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Little Candle Light by PokeMusic28
Fandoms: Sky: Children of the Light (Video Game), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
26 Sep 2025
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Chased through the Golden Wastes by a krill, a Sky Kid stumbles into a portal that tears him from his world of light—and drops him into a cold, unfamiliar cave. There, he finds Tim Drake bound in chains.
Thrown together by fate, the child must learn to survive in a strange and dangerous world, while Tim struggles to adapt to a role he never expected—caring not only for himself but also for a lost child of the stars. In the fragile balance between light and shadow, they begin to forge a bond that could change them both forever.
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The Shadow of Helgen (Book 1) by C_R_Scott
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
25 Sep 2025
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One of Gotham City’s iconic “Robins”, Tim Drake was transported to a strange medieval world with no memory of how he arrived. Mistaken for a rebel soldier by the Imperial Legion, he found himself facing execution in the town of Helgen. His life was ultimately spared not by mercy or justice, but by the cataclysmic appearance of a black dragon that razed the town of Helgen and left him with agonizing physical and psychological wounds.
As he struggles to survive in this new land of Skyrim, Tim's main goal is to find a way home. However, this mission is continually derailed by the needs of the locals, his own near crippling injuries, and the looming threat of the dragon he had the misfortune to survive.
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Uncomfortable Positions by Red_Clegane
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Comics)
22 Sep 2025
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Clark writes letters to people when he finds it hard to talk to them. Letters that are never meant to be read. Letters that Alfred Pennyworth just hand delivered to the most important people in Bruce Wayne's life.
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Clark goes on an apology tour of Gotham.
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you can't understand (what you never learned) by krumthechair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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When a petty thief activates an ancient artifact by accident, suffice to say Timothy Jackson Drake does not have a good time. With an 8 year old alternate version of himself to take care of, the next family gathering coming up, his Red Robin duties, and not enough fucks to give; Tim just wanted his coffee.
(Under heavy revision as of 09/05/2025.)
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- Part 1 of little by little
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even good things (healing wounds sting) by ruggedBeast
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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Tim should be excited, right?
He had asked for this, spent weeks hoping it would work out. Tim wanted this. Wanted to move in with the Waynes, wanted desperately to not be so alone anymore.
And yet, for some reason, he didn't feel better. It was as though he'd been set adrift, none of the anchors of his old life left to cling to. No rocks, no routines. And even though everything at Wayne Manor was better, it was so very different.
Or: When you're autistic, even the best changes can still be overwhelming. The Manor comes with more interaction, with more noise, with more life and Tim doesn't know how to handle it. Things come to a head with the first meltdown Tim's had outside of his carefully constructed hiding place.
The biggest change of all is that now there are people to catch Tim when he's falling.
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Silent Sea by I See With Soundwaves (JustAWinterGuardian)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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For the past year, the ocean's call rang in Tim's head, calling him home.
It wasn't a pleasant feeling; it hurt. It vibrated in Tim's bones and filled every inch of his mind.
But nothing could have prepared him for the day the ocean's call stopped.Series
- Part 3 of Drowning on Dry Land
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there will be time by RoseofArc
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
22 Sep 2025
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“So, is uh. Everything alright, Jay?”
“Sure. Why wouldn’t it be?” Eyebrows raised in concern, Konner had the decency to look uncomfortable.
“Well, I didn’t mean to listen in, but,“ his voice dropped slightly in a hushed tone, “there’s a funeral? Do you want to talk about it?”
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Jason Todd makes a friend out of Superboy and attends his own funeral. This couldn't possibly go wrong.
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Please Don't Leave Me by Val_Creative
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DCU
22 Sep 2025
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It's not unusual for Tim to go missing for weeks. Until Kon finds out through Batman.
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I'm Not Here to Ask You for a Way Out by WhenTheStarsFall22
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Sep 2025
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UPDATE TO ALL MY FAITHFUL READERS: I might not be updating this week because I’m honestly having a really hard time with my ed rn and (sorta) trying to start recovery. Please bear with me lol. Technical difficulties😭
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Seth Ridley was back again. Tim, his newly assigned T.O. had no idea why he was even still trying and honestly just hoped, he'd quickly realise he wasn't cut out for it and quit once for all. But maybe things start turning out a bit differently.
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- Part 2 of Seth Ridley centred
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walking the path by TheQueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
19 Sep 2025
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It was Barbara who brought it up first. The Drake Kidnapping hadn’t pinged as high priority on Batman’s To Do List. That is until Bruce started looking into their son. For Tim’s part, he never wanted to be a hero. It seems like the universe has other ideas.
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- Part 1 of The Inevitable
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Twisted Solace by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
18 Sep 2025
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Benching Robins never really worked out well in the past. Benching Tim results in him going off to take photos of Batman on patrol instead. Unfortunately, the shadows of Gotham hold a lot worse than muggers and common criminals.
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- Part 8 of Rogues Gallery Bingo
- Part 1 of System of the Tim
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Whatever Happened to Tim Drake? - [OMNIBUS] by Tinhatflash53
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
18 Sep 2025
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"Tim Drake has made a terrible mistake. He has inadvertently brought a child into the world, and now he needs to make sure that the world is safe for it to grow up in. So, in his first, last, and only year as Red Robin, Tim travels the world in order to rescue Bruce, then disappears to raise his son."
That's how he wished it had happened. Oh, to only be a single father on the run from the law; what a wonderful world it would be if that were the only thing that had gone wrong in his life.
But Tim had long since learned his lesson; good things simply didn't happen to him. Why else would there be so much blood on his hands?
(This work is an omnibus of an entire series! Readers may find more digestible chunks easier to follow than this!)
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- Part 1 of Whatever Happened to Tim Drake?
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The Rumor of a Ghost by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
16 Sep 2025
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Tim had patched up Jason after Bruce slit his throat with a Batarang.
Jason had offered Tim a place to stay after his sixteenth birthday.
They were brothers in a world that had left them behind. They were brothers in a world that had been cruelly unfair time and time. They were brothers in a world that hadn’t given much else.
So when Bruce nearly beat Jason to death, uncaring that his son had only shot Penguin with a blank? Tim did what he had to do.
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How Tim became Red Hood.
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Jason Todd is back. He's back and he's angry and also a cat.
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why not stay down? by moonlure
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
14 Sep 2025
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He felt less afraid. Less like a child left alone, feeling so sick and scared and unsure of what to do. Tim hated being sick because of how often he'd been left on his own as a kid. He'd seen in Elowyn how much each interaction set in stone her future mentality and emotional regulation. It frightened him, knowing every conversation he had with her might be the reason things go wrong- and it hurt him to know he'd been failed by his parents, abandoned when he needed them.
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Tim is awfully sick. Dick, Barbara and their kid come to the rescue.
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- Part 12 of Moon's Batfamily
- Part 14 of Sicktember 2025
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Does Beholding Dream of Electric Eyes? by Skull_Bearer
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
13 Sep 2025
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Following Prentiss' attack and the destruction of the Not!Them, Jon and Martin negotiate new allies, new friends, and new enemies. And the demands of Beholding, steadily growing in It's power.
Sequel to A Shutter, Darkly.
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- Part 2 of Enlightened Self-Interest
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Costochondral Separation by Rat (Very_Tall_Rodent)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
12 Sep 2025
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Tim is having a very bad not good time. He is struggling under the many pressures of his life and gets real introspective. And that’s most of the fic.
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all that fighting, all that snow by moonlure
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
10 Sep 2025
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They were in the middle of fighting robbers when it happened.
Tim had felt under the weather ever since rescuing Stephanie from the evil clutches of going to school while sick. He'd expected to get sick soon after, but maybe not to this degree. He had warned Bruce he wasn't well and Bruce had made a weak attempt at benching him, only for Tim to insist he was fine.
Turns out, Tim realised after vomiting in front of Batman and the remaining robbers, he was not fine.
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Tim is sick mid fight. Bruce is a good Dad.
EMETOPHOBIA WARNING! DO NOT READ IF EMETOPHOBIC
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- Part 5 of Moon's Batfamily
- Part 5 of Sicktember 2025
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While he's looking for Bruce, who's lost in the time stream, Tim gets cursed. If nobody tells him honestly that they love him in the next twelve months, he's going to die.
After Bruce is saved Tim decides to keep this information to himself. Because nobody's ever really loved him, right? Except maybe his parents, in a power-hungry sort of way, but they're dead. And Tim would rather bow out quietly and without a fuss than have to deal with the Bats' pity.