Once More, from the Top (Reverse Robins AU)

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Series Begun:
2023-08-21
Series Updated:
2024-03-15
Description:

A series of loosely connected vignettes in my own version of the popular Reverse!Robins AU.

I will try to keep them arranged in chronological order, even though they will definitely not be posted in it. Most of them should be able to be read stand-alone, though.

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Notes:

The order of batkids both in age & as Bruce received them, plus the role you can expect them to play:

• Duke Thomas
Batman’s first sidekick. The first sidekick. Still becomes the Signal, but will be receiving Dick’s usual dosage of Eldest Daughter Syndrome.

• Damian Wayne
Nightwing, with the expected arc of self-definition & independence that goes with that. One half of the protectors of Bludhaven, with Jon Kent as his Flamebird.

• Cassandra Cain
Still Black Bat/doing her own thing, but she will be taking up Bruce’s mantle while Bruce is “dead.”

• Stephanie Brown
The Red Hood figure, though I’m using a more comics-accurate version of her death, so expect a lot more Black Mask influence than Joker.

• Tim Drake
Still largely follows the arc of “the replacement Robin” after Steph dies, but it ends with Tim becoming Oracle. Not using the Joker Jr. story either, this is heavily based on Tim’s fake injury at the end of the Red Robin arc. (I saw the page with Tim on crutches and was inspired.)

• Jason Todd
Will not be dying. Was Steph’s #1 fan before she died and is the only sidekick in Gotham when Steph comes back in a blaze of glory, because I cannot resist that siren call that is the tragedy of becoming a symbol of your childhood hero’s hatred.
He’s also getting the Red Robin arc while Bruce is “dead.”

• Dick Grayson
is baby. And Cass’s sidekick while Bruce is “dead.”

(Babs will be joining Maps, Harper, & Helena in the Birds of Prey, which is how she meets Tim, and eventually gets sucked into this drama. Does make her not-technically-a-Batkid, since she never lives with any of them, has no connection to Bruce, and will mostly be over there, having magic adventures.)

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17,387
Works:
7
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