#tim drake late au

[erinwantstowrite]

tim joins late au but it's inspired by saiki k. in that he knows the Bats' identities and he is actively avoiding them at every cost but they all think that he's their family friend and are trying to convince bruce to adopt him. he writes in a coded journal that's also kept under lock and key and it's basically an evolution from 9 years old like "i want to be their friend so bad" to 15 years old "these mfs will NOT leave me alone" and ends with 16 years old "okay so hey again journal. it's me. you'll never guess what happened." (he got adopted)

[kevin-day-is-bi]

kinda getting into the idea of a reverse Robins AU where it isn't just the second Robin that dies, it's always Jason.

Damian is first - Bruce's actual son, who goes from Talia's training to peak angst Bruce and then escapes to become Nightwing, who grows up confident and smiles because why wouldn't he?

Then comes Steph, barely Robin for a year, only there because she needs support and the second Robin always brings out Bruce's optimism. She fakes her death but it's found out and she's okay, really, and she's on to Spoiler

Then Tim, who obsessively watched Damian and went so far as to date Steph to get closer, who Bruce adores, because he's two Robins in and he's soft now, and he's chatty and snarky and the darling of the League and he goes on to be Red Robin and everyone knows he's one of the most skilled fighters in the world

And then it's Jason. Jason, who's the fourth Robin, who's whole entire role is to be loved by everyone, because everyone knows Robin by now and Robin is always safe. and then he dies. he becomes Red Hood at 17, three years after he dies

And Bruce swears not to take another Robin, except Tim begs him to go to the circus, and when Bruce sees a black haired boy see his parents die, he doesn't have a choice. he's the most careful around Dick, so Dick grows up wary and quieter, because he's not just the baby of the family, he's the one who feels the aftershocks of Jason. no one is around.

Barbara is 14 when she gets shot, only Batgirl for two years, and she's given all the responsibility of Oracle a year later, because she has to. she saw Jason's death air on the news, she knows what'll happen to Dick if she can't help.

[brucewaynehater101]

Tim Joins the Batfamily Late: Vigilante Style AU

His parents send him to a boarding school abroad (or at least out of Gotham). From there, he encounters Lady Shiva and other trainers. Tim obviously can't keep his nose out of other people's business and becomes a vigilante for that city. He may also collect evidence and blackmail the JL from abroad to provide Batman with better mental health care. Tim can't leave to assist Batman in person (boarding school and parents suck ig) so he does what he can. He stops blackmailing them and cuts contact once he sees Batman has improved.

He sometimes partners with the YJ crew, but Tim's a little more morally grey (Batman's not hovering over his decisions and yelling at him about murder and stuff. Also, his mentors aren't always on the hero side). He tries to keep himself off of the JL radar and is an unofficial member of the group (despite paying for a lot of their necessities).

When he's around the same era as Red Robin, he goes up to the JL and is like "yo, Batman's alive and stuck in the timestream."

The JL have heard of this vigilante, but they've never worked with him before. The YJ crew, besides Cassie, is dead, so they can't really vouch for him. Cassie is also doing the cult thing, horrified by Tim's mad scientist basement antics, and emotionally repressed from the grief of losing two of her friends.

Tim, realizing that Dick probably has a lot on his plate, doesn't try to convince him of Bruce's continued state of breathing. Besides, why would Dick trust a stranger?

Instead, Tim tries Red Hood and the Outlaws. They don't really believe him, but they are willing to lend a hand here and there.

When he's traveling to find evidence, he comes across Black Bat. Out of everyone he's tried, she does believe him. Cass joins him on his search when she can. It causes Jason to make jokes about taking turns babysitting the youngest vigilante.

[autisticrosewilson]

“Why didn’t you call me.” It’s not a question. Dick’s voice is frigid.

Bruce exhales. “Nightwing…”

“No. I’m not talking to Batman, I’m asking Bruce why he didn’t call me. My little brother is dead!”

“You were in space.” Bruce finally turns around to look at Dick. His face is haggard and he has large bags under his eyes. “The mission—”

Dick laughs bitterly, stepping forward and jabbing a finger in Bruce’s chest. “I don’t give a fuck about the mission. You had his funeral without me. You buried my little brother and I wasn’t there! And neither were any of his friends!”

“I don‘t—”

“And why the hell is there some new kid running around dressed as Robin?”

“Tim is—”

“I don’t care who he is! I care that you’ve stuffed another kid in that suit! Into my colors. The colors I gave to my little brother. The colors that got him killed.”

“Jason was reckless!” Bruce snaps. “I’m going to train Tim better, he won’t fail like that.”

Dick stiffens.

“I’m *sorry,* what did you just say?”

He repeats himself. “Jason was reckless. Tim will be better”

“How dare you.” Dick hisses, stepping closer to Bruce. “How dare you. Jason wasn’t reckless! He called me, did you know that? Left a voicemail. He ran because you benched him. He thought being your son was contingent on him being your Robin.”

Bruce’s face goes ashen. “Dick—”

“No. I can’t even look at you right now. And I think you’re making a mistake with the new Robin, but I can’t stop you can I? Even though that’s my name. Does Batman ever consider the feelings of others? Of course not!”

Dick turns around to leave, but before he takes more than a few steps something catches his eye.

“What’s that.” His voice is almost silent as he walks forward, stopping in front of the glass case.

“Dick—”

“A good soldier. A good soldier.”

Dick turns back to face Bruce, face unreadable.

“Is that really how you see us? Soldiers in your crusade against crime? Is that all we are? What happened to being your sons?”

Bruce opens his mouth, but gets cut off.

“No, no, soldiers are disposable aren’t they? You can cut us off when we disagree, you don’t have to mourn us when you get us killed.

CRACK

Bruce backhands him.

Dick laughs and spits blood at his feet, ears ringing.

“Don’t you dare blame me for Jason’s death!”

“No? You were the one that made him your soldier. My brother is dead because of you.”

Dick turns on his heel and marches towards the exit of the cave. “Don’t call me unless the world is ending. In fact don’t call me even then. Have Diana call Donna. And don’t even think about sending the little cuckoo bird to train with the Titans.”

(I know Tim does temporarily end up with the Titans for a bit but that last line wrote itself)

Somewhere on the other side of the city, John Doe lays numbly in a hospital bed. Through the window he catches a glimpse of black and blue, bouncing and flipping, backlit by rolling thunder. He tries to yell, he thrashes in the hold of the wires piercing his skin, but his collapsed vocal cords let no sound escape.

When the nurses come rushing in, one of them is different. She is not a blurry face barely separate from the background, she is soft eyes and rough hands and a familiar accent. He doesn't understand all the words, but she says "safe" and "home" and he believes her. She calls him Jason and it's so foreign he almost doesn't recognize it.

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[hyperblue]

What if Kon had been born as a baby and had been raised as a weapon, subjected to dehumanization and abuse...

He does not consider himself a human being, he does not even have a pronoun in relation to himself from himself or from others, he is just a Superboy, - Superboy is a weapon, Superboy should not feel or think.

Clark and Luther do not consider him their child, although Clark is much better, he at least considers him a human being and gives him a real name. But his feelings for the beautiful young Robin are the first human thing he feels.

kon being raised by luther has always been a fascinating concept to me, especially thinking about how it would affect his relationship with the other kids from the core four and specifically tim

after reading the name bit i immediately thought about tim going "i like your name, sounds cool", and then kon has to thank clark once again the moment he sees him because robin likes the name he picked for kon, isn't that cool!

[bobbinalong]

Happy First Birthday/Anniversary to this silly little AU of mine.

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Question, how old is Tim in the Spoiled Tim?

Ah another ask! You spoil me lol

Tim is currently 17!! and about to be 18 in just a few short months :) If he makes it this time

SO yeah hope that answers your question! <33

[alittlesongbirdchirps]

Stupid idea inspired by the stupid movie inside out.

Each robin represents Batman’s emotions

Joy: Dick

Anger: Jason

Fear: Tim

Sadness: Steph

Disgust: Damien.

I don’t know whether because of bullshit magic or mind magic by Martian manhunter who explains that the human mind is complicated, as it emotion seems to have its own personality. And in the human species head is an entire world, that’s fully functioning.

The Justice league it rather confused at this notion.

Also.

The flash aka Barry Allen also has his own obviously.

Joy: Impulse

Anger: Jesse chambers

Fear: Wallace West

Sadness: Wally West

Green Arrow

Joy: Conner Hawke

Anger: Roy Harper

Sadness: Arrowette

Just bullshitting lol. But maybe manhunter does a mind scape thingy, and connects all three briefly.

There’s a joke about Batman’s head weirdly being colourful.

[mockingjaybirds]

A little look into a Drabble I’m writing for an au of Flightless Wings ^_^

I’m at 370 words currently

[laxeros]

Jaybird and Babybird...or more like babyfish lol

I made this for the wonderful @huntressundone and their fanfictions to which I became addicted to :)

This one is inspired by What Washes Ashore <3

[erinwantstowrite]

while im here im going to try and convince you guys to write more "Tim Drake joining the Batfam late" aus because it's underrepresented

like, i love the fics where he joins early. that's cute! but a fic where he joins late for whatever reason??? i eat it up like a cat starved for attention. i want Tim Drake being the "perfect" heir to Drake Industries and being known as the polite, well adjusted young man that everyone knows. and then turn around and find out that Tim has not only been stalking the Bats under their radar since he was, what, 9 years old? but on top of that, he's started solving cases that they can't get to. Tim who stalked so hard he learned where they learned their martial arts and went "backpacking across europe" only to have actually been learning from Shiva. Tim who has become an urban legend to the Batfam because they can't tell if this vigilante exists or not, since they never catch him, they don't have footage on him, etc. Or if they DO know him, they don't even think to put Tim Drake in the suspect pool because Tim Drake whined for an hour when he broke a nail at a charity event once. the kid is smart, sure, but he's not going out at night fighting crime and solving cases that Batman didn't know about yet.

even better if Tim named his vigilante persona an adjacent name to the Robin mantle. him knowing he can't BE Robin (perhaps Jason hadn't died in this au) but he could be a hero that helps them from the shadows

and obviously he makes a mistake of some kind... maybe he saves someone at an event as Tim Drake and Bruce sees how little hesitation he had. or maybe he gets injured and can't get up himself, and that's when a Bat or a Robin or someone finds this vigilante they almost thought was a myth: bloody, broken, and needing help. pick him up and take him home and then there are endless possibilities to what happens next but the ending BETTER be Tim finding his home with his people

[vinelark]

Would you ever write a tim joins the batfam early fic?

definitely, though it would depend on timing/if i have an idea i think would make a good fic! i’ve bounced around a few different AUs in this vein with friends just for fun, but they tend to get real plotty real fast and i’m a slow-ish writer so i’d need the time/excitement stars to align to actually write one. (in the meanwhile i’ll just read all the tim joins the family early AUs i can get my hands on.)

[teleportationmagic]

"Heyo!"

Despite all the different Robins, there was luckily one thing he could rely on - they went out of their way to be as cheery as possible. It could be adorable, but with the darkness around them, it was obnoxious twice as often.

The other constant was that wherever Robin was, there was a Batman not far behind. This one was leaning in the shadows, fabric twisting through the breeze, like the darkness actually did much to hide the padded shoulders under the cape. And he felt something like a sigh escape him.

New Robin usually meant new Batman. This one wasn't much taller then Robin'd been a few months ago. If he was optimistic he might think that Batman was injured, or away, or had decided to finally retire, but he didn't know that many optimists in this city. But Batman hadn't said anything then, and Robin had ignored his request with a smile, so here they were. Pretending.

"Riddler has broken out of prison. He's gone to ground, and we haven't been able to pick up any trace of him except this."

Robin takes the photo, the bright glove glowing under the Batsignal. She hands it over silently, before Batman makes a noise, garbled from underneath a voice modulator.

"Where did you find this?"

"The windowsill of 378 Windheiser Street."

"His childhood home." Robin pipes up, "Windowsill, windowsilllllll, windowsill?"

"Bloody Mary rules?"

"Ha ha. But wind? Twice?"

He clicks his tongue. "Maybe thrice. Do you what flower this is?" And that's a questions for all of them.

He hadn't thought that identifying the flower would be necessary. "Do you?"

And he was quiet. "You do." Robin said, a curl of her blonde hair around her finger, sounding delighted. "You're embarrassed."

"I am not!" He says, ignoring her. She's eyeing him, and maybe he is too, but the kid ignores it. There's too much mask on him too see his face. "It's windflower. There's a third."

He clears his through, the cigar heavy on his lips. "Could be a coincidence."

"Could be." She repeats, her voice dramatic.

"We'll look into it." The photo disappears into the folds of his cloak. "Is there anything else?"

"Not in particular." Something taps behind them, and he turns to look, a curse on his lips.

There's nothing there. There's nothing anywhere. Batman and Robin are gone with the picture, and left nothing behind but an incoming headache.

[autisticrosewilson]

I have an addition to the scene for the late au, specifically to the scene where Tim says something stupid and Rose has to be held back but Eddie gets him.

DICK SHOWS UP AFTER EDDIE GETS PULLED OFF TIM

Dick looked around the room, trying to figure out what happened. Roy and Joey were both holding on to Rose, stopping her from doing something. Eddie’s chest was heaving and he looked angry. The kid (not Robin, never Robin) was disheveled and glaring at Eddie.

“What happened?”

“He— he—” Rose was practically shaking with rage.

Eddie was the one to answer. “He said Jay was reckless and got himself killed.”

Dick froze.

“And that he was a disgrace to the Robin mantle.”

Before he realized what he was doing, Dick had the kid pinned to the wall.

“Don’t you ever— don’t you ever say something like that. You don’t know what that name means. You wouldn’t know if it hit you in the face.”

“I’m Robin now!” The kid protested.

Dick glared and the kid’s mouth clicked shut.

“No. You aren’t. You might use the name and wear the colors, but Robin is mine. And I sure as hell never gave it to you. Robin died with my little brother. You’re nothing but a cheap copy. A replacement.”

The kid’s eyes widened and Dick let go of him, shoving him towards the door. “Go back to Gotham. And tell the Bat that neither of you are welcome here.”

Giggling and kicking my feet<3333

Bruce tries to call Dick to ask what the fuck happened but Dick has blocked all his numbers and he knows better than to call one of the other Titans

[hyperblue]

I love the young and loving parents Tim and Kon, where they get a bunch of Domestic Fluff and all sorts of warm sweetness, where they are happy with their child.

But I love trope "Someone to Remember Him By" too much and torment my favorite characters...

Kon remain dead, Tim rescues Bruce and remains a single parent. His child is really the last thing left of superboy. His legacy. Their baby whom he will never meet and who will never meet his other father.

good for you fr because when it comes to me the moment i think about kon never meeting his child it makes me want to cry, scream, throw up, hit the floor