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Tim's year starts with the worst events of his life.
It only gets worse from there.
With no allies and no hope, he decides to go on a quest to save his mentor (and father figure) before it's too late. What comes next is the most chaotic, dramatic and stressful year of Tim’s life; as he traverses new countries, cities and unexpected friendships on his journey to save Bruce.
Featuring one lost boy, a battered copy of ‘The Iliad’ and a cat called Squish.Series
- Part 2 of Kathodos (The Descent)
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Baby bird leaves the nest by Sumitiper
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
03 Oct 2025
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Going down the stairs to the cave, Dick mentally prepared himself and his speech only to be caught completely off guard by Tim.
“Hey Tim, I wanted to-”
Anxiety filled Tim’s body, like a deer caught in headlights, he was putting on a new costume. Black like Cass’ outfit, dark gray pants and belt, white lines in the boots, arms and cape. A small black domino covered Tim’s eyes. He had a cowl shaped like a bird’s head and was just about to put it on when Dick walked in.
“Hey Dick…”
Dick didn’t really know how to feel, contradicting feelings were taking over him. He wanted Tim to grow into his own hero, but seeing Tim now made his gut twist.
“You have a new costume. Uh, great! I could really use some help, and I’m sure that-... Oh wait! I didn’t even ask for your new name! What did you choose, baby bird?”
Tim opened his mouth but closed it soon after, looking away towards a duffle bag. Dick’s heart began to race. He took a single step forward and Tim retreated closer to the bag.
“Timmy?”
“I’m not staying.”
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To feel like Porcelain by Maria3316
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
02 Oct 2025
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"What did you just say?” Jason’s voice was quiet, dangerously low, lacking its usual sarcastic edge. It sounded like the quiet before a building collapses.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2025
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Tim uses his emergency signal and Dick panics.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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Bat-Bits by Mouse_in_this_house
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
28 Sep 2025
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A collection of random headcanons, ficlets, thoughts, and blurbs directly in the Roost-series.
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- Part 24 of Where Bats and Birds Roost
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A Robin By Any Other Name by its_your_mind
Fandoms: DCU, Red Robin (Comics), Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (Comics), Batman (Comics)
25 Sep 2025
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Tim Drake wasn’t Robin anymore, but he was starting to get a sense of the person he was when Robin was removed from the equation.
Jason Todd had his bird, his family, and his city, and he wasn’t going to let anyone or anything take them from him.
Bruce Wayne was gone. Not dead, but hopelessly lost and losing more of himself the longer he was away.
Gotham City loved her protectors and held them tight, but there was only so much she could do when their drive to protect her took them out of her reach.
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- Part 2 of robins emeriti
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Keeping Your Composer by heeheehoohoo1781
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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Batman was always doing something. When he sat at his desk, he was pouring over paperwork. When he was sitting around security cameras or monitoring comms, he was scribbling notes in a leather bound journal. Even when it looked like he was simply lounging around, he was likely working through something in his mind. To be fair, nobody knew exactly what he was doing most of the time, but everyone knew he was doing something; nobody questioned it, either. Nobody, until Superman.
AKA, Bruce is amazing at hiding shit, and Clark Kent decides to put his investigatory journalist skills to good use.
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Kings and Succession by Me_aGlorifiedPigeon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DCU
26 Aug 2025
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Damian is now king of all of Gotham, though it didn't exactly come the way he wanted.
[Fixed a few timeline mistakes!]
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Did Tim Drake-Wayne attempt to clone his best friend after he died? Yes.
Did he try to clone him 99 times? Yep.
Did he ever try for the big 100? No.
Then why...well to consequences of Tim's actions seem to be rapidly catching up with him in the worst way possible. With no way to get off this ride (i.e. his life) and no bandwith to tell his friends and family about the sticky situation he's gotten himself wrapped up in, he decides to say fuck it and plans to become a dad at age seventeen to a baby he hadn't planned on actually having.
Well, at least it gives him time to brood over telling his family about what happened on his Brucequest and hide away so he doesn't accidentally tell his best friend he's in love with him.
At least, that's the plan.
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Dead Three by Miles_2_Go
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
17 Aug 2025
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Two years ago, the Joker died and Tim Drake crawled his way out from beneath Arkham Asylum where he'd been held prisoner for a year.
Six months ago, the Court of Owls was flattened, but one Talon was left standing. Dick Grayson is free for the first time in two years.
Now, the Red Hood stumbles upon an injured little bird living on the streets. A familiar little bird.
Now, the Batman dies.Except Tim Drake knows better. Bruce Wayne is alive.
Or: Brucequest, featuring a former JJ, a former Talon, and the Red Hood.
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- Part 4 of M's JJ Fics
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I'm telling you the truth; I mean this, I'm okay! (Trust me)! I'm not okay! by MoNsTeRsAmOnGMeN
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
21 Jul 2025
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Drake rubbed his face as he approached the screen. “Okay. Due to persistent, aggravating, relentless nagging—” he cut a pointed look at Kon, “—I will now be walking you through the events surrounding my retrieval of Bruce Wayne from a temporal displacement, why Ra’s al Ghul keeps sending me flowers as part of a murder-proposal pact, and why I am, as of last quarter, the CEO of Wayne Enterprises.”
There was a beat of stunned silence.
“All of which,” Drake added dryly, “are, somehow, related.”
“Wait—flowers?” Richard said. “From Ra’s?”
“What the hell is this timeline?” Stephanie mumbled.
Kon said nothing, just gave Timothy a supportive nudge and plugged in the drive.
The screen blinked to life.
Or: Damian Wayne going from "I want this man dead" to "I will be his personal shadow and child demon" in under 2 weeks
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- Part 4 of BatFam needs therapy
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standing still in front of the eye by L1ttle_Bird3 (UTMVNightLight)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler
17 Jun 2025
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And then Bruce died, and it suddenly felt like a wall he’d been leaning on all this time collapsed, and he stumbled.
Yet his mind found itself skeptical. He realized– Bruce might be alive, and if we don’t find him we might never.
He was called delusional. More and more things he hadn’t realized he was so attached to, that gave him a sense of security and identity were taken away.
People he thought he could trust to ask for help would not. The ones who would’ve no matter what were gone. His time as Robin was no more, uniform given away to someone who would do him harm.
Deeper and deeper he went into this darkness.
Fine. What did it matter? He didn’t need any of them, he could do it all by himself. He would do it all by himself.
More and more lines and boundaries he held were stepped over and over and over. Going through various countries, until eventually he is found.
A man named Ra’s is willing to support him, who believes him, and shall so long as he works with him to deal with a little problem of his.
He accepts, for what else is there for him to lose?
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Tim Drake was Ciel Phantomhive in a past life
Day 168 - UniformSeries
- Part 4 of on this day was i born
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The Living Lie Still (And So Do The Dead) by TerriWashere
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
02 Jun 2025
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“You will do more than just survive, Timothy Drake.” Z stated, “I will make you something, something better.”
“I don’t need to survive” Tim argued hollowly, “I need to find him and I don’t know how.”
“Then we will help,” Z stared at him, dark skin gleaming under the torch-light, “and we will do whatever it takes to do so. That is our order.”
“You’re ours,” Pru agreed, “at least, for now.”
Owens grinned, “Welcome to the League of Assassins, Tim.”
Death is something no one can escape, especially Tim, who was born with the ability to see the dead. Now, he’s on a mission to find his foster father, Bruce Wayne, who’s assumed dead. But death never strays far and Ra’s Al Ghul is nipping at his heels.
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- Part 2 of You Cannot Breathe Enough Before Death
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Fatherless Behaviour by lemonlimemadness
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
12 May 2025
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Tim gets de-aged, and tells absolutely no one.
He also, in no particular order, gets therapy, does a lot of crime, channels his inner cyberbully, steals another Batmobile, moves to Metropolis (temporarily), causes an Arkham breakout, gets kidnapped, kidnaps someone else, and accidentally becomes a supervillain somewhere along the way.
Parental supervision is for losers.
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- Part 1 of fueled by coffee, spite and kirby music
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Closing the Gaps by Amaranthine_Nostalgia
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
30 Jan 2025
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Damian and Tim are two sides of the same coin; their similarities are far greater than any differences between the two. It's something they've denied for quite some time, but it can no longer be ignored. How can it be when they both struggle with the complexity of mothers whose love was encompassing, yet distant in order to protect them? How can they stay divided when they're the only two kids left in Wayne Manor after Jason's death?
I combined two one-shots so there would be less clutter on the series page lol
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- Part 7 of Quatervois
- Part 6 of Tim Drake at His Finest
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Robin’s Knock by PatronSaintOfGotham
Fandoms: DCeased (DC Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (1949), Robin (Comics), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), Young Justice - All Media Types
22 Jan 2025
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Parable of The Friend at Midnight
Luke 11:5-13Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
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Nestmates by TheologyDiscography for SafelyCapricious
Fandoms: Marvel, Batman - All Media Types
20 Jan 2025
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On his own for the first time since officially becoming Robin, Tim is desperate. He needs someone willing to help him find Bruce and bring him home.
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In his grief, Tim has a moment with Dick and ends up pregnant.
It doesn't stop him from leaving.
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Sleep is supposed to be a peaceful experience. It's not for Dick.
Whumplovers' WhumpMonth Day 11: Lost in a dream
Drugged | Temporary loss of a sense | NightmareSeries
- Part 11 of Whumplovers' WhumpMonth 2024
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Offering An Olive Branch by DisillusionedDanny
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
25 Dec 2024
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Now that Bruce is back from being lost in time and things have settled, Dick has decided it's time for him to offer an olive branch to Tim, to fix things that were broken between them. Now he just needs to hope that Tim is receptive to it.
Day 223 Branch for Birdwatchers One Word Prompt
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- Part 49 of Dis' One Shot Series