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If You Can't Breathe, You Can't Scream by TimDrakeIsMyPatronus
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
24 Oct 2025
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After a stakeout gone wrong, Tim wakes up underneath a pier. His family has to race against the tide to save him from drowning.
WT Day 25: left to die
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- Part 21 of Whumptober 2025
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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
24 Oct 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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Whatever happened to imaginary friends? by CoffeeTrees
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
24 Oct 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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Draw a Chalk Outline by FinnickOdairLives4ever
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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I don't feel safe in the halls - There are bruises on the walls - There are bodies in the floors - And they breathe so loudly
./././.
Or the time Tim Drake got sent back in time and decided - fuck it. He'll change everything, butterfly effect be damned.
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We could have been a great many things-- by Constant_Vacillation for MysteryMoth
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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Tim may or may not be a stalker. He hasn't quite decided yet. Like, yes, he stalks Jason Todd... but Jason Todd is dead...
Maybe Informant was a better word for him.
Without Jason around to photograph, he didn't have many options left. Yet, if there was anything ever true about Tim Drake, it was his need to insert himself in Batman's life, even if that meant forcing Batman to Batman.
And if Batman wanted him to get intel on Red Hood, then he supposed he would... No one said anything about not dating him too...
(Or, Informant Tim x Red Hood Jason where they start dating before Tim knows it's Jason and then stuff happens that moves plot.)
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this is me trying by unholy_elysium
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2025
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When Tim was little, he made a video tape, just for something to talk to about life. But Tim's life has never been uneventful, or normal. When the Wayne's find his old tape, they're forced to question how much they really know about him, and how much he really means to them.
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- Part 7 of bats out of hell
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You died for me (I'm living for you) by NamiThorne08
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
22 Oct 2025
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“Hey b, you think you could make it over here?” He asked over the coms, praying silently that the man was actually wearing his com this time.
Tim often wondered when he would die in the field. There had never been a doubt that he would, it was just the fact.
Sometimes he wondered if it would be at the hands of Batman himself, but he always pushed those thoughts away as soon as they came up.
No, he would most likely die in a moment like this.
Needing back up and realizing he was alone in this.
Like always, right?
“Seems like you’re losing, Replacement,” a distorted voice said from behind him
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When Jason Todd and Tim Drake were kidnapped by the Joker, Jason died. Later, he comes back to life, but he thinks Tim died in the kidnapping too. Little does he know that the "replacement" he's set on killing is his long-lost best friend. And his best friend seems to have a strange talent in finding abusive adults to be around.
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Little Candle Light by PokeMusic28
Fandoms: Sky: Children of the Light (Video Game), Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
21 Oct 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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Okay.
This was okay.
This was fine.
His parents happened to be in the same gala as him somehow, and were looking to guilt-trip him into going back to them.
It was totally fine.
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Tim's numb, distant, dissociating as his dad beats him up and spits harsh words at him. He's going through the movements, barely taking anything in...
When somehow, Jason appears. What was his Robin doing here? Was he hallucinating or had he died, finally killed by his own dad's hand?
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Meanwhile, Jason is furious.
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“Oh, Mr. Batman, sir!”
He froze.
“I’m so glad I found you!”
“What happened?”
He was dead, he was dead, he was going to die. The people said that the Batman didn’t kill, but no one knew for sure. And Jason was currently holding a jacked tire of his very expensive and probably very precious car. He was dead.
“I saw the man who mugged my sister running over there.”
Wait, what?
“Come on, come on, he’ll get away!”
Jason watched as the kid’s small shadow tugged at Batman’s cape and started leading him away from the alley.
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Jason and Tim street kid runaways AU
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The Science of Falling Apart (and the Art of Being Found) by NocturnalAnomaly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2025
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Tim Drake never became Robin. Instead, he became a ghost with a trust fund, a bad habit, and no one who cared enough to stop him.
When Jason Todd finds him half-dead in an alleyway, the overdose is only half of the problem.
Saving someone's life is easy. Keeping them alive after, not so much.
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A story about recovery and finding the people who care.
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for a pessimist, i'm pretty optimistic by celestialbodys
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
19 Oct 2025
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When Robin is presumed missing or dead by the public, and Jason Todd has been absent from school for longer, Tim Drake takes it upon himself to investigate his disappearance. The problem is, things get much worse before they get better.
AKA Tim Drake's no-good-very-bad summer break.
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- Part 1 of dog days
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The Odds are Never in Our Favor by Goodluckandgodspeedgoodsir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
18 Oct 2025
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Static buzzed in Tim’s ears as the ceremony began. A pale woman with a slender frame and short ebony hair slinked towards the stage, waving happily to the audience.
“Welcome! Welcome! To the 74th Annual Hunger Games!” The capitol woman chuckled merrily. “This is gonna be such fun! I look forward to another entertaining year!”
SLOW UPDATES, BUT I DO PLAN ON FINISHING THIS!🫡
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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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“I want to thank you,” he said. “For being there for Tim when he needed it.”
Jason squeezed his eyes shut and clenched his fists in his pockets.
“Shit, Dick.” Jason shook his head. “His dad was about to fucking kill him, of course I would come to get him.”
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you can't understand (what you never learned) by krumthechair
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Oct 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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The Future Is Set In (Eroding) Stone by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2025
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It was a normal enough night. Nothing was out of the ordinary during patrol and no major rogues had been spotted. Everyone was home and at ease. It was quiet, pleasant and calm.
So no one had given a second thought when Bruce disappeared into the medbay, muttering about getting an aspirin for a headache. That was the first sign.
He was in his Batman suit despite the fact that they had already changed half an hour ago. That was the second sign that they all missed.
Tim should have known something was up. Then maybe, what happened next could have been avoided.
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Gun Batman (Evil Tim from the future) comes back.
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walking the path by TheQueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
16 Oct 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 Batman (AU)
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(Never) Good (Enough) by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
15 Oct 2025
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“I love all my children equally,” Bruce said, smiling at the camera.
At the millenia-old answer to the equally old question of “Who is your favorite child”, the people in the interview laughed. As was the only appropriate reaction to the answer.
Tim laughed too. Along with his adopted siblings next to him. His lips parted in a wide smile and his eyes scrunched up as a soft chuckle left his throat.
But inside, Tim was seething.
I love all my children equally.
Bullshit, Tim thought through clenched teeth. Bull-fucking-shit.
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