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    “Surrender and it stops. The pain stops, birdie.”

    “Never,” Tim had snarled, and lunged, because Robins didn’t give in.

     

    Tim was standing in front of Jason’s memorial. His suit in the glass case, each rip carefully stitched, each bloodstain carefully washed. Tim backed away, straight into Hood’s chest. “What - what are you doing?”

    “Putting the newest Robin in his place. Robin is pointless, Tim. Something that should’ve been left in the past after this one-” Hood gestured sharply at Jason’s uniform, which was something he shouldn’t have known about, “- went and died. Children shouldn’t be fighting, trained or not.”

    Tim shook his head automatically, halfway to protesting, when Hood pulled the case open, the front sheet of glass swinging like a door. That should be - that should be locked. It took Tim a moment to process what Hood was planning, didn’t realize until Hood carelessly pulled the suit out, watching it spill on the floor, then pushed Tim forward.

     

    Tim had never felt more free than he did flying as Robin, until Robin became another pretty cage.

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    23 Jun 2023

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    It was supposed to be over. People don’t – even Ra’s, who likes to think he knows everything, they don’t understand that the explosion that destroyed that warehouse wasn’t the Joker’s last fuck you. Oh, he wired the place, had it all ready just in case, but he was dead by the time everything went up in flames, his mouth still frozen on his last words – that wasn’t funny. No. It wasn’t him. It was Tim who set it off, cleansed the world of the Joker and Harley and their broken, fake house in their broken, fake world and their broken, fake son. That was supposed to be the end.

    Age Reversal AU, in which Tim is the Robin who dies and is reborn.

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    09 Feb 2016

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    Ficlets set in the same storyverse as "Son of Steel, Daughter of Air".

    Progress is slow-going and hard-won.

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    03 Feb 2016

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    Tim Drake has come into his own. He's a soldier, a leader, a vigilante. Somehow, the Batfamily missed how far away he'd gotten.

    **On hiatus**
    But! With a Podfic:
    https://archiveofourown.org/works/14099280/chapters/32485611

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    03 Dec 2015

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    What if Batman became Batman without all the gobs of cash? What if he was a guy who started out impoverished, as a child, and saw his parents die due to violence, and vowed to protect other people from such things happening to them?

    This Bruce Wayne isn't a rich businessman or famous. He owns a martial arts dojo, and that barely keeps his nose above water. And then he takes in foster kids on top of that.

    But this Batman is just as relentless in his pursuit of justice as his rich counterpart. Will he be able to successfully pull it off as part of society and not above it? Will his lack of funds prove disastrous, or his obviously less sophisticated background make him more of a target for the GCPD?

    And what about the Robins, the Batgirls, and so on?

    These are drabbles about their lives, all interconnected, all with varying levels of humor and angst and fluff.

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    29 Nov 2015