#tim’s immortal zombie brothers au

[were-wolverine]

AU TIME LADS

i don’t have an official name for it yet but so far i’ve been calling it “tim’s immortal zombie brothers au” so. yeah i’ll post the actual storyline on Ao3 but here’s some stuff that i made for it:

robin (dick, 19)

shrike (jason, 17)

magpie (tim, 14)

(ipod case and taser are gifts from steph)

robin’s weapons stash / magpie’s weapons stash

photo IDs below

[ photo 1 - clothes: face mask, hoodie & cargo pants, combat boots, utility belt

armor: knee & elbow pads, armored vest, padded gloves ]

[ photo 2 - utilities: zip ties, flashlight, rebreather

extra: protein bar, lollipop (for kids), mini first aid kit, earplugs, lighter, walkie talkie, swiss army knife, blades, taser, gum, water bottle ]

[ photo 3 - clothes: hoodie, cargo pants, combat boots, utility belt, gun holster

armor: face mask, bulletproof vest, knee pads, padded gloves ]

[ photo 4 - utilities: zip ties, flashlight

extra: mini first aid kit, gas mask, gum, cigarettes, lighter, cash, pain meds

weapons: pistol, katana, taser, crowbar ]

[ photo 5 - clothes: hoodie, cargo pants, combat boots, face mask

armor: knee & elbow pads, army vest, padded gloves ]

[ photo 6 - utilities: lock pick kit, flashlight, taser

extra: bandages, swiss army knife, camera, tablet (for hacking), earbuds, ipod, lighter ]

[ photo 7 - weapons: push daggers, karambit knives, shuriken, escrima sticks, kunai throwing knives ]

[ photo 8 - weapons: collapsible bo-staff, shuriken, tantō knife, bagh nakh ]

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

tim and his zombie brothers

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/TWYir3B by dumbteddybear my own au! just infodumping about it and explaining the plot mostly not your typical talon!dick au Words: 1385, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 8 of dcu & birdflash Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd Additional Tags: Dick Grayson is a Talon, Former Talon Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd are Siblings, Alternate Universe, Crime Alley (DCU), Dick Grayson Kills Joker (DCU), Court of Owls, Protective Dick Grayson, Protective Jason Todd, Jason Todd is Not Red Hood, Dick Grayson is Not Nightwing, Dick Grayson is Not Adopted, Jason Todd is Not Adopted, Lazarus Pit (DCU), Tim Drake and Dick Grayson are Siblings, Tim Drake and Jason Todd are Siblings, Stalker Tim Drake, Baby Damian Wayne, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Tim Drake Gets a Hug, Alternate Universe - Age Changes, i make up my own talon lore bc i can, Immortality, Sort Of, as a talon dick is functionally immortal, same with jason and the lazarus pit, though i’m increasing the effects a bit, basically they are very hard to kill, Bad Parents Jack and Janet Drake read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/TWYir3B

[amarits]

The immortal birds au sounds amazing, can you tell us anything else?

It’s one of those AUs that I’ve thought so much about that there are like 20 versions of it because I keep thinking, but what if this? But what if this? The bit I’m most attached to is Tim with the League of Shadows. The idea is that back in 1899 Tim was in university doing cutting edge biomedical research. Meanwhile, Ra’s was concocting some grand plan to take over the world using the Lazarus Pit to create an immortal army, but it wasn’t going quite as well as he wanted. He sees this teenage genius’s research and thinks, that’s what I need. So kidnaps him. Obviously. 

Talia wasn’t particularly thrilled with her father and his plans either. Convinces Tim to go along with it for now and she’ll get him out of there. Tim is there for a couple of years before Talia manages to kill Ra’s. Tim wasn’t involved in the murder, but he is complicit. The two of them tell everyone in the League that an enemy of the League managed to kill Ra’s! How awful! Everyone is very sad about this! Especially Tim and Talia, so sad. It’s still the early 1900s so sexism is rampant, so they also tell everyone that Tim was Ra’s chosen successor. Tim was like a son to him, really. Eventually that morphs to Tim was Ra’s son, and by the time Tim meets Jason and Dick 20 years later, Tim and Talia just refer to each other as brother and sister, and they’re leading the League of Shadows together.

It’s kind of a morally ambiguous things where yes, the League of Shadows is still doing some pretty bad stuff, as an organization of assassins is prone to do, though I think it would be a little softened lead by them. More like a union of ninjas, with training and employment options, and less actually having the word assassins in the name. Most importantly, Tim and Talia have spent the last 120 years burying everything about the Lazarus Pit. The ninjas don't know about it. There aren’t rumors. There aren’t myths. Ra’s was going to create a zombie / immortal army and take over the world. That thing is evil and nobody should know about.

(except the two of them who do seem to be using it to be immortal but that’s for the good of the world, everyone can agree)

In this version, Nyssa was loyal to Ra’s and after his death got involved with the Court of Owls. She took some of the Lazarus Pit’s water and Tim’s research from when he was being compelled by Ra’s, and the Court used it to perfect their process when creating Dick:Talon. That’s how Tim ended up in Gotham when Dick and Jason were going up against the Court of Owls. He was following Nyssa and trying to get his research back / destroy it. 

Tim was also one of the people who trained Bruce when he was with the League training to become Batman. Years later when he and Damian showed up at Bruce’s doorstep, that’s the excuse Tim uses for why they’re there. He doesn’t tell Bruce that Damian is his son. He tells him that Bruce trained with his “father”, who unfortunately died during the recent revolt in the League of Shadows. Talia sent him and his cousin Damian to Bruce to keep them safe.

[were-wolverine]

batboys au

i don’t have an official title for this au yet so for now i’m calling it “tim and his immortal zombie brothers”

backstory

dick is taken by the court of owls after his parents die. he helps batman when bruce destroys the court, and afterwards he disappears. bruce looks but can’t find him.

dick sets base in an abandoned building and basically decides to watch over crime alley like batman does with the rest of gotham. he hunts for food (mostly bugs, rodents and birds) cuz he can’t get sick, but needs to eat a lot.

he spends most days in the library reading and learning stuff (new languages, science, history, etc). he meets jason while investigating Ma Gunn’s and they work together to take her down. jason decides to stay with dick instead of go with bruce but forces dick to get an actual apartment (he does).

jason convinces dick to train him, though he already has some experience and his own skills. dick adopts the name Robin and jason goes by Shrike. they become legit vigilantes of crime alley.

jason finds out dick is a talon a bit after he starts out as Shrike. they are in the middle of a fight and dick is fatally shot- jason loses it and almost beats the shooter to death (it’s just one guy left at this point). dick gets up and pulls jason off, hugs him, and promises to explain when they get home. afterwards, jason punches dick for not telling him until he literally had no other choice.

jason’s death

the joker escapes arkham and kidnaps jason (14) while he’s on solo patrol (they split the area to cover more ground). joker beats jason with a crowbar when dick (16) realizes he’s missing and races to find him. he arrives just in time to see the warehouse explode. dick brings jason’s body back to their apartment and then goes out and kills the joker (bruce is on a JL mission when all this happens, so he isn’t there to stop him).

jason comes back to life (superboy prime alternate dimension stuff idk), but is not fully healed and goes temporarily comatose.

dick knows about the LoA from the court and info he’s gathered over the years, and is able to contact talia. she agrees to let jason use the lazarus pit in exchange for a favor from dick, and they go meet her in nanda parbat. dick stays there with him during his recovery, so there are no drastic changes in his personality (aside from the trauma of fucking dying). they train together there for about 6 months before returning to gotham.

(his favor to talia is, later on, taking damian from her father and bringing him to bruce)

introducing tim

once they return to gotham, they appear to gain a stalker. they decide to leave the kid alone at first, but eventually get concerned because a kid really should not be out at night alone in crime alley.

dick (17) and jason (15) finally confront their stalker when they save him from getting mugged. the kid introduces himself as tim (12) and explains that he was curious about the young vigilantes in crime alley and decided to follow and photograph them. also he figured out Robin’s real name- dick grayson (who tim had theorized wasn’t dead despite the boy having been missing for years).

the boys are actually really impressed, but they try to dissuade tim from following them (which obviously fails). they then decide to teach him basic self defense and make sure he’s always within shouting distance/view of one of them while out at night.

tim, being the genius he is, figures out they aren’t fully human anymore. he doesn’t judge them for it, but he brings it up to them because he’s curious, so they explain talons and the lazarus pit.

once tim gets older they start to actually train him, and he becomes another vigilante (Magpie). also, because his parents leave him home alone for months at a time, he pretty much lives with dick and jason (but sometimes, when it’s really cold/hot or heavily raining/snowing, they all stay at drake manor instead of the apartment).

damian

a bit after dick turns 18, talia contacts him and tells him it’s time to uphold his part of their deal. leaving jason in charge of the Alley, he goes to nanda parbat, steals baby damian (he’s four), gets him to gotham and brings him to bruce.

basically, instead of adopting dick & jason, bruce just gets damian way earlier.

(p.s. dick knows bruce wayne is batman because of the Court, but jason and tim don’t know. when he explains the situation jason is like ‘how tf did bruce wayne meet talia and have a kid with her’ and dick is like ‘oh yeah, he’s batman’ and jason & tim explode)

bruce’s kids

bruce is about 30 when damian (quite literally) drops into his life. a year or two later, he finds cassandra and subsequently adopts her.

steph (spoiler, 15) has been working alongside him for about a year or so already, and babs (batgirl, 20) has been working with him for four-ish years. both forced him to let them work alongside him and he gave up trying to stop them

i have a lot more stuff but this is the basic storyline

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

tim and his zombie brothers

by dumbteddybear my own au! just infodumping about it and explaining the plot mostly not your typical talon!dick au Words: 1385, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 8 of dcu & birdflash Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd Additional Tags: Dick Grayson is a Talon, Former Talon Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd are Siblings, Alternate Universe, Crime Alley (DCU), Dick Grayson Kills Joker (DCU), Court of Owls, Protective Dick Grayson, Protective Jason Todd, Jason Todd is Not Red Hood, Dick Grayson is Not Nightwing, Dick Grayson is Not Adopted, Jason Todd is Not Adopted, Lazarus Pit (DCU), Tim Drake and Dick Grayson are Siblings, Tim Drake and Jason Todd are Siblings, Stalker Tim Drake, Baby Damian Wayne, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Tim Drake Gets a Hug, Alternate Universe - Age Changes, i make up my own talon lore bc i can, Immortality, Sort Of, as a talon dick is functionally immortal, same with jason and the lazarus pit, though i’m increasing the effects a bit, basically they are very hard to kill, Bad Parents Jack and Janet Drake via https://ift.tt/TWYir3B