#jason todd as neal caffrey

[lefish]

Ok, so you know all those cross over fics where one of the bats is undercover as neal caffrey, right?

So the idea is El gets kidnapped by someone and it’s being live streamed to the fbi people and neal!tim says to peter something along the lines of “i can do something to save el, but you’re not going to like it, so I just need a yes or no. Do you trust me peter?” And peter takes a long moment before saying “ i trust you neal”

so tim is like “bet, ima step out to make a reallly quick phone call then ima be right back”. And tim calls jason and is like “ can you go rescue my friend please” and jason agrees cuz he’s not doing anything and is in the area, so like 20 minutes later the goddamm red hood shows up at whatever wearhouse or basement el is in and beats up her kiddnapers and looks into the camera and is like “ ive done my part baby bird, ill be sure to get what im owed” or some shit cuz he’s dramatic.

So obviously peter and el and the rest of the fbi people freak out cuz “holy shit thats the fucking red hood!!” and “neal what the fuck do you owe him???!!?”

and jason just wants tim to take a nap, eat a proper meal and watch all three legally blonde movies with him or some dumb brotherly bonding shit like that.

If someone writes this please tell me :)))))



[fanfic-obsessed]

How Old?!?!?!

Remember Folks, disregard any canon that contradicts this.

Timothy Wayne Drake disappeared when he was 16. He was taken captive in Eastern Europe at a WE event. A magical shield cut off all electronic communication, sight, and sound of the building for 6 minutes. According to every Super consulted, Tim’s heartbeat vanished at that time, and never reappeared. No facial recognition ever showed him again. No magical spell could find him, or his remains. Eight years later he is presumed dead by most of those who knew him, though his family still searches frantically for their Baby Bird. It is only the fact that they knew how much he loved Gotham, that he would want the city protected, that they did not let their obsession with finding him take them over. 

According to his file, Neal Caffery has been operating since he was 18. There are no records prior to that. By the numbers he is now 34, and had been working as a CI for the feds for 2 years.  He has never admitted to anyone that his earliest memories are six years ago, though Peter, El, and Moz have all figured it out.  But his abilities, muscle memory, and knowledge seem to support what's in his file.  That must mean something, right?

It was not a White Collar case, not really. Though there were just enough white collar elements to justify assigning it to Agent Burke and his team, this really was an Organized Crime case. However it was leading to Gotham, and no one wanted to go to Gotham. 

So Agent Burke, his two junior agents, and his CI were bundled into a SUV and told to report to Gotham PD to coordinate the case.  Upon arriving at the main precinct and getting out of the car; Peter, Diana and Jones all get strange looks from the locals on the street, though they do not know it, it is clear they are outsiders. 

However Neal gets out with a strange look on his face, “Why does the air taste..”

“Pink?” One the pedestrian answers, suspicion washing away.

“Yes” Neal exclaimed, then paused, “That’s weird, right? I feel like that’s weird”

The pedestrian gave a half shrug, “Ivy and Scarecrow double booked downtown a few weeks ago. Made things super awkward for anyone not vaccinated against both, but the vaccines made the air taste pink for some reason. The news said that the unvaccinated shouldn’t see effects any longer and for the vaccinated the effect would be gone in two more weeks”

Then the pedestrian left and Neal, entirely unconsciously, murmured about wondering if Ivy and Harley were fighting. When Peter tried to get more information about Neal having been in Gotham as they walked into the Precinct, Neal made a joke to cover the fact that he has no idea when or where he got the vaccines/immunities to Poison Ivy’s pollen or Scarecrow's Fear Gas.  

They manage to make it to the main bullpen without incident, by virtue of the fact anyone who actually looks up from what they were doing focuses on Peter, as lead agent.  When they get to the Bullpen, someone notices Neal and the entire room goes dead silent. Commissioner Gordon comes charging out, eyes wild and clearly on the phone with someone (Oracle, who happened to see Neal/Tim on camera-it is important to note that the group who took Tim made it so that any facial recognition program that would run either face would skip the match between Tim and Neal, but a person looking through a camera is different) saying things like “Holy Shit” and “Yes I see him, too”. 

The White Collar team, including Neal, is so confused as Commissioner Gordon ushers them to his office and closes the door (Oracle has her fathers office bugged with better cameras and wired for sound, also they do not know how much cover they have already broken for Tim-they do not want to make things worse instead of better). 

Commissioner Gordon calls Neal Tim, and Neal/Tim seizes for a moment like he was hit with electricity and says, in a deadened tone, “That name cannot be used as an Alias” then slumps like he is going to fall over. Peter and Jones manage to catch him and get him into a chair that Commissioner Gordon hurriedly pulls over.  The confusion that the White Collar team is exhibiting, plus questions like “What was that?” and “What did you do to Neal?” and “What did you call him?” do convince commissioner Gordon that these, at least, were not the people that took Tim.  It takes a few minutes for Tim/Neal to come to.  A few careful call and response questions tells Commissioner Gordon that the man with Tim’s face (and scars, from what he can see) does not remember anything.  These same questions were also clearly making the White Collar team, particularly Peter, as protective as they were making Neal/Tim confused and more than a little anxious.

Then Dick Grayson burst into the room, looking like he might have run all the way from Bludhaven.  He stopped dead at seeing Neal, whispered ‘Baby Bird?’ then lunged to pull Neal into a tight hug. Neal may have had no memories of being Tim, but his muscle memory remembered Dick’s hugs. That he was safe while Dick was hugging him, Neal could not help but relax into the hold. 

Dick start talking about getting Neal to Leslie both to make sure he's not hurting and to verify his identity (sounding apologetic but, no matter if Dick is sure this is Tim, they have to verify it), that ‘B’ is out of contact right now (on a JL mission off planet, the watchtower is preparing to extract him, but it will take a few hours-the JLD is also preparing in case they are needed) but should be back soon. He talks about how Alfred will be waiting outside for them, but ‘everyone else’ is waiting so they don’t overwhelm him (read clustered, and pacing, on buildings around Leslie’s clinic).  

Neal brings up, still wrapped in Dicks arms, that he might not be who they think he is. Dick agrees but also says that he isn’t, it is a case of mistaken identity and it is clear that Neal is not trying to trick them. Dick then says if it is Mistaken identity, Dick will apologize for the forcible cuddling and be grateful that, even if they don’t actually find him, he got a chance to hug his little brother one last time (Every single member of the White Collar Team, Neal very much included, is a little uncomfortable with this sentiment). 

At Peter’s awkward insistence (these people clearly miss whoever they think Neal is, and he doesn’t know if they would think about Neal’s criminal activities) the White collar team accompanies Neal, still clutched to Dick’s side, to a car waiting with Alfed right next to it, who is clearly having an emotional reaction to seeing Neal/Tim again.  Over the course of the car ride to Leslie’s clinic, Dick asks questions about who Neal is now (and reacts weirdly well to the whole Conman/FBI CI thing). Towards the end, Jones hesitantly asks why Dick is trying to get to know Neal now, wouldn’t it make more sense to wait until they were sure who Neal was. 

Dick laughs and goes 1.) Even if Neal is not his long lost brother, several of his siblings are going to want to befriend him (if nothing else than being a world class master art forger would get Damian’s attention, and everyone else would 100% be encouraging the friendship to give Damian more non violent friends) and 2.) Baby Bird is notorious for trying to mold himself into who he thinks other people want him to be. Right now he does not know enough about Dick to try and tailor his answers, plus is likely convincing himself that this is a case of mistaken identity. Thus Dick is collecting information for when Baby Bird inevitably tries to fit himself into whatever weird mold he thinks their family will want him to fit.  

Neal, still clutched to Dick’s side, splutters as the White Collar team cannot help but laugh at him. Also this somewhat convinces Peter that this might not be a case of mistaken identity after all.  

They get to Leslie’s Clinic. She runs through all the tests (Genetic and comparing previous x-rays, signs of artificial aging-for cloning, signs of the specific type of molecules that means time or dimension travel, brain scans, the few hormone tests that can detect magic-you can’t tell me that Bruce Wayne and/or Tim Drake, before he vanished, were not told at some point that there is no way to detect magic by scientific means and took it as a personal challenge). By every measure that she is able to test, Neal Caffrey is the missing Tim Drake.  She is also able to tell that his memory loss was likely caused by significant and repeated electrocution reinforced by some kind of magic, but cannot tell what or if it is still active, though given Tim’s reaction to his birth name (which happened twice more during the tests) and the fact that the Supers were never able to find his heartbeat,it is likely. 

By this time, Batman has now been returned to the watchtower and is being told of Tims return.

Dick tells Neal outright that their entire family’s love languages are stalking and poor boundaries (both maintaining and respecting). Dick also makes it clear that, while the Batfam is ecstatic that Neal/Tim is alive and want him in their lives, Neal is not required to attempt to get his memories back or have anything to do with them if he does not want (All of their therapists, the family could not go to just one, had worked specifically with them on how to deal with a Tim that has made a new life, how to accept that he is safe and happy but not with them-which is a realistic assumption after 8 years), but that likely Neal would be putting up with some limited stalking for the rest of his life (Look, the best we are going to get from the Batfamily is stalking from the shadows if Neal doesn’t want to interact with them-Also Oracle has already hacked the FBI for all of Neals records and files, and is the middle of arranging for the White Collar office to be bugged with her personal cameras/microphones). Dick also asks that the White Collar team come back to the Manor and to at least let the Justice League Dark look Neal over to make sure that there is nothing that is going on that will hurt him. 

Now, to be clear, Neal is more than happy to at least meet the rest of the Batfam.  Yes, he has a good life now, people he loves and who love him. But that is a relatively new development and there are a lot of blanks in his past. I mean at this point Neal still thinks he is 34 (as opposed to 24), and only remembers the last six years. They have not even gone far enough into the explanations to realize that there is a 2 year gap between when Tim was taken and Neal's earliest memories.  Also, while Neal does not quite have the same level of abandonment issues as Tim did, there is something about how visibly happy Dick is to see him that soothing something deep inside (Because he has six years worth of memories, and for most of them he did not have anyone who would have noticed if he had vanished).

They get back to manor just in time for Bruce to come charging into the foyer, still in the batman suit but with his cowl down. Bruce also looks like he might have ran from wherever he was. He had at least absorbed enough of what he was told about Neal to not call him Tim, and pulled Neal into a hug.  This also means there is a brief interlude while the White Collar team gets the ‘Bruce Wayne is Batman, we’re trusting you with this’ revelation (And absolutely everyone is going to be making fun of Bruce ‘Paranoia’ Wayne being the person who accidentally let the secret slip).

By the time they reach the main sitting room, the rest of the family has made it back to the manor (Barbara, Jason, Cass, Steph, Damian, Duke) each waiting on their own chance to hug their lost member.   Neal blue screens a bit at Jason (who is both very pretty and very sarcastic, which is Neal's type).  Through the discussions that follow there are at least two arguments between batfam members about who gets to have Neal to sit with them.

Neal decides that he will meet with someone from JLD to see about what magic might still be affecting him and regaining his lost memories. He and the White Collar team do decline staying at the manor and go back to the hotel rooms that the FBI rented for them (never realizing that Oracle upgraded them as soon as she realized who Neal was) as they still have a job to do. It is at this point that  Neal starts whining to the others, much to their amusement (also to the amusement of Steph and Cass, who were hiding on the balcony-there is no way there will not be at least one bat/bird hiding in the shadows around Neal for a bit), about his new, hot brother Jason.  Peter calls El, just so Neal can have his crisis with her instead of him (Never mind that being siblings is not as big a deal as Neal thinks it is).

Now Gotham, and its people, have a reputation at the FBI for being actually impossible to work with.  Even regular citizens stonewall so effectively that most teams simply give up. They simply do not like outsiders, and Gothamites can tell if someone grew up in Gotham or not, even if the person in question does not realize it (there are unconscious ways of moving if you have lived in Gotham for a certain amount of time). This is what the White Collar team expects to go against, what they are bracing for, no matter who Neal might or might not have been.  To their surprise this is not what they get. Yes, most people still peer suspiciously at Peter, Jones, and Diana at first, but even that settles down quickly (Some of it is Neal/Tim, being from Gotham, clearly trusting Peter and co gets them some good will; some is them not being sanctimonious about gotham; the rest is the batfam being vocal about liking these FBI agents-for Neal/Tim related reasons).  They solve the case, which branched from White collar into one of the Mob Families (at least two of the traffickers got the choice to talk to the FBI team, or deal with The Red Hood-Red Hood plays it off as using the FBI to take a shot at that family’s territory and being personally interested in Neal Caffrey).

Before they leave Gotham, Neal does meet up with a few members of the JLD who are able to find and remove the spells that prevent Neal/Tim from being found by the Supers and the Spell keeping him from being addressed as Tim. His missing memories were not fully caused by magic (There was a lot of damage caused by electricity-no one took that news well), but the magic was preventing some of his recall. With the spells off, it is inferred that some or all of Tim’s memories may come back in time. 

The White Collar team leaves Gotham with new contacts in their phones and also the bomb that Neal Caffery was a full decade younger than he thought he was (They do eventually figure out that Neal/Tim never actually committed the crimes in his file-not that the crimes were never committed but that Neal/Tim was basically went straight from where ever he was being held to being captured for ‘Neal Caffery’s’ crimes).  Peter later finds a much more complete medical record for Tim Wayne Drake in his home, with an ominous note to keep this file out of the FBI records, it is for personal reference only. They also leave with the decision to keep Neal’s identity a secret (As no one knows who the ones who took them are, or what the end goal is), telling only Hughes, El and Moz. By the time the WC crew reaches New York, the Bats already have bugs/cameras in the FBI building, Neal’s apartment, and Peter’s house.  They have also put trackers in every single pair of Neal’s shoes. There is also a schedule for who gets to stalk/hang out with Neal when.  

As far as the rest of the FBI was concerned, White Collar gets a lot of strange new contacts for cases.  Also they seem to have made an impression on the Justice League, as they become the point of contact between the Justice League and the FBI, by request of the League.  Occasionally hardened criminals walk into the FBI and ask to confess their crimes specifically to Agent Burke and his team. And Apparently their CI knows the Red Hood, somehow (in that the Red Hood sometimes showed up at their crime scene to flirt outrageously with the CI, the first few times the CI got really flustered but after that he started to flirt back). 

Eventually Neal/Tim does begin to remember his past, oddly enough the trigger was a spleen in a jar that was left on his desk in the White Collar Office (Ra’s Al Ghul was…pleased that Tim was not dead and displeased with the Organization the abducted him and  tried to fry Tim’s brain).

[soonamisapphire]

Yo

I'm interested in Reading More Papa Red Hood alley leader stories or even just some Jason being a dad with the adoption bug

Lay them on me

[frogs-are-cool0]

Imagine if the batboys got sent to different universes and got seperated, after accepting that they can’t find a way home they all individually change their identities and start to create new lives for themselves, none of them need to become vigilantes because there’s no supervillains that need fighting:

Dick Grayson becomes Jake Peralta, an energetic detective who works at the b99

Tim drake becomes Spencer Reid, a profiler who works at the bau

Jason Todd becomes Neil Caffrey, an art thief who now works as a CI for the white collar office

And finally Damian Wayne, the only one of the batboys left in their original universe who’s been working tirelessly for years to bring his brothers home.

I can not write fanfics so pleaseee if anybody wants to write a fanfic even slightly based on this prompt feel free to write it and let me know! I’ve been dying to read a fanfic along these lines

[nqtalie]

how does danny phantom end up in all the batfam fics

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This cracked me up btw:

[howdoidothiss-blog]

TO THE NEAL CAFFREY IS BATFAM ENJOYERS 🗣🗣🗣🚨🚨🚨🚨 u can now have Neal saying the word Gotham ur literally so welcome have fun on ao3

[arcventi]

Okay so hear me out:

Neal!Jason's nosey neighbour: that guy is getting a weird visitor once a month who comes in through the window

FBI: installs camera

Peter: holy shit why is Neil talking to the red hood every month

Next month: FBI interrupts meeting

Peter: what is going on here!

Jason: uuuh

Red Hood: COSPLAY!

Jason: yes. This is my sister. I'm helping her with her. Cosplay.

Peter: you don't have a sister

Jason: well. Not sister sister. More like she steals the food of the man that adopted me?

Red hood: he actually gave me my own credit card so I don't have to do that anymore.

Jason: of course he did.

Peter: so if that's true take off the hood.

Jason: now, Peter, cosplay is supposed to be an immersive experience–

Peter: either she takes the hood off or I'm putting you both in prison

Jason and Hood: look at eachother

Hood: shrugs

Jason: fine

Steph: hi!

[harleykeener]

Boy Serum - Amateum

Your usual truth-serum trope with a twist.

[singswan-springswan]

send me all the fics where Jason undercover as Neal Caffrey gets to do something distinctly un-Neal-like which may or may not blow his cover. *blows you a kiss*

[canthandlethishit]

me, hours ago, wtf is white collar?

anyways go read this white collar tim drake is neal caffrey fic its good and got team red on it theyre brothers!!!!

[ghostofcorsetspast]

Started watching White Collar and drew Jason as Neal because strangely that has become a favorite trope. I read a Jayroy fic that was dcxwc and honestly it ruined me. Someday I will do proper fanart for it.

also I discovered the smudge tool on procreate and promptly abused it

[prettypleaseignorethis]

Absolutely broke my heart when I discovered white collar x Batman fics and then immediately realized how many of these crossovers seem to actively disregard white collar as a show

Like I’m still gonna read them and I’m still gonna have fun, but it hurts to see people misinterpreting Neal Caffrey as just a knockoff Batfamily member instead of the canonically-labeled sociopath and pathological thief that he is. Like this bitch will steal things because, and I quote, “it was there.” He got caught on bond forgery because he was so obsessively in love with a girl and he broke out of maximum security prison and subsequently got caught because of said girl (who, rightfully so, did not give a shit about him).

Respectfully, not a single one of the Batfamily is built like that.

And then people are treating Peter Burke like some idiotic traffic cop who doesn’t care about Neal at all, instead of a brilliant guy who has broken every moral and ethical bone in his body trying to protect his best friend. This man finished the series **SPOILERS** having (1) lied to a priest, (2) been kidnapped, (3) had his wife kidnapped, (4) gone to prison, (5) aided and abetted fugitives, and (6) violated probably a minimum of five domestic and international laws each episode. And that’s not even including all the plot points I’ve completely forgotten about

It hurts even more because that dynamic of impulsivity and intelligence and loyalty and criminal behavior and complete trust and absolutely gut wrenching codependency just reeks of Batman comics. Like Peter and Neal hurt each other and love each other and betray each other at every turn and it’s sooooo good and THAT is the crossover I want to be reading…

(Sorry for the rant, but I’m tipsy off red wine and white collar is leaving Hulu in two weeks and I’m struggling)

[soonamisapphire]

Papa Hood - Frostbite43 - Batman - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Neal Caffrey is the son of Red Hood.

The Justice League gets tangled with the White Collar division on a case. The FBI never knew what hit them.

--------------------- PHWCB ---------------------

“It’s official League business now.”

That was news to Neal.

“Oh? Anyone interesting?” he asked, trying to appear nonchalant.

The pinched looked on Peter’s face intensified. The only other person to ever get that look out of him had been Neal when Burke had been failing to catch him.

“They’re sending in Red Hood.”

Neal blinked.

“... Red Hood.” He repeated slowly, the words swirling in his head.

His father was coming to babysit the FBI? Neal couldn’t help but snort.

Peter glared at him.

“Behave.”

Neal looked at him in amusement.

“Are you nervous, Agent Burke?”

[lefish]

So Im back on my white collar/ batman crossover bullshit yall,

K heres the idea neal is actually neal but is cat womans son and was her side kick as a teen. So do to some plot device neal and the gang end up captured by the red hood (cuz jason todd is my special interest ) and neal and jay knew each other as robin and catlad/stray or whatever u wanna call neal. So peter is freaking out cuz yaknow crime lord and neal just goes “so what happened to the short shorts and pixie boots?” And every one is confused cuz wtf that mean when the fucking red hood replys “i dont see u running around in skintight leather and cat whiskers anymore” and neal just snickers and says some shit like “i think i could still pull it off” and jay just tells em to fuck off, so neal grabs the gang and shoves em twords the door saying “see ya birdie” to which jay responds “later kitty cat” leaveing every one very confused on what the fuck just happened

[the-deadrobin]

I read a lotttt of the White Collar is [insert Batfamily character] fics. Except I'm obsessed with Jason Todd so I only read about him. And I love em, but it's funny because Jason is nothing like Neal, and Dick would make so much more sense. But the image of this man who is built like a fridge, and has a bunch of scars as Neal, is so ridiculous. I can't stop reading it.

Like I want you guys to imagine it for a moment. It's Neal except he's absolutely ripped and littered with scars and his voice is deeper than the Mariana Trench.

Neal: *yells across the room* Peter!

Peter: *gets a heart attack from the sudden rumble that emanated through the room*

Jones: Hey, wanna spar?

Neal: *takes off shirt*

Jones: Okay, nevermind.

Crew: *Talking about past cases*

Diana: I got this gnarly scar from that one time– *looks at Neal*

Neal: *sits innocently as though there aren't healed gashes running across his body* what?

Diana: *mutters* non-violent, puhlease.

Neal: Looking a little worse for wear there Peter, must be getting old. *cheeky grin*

Peter: *staring at his white tuft of hair* Mhmm. I'm getting old.

Keller: *fists up, ready to fight*

Neal: *takes off suit coat*

Keller: okay, nevermind.

Jones: *laughs because same*