1 – 6 of 6 Works in Pre-Robin Tim Drake
In The Shadows of Sleeping Giants by BirdsBatsandCatsohmy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
21 Mar 2025
Summary
Bruce Wayne's grief was violent, those closest to him knew that. After the death of his son he lost himself to it once more, throwing himself into fight after fight. Then He Fell
Now Dick Grayson stands in the aftermath, doing his best to hold everything together as his father sits in a coma.
Tim Drake watched Batman fall, now as he watches Dick Grayson take up the mantle, he knows he needs to help. He just doesn't know how.
- Part 1 of Out of the Shadows verse
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 85,027
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
The one where Tim adopts a street kid named Jason Todd via prostitution? It's not as bad as it sounds, really
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 7,246
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
The holidays are Tim's most favorite time of year.
He doesn't mean that like most people mean it, where they say "holidays," but they really only celebrate the one, and all the others are just happening at the same time. Tim celebrates ALL the holidays.
He's usually very good at keeping the various family tradition stories straight, too. He's been Jewish; he's been Christian; he's been pagan; he's been Muslim. Sometimes all at the same time. But this year...well, this year the Waynes are suddenly getting involved, and Tim starts to realize how hard it is to keep stories straight and less-than-stellar upbringings hidden when people are actually listening to you.
It's weird, Tim decides. And he's not sure he likes it.
(A year in the life of Tim Drake, as told through the various holiday parties of the Gotham elite.)
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 74,005
- Status:
- In-Progress
Gotham's White Lotus Anthology by Listentothelittlebird
Fandoms: A Death in The Family - Fandom, Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days, Under the Red Hood
01 Mar 2023
Summary
The Avatar cycle ended with Avatar Korra. No benders were born after Avatar Korra's death, for many generations.
The modern world has forgotten bending, for the most part. It makes it easy for the Bats, really - nobody looks for the way the elements bend slightly to their will with each strike.
(Or: One by one, the Bats join the Order.)
Anthology containing:
A Stone Foundation
Bruce Wayne, fresh out of training with the League of Assassins, decides to travel just for a while longer. He stumbles upon a fishing village on the Jang Hui river.
(The world has forgotten about benders. Bruce would have ignored the myths too, if he weren't one himself.)
Stronger Together
A look into Bruce's relationship with the founding members of the Justice League.
Weaving Through The Wind
Dick Grayson leaves Gotham, leaves Robin, and learns to fly.
(Dick joins the White Lotus through... unconventional means.
He knew he would meet many people during his travels - he just never expected to meet a spirit.)
Spreading Wings
Back in Gotham, with a new suit and a new skillset to compliment Bat-training, all Dick really knows is that he's no longer Robin. There's time to choose a new name, though, and he finds it eventually.
Or, How Dick chooses his new vigilante name.
Off the Edge
It was not that he did not trust his friends - he just... forgot to tell them.
When it comes down to it, Dick pulls out all the stops to help out a teammate.
Fire by the Shore
It took time, but sometimes time was all that was needed.
(Dick mourns his little brother, Bruce mourns his son. Tim mourns, and makes a friend.)
Life's Ebbs and Flows
Cassandra's story, from nameless weapon to member of the Wayne family. Fear, hope, family. Discovery, friends, joy.
Loss, and grief.
Burning Iceberg
Jason woke up to green, liquid flames.
Turns out that waterbenders and magical pools which gave swimmers firebending was not a good mix.
(Instead of going to Gotham, instead of being a missile landing on home, he has just enough presence of mind to get as far away as he can - the South Pole, to be exact.)
Making A Splash
Is stealing away his baby brother from the League of Assassins - by himself - a bad idea? Yes, yes it is.
Does Jason care? No, of course not.
(Jason brings Damian home, after a few explosions. No biggie.)
Swamps and Pit-stops
Jason has some loose ends to tie up, and Dick does not feel like leaving his little brother alone.
(Not-so-life-changing field trips ensue.)
Masked Acting
What goes down in Gotham, stays in Gotham. The Bats are hunkering down in their home turf as a new player hits the streets. They go by Red Hood.
(Told from the Bat-perspective - AKA, let's fool the superhero community)
New Dawn
Red Hood adds a Bat to his costume, and Tim bonds with his siblings.
Waiting on Waves
Jason's White Lotus contact had informed him of targeted kidnappings of young waterbenders. Jason took it upon himself to investigate.
The contact had been right, as he soon learnt.
Dust off the Rust
Steph did not die. She's surprised by that, herself.
She's grateful she's alive, sure, but why did the badgermole that saved her have to travel all the way to a different continent instead of, say, the Batcave?
The Dragon's Den
The floor is lava. No, literally.
The mission first derailed when Damian snuck onto the Batjet. It only escalated from there.
A Dragon's Breath
In which Tim and Jason track down a lost sky bison.
(The best plans are made with good intel - or, in other words, improvised after convenient eavesdropping.)
Bunny Buddy
Look, Dick wasn't even looking for a pet. Technically, a spirit wasn't a pet, either.
Add Oil, Keep Fighting
Bruce is dead.
Tim sees Damian drowning in grief, and makes a decision.
(He finds out Bruce is alive, and makes many more decisions. Jason would like to have words with Tim.)
Jasmine's Teahouse
Cass arrives in Republic City, finds a job, and finds some friends.
(The Kyoshi Warriors live on through their skills and techniques.)
The Fire Four
At the start, Tim told himself that he would not reveal his firebending to his new team. Time passed, and Tim told them his name. He even started using his firebending around the base.
He realised then that his friends were really bad detectives.
Eye for an Eye
Ra's decrees the death of his traitorous heir.
He's about to have two traitorous heirs.
A Pulse, A Breath
Lex Luthor gives Nightwing a pill to stop his heart. Batman knocks him out before he can deliver a shot of adrenaline. To Luthor, Nightwing is dead.
(He is, for a moment - but the Bats cling to life with an unrivalled conviction.)
Find Our Way
Mara al Ghul journeys to rid herself of her past. She finds herself, along with some friends.
Oh, and her Cousin is here, too.
Network of Roots
Barbara Gordon is as part of the growing White Lotus presence in Gotham as any of the Bats.
(A look into the life of one Barbara Gordon.)
On Streets and High Perches
How do you beat an enemy that has seen your whole deck?
Simple; you introduce new cards.
(The Court of Owls know the Bats well, but they don't know the White Lotus.)
Human-Sized Pinball
Steph learnt more than just metalbending from her adventures abroad.
The game was originally played by metalbenders, but the Bats were creative enough to get around that.
Through a Wavy Mirror
Dick and Jason go dark spirit-hunting, only to find themselves getting dragged through a portal.
Meanwhile, Signal finds something interesting during his own spirit-hunt.
(Reverse Robins, bending included!)
Bloom From The Mud
The implication was obvious. Tim leaned forward, his bad mood dissolving. “Lotus Protocol?”
“Active,” Batman confirmed. He lifted his gaze to meet Tim’s siblings too, split into their teams around the large Justice League meeting room. “That goes for all of you.”
(A large-scale alien invasion calls for some... extra firepower.)
Shelves: DC Comics, Crossovers, Avatar: Last Airbender
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 91,198
- Status:
- Completed
The Moon Will Sing A Song For Me (I love you like the sun) by Ick_arus by Ick_arus
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
25 Dec 2022
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- Archive of Our Own
- Words:
- 14,100
- Status:
- Abandoned
Summary
One night, Robin spots a kid with an overnight bag on a rooftop, and he jumps to the obvious conclusion: the kid's trying to run away. The kid is doing a really bad job of it, though, and that's the sort of thing Robin just has to correct.
Except the kid is Tim Drake, and Tim isn't actually trying to run away. But "running away" does sound a little better than "stalking bat-themed vigilantes through the crime-infested streets of Gotham every night." So he lets Robin have this one.
Besides, that's the end of it, right? Robin might have found Tim once, but no one ever looks for Tim a second time. Robin can think whatever he wants. They'll never see each other again.
(They see each other again.)
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 12,173
- Status:
- Completed