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He hesitated, hesitated but nonetheless replied, “I got blasted by cuddle pollen. It’s why I tripped. It’s why I got caught.”
The line went dead silent.
Tim clenched his fists as the pale figure uncovered his face. “I’m sorry.”
The line split off into a cacophony of sounds. But Tim couldn’t hear any of it, because the stone and crumbles of cement and wood slipped off the purple suit and the pale man sat up, a hand going to his sickeningly green hair.
He was trapped. Trapped within a building’s remains with a conscious Joker, dipped head-to-toe in cuddle pollen which was already starting to become close to unbearable without human touch.
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A cuddle-pollened Tim gets stuck in a collapsed building with the Joker.
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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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the world's my oyster, i'm the pearl - no ordinary girl by ivorylight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Red Robin (Comics)
08 Jun 2025
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Tim is salty.
Very salty.
Ra’s picked the wrong day to fuck with him because he hasn’t slept in 53 hours and he’s out of coffee and honestly Tim might just say fuck it to B’s no killing rule because he’s about to murder this sonofvabitch-
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Have You Heard (About the Flightless Bird) by SeaSkate
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
01 Jun 2025
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When Ra's al Ghul reaches out to the bats, asking for them to mediate a meeting between the high ranking members of the League of Assassins that he wanted to hold in Gotham, they agree, hoping for a chance to gleam information from the shadow society.
Tim doesn't show up though, at least not in the way that they had expected.Podfic: https://youtu.be/faovYgxa2ts?si=Yn4I1H_H0oNh960m
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- Part 5 of Tim Drake AUs
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Tim spares himself just a moment of grief, for all the people who aren’t going to live through the coming fight, for maybe the whole city. A dragon that large is powerful enough to drop Wayne Tower and the entire block surrounding in about a minute, to level all of Gotham in hours. There are going to be casualties, and all he can do is pray to things he isn’t sure he believes in that his family won’t be among them.
He shoves those feelings down, though, as quickly as he can. He lifts a hand to his ear, voice urgent as he bolts towards the Batburger. “Oracle, issue a city-wide evac order now! Everyone else, do not engage!”
“Is that a fucking dragon?!”
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Tim Drake wears many masks, but he wonders if anyone actually really knows the real Tim.
On his twentieth birthday, he gets his answer.
BW Day 182: Breakdown
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- Part 47 of Dis' One Shot Series
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Tim's parents refuse to pay his ransom or even notify the police of his kidnapping.
So, of course, Tim gets his revenge. Who better to be a ghost than the forgotten child?
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- Part 14 of Whumptober 2024
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Tim tells himself that, because it’s dark out and he doesn’t intend to be spotted, no one will see the bruises. He daydreams, sometimes, that he’s wrong.
My mom hit me, Tim says in his head. But that wouldn’t be the right thing to say. He doesn’t want the Bats to find out. (He does. But if he wants it, that makes him Bad. So, Tim wants the Bats to find out against his will. There’s a difference, there.)
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- Part 9 of Whumptober 2024
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Tim's eyes blinked open to see Joker's wide smile. "Little birdy!" Joker crowed in delight. "Is there something you wish to tell your Papa?"
"Fuck you," Tim spat out.
Joker slammed the rods into his temples. Tim's vision whited out, pain coursing through his veins. He didn't know how long Joker held them there, but when he took them away, Tim's throat was raw with his screams and his muscles twitched and jerked in the aftermath of the electricity.
"Ya know I don't like to be left out of the joke, Junior," Joker said thoughtfully. "I'm told lotsa kids your age hide things from their Papa."
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or, Tim is a metahuman with the ability to heal from death. When he is kidnapped, the Joker plans to turn him into Joker Junior. Then, Tim is killed, and Joker realises the Robin he caught can't stay dead.
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“You good?”
Jason replied, confusion in his tone, the oh so familiar accent and annotations that Tim had perfected so long ago filling the air. Tim paused, blinking before mumbling an apology.
“Sorry, guess I’m tired.”
Is all he said, leaving just as a voice called out for him- him .
“Tim-”
He was gone.
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- Part 1 of DC Oneshots
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I keep saying that I'm fine (But it gets so cold) by Teastria
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Jun 2024
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Bracing himself against the floor of the box, Tim jerked his legs up as fast and as hard as he could. He watched the small stream fall through the crack in mute confusion before horror filled him.
Dirt.
That was dirt.
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Is it ethical to give yourself an allergic reaction? by PhantomOfTheArchive (yoursleepdeprivedauthor), yoursleepdeprivedauthor
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Jun 2024
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Tim had learnt the only way to get his siblings to stop fighting was not through logic, but rather providing a distraction. Preferably one that would get them working together without a moment’s hesitation, but anything would do.
Tim looked down at the lobster.
He’d not had an allergic reaction in years.
Slowly, he shovelled the largest chunk of meat onto his fork.
Or: Tim gives himself an allergic reaction to stop an argument at family dinner.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated First-Aid inspired fics
- Part 1 of Anaphylaxis and Other Family Affairs
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"Where was that at the Tower, huh?" Jason gritted out, breathless from his pitiful escape attempt.
"I was trying to be kind," Tim brushed his fingers against the sides of Jason's face and reveled in the way he tensed up. "I'm not anymore."
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Jason did more than break Tim's bones at the Titans Tower.
Junior decides to return the favor.
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i totally don't have amnesia by impravidus for odd_izzy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 May 2024
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based on this john mulaney bit: “I also think it's weird in movies when someone has amnesia and they wake up in the hospital. A lot of times they'll be surrounded by friends and family, but when they open their eyes they go "Who are you?" Because that's not how you act when you don't recognize somebody. That's very rude. It would be chaos out there if every time you saw someone you didn't recognize, you went, "Who are you?" I always try to be really polite in life, so like if I had amnesia, you'd never know it. I'd wake up and they'd be like "Hi John, we're so happy you're awake." And I'd just be like, "Oh, hey, man, how's it going?", "Oh, hey, dude, nice to see you again." because that's how you act when you can tell that someone recognizes you and you have no fucking clue who they are.”
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- Part 16 of impravidus's batman quick reads
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Just A Dream? by Chronicly Ill Girl (lilithzebra)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV), Grimm (TV)
23 Apr 2024
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One night as he’s out in Gotham, stalking the rooftops and prowling through the alleyways, handing out money and food to the homeless, one of the brave street kids asks. “What’s your name?”
He hesitates so long that the kid finally says. “You don’t have to tell me, I was just curious.”
“Alvin.” It slips out of his mouth before he can think too hard about it. “My name is Alvin.”
He’s not certain why he says it, perhaps the name Alvin was on his mind after Spencer saw the movie with the chipmunks, odd since Simon was his favorite character.
But whatever the reason, it’s freeing. Not having to put himself in the box that is Spencer or Tim, Alvin can be him, all of him.
Or, Tim and Spencer is one person living in two universes
CMxDC week day 2: Time/Dimension travel
CMxDC week day 6: Double Cross(over)
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- Part 33 of Chron’s CM/DC
- Part 5 of Chron’s Grimm/CM
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Tim pulled out a marble sized ball of metal and loaded it into the slingshot.
“What the fuck, Replacement. A slingshot?” Jason huffed as he shot another bullet at an alien. “Really?”
Tim ignored him, pulling back the sling and aiming at a large alien flying by. He fired the slingshot and watched as it sailed through the air, hitting the alien neatly in the temple and sending it crashing to the ground.
Dick whistled. “Nice shot, Red!”
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or, Tim's first weapon as Robin was a slingshot. The batfamily did not know this.
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The Spider's Web by galaxy_pop
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU
28 Feb 2024
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Green.
Acid green filled Tim's vision, burning, eating, consuming everything in its way, chasing away everything except for the pain. His body was being torn apart and put back together, his skin bubbling and tearing even as it stretched shut again and again. He was drowning but he couldn’t die. Blackness tried to encase his eyes, his mind, only to turn green.
But even as his soul was shredded, burned away and reformed, one thought remained, stark against the glowing green nothingness threatening to overwhelm him.
He would take down Ra’s and his assassins, burn the whole thing to the ground, even if it was the last thing he did.
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or, Tim has been brought back to life with a Lazarus pit and now finds himself in the League of Assassins. But he wants revenge against Ra's, and is willing to do just about anything to get it.
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- Part 7 of Tim Drake's Kill Count
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It's not as weird as it could be, considering literally everything. He's not sure if you can ever really get used to meeting yourself, but if that's possible, Tim is.
It's of course still strange to look into your own eyes-except they're not his own because this boy is nine and Tim is 18.
The silence ticks on and they don't break eye contact.
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When a magician makes a young Tim appear out of thin air, the only one who seems to avoid him is Tim himself. It raises some very uncomfortable questions.
DAY 11: TIME LOOP
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- Part 4 of febuwhump 2024
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the second worst thing to ever happen to those orphans by antebunny
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
02 Feb 2024
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The prisoner is calmer than Tim was expecting. He says that he is Tim's big brother.
He says that they didn't leave Tim to die.
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I'll Take It To My Grave by Realm_Of_Red_Shadows
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
13 Nov 2023
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"Will I die from this? No. Does he know that? Also no. When I revive from this stupid attack I’m going to poison his breakfast, stop holding back when we spar, hide the hot chocolate, and move everything an inch to the left until he starts to lose his mind."
Or: Tim can't die and he deals with it in true emotionally stunted Batfam fashion