19 Works by wesslan
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Bruised peaches at the bottom of the basket, a drenched fluffy kitten in a cardboard box, a little kid out on a roof way past his bedtime.
She just can’t help herself.
Tim's parents suck, and Selina finds herself on the right rooftop at just the right time. And then she just can't seem to let go of that scrawny little kid.
A long-ish work that slowly tells their story through Selina's eyes.
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“Basically, there’s something wrong with Gotham. Apparently, things don’t, uh. Stay dead here. And the reason I’m recording this is so that when I inevitably get arrested and thrown into Arkham, at least you’ll know that this is all my mom’s fault, really.”
-If Janet Drake’s body hadn’t been unrecoverable, Tim could have just buried her in Gotham, followed her notes, done the ritual, and he would have had her back alive again. She’d be ecstatic! All her research, all her theories about the mysterious life-bringing properties of Gotham’s soil, confirmed!
But she dies far away, body lost at sea, and all Tim has left of her is an empty basement full of her research, all for nothing...
But it’d be a shame to let his mother’s work go to waste... wouldn’t it? And Jason Todd’s grave is right there, in his neighbors’ family graveyard...
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Everyone seems to think that it is Bruce who has a problem with adopting heaps of children. This is incorrect.
Well, Edward Gorey said it best: Perhaps it might be even subtler, if after all it was the butler.
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Or: The five times that Alfred gave a child a home.
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Things I wrote/wanted to write, but that ultimately didn't end up in the final drafts.
Each chapter will contain a description to which fic it belongs, and a short summary.
Newspaper-Boy Voice: Deleted scenes! Things that never happened! Alternate POVs! Read all about it!!
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Tim's parents faked their deaths and fled the country years ago, but neglected to take him with them. He spent some time on the streets, and now at 16, he makes a living as a fortune teller, stalking and hustling the shit out of Gotham's elite by telling them eerily accurate fortunes based on the information he gathers about them.
His life is peculiar but he wouldn't change a thing. When he gets booked for the big Wayne Halloween party, however, he finds himself getting all tangled up with the Waynes, and the more fortunes he tells, the tighter the snare becomes.or: Tim just wanted to scam Gotham's elite, not end up on the Batfamily's watchlist. But it seems they just won't leave him alone..
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For Whumptober 2023
Days 7 & 9. Prompts Used:
Radio Silence, "Can you hear me?", Mistaken IdentityTim Drake, aged 11, finds an abandoned walkie-talkie and decides to start his own little personal radioshow to combat his loneliness. Jason Todd, Robin, happens to have the other walkie, and soon Tim doesn't feel as lonely anymore.
Tim Drake, aged 16, is lonely once again. But now he's Robin. He keeps talking into the walkie, and his one-man audience happens to still be the same... if a bit more murderous.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2023
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For Whumptober 2023
Days 5 & 6. Prompts Used:
Recording, Pinned DownBruce receives a worrying voice message from Dick, who happens to be stuck beneath a building. No one is having a particularly good time. Especially not Damian.
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2023
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For Whumptober 2023
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Shock, "You in there?"Tim's first time seeing someone die while he’s out as Robin doesn't go too well. Especially not when he hadn't even tried to save them, and oh God, Robin can't afford to make mistakes like this, can he?
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2023
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For Whumptober 2023
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"Make it stop."Dick's been kidnapped. Is currently being tortured. Jason isn't the biggest fan of that.
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2023
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For Whumptober 2023
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"They don't care about you."Tim gets sick, but doesn't ask for help. After all, it's not Robin related. Why would they care?
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2023
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For Whumptober 2023
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Safety Net, "How many fingers am I holding up?"Dick finds running into the eight floor of a burning building to be pretty easy. It might be a bit harder to get out and get down on the ground again, though.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2023
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(title from Instant Repeater '99 - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives)
ABANDONED - I'M SO SORRY!!!
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“Ghost?” Dick chokes on his cereal, and Bruce absentmindedly thumps him on the back while staring at Jason.
“Yeah.” Jason doesn’t understand why this is so shocking, “Manor’s haunted. We all know that.”
Everyone just stares at him, and Jason gets the feeling that he might have jumped to some untrue conclusions.
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Or: There's always been something off about Wayne Manor, but Jason never gave it much thought. Now after he's come back to life, though, things are starting to make sense. -
mothman is real and he wants to kill me by wesslan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Mothman (Folklore)
27 Mar 2023
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All Tim wants is a cup of coffee, but his dear brother Dick insists on dragging him along to hunt a murderous and elusive Mothman that he claims is haunting Gotham City, specifically Crime Alley.
Tim doubts it’s really Mothman, seeing as West Virginia is very, very far away. But he gets sucked into the mystery all the same, because saying no to a determined Dick Grayson is about as easy as eating a chair with a pair of chopsticks. And besides, he's always been a sucker for a good conspiracy theory.
Alternatively: Mothman with a gun. Mothman take me by the gun? GlockMan? I think I’m losing it.
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Tim doesn't sleep much, and as a result he hallucinates sometimes. He keeps hallucinating a pair of green eyes in the dark.
At the same time he struggles with his place in the fractured batfamily, and tries chasing the Red Hood, who surely is completely unrelated to these green eyes he keeps seeing... right?cue kidnappings, bad decisions, and a whole lot of food!
a bit angsty, but with a happy ending because i REFUSE to write sad ones. title is from "people got a lotta nerve" by neko case :)
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In the distance, way over by the docks, Jason saw a pillar of smoke. He wrinkled his nose at it. Explosion. The Bats must be having a busy night. So why was Tim calling him?
“Jason!” Tim wheezed out again, sounding absolutely delirious. “Don’t let them bury me with my parents.”-
or: tim's dying. he has one last request, and it doesn't matter who he calls. he's just gotta tell someone.
jason is the one that picks up.
(inspired by the song "o bury me not on the lone prairie" by sons of the pioneers)
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In Tim’s defense, there had never been anyone around to tell him not to drink the water.
All in all, Tim thinks he turned out quite alright. All things considered.
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or: Tim grew up drinking Gotham's tap water. He developed some weird abilities as a result. Bruce, Dick, and Jason react.
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Catwoman startles at the sudden lights coming from the screen in front of her.
“Bruce?” She asks, staring at the screen.
I AM GOTHAM
RUN CHILD
Catwoman runs, just as the sirens make themselves heard.---
Or: Gotham City has three very, very special daughters, and she loves them very, very muchSeries
- Part 2 of (a not so) lonesome town
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“You like him too, huh?” Batmans asks, and Gotham’s heart soars at her efforts being recognized.
YES
“Gotham?” Robin breathes, a tender spark of hope and childish wonder flashing out in her dark night. She smiles to herself. It takes a lot of energy, but she spells out one final message to him.
HELLO MY ROBIN---
Or: Gotham is a sentient city, and she has a /very/ soft spot for Batman's kids.Series
- Part 1 of (a not so) lonesome town