Tim Drake is a Sad Bird
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The drought was the very worst by Dbshfjdifjcd
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
10 Aug 2026
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*will be reformatting earlier chapters to separate paragraphs more*
TW: Graphic descriptions of eating disorder behaviors, DO NOT read if you are struggling.
Tim's first mistake was deciding to do it.
Tim's second mistake was believing he would stop.
Tim's third mistake was believing he could stop. -
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind by BootyCrusade
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Aug 2025
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Diana and Bruce are celebrating the birth of their son Timothy, until an old enemy shows up and places a curse on the child.
Diana and Bruce wake up the next day, having forgotten that they ever had a son.
And Timothy Jackson Drake grows up alone in a large, empty house.
These two things are more related than one might think.
In which Tim gets cursed that the more someone loves him, the more they forget about him.
Comes with sporadic art :)
Currently on hiatus, but stops at a very hopeful point :) -
I'll Die When I'm Dead by InkpotSprite
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
31 Jul 2025
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The first time Tim dies, he's nine years old.
That's when he meets Death. Instead of going quietly into the afterlife, Tim says no.
Each time he meets Death, he says no. Again and again and again.
This has consequences.
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I Don’t Belong Here (I Wish I Was Special) by BootyCrusade
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
15 Apr 2024
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After a run-in with some hi-tech goons, Tim wakes up in a universe where Bruce enjoys his company. Where Jason never died, where Dick never gave Robin to a murderous Demon Brat who, it seemed, wasn’t even around.
He goes to sleep, happy.
And wakes up back in his original world, where he feels like a ghost among the living, forgotten and cold and alone.
The one where Tim switches between worlds whenever he falls asleep.
COMES WITH ART! And now a podfic!
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- Part 1 of Red Robin: Into the Timverse
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First Love/Late Spring by cherubic_cherry
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman - Fandom
19 Mar 2024
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in some ways it was a gift from the universe to bring Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne together. In other ways it was a cruel joke; to make the man who can barely say ‘I love you’ the father of a boy whose biggest fear is being unloved.
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with the exception of... by DSS1101
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Robin (Comics)
11 Apr 2024
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Once upon a time, Tim Drake was Robin.
And he was 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥.
But he wasn't chosen.
And that's fine, okay? It was a delicate situation, he understood that then and he understands it now. He doesn't hold it against Bruce, or Dick, or anyone after him who benefited from the Batman that he fixed. It's just, he hadn't realized how many things he lost out on while fixing Batman.
The ice cream just seems to be the final straw.
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Tim wakes up inexplicably in his two-year-old body. Which: odd. But just think, how many people would kill to have an opportunity to redo their life! And Tim has so much he wants to change, so much he wants. He wants to feel important to Bruce. He wants to be Dick's favorite. He wants Jason (his childhood hero) to think he's cool. He wants Damian to need him. And really, is it manipulation if his family benefits from it?
Or: He was halfway through the second trash can, when a startled “Good lord” caught him off guard. Tim glanced up, the rhythmic sucking of his pacifier coming to a still at the sight of a black Rolls Royce idling at the side road that lead to Wayne Manor. Alfred was staring at him from the over the car top, aghast. “Master Bruce, it’s not a raccoon.”
From the back seat, Bruce Wayne stared at him. Tim stared back.
Or: Tim is side tracked by his actual childish needs and wants, gets a whole bunch of his nannies fired, terrorizes his parents with a series of petty revenges, is an honest employer of one (1) newly minted murderer for hire, endears himself to – and thoroughly weirds out – the Waynes, and is generally just a petty, manipulative, vindictive, smol boy.
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Tim is perfectly fine with his parents’ absence. What he does need is someone to sign school permission slips, accompany him to doctor’s appointments, and take him to events that won’t admit children without an adult.
So, after weighing his options, Tim decides to compress a months-long adoption process into two days.
He has no intention of inconveniencing the Waynes. He plans to continue living at Drake Manor and only rely on them when a legal guardian is actually required.
Still, since he has legally taken his neighbors’ family name, informing them that, in the eyes of the law, he is now a Wayne simply seems like the polite thing to do.
Or: Tim basically adopts himself into the Wayne family through hacking, forgery, and blackmail.
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- Part 1 of You are my dad now
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Talon is sent to kill the Drakes only for a witness to throw a wrench in his clean get away.
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- Part 3 of Dark Bat Family
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five little fingers wrapped around mine by bats_birds_and_broken_things
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 May 2026
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"You've acquired a child" Arthur says in a weird tone and Bruce blinks "Wait whose kid is that?" Oliver is glancing over the room like he thinks someone else is going to appear out of thin air and claim Tim. Against his own common sense Bruce clutches Tim closer, the four-year-old shifting into a more comfortable position in his lap.
"Daddy, blanket" Tim murmurs, tugging on his cape for emphasis as the room goes unnaturally quiet. Bruce doesn't respond verbally, too busy assessing his coworkers confusing reactions as he wraps Tim carefully in his cloak, the little boy promptly smushes his face back into Bruce's chest.
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Bruce is forced to introduce a sick Tim to the Justice League.