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“tattoos are going out of style” they’ve been around for a thousand years im sorry you’re conservative now get well soon ig

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Janet Drake who is willing to crawl back out of her fucking grave and wrap her hands around Jack and Bruce's throats if they even dare to hurt her fucking baby.

Jack who for just a moment after all the bullshit of Robin and everything else going on with Tim thought about it. Could almost picture striking his son, maybe it would teach him something. Only for shiver to travel along his spine, a shadow crossing the corner of his eye, a noise so primal it set every one of his teeth on edge.

A predator was waiting. Letting him decide his fate.

He backed down.

Bruce the very man that has made Gotham tremble has never been so terrified as the day he pushed Tim in training and he didn't get back up.

Alfred who swooped in to comfort Tim.

Bruce who couldn't even move his very body frozen in fear, he could feel it pressing down on his throat. He woke up the next morning covered in bruises a distinct hand print on his throat, for the rest of the month he heard what would sound like heels walking the halls everytime he dared to go within a foot of Tim.

Jason has he hunting Tim through titans tower, a foot of space about to be cleared only to feel a power like no other wrap around him. Throwing him clean though the wall. As soon as his eyes shut a nightmare so traumatizing he refused to explain what happened to Bruce. He never again tried to hurt Tim.

Janet Drake who even dead refuses to leave her baby alone. Who spent almost 36 hours bringing him into this world and will be damned if anyone tries to take him from it.

Everyone on the Wayne family learned to never leave a single mark on Tim or else the noise of heels will follows them until she is appeased.

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“That ship is toxic ! They're so unhealthy—”

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sometimes i wonder how many people in gotham like fell to their knees in despair anytime one of the Wayne’s announced they were in a relationship. like they are all SO pretty and they seem kind even if they are “just nepo babies.” so how many gothamites have decided they were just gonna engineer a way to marry into the family and they had a legit breakdown when their dreams were squandered by a headline that had the Wayne they were shooting for announcing they are dating another drop dead gorgeous human(bc let’s be real each and every Wayne has a roster full of baddies, doesn’t matter who you are shipping them with that is a gorgeous human being) so now they know they have no chance. like is there a support group for this type of thing or????

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Imagine that after Tim get’s sent overseas to train, when he works with Lady Shiva, she drops a hint that the League of Assassins has Jason. Do you think Tim would go back to Bruce?

Bruce Wayne, who in his grief, has hurt Tim more than villains probably have? Bruce Wayne who Tim has been doing everything to save? What if Tim decides the best thing for Bruce would be his actual son?

So instead of going back to Gotham, Tim sleuths and finds his way to the cradle. He doesn’t go empty handed. He’s not stupid. He shows up with a dossier on a number of league enemies and potential assets.

Ra’s is fascinated. Thalia is confused. She 100% planned on using Tim as a focal point for Jason except Tim is here saying he’s no Jason and Bruce won’t survive without his son.

What if they trade places?

After a dip in the pit, they send Jason back and Tim stays. He has Lady Shiva’s training and he’s boarder line genius, or obsessive enough to never let something go until he wins. He’s adaptive, he had to be with Bruce. And he knows how to mask.

After some intense training, he becomes Damian’s bodyguard. When the coup happens, Thalia sends Tim off with Damian and they arrive together in Gotham.

Jason doesn’t remember anything. He was still catatonic for about half a year after he was dropped on Bruce’s door Step. Doesn’t remember the league at all so he doesn’t know there’s a tiny kid who traded places.

The Drakes never report their son missing because Tim informed them he’d forged their signatures to transfer to a boarding school over seas. Since he’s still taking classes at the league he just forges report cards and anything else. The money he withdraws gets shoved into an account that’s routed through multiple countries just for emergencies.

Bruce temporarily forgot about Tim because Jason arrives before Tim’s return date form training and all his focus went to his no longer dead son.

So when Bruce does finally remember Tim, it’s too late. The story has been set. He reaches out to the Drakes and hears that Tim wanted to transfer to a boarding school to focus on his education. Tim looks into it, and Tim’s not there…but Tim is also nowhere. It’s like he dropped off the map. Hell he even calls in Constantine to make sure he didn’t like swap his life for Jason’s or something.

And then a few years later Tim kinda just appears with a kid who looks suspiciously like Bruce at that age. “Thalia sends her regards.” He says with a bright smile. There’s a type of emptiness behind it though. Or a sharpness that wasn’t there before.

Bruce pulls them both in. It’s disorienting, Damian’s a bit more adjusted. As his bodyguard, Tim also taught Damian about society as a whole. What is acceptable. What isn’t acceptable. How to hide intent behind a lm expertly forged mask. Damian’s more adjusted to the change, and Tim is just as bright as the day he left…until he can’t be.

The first time Bruce witnesses even a fraction of Tim’s Ruthlessness is when Damian is captured as a civilian. Tim is in and out before Bruce even has a lock on The location. Later when they investigate, because the kidnappers are all missing, they find nothing.

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“I’m a man after my own heart” “You have a heart?” “…a cold one” and it’s Chuuya taking over the Port Mafia too protect Dazai in Tied Knots

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just finished “the philosophy of death and dying” by imnotpoppunk on ao3 and i am fiening for similar reads so yk if you have any good soukoku long fics PLEASE hit me with the recs

(also prefer if they are finished, like i will read unfinished but i will in fact cry on here when there is no more to read)

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wait hear me out and perhaps i’m wrong, but in bungou stray dogs did the vampires have healing abilities?? like i know they got faster and stronger but did we ever see one get injured so we know if they heal faster or not? because generally speaking that’s what vampires are to me: they run fast, are super strong, and they heal from most wounds very quickly(but perhaps that’s me bingeing twilight every couple months and not watching many other vampire related series). but anyways all this to ask: if they do have the fast healing is it possible akutagawas lung illness got healed? like im not at all caught up in the manga so idk what is happening post season 5 of the anime other than apparently everybody is dying and aku lost his memories. but i wondered if we were ever gonna touch on the illness bit? or if now that atsushi knows he can ask yosano to like heal him if the vampirism didnt do it? or are we just gonna let my boy die anyways at the end of the series? just one of the random curiosity’s that has popped on my head and i would now like an answer to if anybody has one

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sitting at work trying to not think about the unfinished fic i caught up to last night that was last updated aug 2023🚬🚬🚬🚬

(it’s consuming my every thought, i don’t smoke but i need a damn cigarette)

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nobody touch me i’m thinking about failure by breaking benjamin and jason todd when he first came back to life. crying on the clock fr

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so i tried to post this the other day but i think i worded it to explicitly or something so we are trying this again but being more censored

so tim, he’s known in gotham as just bruce wayne’s CEO nepobaby X2 son. so there’s not too much special about him like yeah he’s pretty hot and has released some music in the past and it was good but he doesn’t really stick to a genre so no huge following really. but really his public persona is just young buisness man who is damn good at his job. pretty bland really,, events happen and there is a very adult tape of him that somehow gets leaked, his partner(your choice) isn’t really seen since they are holding the phone but it is very clearly tim like there is NO denying, very clear full face shots galore. it ofc blows up bc hot young ceo nepobaby getting freaky?? people are gonna eat that UP. so the gossip rags are ON it, he can’t leave the house without at LEAST one reporter asking him questions about the video and things about his bedroom habits. and at first tim tries to sweep it under the rug, won’t talk about it at all yk. but eventually after literal months of this it’s still the like #1 celeb gossip in gotham(and hero community but we are ignoring that) and tim is fed up, it’s obviously not going to go away,, so he decides to lean into it, i mean any publicity is good publicity so he decides he will drop a song about it. he writes and releases P()RNSTAR(irl by nessa barrett) and the crowd goes wild. the people of gotham love it, reporters are even more all over him and now instead of trying to redirect he just straight up starts flirting back. he is young adult gothamites icon, so many edits to the cuntiest songs you can think of.

that’s all i got hopefully this actually gets shared this time bc it’s been a week and the brain worm won’t go away. but anyways this is brought to you by the song by nessa coming on while i was reading “film school” by Rednight_Hunter on ao3. its apart of the “life lessons” series which is amazing but forewarning that endgame of the series is jaytim and there is jaydicktim content,,, so yk dont read if thats not your thing,, if it is hope you enjoy as much as i did!!

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messy jj (he's in my head all of the time)

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the tim staunchly against smoking and drugs to vaping on the job pipeline is real in my head

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so i’ve gotten a couple comments and thought it’d be a bit easier to do it this way, so i figured i’d just tag those who asked instead of replying to each comment individually, if that is not okay with you jlmk and i will take you off!!

so without further ado my top 4 tim either being super skilled or crashing out or a mix of both fics!!

some kind of murder- nightskywrites

basically all the bats being flabbergasted by the amount of skill my boy has and realizing how much he’s been holding back

hell hath no fury- theydontknowme

tim crashing out and being tired of being mistreated by his both of his families and screaming and breaking things about it pretty much,, be forewarned there are mentions of underage prostitution in this one none on screen but just a warning!!

rise of cardinal- JustThatOneGirl1815

tim leaving the batfam and becoming a super bad ass anti-hero what more can i say

the best laid plans of tim drake oft’ go fucking awry- quotidian_void

i’ll be real with you i don’t remember exact details about this fic but i do remember loving it,, so now i am also off to re-read it lol

tag list:

@tinkywinkyhasrabies @satisfactionbroughtmeback @shotascat @sokorin

(like i said if you are upset that i tagged you please just let me know and i will take you off and i am so sorry if that is the case!!)

so ik it’s not cannon accurate but,,,

i need a fic of tim just crashing out.

like he gets so sick of like damian and jason talking about how weak he is and shit like that that he’s like “yall realize lady shiva was my one of my FIRST teachers, and i was the first robin she trained. i had to train under b AFTER he already lost a robin. you DONT think he was 10x harder on me than any of you guys???? there’s a reason my training videos are mainly redacted without bruce’s or my permission. i got ra’s al ghul BEGGING ME to join his league or have my children. i get gifts from him WEEKLY. do you KNOW how many of his little ninja i fight per DAY??? nahh im sick of this shit let’s take it to the mats” and just demolishing both of them at the same time.

i just think it’d be very funny. i just like fics of people who pretend to be weaker than they are(or they just never really have a reason to go full tilt so they just don’t) get sick of holding back and just losing it :D

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this is exactly what i’m on about when i say i LOVE when tim is portrayed as JANET’S son.

The snake-like Cuckoo who lives among the Bats and Birds

The first lesson Janet Drake taught Tim was about how everybody has their own agenda. That he should never give someone else his trust, at least not very easily.

Tim was young then. Very young. Toddler years if you will. However, his mother still taught him such a thing because while children are impulsive and hard to control and most importantly stupid, Timothy Drake- her flesh and blood, the only heir to the Drake fortune and the one who will, one day, be the reason she will continue living her dream life in early retirement- was a genius. A prodigy if you will.

He was smart. Far smarter than even some adults (people Tim meets at every gala he attends). Sharp and calculative in the same way Janet was. Because Tim was all mother and no father. He didn’t inheret even a remotely similar personality trait from Jack. And Janet- ever the observant woman- noticed that fact early. It gave her a chance to raise a proper Drake heir. A cunning and successful man who will one day raise Drake Industries to new heights and dominate everything else.

And in the real world, no one is ever above deciet and betrayal if all the right buttons are pushed.

Tim’s trust never came to anyone very easily after that.

The second lesson Janet Drake taught Tim was about subtle manipulation.

Trusting no one doesn’t mean that Tim couldn’t predict his opponent’s moves as long as he has enough information about them. A little trick there and a little accident here. No, Tim wasn’t the cause of this! How could you even think of that? Tim was the one who brought justice to the wronged! It’s just that, because he helped, these people trusted him. Became somewhat loyal!

And giving your trust to Tim was always the wrong move. Because trusting Janet Drake was a wrong move too. Back then, as stated before, he was a child. So most of the time he just acted dumb and got people talking. He was kind of a spy for the Drakes in that way. Janet knew how to utilize resources just as well as Tim of the present. He prided himself for never getting caught.

Nowadays, resprting to a little manipulative tactic became a bit of a habit. Second nature of you will.

The third lesson Janet Drake taught Tim was about the art of acting and wearing masks.

When Janet was small, she learned that masks are absolutely needed if she wanted to survive among the hungry and greedy gotham elites. Back then, she helped Jack Drake he was too trusting, too gullible, and too loyal. Janet learned to take advantage of her little bodyguard and fool the rest of the elites. Wearing the little sweatheart of gotham mask- a mask that seamlessly fit her face- wasn’t easy. Jack was too annoying, too clingy, too prideful, too… obsessive.

She learnt to love him all the same. Because she was also too much in certain areas too.

She taught Tim how to act and switch between masks effortlessly. To build a mask, one for every occasion. Every separate identity, and every separate Tims that he wanted others to see and percieve.

The shy and timid Drake child.

The invisible shadow that follows the Bat and his birds.

The perfect sweetheart of gotham.

The amicable, old money heir.

His first lesson was to never trust. His second was to do anything to get what he wanted. His third was to decieve.

Gotham elites are a different kind of crazy than the rest of this cesspit of a city. No one, other than the truly decieving and despicable, could survive in it. No one, other than a truly born and raised Gothem elite, could Thrive in it. It was the reason why the Drakes didn’t associate with New money. New money didn’t know the ins and outs. They were gullible and weak and the Drakes wouldn’t be caught dead letting them talk to them longer than socially necessary.

Gotham elites were selfish and had their own agenda. Everyone manipulated, no one trusted another, and everyone wore a mask- however, lacking they are.

That was the world Tim came from. So imagine his fascination when he found out about Batman.

A man who, seemingly for no reason, was fighting crime and helping the city. It juxtaposed everything Tim knew and the rules he lived by. Which was why he needed know the man’s motives. Because surely, everyone has their agenda, everyone does something to gain for their selfish reasons. Surely, Batman isn’t an outlier.

Gotham elites, the Drakes, everyone. Even Tim. They did everything for their own gain. They stopped at nothing to get it. There was no symptathy for the weak who fell. No respect for the strong who thrived. Tim did not pity the street rats. That was simply their role in this waste pool of drama and plays.

But Batman. He helped without getting paid. He made it seem like he had no motive. And Tim, being the genius whose mind is constantly undersimulated, decided he wanted to solve this case. His first case.

And then he quickly became obsessed.

Stalking wasn’t hard when you somewhat practice self defence arts. This is Gotham. And he was a Drake. A Drake wouldn’t be caught getting kidnapped. It would bring shame on the family name.

He took up photography rather quickly, playing it off as a hobby. Batman and Robin were magical. Beautiful. And Tim still hasn’t solved Batman’s motives. His life fianlly had meaning beyond being a perfect heir to the Drakes.

Then he found out about their identities.

Tim began stalking Bruce Wayne and Richard Grayson in the galas too. It was obvious to him that Brucie was a mask. Even before he found out about Batman.

The Gotham elites didn’t have empathy nor sympathy towards anyone who fell and those who never got the chance to fall. He assumed Bruce Wayne was the same.

Everything he did was for the publicity, at least that’s what he thought. He thought wrong.

No one ever saw Bruce Wayne and Batman in the same room. And to prevent people of finding his secret identity, Bruce created the mask named Brucie. He found out one of Batman’s motives.

It was exhilarating.

And then everything came apart.

Dick had an argument with Bruce. Bruce found another Robin. That Robin died. Batman became a man willing to give up.

Tim couldn’t have that. While being birthed and raised by Janet Drake meant that he had a very loose moral compass, he couldn’t have Batman giving up. That would lead to Batman dying, Gotham falling, and most importantly, Tim never getting the chance to solve Batman.

He did the standard things in order the right everything. Asking Nightwing to come back was a bust. Demanding Batman find a Robin was also quickly becoming a bust. Then both were captured by two face.

Alfred handed him a Robin suit with a haunted look on his face.

Robin was magical. Robin was empathetic. Robin was kind and helpful.

Robin was everything Tim wasn’t.

Then, Tim quickly created a mask named Robin and saved both heroes.

The only reason Tim was still welcome in this house was because he had his uses. No matter what, Bruce Wayne is a Gotham elite. And Gotham elites all have their agenda, their reason to do anything they did. Bruce welcomed his kids in because… they were his children. Because he loved them. It escaped Tim why love is the way it is.

But among the Bats and Birds, Tim was the Cuckoo. He forced his way into the family. As a born and raised Gotham elite, Tim has his own agenda of being here. He wanted to be useful. To be… loved the same way the others were.

But because he was a Cuckoo, that love is hard to earn. He knew that. So, he remained useful. Became the smart Robin, the detective that is almost on par with Batman himself. Lead the WE gracefully, kept the Wayne public image as high as possible, entertained the other elites so that the others wouldn’t need to.

Everyone knew a slightly different Tim.

The Bats knew the case obsessive Red Robin.

The Waynes knew the sleep deprived Tim.

The Gotham elites knew the genius CEO Timothy.

And the media knew the Gotham’s sweetheart Tim Drake.

No one knew the Tim that existed beyond the high raised walls upon walls.

Just like how he liked it.

Because the Drakes may be prideful Dragons and the Waynes may be the protective Bats but Janet and Tim were the deceitful snakes that grew wings and feathers.

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All I want for christmas is for DC to drop those acrobats dead to the ground in The Batman 2 🙏🙏💥