The glue that holds
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For Whumptober 2023
Days 7 & 9. Prompts Used:
Radio Silence, "Can you hear me?", Mistaken IdentityTim Drake, aged 11, finds an abandoned walkie-talkie and decides to start his own little personal radioshow to combat his loneliness. Jason Todd, Robin, happens to have the other walkie, and soon Tim doesn't feel as lonely anymore.
Tim Drake, aged 16, is lonely once again. But now he's Robin. He keeps talking into the walkie, and his one-man audience happens to still be the same... if a bit more murderous.
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- Part 6 of Whumptober 2023
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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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When he ends up ditched in Atlanta after a fight with his dad, Tim decides to do the only sensible thing: Tell no one and make the 800 mile journey back to Gotham on his own.
Because the "call Batman when you're in trouble" rule only applies when he's Robin, right?
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"If Todd skipped out on too many family meals, Grayson would be marching over to one of his safe houses and dragging him to the manor. If Brown or Cain was gone on a mission for too long, the family would make time for them to relax and Pennyworth would make their favorite meals to entice them to dinner. If Damian was too far into his head and feeling frustrated they would give him enough space that he didn't feel coddled but also open that door for him and eventually force him out of his own head.
But Drake... He hadn't come to family dinner for three months now, Todd never made it to the two month mark. Drake hasn't come back to the manor after a mission for anything longer than a sitrep and debrief. (Of which Drake consistently lied about and avoided medical attention every night and not once did anyone call him on it). And Drake was always in his own head and no one seemed to bother to pull him out. No one coddled, no open doors, no forcing him to float, just... letting him drown."
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Or Damian notices Tim is treated differently than the rest of the family and wants to know why and he's determined to bring him back through bonding. -
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“Well, if you’re alive, you’ll have no problem setting the table,” Janet says, and glances impatiently at the wood he’d cracked his head on when he’d fallen down the stairs. “Blood in the wood, Timothy. It’s as if you don’t understand the value at all.”
“I’ll pick a better place to die next time,” Tim says dryly.
“See that you do,” she says, and sweeps off to call someone about the wood, presumably. It’s not too late to fix that situation, after all.
[Tim’s immortal. Somehow, he ends up using it to bring the second Robin back home.]
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A Child Doomed and Becoming by kitfornow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
10 Nov 2025
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Big smile, hands on his hips, eyes lit up behind that black mask.
“I’m Robin!” Tim squeals, but it sounds nothing like him. His voice matches his size and demeanor, high pitched and soft and…happy. He lets out a giggle, flexing his arms in the mirror, giving a kick and a belated hi–yah.
“That’s not a Robin uniform,” Bruce points out belatedly. It’s not the part Jason was noticing, but he’s right. It’s thin cloth, and too loose. The right colors and shapes, Jason supposes, but still, there's something off about it.
“Well, that and he hasn’t met us, yet,” Dick points out. “He’s not old enough.”
“But this is supposed to be his first day as Robin," Damian argues. Jason agrees—something is very, very wrong.
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Puzzles Made of Broken Glass by thatcuriouscat for ramblingwildrose, TheMaidenOfWords
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 Dec 2025
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Sherlock Holmes retreats to his Mind Palace to think, to problem-solve.
9-and-five-sixths-year-old Tim Drake has his Blanket Fortress.Timmy Drake’s parents go missing.
He’s the only one who notices.Series
- Part 1 of Puzzle Pieces
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Tim wasn’t supposed to be hiding in his parents closet while he watched his parents get murdered through the crack in the door.
Or: Tim watches his parents die and a certain vigilante duo arrives to save Tim.