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The Forgotten Dead by JasonToddCanHaveMyKidney
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Miraculous Ladybug, Invincible (Cartoon 2021)
24 Oct 2025
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In a shattered future, haunted by the memory of a family he couldn't save, Tim Drake is ready to let go. But his end is interrupted by two other broken heroes, Adrien Agreste and Mark Grayson, boys who lost everything in their own worlds. They are all, in a way, already dead.
A miracle, a desperate wish on a mysterious artifact, grants them a second chance. They are ripped from their dying moments and thrust into the past, into the bodies of 8-year-old boys. They are found and adopted by Janet and Jack Drake, whose wealth provides a roof, but whose emotional neglect makes their house a cold, new kind of prison.
Trapped together, they form a fragile, desperate brotherhood. They are a team of ghosts with a single mission: to prevent the future that haunts them all. They must navigate a toxic home while saving the family they never had, not just from outside threats, but from the echoes of their own pasts. Their journey is a fight for a future they thought they'd lost, and for a family forged in sorrow, but bound by hope.
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He is the Phantom, because man's hatred has made him so by Basilton1955
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics), Superboy (Comics)
24 Oct 2025
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There was something that Gotham brought to the world that was not dark, or terrifying or bleak. Because Gotham City was famous for its music.
Where there wasn't a drug den or slums, an opera or music hall would stand. When there wasn't the sounds of tragic screams or hideous laughter, symphonies and songs floated through the air, bringing pleasure to the rich and comfort to the poor.
Even the Batman himself would take extra care not to damage these striking pillars of hope of the otherwise miserable city, moving a rogue to a secondary location if they ever dared to plan one of their devious deeds in Gotham’s halls of music, Gotham’s pride and joy.
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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
24 Oct 2025
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Tim, the ever vigilant (always awake and never giving himself a break) vigilante, gets word of a drug bust going down. One he just so happens to be the only one available to stop. Which happens to be taking place in the very early hours of his birthday. Of course he goes on the highly dangerous bust alone. What could happen?
Or: Tim is used to being the Robin that gets thing handled, that doesn't need Batman to come rescue him. Bruce Wayne had made it very clear in the early days that Tim was not his son. Alfred Pennyworth was cold, allowing only the politeness and distance to show through his Iron Wall. Dick Grayson treated him the way he wished he'd treated his brother, Jason.
Tim was fine with this. He wasn't a child. Even if he wished for more of the small slivers of love the Wayne family were just starting to give him, he wouldn't dare take Jason Todd's place. He just hoped the support he provided for the grieving family would make Jason proud. But Jason Todd came back, and he sure made it known he wasn't. He made sure Tim knew exactly what he thought of the cuckoo in his family.
Now, the Wayne family has their lost son back and Tim has a job to do. Just, not in this dimension?
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- Part 2 of Imaginary Friend
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The Wayne family is left reeling after Jason's death. Dick visits the manor after an extended period of absence only to find Alfred taking care of a baby. Apparently, Bruce had a son with Talia, but he hasn't been able to get out of bed to take care of the child, and Alfred is getting to old to deal with an energetic, colicky infant.
Dick wants to help, but can he really fix all the cracks tearing his family apart?
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I Keep my closet free of Skeletons (Cause I’m much better at Digging Graves) by AnUnfathomedAffair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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It always starts with a concussion that you decided to ignore- Next thing you know, you’re traveling across time and space landing with a mangled arm in an unfamiliar- but oh so god damn familiar place.
Why the hell is Gotham so bright and why aren’t the people any different than before?
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Draw a Chalk Outline by FinnickOdairLives4ever
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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I don't feel safe in the halls - There are bruises on the walls - There are bodies in the floors - And they breathe so loudly
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Or the time Tim Drake got sent back in time and decided - fuck it. He'll change everything, butterfly effect be damned.
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The rain came down in thick, relentless sheets, drenching Tim to the bone long before he even reached the house. Wind howled through the trees, rattling the iron gate behind him, and each gust sent icy water running down the back of his neck. He could barely hear his own footsteps over the storm, but he didn’t need to—he knew where he was going.
Wayne Manor loomed ahead, dark against the night sky, its towering silhouette broken only by the faint glow of a few scattered lights in the windows. The massive oak doors stood at the top of the stone steps, intimidating and unmoving, just as they had always been.
He should have brought an umbrella. Anyone with half a brain would have.
____Tim Drake knows he’s not like Batman, or like the old Robins. He’s not supposed to be.
But someone has to save Gotham, and someone has to remember why.
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Go Kitty Go | Black Cat in Wayne Manor by Trav1sPh3lps
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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Kitty had always been more cynical than Tim, more mature in a way. She knew their parents didn’t care about them. She’d seen how they treated Tim - he took the brunt of their frustration, being the eldest - and she didn’t care for it.
It was just her and Tim against the world. As long as she had her older brother with her, Kitty could do anything. And she would do anything for her brother.
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Four years after having Tim, Janet Drake gives birth to a baby girl, who, thanks to all of the painkillers she was on - and Jack's absence due to a business trip - was named Kitty Louise Drake.
After coming back from a dig, her father does something she deems unforgivable, Janet simply watches it happen, and Kitty is furious. In the end, the siblings run away from home. But what will they make of their newfound situation?
Become Vigilantes, of course!
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For only one can be left by Ispotteddumuss
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom
23 Oct 2025
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Talon only has one mission. One purpose in its life. That purpose is to protect the young Talon it has claimed as its family. Only Talon can't protect the child on its own. It can't stop the Court from killing the child. So Talon's only hope is to find outside help. Only the Bats are really bad at swearing they would protect 'it'.
Also, Talon would like to know who Tim is and why the bats keep calling it Tim?!
Also known as Talon(1) babysits a Talon(2) and to protect Talon(2), Talon(1) plans to throw Talon(2) at the bats and leave. Unfortunately, the bats don't agree with the 'never see Talon(2) agian' part of the plan or the part where Talon(1) has to go back.
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“I have a great idea!” Dick looks at Jason reluctantly as he continues. “We should prank him! We do it all the time to each other and I'm sure he’ll talk then.”
Dick swung his legs off the top of the couch to sit right up and look at him. “I don't know Jay, we don't know him that well, he might not like it.” Jason shakes his hand in a dismissive way.
“Nothing big, just a small practical joke. I'm sure it will loosen up some of the tension.”“...I guess but what would we do?”
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Jason and Dick decide to prank Tim, their next door neighbour who has come to live with them but it doesn't go as planed.
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It's Written in the Stars by flavourless_fiction
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
22 Oct 2025
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It was on the second day of first grade that Tim Drake understood that the pattern of rust-coloured stars on the palm of his hand meant more than just a birthmark.
After a soulmate dies within a year the other half is expected to die or get themselves committed, Tim thought he'd moved past all of it until it was staring him in the face.Series
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Vampires think that humanity went extinct, but they’re wrong. Human teenager Tim, being smart and resourceful, has survived in secret. Meanwhile, Bruce regrets never turning a human into a vampire before they all died.
What happens when the vampires, good and bad, find out that there’s one human left after all?
Or: Tim is the last human alive in a world of vampire Batfam. Adoption ensues.
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Dissociation really isn't fun by NotSoHarmlessBatfam
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
21 Oct 2025
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After Tim starts to hang out at the Wayne Manor more often, he's unable to keep denying just how bad his home life actually is and starts to actually admit it to himself.
This leads to dissociation and lots of secrets revealed... and Tim ends up also revealing that he knows who or rather what Bruce Wayne and Jason Todd actually are - Batman and Robin... and Dick Grayson being Nightwing.
Rated Teen and Up for swearing and mentions of physical/psychological abuse
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When they accidentally cause trouble for the wrong mob boss, Jack and Janet Drake come up with a completely flawless plan: return to Gotham to retrieve their son, fake the deaths of their entire family, then flee to Belgium. Tim can see a number of issues with this, mainly that (1) it's the stupidest thing he's ever heard, (2) his parents are definitely lying to him about something, and (3) Belgium. With all to play for, it's now up to Tim to create a believable narrative and avoid getting caught by any means necessary - even if that means traumatising the odd vigilante or two. He's willing to do whatever it takes to protect his family.
(But... which family?)
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Okay.
This was okay.
This was fine.
His parents happened to be in the same gala as him somehow, and were looking to guilt-trip him into going back to them.
It was totally fine.
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Tim is a psycic or clairvoyant if you will. He uses his powers to fight the rogues and solve cases.
Essentially,
He can speak to ghosts.Or: Tim is just a silly guy who wants to live peacefully with his ghost friends. What could go wrong?
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“Oh, Mr. Batman, sir!”
He froze.
“I’m so glad I found you!”
“What happened?”
He was dead, he was dead, he was going to die. The people said that the Batman didn’t kill, but no one knew for sure. And Jason was currently holding a jacked tire of his very expensive and probably very precious car. He was dead.
“I saw the man who mugged my sister running over there.”
Wait, what?
“Come on, come on, he’ll get away!”
Jason watched as the kid’s small shadow tugged at Batman’s cape and started leading him away from the alley.
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Jason and Tim street kid runaways AU
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A Dummy's Guide to Sudden Fatherhood by Whoseamacallit
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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Sure, Bruce Wayne has thought about being a dad before, he just didn't expect it to happen quite so quickly, and with three traumatized children no less. Now he has to figure out how to be a dad, a therapist, a vigilante, and a detective all while maintaining his playboy persona to the outside world. No biggie! Right?
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After finding three brothers on the street, Bruce makes the difficult decision to adopt them himself, but he finds himself unprepared to deal with their trauma. Fortunately, he has a bit of back up in the form of Alfred.
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In a world where superpowers, magic, mutants and aliens are commonplace enough that no one blinks at laser eyes or flying people anymore, Dick Grayson does not think it all too unreasonable that his superhero little brother might come back to life. And Bruce's reasons for insisting he won't aren't good enough - it's happened before, after all.
If his father won't take sufficient precautions, Dick will do it himself.
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- Part 2 of Bingo's DC works
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The Science of Falling Apart (and the Art of Being Found) by NocturnalAnomaly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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Tim Drake never became Robin. Instead, he became a ghost with a trust fund, a bad habit, and no one who cared enough to stop him.
When Jason Todd finds him half-dead in an alleyway, the overdose is only half of the problem.
Saving someone's life is easy. Keeping them alive after, not so much.
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A story about recovery and finding the people who care.