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“Why couldn’t you have just liked me?” Jason asks. He feels hot tears cutting their path down his face. It dawns on him that he was never laughing at all.
“I do like you, Jason. More than anything,” Bruce insists, tone hard. “You have to know that.”
“Then why do you keep trying to change me?” Jason asks.
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Eaters: Humans with an uncontrollable need to consume human flesh.
Jason is a starving Eater dying to Eat. Tim is an Eater starving to be loved. Bruce is a grieving human looking for a cure. In the most horrific ways, all of them get what they want.
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Reclaiming Innocence by MurtaghMorzanson
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
15 Nov 2022
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Jason Todd was kidnapped at nine-years-old and given two options. Work for his keep, or be forced to to work for his keep.
His life was not pleasant, but Jason was nothing if not a fighter, and dammit if was he going to let the hell around him kill who he was as a person. Or his dreams of growing up and going to college.
Those dreams suddenly came a little more into focus, when his idiot of a pimp accidentally tried to rent him to Bruce Wayne. Poor bastard could have never guessed he was the Batman himself. Heck, not even Jason figured that out, at first. And Batman had practically adopted him.
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- Part 1 of Reclaiming Innocence
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After successfully rescuing Tim Drake from his parent’s house, it seems like it’s back to status quo for Jason as he eases into patrols and detective work again. However, something sinister is gripping the city, and he’s starting to think there’s a little more to Tim than any of them were prepared for
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- Part 2 of Hunted
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There never was a Jason.
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Tim Drake lives with monsters. The same monsters behind Batman's latest homicide case.
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- Part 1 of Hunted
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He corrals them out of sight and into a cab, by repeating the murmured It’s fine we are OK like a mantra and doesn’t let go of Bruce’s hand as they walk up towards the imposing shadow of Wayne Manor. He rarely takes this path by foot, especially nowadays, but tonight he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving Bruce to trudge on alone.
Jason and Bruce get cornered by a mugger one night, at an alley. Jason thinks they are fine, until Bruce collapses behind him, and they deal with the aftermath when they are both feeling more than a little raw.
Alternatively, Jason guards Bruce as fiercely as Bruce guards Jason.
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Apparently, Mr. Oz decided psychologically torturing a 15 year-old for six months was no longer "cool." And now Tim's paying the price for that, because instead of killing him like any good, self-respecting villain would, he's dropped him back on Earth with an apology and a snack.
Or,
It's been six months for Tim. It's been 10 years for Tim's family.
I'm sure it will all be fine.
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Bookmarked by ShadowBoom
02 Jul 2025
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The Scent of Desperation by CatchFishAlive
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
05 Feb 2026
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Tim Drake has had a difficult few years. He’s lost friends, family and his place in the city. He been all over the world, and now he’s back, he’s not satisfied with things returning to the way they were.
He’s used to playing whatever role is needed to get the job done. Business COO. Masked Vigilante. A beta. In a world where everything seems designed to keep omega’s well behaved and pliant, he’ll do all he can to help as many of them as possible retain their freedom. With his training and resources, it shouldn’t be an impossible task.
But when the police and Bats are cracking down upon packless omegas and the dangerous drugs that are circulating the city, and there's a family that wants to rebuild the bridges of their relationship, staying undercover is more important and challenging than ever.
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Northern Attitude (I Was Raised on Little Light) by theskeptileptic
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
09 Jan 2025
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It's not *Tim's* fault Batman slept with his mom sixteen years ago, or Tim's fault that Bruce Wayne regrets signing away his parental rights fifteen years ago, but Jack Drake sure thinks it is. Now Damian is bugging him about cows and family and Jason and Dick won't stop kidnapping him and Bruce is acting like court orders don't matter, like he doesn't have a huge bat-shaped secret to protect from literally the whole freaking world.
Why is Tim the only functioning adult in this situation?
This was supposed to be coated in angst, but it fell in the fluff bucket instead. (So, update, some people are saying this may not be as fluffy as I am advertising it. I plead the 5th.)
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Bookmarked by ShadowBoom
15 Jun 2025
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Civilian Tim Drake & Family for the hearts <3
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Tangled Web (and how it unraveled) by Covenyt2950
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman - Fandom
09 Nov 2025
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Three times Bruce hid from his sons that he is a vampire and the one he and Damian were caught and hunted down by them. Or how Bruce's worst nightmare came true and now he and his youngest son will be killed by Dick, Jason and Tim.
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- Part 2 of Supernatural ( or mob) Batfamily Stories
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Shortcut to Maturity by Isonian
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
02 Dec 2024
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Jason is just trying to survive on the streets of Gotham--made slightly more difficult by the fact that some gang has apparently decided to make him their most wanted person. Until he befriends a kid-who-definitely-isn't-Robin, who promises to help him reunite with his dad. And, well, Jason's not in the habit of accepting favors. But maybe it would be worth it, just this once.
Featuring ghosts or zombies or hallucinations, misunderstandings (both unintentional and entirely intentional), lots of identity shenanigans, and some discussion of dads.
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When Garth asked Jason what phrases he wanted translated, the mer hunched down in the water and blew furious bubbles before huffing, “No.”
Garth frowned. You already know how to say that. What other things do you need to be able to say to Bruce and Alfred?
Of the speech, Bruce recognized his name and maybe Alfred’s. It made it feel like something was clawing inside his chest, knowing that he couldn’t communicate properly with this child living in his pool.
Jason curled his lip back. I know human words.
You really don’t.
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Or: Mer Jason's recovery from trafficking.
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- Part 2 of Broken waters
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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Canon Divergence where Naruto and Sasuke decide to stick together as orphaned kids and build from there.
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Bookmarked by ShadowBoom
02 Dec 2024
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I read this years ago and it was a real TRIP that touched my soul. I didn't bookmark it back then because I didn't even know how to.
Very very heartwarming.Brother to You by Inrainbowz
Canon Divergence where Naruto and Sasuke decide to stick together as orphaned kids and build from there.
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Tim is peacefully enjoying a lazy summer afternoon on the ocean, when something large and shark-like nudges the bottom of his boat.
It’s not a shark.
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Jason is fourteen and a seasoned street-kid. Tim is brand new to the streets and somehow ends up in Jason’s care.
Bruce doesn’t even know that they’re out there.(Yet.)
In which Jason and Tim are homeless orphans, each making sure the other survives.
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The one where twelve-year-old Jason and nine-year-old Tim are kidnapped by a serial killer and later escape, and Dick wants to adopt Jason, and Jason has already adopted Tim.
And also Tim has already adopted Jason even harder than Jason has adopted him, and he will fight anyone who comes near. And Bruce wants to adopt them all but keeps getting stymied.
This will be dark in places. Please mind the tags. Specific trigger warnings will be in the chapters.
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- Part 1 of Through the Walls
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fragile truces and the spaces in between by pennneminem
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
08 Dec 2022
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the things unspoken that make up family
or: tim gets burned every single time
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You're tired, you're broken
You're cut and you're bruised
But nothing's too heavy,
Just hold on
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Two scenes after the world falls down on them. Two different moments in time and in life where they wonder what they mean to each other. Two similar situations that reflect each other like mirrors as they face the heavy weight of potentially losing each other.Two brothers carrying each other home.
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- Part 1 of So You'll Know That I'll Carry You
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He settled back on his cushions, glowering. Blasted girl, falling ill at such an inopportune time. Didn't she know how much he was enjoying their game? This irritation troubled him more than expected. She was already practically malfunctioning to begin with given her perpetually leaking orifices.
Or, Komugi's cold sets off a series of events, the Chimera Ant King doesn't understand and suspects it's contagious (because what else could explain his strange symptoms), Shaiapouf tries his damnedest at everything, Neferpitou is an agent of chaos, and Youpi is the straight man.
Bookmarked by ShadowBoom
17 May 2024