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    “The Joker is dead. Batman is dead. One of those things is good and one is bad, but she’s not sure which is which right now.

    There’s a child sitting on the floor between them, laughing hysterically. That’s an easy one—bad.”

    Harley and Tim are the only survivors of Joker's plan to brainwash Robin. She does her best to pick up the pieces.

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    01 Oct 2025

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    Tim wasn’t a cat person. He wasn’t a dog person either, for that matter. It wasn’t that he disliked them - animals were great in the way that they didn’t expect conversation - rather, it was that he was bad with them. He was bad at communication with humans, and they (mostly) used their words, so he had a hard time figuring out what an animal wanted from him. Unfortunately, this didn’t seem to matter when he opened his eyes and found himself staring at two paws instead of hands.

     

    Tim finds himself in a spot of trouble, and, in an unrelated turn of events, Jason adopts a cat. These things are related in the way that the Batfamily needs to work on their detective skills.

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    04 Jul 2025

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    “How’d you cry so easily?” Duke asks, still entirely too awkward because no matter what Steph says, Duke still thinks Tim is kinda cool in a weird way. A really weird way.

    “Oh, I classically conditioned myself over winter break when I was eleven. All I have to do to tear up is pinch a certain point on my arm. See?” Tim viciously pinches a spot on his inner forearm. Immediately tears start to well in his eyes.

    Or: Duke Thomas dealing with Tim Pod-Baby Drake and what exactly that entails.

     

    EDITS MADE: 09/16/2024

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    19 Jun 2025

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    "What do you want him to do?" Drake snapped. "Admit that he's a little bit worried about you because you fucking died?"

    Damian was on his feet before he knew what happened. He couldn't breathe for the hate burning in his chest. How dare Drake talk about it. How dare he preach as though he agreed. "I'm surprised you pretend to give a fuck, Drake," he hissed, derision and bitterness dripping from the words. "I...I would have thought you were happy I was gone!"

     




    He didn't think about the words until after they left his mouth, after the Cave was deadly silent and the sentence echoed through the room, hung in the air like smoke. Drake's chest was heaving, but he didn't say a word, and his eyes were so dark that Damian actually took a step back in irrational fear. Abruptly, Drake shoved his chair back with a screech, and left without a word, his footsteps resounding through the cave. Damian watched him go, numb.
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    Alternatively, Damian has misjudged Drake, and guilt isn't something he's used to dealing with.

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    24 Mar 2025

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    Tim Drake is eleven years old when he’s grabbed off the streets of Bristol while he’s on his way home. It will be okay, he tells himself: they’ll call his parents, and they’ll pay the ransom, and he’ll get to go home.

    There are pictures of Batman and Robin on the camera he was carrying. A lot of pictures.

    They don’t call his parents. They call Black Mask.

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    or: the one where Black Mask kidnaps Tim and tries to groom him into a ruthless heir, and Tim tries to figure out how to destroy him from the inside out.

    General warnings tagged, anything not covered by those is in end-of-chapter notes to avoid spoilers.

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    19 Aug 2024