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The holidays are Tim's most favorite time of year.
He doesn't mean that like most people mean it, where they say "holidays," but they really only celebrate the one, and all the others are just happening at the same time. Tim celebrates ALL the holidays.
He's usually very good at keeping the various family tradition stories straight, too. He's been Jewish; he's been Christian; he's been pagan; he's been Muslim. Sometimes all at the same time. But this year...well, this year the Waynes are suddenly getting involved, and Tim starts to realize how hard it is to keep stories straight and less-than-stellar upbringings hidden when people are actually listening to you.
It's weird, Tim decides. And he's not sure he likes it.
(A year in the life of Tim Drake, as told through the various holiday parties of the Gotham elite and the unexpected lessons on privilege, bias, and various -isms that come with 'em. And maybe a little bit of friendship and understanding along the way, since we all know this has to end with Tim joining the Batfam early, right?)
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Jason Todd awoke one morning from troubled dreams and found himself transformed into a monstrous—
No. God, he wished.
Metamorphosis, he could have handled. An easy fix. Hell, magic insect transformation was practically an everyday occurrence, in Gotham.
Just… not in this Gotham.
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Jason Todd awakes one morning in a Gotham that “doesn’t like chaos”, and finds his feet.
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Jason Todd, Red Hood, and the Park Row Public Library (and her librarians).
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“Replacement.”
Tim freezes, gaze still locked on Jack’s prone, silent form sprawled out on the floor, and pulls the phone back to look at the number.
It’s kind of funny, he thinks hazily. Of course he would accidentally kill his dad and then mistakenly call Jason, of all people.
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Jack Drake used Drake Industries to hide his white-collar crimes. Janet Drake used her socialite status to hide her participation in a group of assassins.
Really, they should have expected Tim Drake to reject the idea of being a normal child.
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The Drakes, while criminals, do try really hard to be good parents and raise a normal child. Tim, who tries to be a normal kid, also really wants to be just like his parents.
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Philosopher's Stone (But this ain’t abt Rowling) by StarryKitty013
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Oct 2022
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It started with Jason. Let that be known.
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- Part 2 of Sibling Beta Test
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The valet opens the door as he places a ticket under the windshield, a hot breeze lazily snaking its way into the backseat. Then, he climbs out and shuts the door behind him, and the air falls as still as a crumpled quilt.
He doesn’t so much as glance at the backseat window as he walks away, leaving Tim alone to wait.
And that’s… that’s probably fine! His parents did say that going to a gala with them was something for big kids to do, and he already knows big kids are supposed to be able to be able to be apart from their parents without throwing a fit, so maybe this is why. Maybe waiting like this is part of every grown-up event, and that’s why he needed to be a big boy before he could come with them.
So yes. He can be a big boy. He can wait, alone.
It’s even kind of exciting! He’s not sure he’s ever been completely alone, without even a nanny nearby.
He just… well, he wishes they could have left the AC on while he waits.
Day 15 - FEED A COLD, STARVE A FEVER
delirium |fever dreams| beesSeries
- Part 9 of Whumptober 2021
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Gotham loses its Robin and Bruce Wayne loses a son. Tim finds one of these too tragic to bear. In his quest to make sure Bruce Wayne lives to see the next year, he strikes upon the perfect solution: another son.
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His best bet is, naturally, Crime Alley.
By 8 pm that day, Drake Manor is filled with ten black-haired, blue-eyed boys sitting around the large dining table, looking around the room suspiciously.
Well. Eleven. But Tim doesn’t think he counts.
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What is the right place, anyways? (here, at home, with you, probably) by Sunpops1
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
28 Jun 2022
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Tim Drake will do what he has to. Because he needs to. This includes, as fate would have it, saving Robins, and having robins save him. Yes, Robin(s). Plural.
The thing is, Batman needs a Robin, Robin needs a Tim, and Tim, like an open wound needs to heal, needs to help.
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and to you, my heart, i surrender the burden of my love by unidentified_dna
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
23 May 2022
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tim drake's life existed in the bland shades of gray and blue. that is, until robin appears.
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- Part 1 of perfection as perceived by others
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There’s a warehouse in Ethiopia. Then there isn’t.
There’s the Joker. Then there isn’t.
There's the fingers of Damian's gloves, stained red.
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Reverse Robins AU, set just after the Joker kills Jason, the second-youngest of Bruce's kids. Damian's navigation of the anger, of the guilt—of anything but the grief.
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Mrs.Mctwitter, the babysitter (I think she's a little bit crazy) by Tht0neGal666
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
30 Dec 2021
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"Batman told me not to take food from strangers." He repeated loyally, not even looking at the plate as his stomach growled. Stephanie snorted.
"Batman isn't here, birdy." She teased, then bit her lip. Ok, so maybe she does sound a bit like a rouge. She can hear it, now that Tim pointed it out.
"He will be." Dick claimed, not even a crumb of doubt in his voice. "Batman is going to find me because I trust him, like he trusts me not to break the rules."
Tim snorted, this time. "You're Robin. If you aren't breaking Batman's rules and keeping him on his toes, what are you doing?"
Dick's face twitched, in the way that meant he was rolling his eyes, and he exaggerated the gesture by rolling his head with it. "Those are for his stupid rules that don't make sense. Like trying to bench me for no reason, or telling me not to microwave cereal."
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or; Steph and Tim get stranded in the past, and Steph comes across a lost and delirious little bird. Literally what else is there to do but kidnap him.Series
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you're done with all the talk talk talk by MashpotatoeQueen for transbrucewayne, CoffeeMewMew
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
24 May 2020
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Dick is the one who takes her to her first ballet.
(Or: Cass falls in love with dancing, and drags the rest of her family along for the ride.)
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too young to be taken seriously, too old to believe all this hypocrisy by Hinn_Raven
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
14 Apr 2020
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When Crystal Brown goes into rehab, leaving Stephanie in the sole custody of her father, Steph decides to run away from home, and meets Jason Todd, who decides that she is the best little sister ever.
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"the dark knight is beaten up by children on the anniversary of his parents death... tragic"
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- Part 17 of Stephanie Brown Works