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The kid was going to die at this rate, whether or not Jason had anything to do with it. Apparently dead Robins were just a thing, now, and Bruce didn’t give a shit whether they lived or died.
There was something almost comforting about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
There was something fucking infuriating about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
Well. If those fucks didn’t care about their baby bird now, Jason would just have to make them care. And he had a few ideas on just how to do that.
Robin might get a little broken in the process, but what was a little kidnapping and torture between friends?
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a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Steph. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. This is mainly hurt, angst, and reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come! There *will* be a happy ending.
[summary updated 1/21/22]
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- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood
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from every height I’d fall I’d call by CassandrasDreamworld
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Nov 2024
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Tim doesn't expect much after he's left for dead, bleeding out in the ruin that had once been Gotham. His family is dead, his friends as well, and there is nothing else to look forward to besides joining them in the beyond. Dying and delirious, he hangs on by a thread - Long enough for an offer to be made, a request for help and Tim has never been able to say no to that.
He doesn't expect much and he certainly doesn't expect a second chance but it seems like Gotham doesn't let go easily of what they considers to be theirs.
He dies and yet he doesn't. He dies but he lives.
He dies and he is taken back, time unwinding, the clock set back and he is born into a new life. A new him, and at a point where he can change things for the better, if he can survive.
Tahmid al Ghul (Wayne) is born in Spring 1997, as Heir of the Demon Head, as Ibn al Xu'ffasch - nearly twenty years before he died as Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne.
He just hopes he will be able to survive growing up in the League of Assassins, and that he will be able to go back to his family once more.
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- Part 1 of reach out for your hand
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Team Player by RandomReader13
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Feb 2024
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Jason Todd is on the run from the League of Assassins, the only home he's known for the past 8 years. He doesn't really want to trade one organization specializing in espionage and assassination for another, but S.H.I.E.L.D. might just provide the safety he needs.
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The last thing Tim remembered was red stained sand. His hands pressed into Pru’s neck, blood spilling through his fingers—in Iraq.
He wasn’t in Iraq anymore.
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Or, Tim wakes up in a Gotham where he never existed.
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The Other Side of Freedom (That Little Death) by RandomReader13 for OliOcelot
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
02 Feb 2023
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The BAU gets called in to apprehend Jonathan Crane, a psychopathic mass murderer from Gotham. Between the fear toxin and entering the Red Hood's home city, the team is more than a little concerned. But help might be coming from an unexpected quarter.
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“Batman, BAU. BAU, Batman.” Gordon squinted at Batman. “They’ve agreed to work with you and your team as consultants. Try to avoid incriminating yourselves.”
Batman grunted.CM/DC Week Day 1: "Wheels Up In 30"
CM/DC Week Day 2: Gasses and Toxins
CM/DC Week Day 3: BAU vs DC VillainsSeries
- Part 2 of The BAU Goes Batty
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Jason died. But then he came back.
This keeps happening.
(Not a groundhog day loop, but something slightly worse.)
No. 8 EVERYTHING HURTS AND I’M DYING
Stomach Pain | Head Trauma| Back from the DeadSeries
- Part 24 of outrunning karma (whumptober '22)
- Part 1 of dead men tell no tales 'verse
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Friendly Interdimensional Neighborhood Spider-Man by mysterycyclone
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Video Games 2018-2020), DCU
27 Dec 2022
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Dick wakes up to that same flash of gold and red, lying flat on his back on top of the roof of a building. The sound of traffic fills his ears, and the air is cool and crisp the way it is in spring, when the snow and ice are gone, but there’s still a slight chill in the air.
“Oh, good. You’re not dead,” a voice says above him, relieved and curious. “Thank god. I wasn’t sure how I was going to explain this one.”
Dick blinks, sitting up and staring up at the form of a man sticking to the side of a wall, feet and back pressed against it in a sitting position. He’s wearing a super suit--blue and red fabric woven around armor and lined with webbing, with a white spider symbol across the chest. The suit has a full mask, and the eyes of it blink.
The man waves at him cheerfully. “Hi. I’m Spider-Man. I help people around here. Who are you?"
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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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Parenting is Bruce's thing, and Jason isn't planning on messing with that. But when Bruce fails to spot the countless red flags about Tim's home life, it falls to Jason to step up. Of course it does. Because he's literally the only one in his family who knows how to be responsible, and if Dick disagrees, he can suck it.
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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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Élan Vital by Kal_trop (Mali_trop)
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
17 Apr 2022
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Bruce leaned down, corners of his mouth drawn upwards as he whispered in Tim’s ear, “Welcome home, Son.”
And Tim cries, quietly, with a smile on his face because it’s so wonderful to feel loved.
Isn’t it?
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Aka Tim joins the Batfam a bit earlier and I get to project my parental issues.
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- Part 1 of Dimicas Bene
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“You’re a sorry sight,” Jason says, and forces a water bottle in Tim’s shaking hand.
“Had a bad day,” Tim gasps, shakily trying to twist the cap off.
Jason snorts. “I’d say.”
Tim’s too busy draining the bottle to glare at Jason.
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tim spends another birthday alone and makes bad decisions.
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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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Red Hood doesn't know that Stephanie Brown is the new Robin.
Tim Drake doesn't know anything about Red Hood or why he wants to fight Robin. All Tim knows is that a man in a red helmet just broke into his house.
Jason needs to figure out what's going on, Tim needs a dad, and Stephanie needs to figure out just how long she's going to last as Robin.
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party favour by lifetimeoflaughter
Fandoms: Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Marvel 616, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
08 Oct 2020
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She sends an unimpressed look his way, raising one eyebrow. “It’s a party,” she says, “where all the attendees are almost equal to you in terms of IQ and net worth. How are you going to be bored, again?”
Tony and Natasha attend a gala together. It's an interesting night for everyone involved.
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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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heroes and thieves at my door (i can’t seem to tell them apart anymore) by Hinn_Raven for Sroloc_Elbisivni
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
05 Jun 2019
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Bruce really can’t help but think that Stephanie Brown, pre-medicine, piano player, and honors student, with Leslie vouching for her, would be a far better girlfriend for his daughter than Spoiler, the new vigilante in town.
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- Part 9 of Stephanie Brown Works
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The Not-Babysitter by Hinn_Raven for fandomnerd
Fandoms: Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics)
10 Oct 2018
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Steph is volunteered to babysit Damian on his trip to the zoo, much to Damian's consternation. But an encounter with Steph's college classmates might force Damian to admit that things aren't so bad with her around.