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One night, Robin spots a kid with an overnight bag on a rooftop, and he jumps to the obvious conclusion: the kid's trying to run away. The kid is doing a really bad job of it, though, and that's the sort of thing Robin just has to correct.
Except the kid is Tim Drake, and Tim isn't actually trying to run away. But "running away" does sound a little better than "stalking bat-themed vigilantes through the crime-infested streets of Gotham every night." So he lets Robin have this one.
Besides, that's the end of it, right? Robin might have found Tim once, but no one ever looks for Tim a second time. Robin can think whatever he wants. They'll never see each other again.
(They see each other again.)
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20 Mar 2026
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Street Smarts by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics)
18 Jan 2026
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Officer Dick Grayson is selected at the last minute to give the students of Gotham Academy their annual Stranger Danger presentation.
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20 Mar 2026
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I was in tears. This is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. 10/10
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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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08 Jan 2026
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You Picked the Wrong Day to Fuck Around with my Tight Crew by why_is_this_a_thing_now
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
07 Dec 2023
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Tim winces, “Another critical fail. Jason, what does your human bard do?”
Jason plays a riff, then leans forward to mirror Timmy’s posture. “Active perception check.” He tosses his solid red D-20 out onto the table, not even looking at the result.
Finally catching onto Jason’s less than pure intentions, Tim’s smile tightens as he looks down at the die as it lands right in front of him. “That’s a natural 20.”
Jason grins, feral. “Let’s fucking go.”
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Duke wants to spend more time bonding with his family. Somehow, this leads to him playing D&D with Steph, Jason, and Tim. The chaos is unstoppable, especially once Jason gets into his role as Tom, his human Bard. This upcoming forest confrontation won't know what hit it.
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- Part 3 of A Basket Full of Red Hood
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As the door opened Tim quickly disabled another three separate electronic sensors in the doorjamb by swiping them with a device that looked a bit like a thumb drive. “Walk where I walk,” he said.
He took a big step over the doormat, eyed the floor carefully, then took a careful skipped sidestep to another mat against the right-hand wall, where he removed his shoes.
“What the hell?” whispered Jason, still standing in the open doorway.
Tim pointed up. There was a net rigged up on the ceiling. “Pressure pads under the carpet.”
“I repeat, what the hell?”
After Tim completely derails Jason’s beatdown attempt by asking him for a hug, Jason’s first priority is to get this touch-starved kid more cuddles. Tim’s first priority is to avoid Dick’s traps.
Jason learns a lot about his brothers and what happened while he was away, and something about himself too.