17 Works in Kit's Favourite DC Fics
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just lowering your expectations by the_star_catcher
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Apr 2026
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For a long time, Tim doesn’t know his parents are dead. Maybe that makes him a bad son, for not knowing. When he reads about death, or when he watches people die in movies, their loved ones always know. There’s a gasp of pained revelation, an instinctual loss.
Tim doesn’t feel that. He wouldn’t have noticed at all, except for that he likes to keep track of the things going on in the places where his parents visit. Sometimes, it means he can ask leading questions, on their mostly-weekly phone calls, and Janet will spiral off into some tangent about these people and their lack of work ethic, and she’ll talk for minutes on end before realizing she’s still on the phone, getting bored, and then ending the call. So he keeps an alert system on his phone, for news, so they have some topics in common to talk about. It’s only luck he sees the article before anyone else does.
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- Part 1 of author's favorites
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Jason Todd: PTA Extraordinaire by NightmareWelfare
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
09 Nov 2025
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“You got a pen?”
Tim blinked owlishly before scrambling to grab a pen from his book bag, as if terrified Jason would change his mind in the 6 seconds he took to search. He held it out to Jason who snatched it right out of his hands.
“If we do this, we’re doing it right. You got that, Richie?" Jason snarled. "When I sign this you’re my kid!”
“I don’t do things in half measures. I’m gonna be there for every PTA meeting, every club invite, every fucking carpool you understand? I don’t need some white bread, pearl clutching bitch telling me I’m a shitty Guardian just ‘cause I didn’t ask for this.”
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The only thing worse than crawling out of your own grave to find your father had replaced you with the first black haired, blue eyed preteen he could find, is said replacement begging you to sign emergency foster papers... except maybe you signing said papers and having to learn how to be a parent on the fly... Fuck it, he couldn't do any worse than Bruce.
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No Longer You by SeaSkate
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Young Justice (Comics), DCU (Comics)
07 Sep 2025
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Tim Drake was someone that knew a lot of people, both in his civilian identity and when wearing his mask. He was someone that knew a lot of people, but not someone that people truly knew. Sure, there were people in his life that knew bits and pieces of himself, but no one knew everything and very few knew the same things if he could help it.
He was a puzzle that only himself held the answer key to.
So, what if his family and friends were given a cheat sheet?
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Or, The Batfamily and the core members of Young Justice find themselves watching Tim Drake's life...as told through songs from Epic the Musical
[Goes from him becoming Robin to the end of the Red Robin run]
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This fic now has a playlist on both YouTube and Spotify, that updates as the fic does:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSTESD1PfprR6RuIOFgT2g-uRUAGz01R&si=jgxl9WCD-aPYkmuW
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WRYcCfdSYJe70jo6qtvoj?si=9DesZkkiRqmI0sI7KLRE0w
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Podfic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSTESD1Pfpo7LkK8OJ-bWX0aqU3FRhBI&si=hG0io8S-la3y5Lg2
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- Part 2 of Tim Drake AUs
- Part 1 of but it’s no longer you
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Tim was independent. He was reliable. He was self-sufficient. He was ten years old, and ten year olds didn’t need help – he was practically an adult at this point.
The only problem was that his tooth hurt.
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You Were Kind I Was Cruel (In Another Life Maybe I Was You) by SeaSkate
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
18 May 2025
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The current members of the Teen Titans host a concert as a charity event, one where all of the young heroes perform in costume before not only civilians but also other heroes. The core four members of Young Justice (98) all preform together, nothing can go wrong from that right?
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Or, the mentors/ families of Tim, Kon, Cassie, and Bart get called out for how they acted towards the kids back in the 1998 Young Justice comic run, and realize just how badly they screwed up back then.
Podfic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHSTESD1PfpoIe2tXhVm_JUkacnaIqO2T&si=ESz19QvoUXemBzQJ
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- Part 1 of Tim Drake AUs
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by blood you'll belong. by brain0worm (EmoBoyShu)
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
19 Apr 2025
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"Tim was sitting in the interrogation room of Gotham City Police. His hands had handcuffs on them, the chain was long and attached to the floor. The light above him was gritty and dull."
"He thought he'd planned everything perfectly, he shouldn't have gotten caught. He wouldn't have gotten caught if—"
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- Part 5 of BatFam Aus by Brain Worm
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Northern Attitude (I Was Raised on Little Light) by theskeptileptic
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
09 Jan 2025
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It's not *Tim's* fault Batman slept with his mom sixteen years ago, or Tim's fault that Bruce Wayne regrets signing away his parental rights fifteen years ago, but Jack Drake sure thinks it is. Now Damian is bugging him about cows and family and Jason and Dick won't stop kidnapping him and Bruce is acting like court orders don't matter, like he doesn't have a huge bat-shaped secret to protect from literally the whole freaking world.
Why is Tim the only functioning adult in this situation?
This was supposed to be coated in angst, but it fell in the fluff bucket instead. (So, update, some people are saying this may not be as fluffy as I am advertising it. I plead the 5th.)
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The Best Laid Plans Of Tim Drake Oft' Go Fucking Awry by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
26 Sep 2024
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Wow, what doesn't happen in this fic?
There are Amazon Prime packages delivered to Batman from Red Hood in the form of a bloody and beaten Robin. This makes Bruce, Dick, Barbara and Alfred SAD. Tim sees that it makes them SAD and decides that he does not like them being SAD and he needs to get Jason back in the family and cure him of his Lazarus Pit Menty Bs (mental breakdowns).
So he comes to the only logical solution: meet Talia Al Ghul.
But Good Dad Bruce Batman does not like that so Tim does the only other logical thing: quit being Robin (by accident).
Then he goes to meet with Talia Al Ghul.
And he comes out with an assassin son.
So now Tim has to raise a homicidal bratty 10-year-old Damian along with running and hiding from the Bats while trying to cure Jason of his green eggs and ham rages and get the family back together.
Oh hey! What's that there in the distance! *zooms camera*
"J0ker waz HeRe 🤡"
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Hear the River from my Burial Bed by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
27 Jun 2023
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Tim writes his first will two days after his ninth birthday. His grandmother died March 16th of the same year and his parents had been in town for the funeral. The weather had been gloomy, and his suit black and scratchy. He hadn’t liked the experience all that much.
Still, he worries what will happen to his photos should he die. He makes a plan.
Timothy Jackson Drake
Drake Manor, 1008 Mnt. Drive
Bristol, New Jersey, 08711
21.7.XX
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Timothy Jackson Drake
I,Timothy Jackson Drake, of Drake Manor, 1008 Mnt. Drive, Bristol, New Jersey, 08711, being of sound mind and legal capacity, do hereby make and declare this to be my last will and testament. I revoke any and all previous wills or codicils made by me.
He updates his will every year, every six months, every month until he doesn't.
His family stages an intervention.
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How Tim Drake faces the issue of his own mortality. His friends and family are decidedly unhappy with his methods.
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Banshee In A Well by bugbee, liverobinreaction (bugbee)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
02 Apr 2023
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Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.
But most of all, Tim is alone.
(If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)
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- Part 1 of bury the dead where they're found
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That One Time Tim Adopted The Wayne Family by Writer_loves_tropes
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
28 Dec 2022
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The story of how ten-year-old Tim Drake almost gets adopted by each member of the Wayne family. In each chapter another family member almost adopts him:
1. Jason Todd-Wayne
2. Dick Grayson-Wayne
3. Uncle Clark Kent (technically a Wayne because the kids call him uncle)
4. Alfred Pennyworth (Wayne)
5. Bruce Wayneor 5 times Tim Drake almost gets adopted by the Wayne family (+1 time Tim adopts them)
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- Part 1 of Adopted Wayne Family AU
- Part 5 of Alternate ways Tim meets the Batfamily
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Gloved fingers close over Tim’s throat and slowly begin to squeeze.
“Jason!” he gasps, choking. “Have you ever read Macbeth?”
The Red Hood stares at him like Tim just slapped him with a fish.
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With his grades slipping, Tim worries Bruce will take Robin away. So when the Red Hood breaks into his room with the intent to kill him, Tim decides it's a good idea to ask him for help on his English homework.It works. And then it doesn't. And then Tim solves a mystery and almost dies anyway.
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Under A Parent's Wing by IzzyMRDB
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
31 Aug 2022
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When Tim found out that Dick Grayson was a gymnastics instructor in Bludhaven, he quickly signed up. After all, learning gymnastics from The Nightwing himself is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Dick Grayson is more concerned at the obvious signs of child abuse he sees in one of his students.
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Dick Grayson, as a childcare worker, is a mandated reporter who knows how to recognize child abuse in his students. Tim Drake, after a lifetime of fear and confusion, learns to trust adults.
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- Part 1 of Wings are for Flying
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The last thing Jason expected to see in the middle of some damp alley on the northern edge of Crime Alley at a ripe 4 AM was Tim Drake buying drugs. But life is full of wacky surprises, isn’t it?
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Gotham was built on a cave system. Batman has referenced a Bat Cave before. Tim is currently in the cave system. He is in the cave system that he entered from Drake Manor. Drake Manor is right next door to where Batman- The Bruce Wayne- lives. Holy Cavern, Batman! Tim had just accidentally wandered into the Bat Cave’s cave system.
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Tim, having found a weird hole after a storm, decides to go exploring ignoring the fact that This Is Gotham and They Probably Have Cursed Stuff Down There.
Luckily, it was just a cave system that spans the entire Gotham underground. Unluckily, Tim is a very curious child.
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- Part 1 of Gotham Caves and Reality Aberrations
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Petals for Armor by SilverSkiesAtMidnight for Scarlet_Ribbons
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
03 Feb 2022
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There’s a small half-moon of blood under the white of Tim’s nail where he bent it. He studies the red of it, feeling foggy and dreamlike. “Can I ask you a question?”
His brother’s eyes flick to him and away again, surprised and wary. “What?”
His nail doesn’t hurt much, just the dullest of aches when he presses down against it. “When you were homeless, you slept with people for money, didn’t you?”
Jason jerks like he’s been slapped. His knuckles are so pale where they grip the steering wheel they suddenly look more bone than flesh. “Did I -”
“Was it worth it?” Tim asks, drifting like a cloud over whatever furious reaction Jason was about to give him. “The money, I mean.”
His sternum slams into the seatbelt with bruising force. Unbraced for it, his head whips forward and back against his seat as they swerve off the road again and skid to a halt with a screech of rubber.
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Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines by SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
23 Dec 2021
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He has never argued with a punishment, not since he was a toddler, if then. Surely she’ll listen, surely she’ll see this is too harsh, that he wouldn’t be disrespecting her like this if he was simply sulking over not getting his way. He needs that food, needs to be able to eat enough if he wants to be Robin.
He’s been hungry before, but back then, it never mattered if he was a little weak or dizzy. It never risked his life or the life of his partner when he was a kid.
She turns, sighing softly and pursing her lips. She reaches out to pat his cheek, and for a moment his heart soars hopefully, and he barely restrains himself from leaning into the rare bit of contact and soaking up his mother’s touch. “Oh, Timothy,” she tuts. “This is for the best. And honestly, I think it’s wise for you to cut down a bit on the snacks. I’d hate to have to listen to anyone tittering at the next gala that you’re getting chubby.”
And without another backwards glance, she turns and heads upstairs, leaving Tim alone and frozen at the bottom of the steps.
Day 6 - TOUCH AND GO
bruises | touch starved | hungerSeries
- Part 5 of Whumptober 2021