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hand in unlovable hand (a chokehold) by britishparty
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
30 Sep 2022
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Tim Drake is eleven years old when he’s grabbed off the streets of Bristol while he’s on his way home. It will be okay, he tells himself: they’ll call his parents, and they’ll pay the ransom, and he’ll get to go home.
There are pictures of Batman and Robin on the camera he was carrying. A lot of pictures.
They don’t call his parents. They call Black Mask.
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or: the one where Black Mask kidnaps Tim and tries to groom him into a ruthless heir, and Tim tries to figure out how to destroy him from the inside out.General warnings tagged, anything not covered by those is in end-of-chapter notes to avoid spoilers.
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- Part 1 of blackbird singing in the dead of night
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12 May 2024
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obsessed, dark, 5 stars
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And something exhausted and brittle in Tim just snaps. “Full disclosure: I don’t care what you think.” A thrill of fear shoots down his spine as he spits those words, but he pushes it down and steps forward, glaring. His heartbeat thunders in his ears. “Look, I’m here to make a deal and I am willing to pay. I want - ”
Between one blink and the next, a searingly hot palm presses against his chest. The demon is suddenly much, much closer. Her stare bores into him as she says, in perfect tandem with his own voice, “ - Jason Todd back from the dead."
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Or, alternatively: Tim makes a deal.
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- Part 1 of equivalent exchange
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Red Hood's Shelter for Feral Kids by dandelionlily
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
26 Jan 2025
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Jason has a plan for his return to Gotham. Steal the clown's old Red Hood identity? Check. Make sure meddling birds know to keep out of his territory? Check. Recruit some homeless youth to keep an ear to the street in exchange for shelter? Check. Take over the Crime Alley drug trade, convince Black Mask to break the clown out of Arkham, murder his Replacement and force Batman to finally avenge him? ...he's still working on it.
His plans are delayed when the homeless kids he's sheltering are joined by a fearful boy with hand-shaped bruises around his neck. Alvin Draper may not want to say who did it, but Red Hood isn't about to let anyone who beats up children go unpunished.
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Bookmarked by dreamsofmagic
11 Sep 2025
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Suspicious bruises on a child with recent upheavals in custody make people, well, suspicious. Tim knows it’s only a matter of time before he’s taken away from Bruce.
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11 Sep 2025
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The Kids Aren't Alright by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
04 Jul 2021
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Tim is fine on his own; he always has been. It’s hardly the first time he’s looked after himself while sick. He’s thirteen, not three. He knows how to take his own temperature and dose out medicine and put himself to bed early.
It’s just that, well...
The other times, he could still keep water down.
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After being sent home early from patrol, Jason finds his concerningly ill neighbor attempting to haggle with an Uber driver.
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Bookmarked by dreamsofmagic
09 Sep 2025