Tim Drake's inability to lead a normal life
My little collection of fics where featuring Tim and his negative amounts of common sense. Fics featuring Tim or containing him. AUs, canon divergence, and everything in between. Expect a lot of found family in your future. A little spot for loving this chaotic gremlin and his dumpster fire of a life.
THIS COLLECTION WILL NEVER HIDE FICS.
(it truly is just my little bookshelf of amazing Tim Drake centric fics)
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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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“Basically, there’s something wrong with Gotham. Apparently, things don’t, uh. Stay dead here. And the reason I’m recording this is so that when I inevitably get arrested and thrown into Arkham, at least you’ll know that this is all my mom’s fault, really.”
-If Janet Drake’s body hadn’t been unrecoverable, Tim could have just buried her in Gotham, followed her notes, done the ritual, and he would have had her back alive again. She’d be ecstatic! All her research, all her theories about the mysterious life-bringing properties of Gotham’s soil, confirmed!
But she dies far away, body lost at sea, and all Tim has left of her is an empty basement full of her research, all for nothing...
But it’d be a shame to let his mother’s work go to waste... wouldn’t it? And Jason Todd’s grave is right there, in his neighbors’ family graveyard...
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the Tragic Demise of Timothy Drake by FromDustReturned
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
13 Jan 2024
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Tim has always wondered if he’d be good at murder. How better to find out than to go up against the World’s Greatest Detective?
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Tim's parents faked their deaths and fled the country years ago, but neglected to take him with them. He spent some time on the streets, and now at 16, he makes a living as a fortune teller, stalking and hustling the shit out of Gotham's elite by telling them eerily accurate fortunes based on the information he gathers about them.
His life is peculiar but he wouldn't change a thing. When he gets booked for the big Wayne Halloween party, however, he finds himself getting all tangled up with the Waynes, and the more fortunes he tells, the tighter the snare becomes.or: Tim just wanted to scam Gotham's elite, not end up on the Batfamily's watchlist. But it seems they just won't leave him alone..
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When Tim first proposes his plan, Jason calls him batshit insane.
"Why?" Tim asks stubbornly. “It’ll be a win-win situation – I get a new life without some guardian tying me down, and you get a new life where you can eat food every day and live in a big house. You’ll probably have to go to school, but that’s the only downside I can think of. That, and pretending to be me, of course."
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In the wake of Jack and Janet Drake's untimely death, Bruce sets out to search for their missing son, determined to adopt him. After a long, arduous search, he finally brings home a new addition to his family.
He fails to realise that the new kid living in Wayne Manor is not Tim Drake.
Recent bookmarks
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Petals for Armor by SilverSkiesAtMidnight for Scarlet_Ribbons
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
03 Feb 2022
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There’s a small half-moon of blood under the white of Tim’s nail where he bent it. He studies the red of it, feeling foggy and dreamlike. “Can I ask you a question?”
His brother’s eyes flick to him and away again, surprised and wary. “What?”
His nail doesn’t hurt much, just the dullest of aches when he presses down against it. “When you were homeless, you slept with people for money, didn’t you?”
Jason jerks like he’s been slapped. His knuckles are so pale where they grip the steering wheel they suddenly look more bone than flesh. “Did I -”
“Was it worth it?” Tim asks, drifting like a cloud over whatever furious reaction Jason was about to give him. “The money, I mean.”
His sternum slams into the seatbelt with bruising force. Unbraced for it, his head whips forward and back against his seat as they swerve off the road again and skid to a halt with a screech of rubber.
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Tim didn't mean to become the notorious thief Red X; it just sort of happened. Just like how he somehow wound up being Batman’s greatest nemesis - his therapist.
He would like to remind whatever higher forces are out there that he is still only 12.
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- Part 1 of The Gentlekid Series
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With family like this, who needs [REDACTED] by Inkaboodle, KathyKomments (Inkaboodle)
Fandom Addams Family - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Detective Comics (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics)
31 Oct 2022
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Tim Drake is the Robin that lives. Everyone knows it.
They don't know quite why that is, though.- Words:
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- Works:
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- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by Fadedphoto
29 Nov 2024
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So creative and it fits Tim oddly well
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Tim is a spooky, unhinged boy and everyone loves him. Mostly.
- Words:
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- Works:
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- Bookmarks:
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the Tragic Demise of Timothy Drake by FromDustReturned
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
13 Jan 2024
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Tim has always wondered if he’d be good at murder. How better to find out than to go up against the World’s Greatest Detective?