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It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Tim was nervous.
Sure coming out to his family had gone well, and they all seemed to support his relationship with Bernard, but this would be his first time bringing him home. Bringing a boy home. Deep down he knew that as long as he was happy his family would be satisfied, but a part of him was still nervous. There were too many variables, too many potentials for the night to go wrong.
Okay, so maybe in his panic he had forgotten about one small detail.
AKA: The one where Bernard bonds with Tim's family by helping them perform an exorcism.
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everything i wanted by Pan_Fluid_Me
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Batman - All Media Types
05 Nov 2025
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Tim found himself sitting in the dining room with Bruce. It was tense and silence. The only sound that there was the clinking of silverware on the table. He wanted to bring up the feelings he’s been having more and more.
The feeling of worthlessness; the fear that he was never going to be loved. The feeling that he wasn’t supposed to be trusted because of how he was. The feeling that he was never going to be loved.
But Bruce would never care. Bruce wasn’t good with emotions. He wouldn’t be able to help Tim with the feelings he had.Song fic with "everything i wanted" by Billie Eilish. It's centered around Tim Drake, one of my favorite DC characters
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- Part 13 of DC Oneshots
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A Ghost of Yourself by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
05 Nov 2025
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Tim Drake died when Robin cut his line. There was no flag pole or ledge to catch himself on. No backup grapple at the ready. Lucky for him, Gotham has never been one to give up her soldiers. Now an undead that is permanently bound to Gotham as her protector, Tim learns the importance of self-worth. And that maybe his "family" isn't what's best for him.
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Tim heard Jason joking about being a zombie and said, "hold my beer." Featuring semi-sentient Gotham.
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- Part 1 of Memento Mori
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Smother me with affection (for my life has been too dark) by ATHENIANbookworm21
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
05 Nov 2025
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Soon, almost all of the assassins are subdued, except for one. A tiny shadow of lethal grace. Steel blue eyes stared up at him from underneath a dark hood.
Bruce paused.
That. Is. A. Whole. Child.
He couldn’t be older than 10, eyes sharp and cold, moving with the grace of a seasoned assassin. The child assassin moved into a defensive stance, his weight perfectly distributed, bo staff snapping out. He was calm, there was no tension, no panic at facing off three men way older and heavier than him.
Protect. His instincts scream. protectprotectPROTECT.
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Basically League of Assassins Tim drake gets adopted by the Batfam. Featuring: Escape attempts, Jason getting kneed in the balls, Alfred the cat, and Dick Grayson being an evil octopus (in terms of cuddling) -
The Bat Under A Jolly Roger by HopeNight
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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When Ra's al Ghul pushed Tim Drake out of a window after he foiled his plots again, he did something and the vigilante disappeared. Six months later, and through a completely unrelated summoning to an alternate dimension's Sun God, Tim reappeared both five years older and part of the crew of the King of Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy.
Now stuck in his home dimension for a month until they can be sent back home, due to bullshit magic reasons, Tim has to face the Batfamily that he had left behind, reckon with a couple of old ghosts, and deal with Bruce Wayne's ever-increasing paranoia in the wake of his disappearance. Luckily, Tim is older, theoretically wiser, and knows that his crew has his back.
(And, in flashbacks, Tim grows into the pirate he is today: the Shadow of the King.)
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The Gun on the Mantel by aimlesscalamity
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
04 Nov 2025
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Jason’s jaw flexes. “You think he’s gonna stop?” he asks, voice low and dangerous. “He won’t. Men like that— they keep taking until someone stops them.”
He leans closer, “I can give you the gun.”
Tim’s stomach turns. “I can’t, Jason,” he says quietly, forcing each word.
Jason studies him in silence, unreadable.
“Then let me,” he says finally.
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“What did you do?”
The words hang in the air, soft but loaded, a warning and an accusation all at once.
Jason watches him, his expression blank and unflinching.
Tim’s voice rises, ragged and raw, shaking with the force of all he’s repressed. “WHAT DID YOU DO?”
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OR: Tim keeps getting himself kicked out of schools (that little vigilante thing sort of gets in the way), and Jack Drake starts taking it personally. Their already-strained relationship devolves into abuse. Jason offers a helping hand. Tim's parents don't survive.
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Can be read as a standalone, but is a chronological follow-up to Chekhov's Gun (aftermath of Titans Tower Attack)Series
- Part 2 of Fathers, Sons, and Loaded Guns
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The batfamily and associated allies save Tim from being held captive by Ra's al Ghul. Unfortunately, everything Ra's did isn't just going to be easily brushed aside. Now Tim and everyone around him have to come to terms with what was done to him and how his life will change going forward.
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Shitty Luck by MaydayLastDay
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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A new anomaly: Mayday.
It was strange, honestly. Just 7 months after Nightwing, and Dick Grayson, disappeared without a trace.
Mayday had been seen a lot over the past weeks, doing jobs, at clubs, someone even caught him on video even once helping out a child!
Maybe Nightwing and Mayday are more connected than anyone thinks.
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- Part 1 of Mayday, Someday.
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“B?”
Bruce turned around slowly. Tim knew something was very, very, wrong before Bruce even said anything. He was too tense, and his hair was different. It was greyer, and he had an ever so slightly smaller frame. That and he was looking at Tim in a way he never had before.
“Who the hell are you?” Bruce asked.
This wasn’t his Bruce.
He might have accidentally sent his Bruce across universes.
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When Tim accidentally hits Bruce with his quantum displacer, he and his brothers are left with an emotionally constipated Bruce that has a very different home life than their own.
When Bruce arrives in an alternate universe, he quickly finds out that this universes Bruce is nothing like him.
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Lazarus Veins by GamerGal003
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Gotham Academy (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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Jason didn’t plan on fatherhood.
Now, he’s juggling between Bruce’s lectures, Damian’s side-eye, his own daughter’s trauma, Tyler, and a niece who won’t stop running away from home.
But now, something’s wrong with Tim Drake.LexCorp reopens. Red Hood comes home, the Lazarus Pits aren’t working anymore, Deathstroke/Slade is on the loose, Conner is having a mental health crisis, and Dick named his son after his (maybe) dead best friend Wally West.
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*= Serious, plot-driven chapters.
Anything else is just funsies!Series
- Part 1 of The Lazarus Chronicles.
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Witch!Tim Drake has drawn the attention of many unsavory folks for his actions against Eclipso and the All-God, including those of a certain League. When Demon is targeted, an overprotective (and overpowered) Tim decides to act on his own. Afterall, the only friend he fully trusts is on magical life support, and everyone keeps saying that he is overreacting.
But Tim has all this power, and someone hurt his family. What's the point of power if you don't use it?Series
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Is it Batman before Dad or Dad before Batman, Robin? by MissLolipop
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Nov 2025
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Before there was a Robin, there was a boy who only ever wanted to be loved.
And before there was a son, there was someone who had already filled that role—silently, completely, and forgotten. -
Never When I Want But Always When I Need by monkeyyyyy08
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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Damian is well aware that the current living situation he has found himself in does not require him to constantly be on guard to survive. He knows he doesn’t have to pretend to be someone else to be safe and loved. (He does it anyways. It’s a defense mechanism, sue him.)
Tim Drake knows none of this (yes he does), and shows up to all the right places at all the wrong times.The one time Damian lets his guard down, he and Tim get ambushed and captured. They are forced to helplessly watch each other endure copious amounts of pain (mostly Tim bc I love bullying him). They need to work together to survive this.
Or: Damian cant seem to ever say the right thing. His family is upset with him. He thinks this means they hate him. (They don’t.) Tim, in good conscience, can’t let Damian wallow in his dramatic pre-teen feelings alone. They end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Right as Damian is about to talk about his feelings, BOOM they get kidnapped. The brothers are forced to brother for the first time, and feel a lot of feelings (and pain), and try to survive together long enough to be rescued.
Maybe they do, maybe they don’t.
Bruce gains so many gray hairs.
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a minute from home (but i feel so far from it) by Anonymous
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
04 Nov 2025
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In one universe, Tim Drake dies in an alley, a knife buried in his stomach, and a broken camera in hand.
In another universe, Tim dies falling from a rooftop after battling Ra’s Al Ghul, and winning with the cost of his life.
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Doomsday is close at hand (it’s only the death me) by Sage_Koi
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
04 Nov 2025
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After watching his family die, Tim is given a second chance at saving those he loves. To protect them, he has to make sure they stay far away from him, so he becomes exactly who his parents always wanted him to be.
He’ll be Timothy Jackson Drake, and he will play his role perfectly.
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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
04 Nov 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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Tim Drake’s (not so) personal space by Chipcrumbsinyoursheets
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
03 Nov 2025
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Tim loves his personal space, too bad literally everyone else seems to share this sentiment. But maybe, JUST MAYBE, he can deal with having to share his personal space.
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pain is cold water by sleepdeprivedphilosopher
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics), DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
04 Nov 2025
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“Kon is getting an apartment,” Tim says and his fingers are digging into his lifeline. “He needs a roommate.”
He doesn’t, but Tim prays he won’t mind.
“Where?” Dick demands then winces at his tone.
“San Francisco,” Tim answers.
Tim was never meant to be a permanent part of the Batfamily. He took on the role of Robin because Batman needs a Robin, but Batman has a Robin and even more people in his corner now and he doesn’t need Tim.
or Tim is used to putting his wants up on a shelf in favor of what the people around him need, but maybe it’s time for him to take them down, dust them off, and see what’s inside.
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A Drake Family by not_hoseok
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), tim drake: robin, Batman - All Media Types, DC Comics
04 Nov 2025
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The first thing Timothy Drake knew was his mother's love. The second was that he had to earn it. From the cages of Drake Manor to the shadows of Gotham, he is taught that his value lies in his usefulness. He will become one of the world's greatest detectives, but he will never escape the fundamental equation of his childhood.
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Or: A Tim Drake character study on how his absent parent's conditional love that haunts him until adulthood, affecting his relationship with others and eventually learning of putting himself first for once.
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Tim didn't need to be worried about Jason. Even if the two were related didn't mean that Jason couldn't take care of himself. It would be fine. He didn't need to worry about him, particularly considering he was still fairly sure that Jason hated his guts for taking up the Robin mantle. He should just ignore his concern and continue with his week. He had enough to deal with at Wayne Enterprises alone, and then all of his other cases, so he didn't need to add on the worry about Jason on top of all of it.
Or, Tim tries to check in on Jason and gets shot for his trouble.
Whumptober Day 31: “Even with the smallest cuts. You can still lose so much blood.” Prompt: Gunshot wound, bleeding out, rescued by the enemy
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- Part 29 of Whumptober 2025