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Tim Drake applies make-up like armor, hiding the Joker's smile to spare the Batfamily a reminder. He understands his role: to be absent, quiet, and expendable so that Jason—the important son, the real son—can heal. Alfred visits, but he can't hide the bitter truth that sometimes, the most heroic thing a Robin can do is vanish.
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02 Mar 2026
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Trust Fall (Doubt You'll Catch Me) by Lovechraft
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
26 Sep 2025
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It sucked that Tim couldn't trust his family. They had either been his abusers or bystanders, but even when he tried to take himself off their hands, they clung to him like a sticky residue. Trapped, he felt like a mouse beneath a cat's paw, and he knew the only escape would be a clean-cut break with no room for interpretion.
Somehow, they made room for interpretation.
“Bruce,” Tim rasped, his discarded Red Robin suit a thousand pound weight in his hands, clean and ready to go in its case. “You don’t even *like* me.”
The truth dangled between them like a spider’s web clinging to separate walls.To no one’s shock, Batman said nothing. The only sounds in the cave were the shuffling of bats and Tim’s bike rumbling softly at the entrance, waiting patiently for him to make his escape.
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perfect amount of hurt. resolution didn’t feel rushed. cried no less than 4 separate times
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Tim was 12 years old and had been a guy for as long as he could remember. That didn’t change the fact that he had a uterus, and that that uterus had chosen the worst possible time to kick it in gear. Not that any time was a good time for his uterus to kick it in gear. That was what the hormone blocker implant was for. It had done a good job preventing his chest from growing at all.
Tim had planned for the potential calcium and vitamin D deficiencies that could result from his abstaining of puberty for the time being. He had not planned for menstruation to begin despite the plastic rod chock full of histrelin acetate implanted in his arm.
He certainly hadn’t planned for it to start happening when he was in the fucking batcave.
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01 Mar 2026
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“My sweet boy, I’ve got you. I’ll protect you,” Mommy soothes. “I won’t let anyone touch you.” Tim wants to believe her, he needs to. Mommy is smart, she always knows what she’s talking about. So she must know now too, despite how agonizingly frightening this is. “You’ll be safe in here, baby.”
Tim wants to pull back and look at her face, but even if the hand carding through his hair let up, there’s not enough light to make out her expression anyway. Tim doesn’t like the dark.
She continues, voice low and with a desperation he’s never heard from her before, “I need you to be very brave, Timothy. I need to go find a phone, and I need you to wait here for me, very quiet, just like hide and seek.”
“No,” he mewls before he can help himself, “No, Mommy, don’t go, please. Don’t leave me.”
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Tim has used up all of his bandaids, but Mommy still won’t wake up. He doesn’t know what to do. He needs a grown-up’s help. Thankfully, he knows who Batman is. Batman can make it all better.
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01 Mar 2026
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Tim doesn’t know how long he lies there, teachers yelling and classmates whining, before there’s gentle hands on him, easing him up. He leans into the comfort instinctively, recognizing his brother’s touch before he even sees Jason there. He can’t help but wonder if Jason had hopped the fence, or if a teacher had let him through.
It doesn’t matter though because Jason is here, whispering reassurances as he gingerly helps him into a sitting position. “I’ve got you, Timmy, ‘m here. I’ll help you, alright? You’re doing so well.”
Tim doesn’t feel like he’s doing well, but he leans into the gentle touch regardless. He whimpers, knowing he’s doing nothing to prove himself courageous or strong, but it’s hard to care when it hurts so badly.
“Jason Todd-Wayne!” Tim’s teacher, snaps, finally approaching them. She looms, not even squatting down to inspect his injuries. “Get back to your play yard this instant!” Tim can’t help but sob in response, white-knuckling his sweatshirt, as if that’ll do anything to keep Jason from letting him go.
“My little brother is hurt!” Jason exclaims. “You have to help him.”
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When Tim is getting bullied at school, Jason comes to his defense.
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28 Feb 2026