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i didn’t know we were doing christmas this year by Ireadtoomanybooks, Iwritetoomanybooks
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
17 Jun 2025
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Tim's used to being forgotten. It's almost tradition by now.
So when he finds out about the Batfam's Christmas party through Stephanie's Instagram story at 2:47 a.m.—all warm lights and smiling faces—he doesn't cry, or scream, or text someone to ask why.
He just watches it all happen from the outside, like he always does.
Uninvited. Unnoticed. Unnecessary.
Merry fucking Christmas. -
Little Ghost Upstairs by Ireadtoomanybooks, Iwritetoomanybooks
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
27 Jun 2025
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Tim Drake was never Robin. He couldn’t be—not with a body broken by a decade of the worst abuse Gotham has ever seen. The others thinks he's a spoiled, useless tag-along, clinging to Bruce and Alfred for attention. That is, until a documentary airs one night and the horrifying truth about Tim’s past comes to light—too late. Now they must face the brutal reality: the boy upstairs wasn’t weak. He was surviving. And they never saw him at all.
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Secondhand Son by Ireadtoomanybooks, Iwritetoomanybooks
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
31 May 2026
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At fourteen, Tim Drake is no stranger to loneliness. But when his parents die in a plane crash, and a will reveals that Bruce Wayne is his biological father, he’s dropped into a world of vigilantes, legacy, and disappointment. Bruce, caught off-guard and not ready for more family, keeps his distance.
Tim doesn’t push. He’s used to being a shadow.
But shadows notice things. They listen. They help. And while Bruce avoids his newest son, Alfred brings him in—gently, steadfastly, and without question. Tim finds belonging not in the Cave, but in quiet acts of care. In warm mugs of milk. In folded laundry. In the faint scent of his grandmother’s perfume still lingering in the halls.
Bruce may not be ready yet. But Tim is already home.
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Timothy Drake was a stillborn baby. He was born dead, stayed that way for a solid five minutes, and was then resuscitated in the delivery room. He was a child who grew up alone, but for his imaginary friends. He had so many imaginary friends, in fact, that his parents sent him to get evaluated several times over the course of his childhood, which was spent with Tim as the only heartbeat in that house.
But that didn’t mean he was alone.
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Tim sees dead people. When a Batboys murder investigation is going nowhere, he realizes his only chance at solving the case is to speak to the ghost of one of the victims. He has to reveal his secret to his brothers -- or risk the killer getting away.
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- Part 1 of Ouija Boy Casefiles
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After he’s injured while home alone, Tim is the only one not worried about his personal well-being. (He has a number of other things to worry about instead.)
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