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One Step Behind by PhantomOfTheArchive (yoursleepdeprivedauthor)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Jun 2025
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Tim Drake, alley kid and thief, had many secrets. Like his criminal tendencies that fund his livelihood, or the fact that he knows Batman's identity, or that he knows Bruce Wayne is his biological father...
Or: An AU where Tim didn't grow up rich and instead becomes a thief, yet still manages to find himself a home in the batfamily.
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The Lazarus Pit always takes something from its victims. Usually, it's sanity, memories, emotional regulation, or a combination of the three. It doesn't often take a person's humanity and warp their body beyond recognition.
Seems like Jason Todd is the (un)lucky winner of such an opportunity! When the teenager wakes to a second chance at life, he is forced to live in the body of a monster. Yay!
To survive, he must uncover the limits and powers his new form holds, all while trying to avoid unwanted attention. When he returns home, things only get more difficult. His family actively hunts him, people are terrified by his very presence, and rogues try to catch him for their own uses.People fear what they don't understand. Villains hate what they can't control. Vigilantes detain what they think is dangerous.
There is no place for inhuman monsters in Gotham, but surviving by yourself is lonely. Maybe taking Batman's new little bird under his wing will help somehow?
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The one where Jason gets turned into an animalistic cryptid and has to survive Gotham being...well Gotham. Oh, Tim's there too. He's sad, but he thinks that having a cryptid best friend would be pretty cool.
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Hallucination? Probably by Minzblatt
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Danny Phantom, DCU (Comics)
23 May 2025
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Tim Drake is holding it together. Barely.
He’s an orphan (which, yeah, isn’t exactly rare around here), his guardian barely acknowledges him, his place in the Batfam is… undefined at best, one of his brothers definitely wants him dead, and being Robin is not as fun as it sounds. The weight of Gotham is starting to feel a little heavier each night and sleep is a myth. Add schoolwork and the crushing loneliness of a 16-year-old who lives solo in a giant manor, and you’ve got a disaster cocktail with a cherry on top.
So when a weird floating boy shows up out of nowhere, Tim’s totally sure it’s just his overworked, sleep-deprived brain staging an intervention. A welfare hallucination. Happens.
...Still, it’s kinda nice not being alone for a change.or: Tim Drake is having a no-good, very bad mental health spiral—until a glowing boy phases through his wall. Literally.
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Is It A Wonder I Broke? by hannahhook7744
Fandoms: DCU, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
07 Apr 2025
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Tim breaks and calls Bernard.
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- Part 6 of Tim Drake Angst
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The Files That Follows You by Robinssleeping
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
04 Mar 2025
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No one liked Tim. That was for sure. That's why his parents left him alone all the time. That's why no one talked to him or wanted to be around him.
Tim joining the Batfam early and Jason doesn't die!
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Tim's Crashing Out by caeruleum_75
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
27 Jan 2025
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I wanted to read a fic where Tim essentially has a breakdown and tantrum, sadly, I couldn't find any (please comment one if you know of one).
So I decided, to just write one myself.
It's labelled 'Hurt No Comfort, Maybe' because I might write a second chapter which can be the batfamily's reactions and add comfort, but right now it's just hurt.
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake Centric
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Straightening, Tim wandered into the endless hallway and through the next doorway. This room was a study, and was different from the rest. The warmth here felt bright and unwavering. Powerful in a way that couldn’t be described. But beneath it lay a note of sourness that clung to him like a whispered plea. He walked farther in, as if to find what was wrong, to fix it. But the room was as blurry as the rest. His shoulders slumping, Tim turned to leave, before being stopped by a flicker of gold in the corner of his eye. Walking towards the object, he found a shining golden pen resting lazily on the carpeted floor. Its surface glowed gently, like a firelight behind glass. Beside it, lay a slip of yellowed parchment paper, trembling with invisible wind. In loopy script, the paper read;
Will you bind yourself to this place of solace?OR
In Tim’s dreams, he finds himself a home.
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- Part 3 of Drabbles of my Favorite Drake
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The Scarlet Robin by BreadBoyExtraordinaire
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
01 Oct 2024
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Tim will do *anything* to get Bruce home
or: Brucequest AU where Tim acquires scarlet witch like powers (weird strong chaos magic)
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- Part 1 of Scarlet Witch Tim AU1
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Sometimes, Tim could fool himself with the way his dad looked in pride at the designer suit and watch he bought for him. He could fool himself with the way Bruce would praise him and ruffle his hair after a mission well done.
Tim knew it wasn't for him. He had always been good at wearing clothes that he didn't deserve.
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake is Not Okay™
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The Amalgamation That is the Inner Workings of Tim Drake by indulgentdaydream
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics)
07 Jan 2024
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Tim Drake understands that you cannot change the nature of an only child, no matter if it has siblings or not. It is something ingrained. Something that does not come undone easily.
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Jason was back home so Tim decided to take a step back from the family so they can celebrate Jason's return. What Tim didn't expect was someone to break into the Drake manor when he was there.
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one acquainted with the night by justaddwriter
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
23 Oct 2023
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If Tim wasn’t a vampire…he’s always thinking about that, somewhere in the back of his mind. It’s not fair that half of Gotham’s population live in terror once the sun sets. The Drakes are old blood, with vampiric history going back centuries. Tim has attended countless blood galas and night balls. He’s small and scrawny and easily overlooked- vampires recognize power above all.
They haven’t figured out, like Tim has, that sometimes being overlooked is even more powerful than being noticed.
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- Part 6 of Vampire Bats
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On a seemingly normal night the world goes quiet. Tim struggles to to handle the aftermath of being the only man on earth.
Whumptober day 7, Alleyway/radio silence/"Can you hear me?"
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Gotham's New Protector by Orangeberries07 (CorruptCarrot07)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Sep 2023
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After the Batfamily falls, Tim Drake decides to take up the mantle of Batman. He will have to forge his own path and decide what kind of protector of Gotham that he will be.
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Tim had gotten used to empty Drake Manor. He knew how to deal with the crushing loneliness that would envelop every inch of the house, and when to expect his parents to have left in the night without so much as a goodbye. He knew how to thaw the cold, how to block out the creaking and groaning walls, much like an empty stomach, desperate for something to fill it. He knew how to avoid being devoured by the expanse of nothingness he lived in. (That one semester of drama last year stuck with him)
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It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem, It’s Me! by hannahhook7744
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
23 Jun 2023
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Tim had to be the problem. Why else would he feel so miserable having everything he ever wanted?
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake Angst
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Tim just wanted Robin to be his friend. He didn't know that he would have to fight Robin.
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Sweetest Passions bring you 'Home'...freedom slowly leaves by tired_daydreamin_medstudent
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Coraline (2009)
26 Feb 2023
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In another world, Timothy Drake would find out that his literal heros lived next door from a flip he remembered from a tragic trip to the circus.
In another world, the lonely Timothy Drake would soon become Robin after Jason Todd died, in an attempt to help Batman not meet the same tragic fate.
This is not that world.
What if just before Timothy Drake found out who Batman was, another entity took an interest in him? A dangerous entity?
And Timothy, not one to be a victim at any age, learned how to fight back? Learned how to help others fight back?
How would the story change? How would it be the same?
Would it be Batman who saves all of his children, who gives them another chance at life?
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Tim's power to his house was cut off. Seeing that the Wayne's have power Tim breaks in.
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Robin finds his long lost brothers in the bathroom in a gas station. They decided to switch lives to see how the others live.
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- Part 1 of Triple Trouble