect Robin to take him home. Tim really should tell them he’s not actually a dog but they keep cuddling him and it’s not like anyone will notice he’s gone.
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BOOK TWO: Harry and Tim Drake by CynicalRainbow
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Batman - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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Welcome back to Harry and Tim Drake's second year at Hogwarts.
It has been nearly two years since Harry Potter successfully escaped the Dursleys and found himself in Gotham. Since then he's faced a Cerberus, saved a unicorn and faced his parents murderer who, for some reason, didn't seem that interested in killing him.
Harry thought his life couldn't get any crazier but nothing could prepare him for a baby ninja, a disembodied voice in the castle walls and an escaped convict who is apparently very interested in killing him. Tim is going to need a lot of coffee to get through this year.
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- Part 2 of Harry and Tim Drake
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Harry and Tim Drake by CynicalRainbow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2024
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At ten years old, Harry Potter successfully escapes from the Dursleys and finds himself on Gotham’s streets. There he meets a young boy with only a camera as company.
Together they hatch a plan that will make sure Harry never has to return to the Dursleys and the boy doesn’t have to be alone anymore in an empty mansion. Harry Potter is going to die and Harry Drake, twin brother of Tim Drake, will be born.
Things get a bit more complicated when they both receive letters on their eleventh birthday.
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- Part 1 of Harry and Tim Drake
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Harry and Tim Drake by CynicalRainbow
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Jul 2025
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The Shield of Ithaca by Runs_With_Wolves1
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
17 May 2025
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The Fates cast Percy Jackson into the past to right the wrongs that threaten the future, but he must journey back further than he imagined to stop them. He finds himself in the time of The Odyssey, where Ithaca is overrun with suitors vying for Queen Penelope's hand. The key to saving the world, to defeating Gaea, lies somewhere on Ithaca, and Percy must assume the identity of Antinous, infiltrating the suitors to find it.
To protect Penelope and her son, Percy plays a dangerous game. By day, he mocks tradition and courts the queen with sharp smiles and hollow words. By night, he intercepts assassination attempts and secretly leads Telemachus away from ambushes he doesn’t even know he’s avoided. He is their shield and protector.
But the queen and her son don’t see a protector. They see a threat.
To them, Antinous is the most cunning and dangerous of the suitors. Arrogant, intrusive, and far too clever. Telemachus loathes him, believing him the sharpest knife at his mother’s throat.
As time goes on, Percy must decide how far he’s willing to fall to save the world, and whether a hero’s heart can survive behind a villain’s name.
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When Harry Potter sacrifices himself to end Voldemort, sometimes he dies and comes back to his own world. Sometimes he does not.
A 21-year-old Harry Potter dies in the Forbidden Forest and wakes up as a professional Quidditch player in a political marriage with Tom Riddle. He tries to find his way back home, unearths his father's darkest secret, and unintentionally manages get Tom Riddle to fall in love with him. -
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Janet Drake never wanted kids.
Janet’s parents were so insistent that she be kept in the public eye to distract from the shady doings of Drake Pharmaceuticals at the time, that she had caught the eyes of many greedy men and women. Janet was not going to allow her son to face the same wandering eyes and greedy hands. Timothy was to stay in on the weekend and before and after work hours while others are out and about, but could roam the grounds while others are at work or school.
He is to remain unseen and unknown.
Nobody knows the drakes have a child.
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Prompt: Tim Drake's parents pass away when he’s young and since he’s used to surviving on his own he lives in Drake manor by himself for a few years (while stalking the bats ofc) until he needs something or has some dire info on a case that without it, Batman wouldn't be able to figure it out. I'm thinking he walks up to Wayne Manner wearing his best ratty clothes and just knocks on the door. Either Alfred or little Jason open the door and introduce Tim to Bruce. Cue interrogation, then an adoption attempt at which Tim runs away. Cat and mouse. Tiny Tim running through park row like he's a ‘street kid’. (I'm making it up as I go along)
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Doomsday is close at hand (it’s only the death me) by Sage_Koi
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
04 Nov 2025
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After watching his family die, Tim is given a second chance at saving those he loves. To protect them, he has to make sure they stay far away from him, so he becomes exactly who his parents always wanted him to be.
He’ll be Timothy Jackson Drake, and he will play his role perfectly.
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After Drake Industries takes a big hit, Jack and Janet Drake send their son to stay with Bruce Wayne. They assume that he will understand that they are trying to sell Tim to him in exchange for him helping their company. Bruce mistakes the Drakes constant insinuations of comparing Tim to Dick and Jason as them possibly wanting Bruce to adopt Tim. Tim knows everything that is going on, and does not want his whole life to fall apart when Bruce eventually realizes that his parents were trying to pimp him out, so he stays quiet. But after bonding with Jason and Dick, he finds it hard to convince himself that his parents are worth it.