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    Jason has a plan for his return to Gotham. Steal the clown's old Red Hood identity? Check. Make sure meddling birds know to keep out of his territory? Check. Recruit some homeless youth to keep an ear to the street in exchange for shelter? Check. Take over the Crime Alley drug trade, convince Black Mask to break the clown out of Arkham, murder his Replacement and force Batman to finally avenge him? ...he's still working on it.

    His plans are delayed when the homeless kids he's sheltering are joined by a fearful boy with hand-shaped bruises around his neck. Alvin Draper may not want to say who did it, but Red Hood isn't about to let anyone who beats up children go unpunished.

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    As the door opened Tim quickly disabled another three separate electronic sensors in the doorjamb by swiping them with a device that looked a bit like a thumb drive. “Walk where I walk,” he said.

    He took a big step over the doormat, eyed the floor carefully, then took a careful skipped sidestep to another mat against the right-hand wall, where he removed his shoes.

    “What the hell?” whispered Jason, still standing in the open doorway.

    Tim pointed up. There was a net rigged up on the ceiling. “Pressure pads under the carpet.”

    “I repeat, what the hell?”

    After Tim completely derails Jason’s beatdown attempt by asking him for a hug, Jason’s first priority is to get this touch-starved kid more cuddles. Tim’s first priority is to avoid Dick’s traps.

    Jason learns a lot about his brothers and what happened while he was away, and something about himself too.

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    28 May 2025

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    Tim's plans for the summer included learning to kickflip, updating his Geocities page, and listening to the new blink-182 album until he had all the lyrics memorised. They didn't include "getting involved with the local vigilante scene", but apparently that's not something he gets to decide anymore.

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    27 Mar 2025

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    Three days ago, rumors began circling the underground that Red Hood took over the Iceberg Lounge from Cobblepot. Two days ago, a couple of Lounge employees got fired. Yesterday, the Lounge manager turned up dead.

    Most people would run far away from that situation.

    Instead, Tim rocked up to the Iceberg Lounge at 2.30pm on a Wednesday, a fresh set of dye in his hair, his favorite jean booty shorts with sequin stars on the back pockets, and a dream.

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    Tim becomes a stripper, works through his trauma about hypersexualising himself, and stresses out one Red Hood who keeps trying to coax him into doing something Tim doesn't obviously hate

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    15 Mar 2025

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    Jason died.

     

    Give me a friend, Tim thought with all the firmness he could muster. Something twisted in his gut, and a weird tingling came from his fingers, the kind he got when his arm fell asleep.

    All of a sudden, he was exhausted. What? Tim scowled at the feeling, forcing himself to sit up. It took him a moment to realize, but someone was standing in front of him. The edges of him - it was a boy, practically a grown-up - flickered for a moment, like static on a TV, before turning normal again.

    He was dressed in bright colors, red and green and yellow like a traffic light - like Robin. The costume was torn right over where the ‘R’ was supposed to be, and it was kind of bloody - really bloody.

     

    Gotham is a city of tragedies, wrapped up in enough grief that while Tim knows that Robin has died, he doesn't connect that to his new imaginary friend. There's no reason to; Tim is a normal boy, by Gotham's standards.

    It turns out Gotham's standards are fairly abnormal.

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    12 Mar 2025