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Tim joins the family early/Jason Todd never dies fic

I figured since I’m coming up on nearly a year of reading far to much batman fanfic, I might as well share some it with the rest of y’all. Doing this by trope because I was in the mood a week ago when I was tracking all of these down. Anyway, if you got any favorites in this genre that aren’t on this list, add them on! I’m always looking for more good fic to read.

Latchkey by goldkirk

55k, complete. This fic is one of those fandom classics and one of those central touchpoints for the genre. I don’t know enough to say for certain but anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot of fics drawing on it’s combination of baby-stalker!Tim, Tim befriending the Waynes, and getting adopted.

5 Times Tim Spends the Night at Wayne Manor + 1 Time He Comes Home by motleyfam

50k, complete. What it says on the tin. If you like sickfic, this is the one for you. Tim manages to get himself sick and/or injured in just about every chapter of this baby.

Belonged Here All Along by Raberba girl

25k, wip but the main story’s complete. Tim bluffs/gaslights his way into getting the bats to adopt him.

birds fly in every direction by distracted_dragon

170k, wip. Plotwise, in broad strokes this was inspired by and is pretty similar to Latchkey. You’ve got your baby-stalker!Tim, Tim befriending the Waynes, and Tim getting adopted. It does put it’s own spin on everything though and is definitely worth checking out!

Brother Wanted by Vamillepudding

10k, complete. A 13 year-old Jason does his level best to adopted a 10 year-old Tim after Tim puts an ad in the paper for a big brother.

Like a Hinge, Like a Wing by Ultrageekatlarge

25k, wip. As of the time of the post, this fic is still updating on a regular basis so the stats will probably become outdated sooner rather than later. Anyway, Jason doesn’t die, but Tim’s parents do and the family member who gets custody of him afterwards is slowly murdering him so Tim goes to the bats for help.

In this Town We Call Home by Vamillepudding

20k, complete. You’ve got your standard mix of baby-stalker!Tim, Tim befriending the Waynes, and adoption now with the added spice that the Drakes used Batman as a boogeyman and now Tim is kind of scared of Batman. Robin’s fine though!

On the Way Home by ignesfatuis

130k, complete. This one’s a little different than the rest of the fics in this list in that rather than taking place in a vaguely canon-ish universe, it takes place in a AU where there are wolf-shifters. Tim gets kidnapped, stuck in his wolf form, and is eventually rescued by the bats (who are also wolf-shifters).

Runaway Robin by DangerBeckett

10k, complete. Robin!Jason keeps running into baby-stalker!Tim on the roofs of Gotham. Very funny.

The Power of Family and this Stalker I found by JackHawksmoor

25k, wip. Technically, Jason did die in this one, he just came back at the earliest possible opportunity. Anyway, we’ve got baby-stalker Tim, we’ve got a Tim & Jason friendship, we’ve got a Dick and Bruce who’re dancing around each other and majorly miscommunicating. In other words, we’ve got all the good stuff. 

These Were their Crimes by Moe64

55k, complete. Unlike most of the works on this list, I haven’t finished reading this one yet, but from what I’ve read so far, it’s good! Jason doesn’t die, but Tim’s parents still do and now Tim and Step wander around Gotham at night to fight crime (Tim doing more of like a stalker/detective thing). 

Tim Pennyworth by April_Ace

10k, wip. Tim becomes Alfred’s foster child during Jason’s robin career. While this fic hasn’t been updated in a couple years, what there is now stands on it’s own quite well.

two against the world by carolinaa

35k, complete. Tim adopts a dog while out being a baby-stalker. Things escalate from there.

Fics that don’t quite fit the brief but that I still really like:

If I’m being honest, what goes on the main list or not is based almost solely off of vibes. Take that as you will.

Fairy Godbrother by envysparkler

30k, complete. The Tim joining the family early component of this is mainly in chapter 2, and is part of a larger plot where just about all the robins join the family early due to meddling from another dimension.

Surveillance by smilebackwards

7k, complete. Jason doesn’t die, and at the time this fic starts, Tim is seventeen, running around as a teenage stalker, and picking fights with Lex Luthor until he ends up tangled up in the Batfamily. Not on the main list mainly because Tim is nearly an adult.

The Man and The Nothing by Souliebird

5k, complete. 10 year old tim is being haunted by… something, and is just not doing well in general, so he goes to Batman for help.

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read the whole story> here by @clarionglass :)

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they just met btw

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The unexpected reason why the drive-through line is so long

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Damian defends the Red Hood. the family doesn’t know why, but it’s concerning. what reason would their youngest have to defend a crime lord? there must have been something more to it.

even after the identity reveal, Damian refuses to step down. the moment he perceives the family as being unfair to Jason, the moment they seem to overlook him or brush him off, Damian will be there to tell them off and remind them that, actually, Jason was taller first.

what’s probably even more dumbfounding to them by that point is that Jason lets it happen. it forces them to realize that Jason hardly fights for himself, to be heard or acknowledged. and for those of them that had been there when Jason first joined the family? it’s a painful reminder of the skittish boy they had first got to know

Damian takes his duties of brother very seriously. when Jason first joined their family back in Nanda Parbat, his mother had been very clear when explaining to him that his brother was in no state to speak or stand up for himself due to his catatonic state. Damian had made it his mission then to not only defend but also promote his brother’s interest. it would be unbecoming of him to let anyone diminish or take advantage of the more vulnerable member of their family until he could do it for himself

except that time never did happen. Damian still jumps to Jason’s defence at a moment’s notice and Jason still gets a little choked up when he gets to witness how how protective his little brother still is of him

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Gotham does a Batman lookalike contest and there's no way the Batkids don't participate along with like, half of Gotham. It is simultaneously their boon and bane

Dick, staring at a Batman suit Tim brought him: What am I supposed to do with that?

Tim, in an identical batsuit: There's a batman lookalike contest in crime alley! We have to participate.

Dick, now staring at the suit in disgust: Wear that? Again? I'd Much Rather Die.

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Jason, in another batsuit, staring in the mirror, close to crashing out: Why do I actually look like him?

Damian, in an identical, smaller batsuit: It is because you are nearly the same height and weight as Father.

Jason, immediately tearing the arms off the suit so it looks like a tank top: There. That's better.

Damian: It is not.

Duke, in an identical suit with gold highlights, now covering Damian's ears: You look like Batbabe the stripper

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Stephanie, in her robin suit, standing beside cass, who's in a batman suit: We'll win easy

Duke: You realize it's a batman lookalike competition, right?

Steph: There is no batman without robin, duh

Dick:... you're the only fucker in this family I respect

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Bruce: This is incredibly irresponsible of all of you. This could give away major clues that we are-

Duke: Don't you wanna look at your kids cosplaying you, without the danger and responsibilities?

Bruce:

Bruce: Carry on

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Cass, holding the 20$ prize money she got from winning third place:

Dick, grudgingly holding the 40$ he got for second place, glaring at Bruce:

Tim: Wait, if even Dick's second, who the hell won first?

Clark, holding 100$ and a 'Batman forreal!' certificate: Hi Guys

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In the absence of a better name, this is still Here's To All The Burnouts. The oil reserve (hidden inside a hollow wall of the bowl) should allow for about 20 hours of burn; the bowl itself can be filled with other stuff.

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On the idea of Jason and Damian knowing each other in the league and Jason teaching Damian and adding the whole idea of all the robins responding to “robin, report”:

Jason absolutely used those little call backs they use in elementary schools, like “1 2 3 all eyes on me!”

So please picture some situation, maybe Damian is arguing with someone and it’s getting way too heated, Jason just tells “hocus pocus” and Damian immediately “everybody focus” and he’s so mortified he just stops and blue screens

ok no i need to talk about this because it’s fucking genius and has opened my eyes to something that i need discussed more.

because if Jason was Damian’s tutor when they were in the league together, then he was Damian’s protector/teacher/authority figure when Damian was what. seven? six? eight? however you fuck with the timeline to make your au, it would be between 5-10 at least. that means that teaching wise, Jason wouldn’t have just been his combat tutor, he would have been Damian’s equivalent of a fucking elementary school teacher (primary school for brits) which has got to be one of the fucking MOST GOD TIER THINGS- i’m now just remembering back to my primary school days and thinking about how that could have gone for Damian and Jason.

-you are right, Jason 100% would use those callbacks constantly. growing up on the streets he was probably well used to having to corral groups of other little street kids anyway; he knows the drill when it comes to keeping little ones attention on him when it’s needed, and Damian is no different.

-my teacher used to whistle really loud and then go ‘back to the centre!’ when she wanted our class to come and sit on the floor in front of her while she spoke, so i’m now thinking that Jason probably has a specific whistle that he’s conditioned Damian to respond to. doesn’t matter where they are or what Damian’s doing, if he hears that whistle he instantly wanders over and plops down criss-cross apple sauce at Jason’s feet. one time Jason instinctively did it when he needed to point something out in the cave while they were both working on the same case and neither of them realised how odd it looked until after Jason said ‘ok you can go now,’ and Damian stood up to go back to whatever he was doing only to turn around and see Tim and Dick staring at them with the most baffled faces possible.

-after they were finished with training Jason used to get Damian to help him clean up the training grounds by setting a timer for a minute and challenging him to see how much he could get done before it went off. if the area was completely cleared when the time was up Damian got a treat. now whenever Damian’s being difficult and won’t help Bruce clean up the cave Jason just has to start counting down from 60 and Damian instantly starts rushing to clean as fast as he can.

-Jason totally has gold star stickers. Damian thinks they’re the most precious thing in the world. both Bruce and Dick have tried to buy their own stickers to reward Damian for good behaviour but Damian does not care. they’re only precious if they came directly from Jason’s LOA inscribed wooden box that he keeps in his desk. Bruce wouldn’t mind if it weren’t for the fact that Jason keeps giving Damian stickers every time the kid comes up with an insult towards either Bruce or Tim that Jason decides is ‘particularly well placed’.

-Damian is mortified that all of these things have stuck within their relationship even though they’re now in Gotham. despite his hatred for it, however, he still instinctively views Jason as the teacher in his life. Bruce is absolutely devastated every time he painstakingly takes the time to teach Damian a new fighting move only watch Damian instantly cross across the cave to Jason’s side and ask that Jason ‘show me how to actually do it’ because he truly does have that childlike belief that as the teacher, Jason will know it better.

Bruce, watching Damian tug on Jason’s sleeve: …i used to be important.

Tim, biting into an apple: d’ya think we could get him to put Damian in time out?

Dick: i actually have seen him do that. Dami refused to stop training while Jason was talking to him so he made Dami sit in a corner for twenty minutes.

Tim:

Tim: incredible.

Bruce: i used to be a father.

Dick: *pats Bruce on the shoulder*

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My favourite crack scenario ever is gotta be the one where Jaybin took fic commissions out of boredom and because he wanted to have some independent money Just In Case. And little Tim? Little Tim ordered fics from him, damn well knowing who is an author. Because who else could accurately write him a canon fic about Batman and Nightwing if not current Robin?

Jaybin, on his Ao3 account : So, hey, BTW, commissions are open again. Check it out

Tim, instantly sliding in his dms: Can I commission, like, long fic with Original Male Character & Batfam, where he becomes a new Robin? Need Nightwing and current Robin (idk what to do with him tho, maybe he is separate vig now, you choose) LOVE him. Like it is their little brother. And stuff

Jaybin: ...

Jaybin: $?

Tim: 2 per word! And I need a lot words, man.

Jaybin: Jesus Christ.

Jaybin: DEAL.

Jason delivers him the longest fic ever with the most interesting family dynamics, detective plot lines, and adventure series to ever exist, putting all his own knowledge in it. Tim prints it out, binds a book, re-reads it, and annotates constantly. It is his favourite book even after so many years.

And then? And then, Jason is fucking back.

Jason, groaning, while going through Tim's shelves: Come on, do you have something interesting to read? I am bored, and— *slowly picks up his own fic, binded in a proper book* Oh my fucking God.

Tim, turning around: What did you—

Tim: OH MY FUCKING GOD.

Jason: IT WAS YOU??????

Tim: I CAN EXPLAIN

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just going for a walk in the park! (in Metropolis, of course.)

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it would be wrong if we didnt do this meme

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personal comic project VERY HUNGRY WOMEN: follows a superhero who gets her powers through… unconventional means, the reporter trying to expose her secrets, and their obsession with each other 🥩🍽️🍎🌺

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Ok I had this rotting in my mind for days now

Bruce *going live as brucie Wayne because he saw a tweet about him saying he was acting weirdly (it was actually damian shit posting) and paranoid abt his identity he decides to up the brucie effect to 100* : and then he winked at moi! Like, can you believe itttt~

Dick *kicks the door open, bursting into the room full on sobbing* : bruuuceee

Bruce *immediately stops what he was saying and gets up to comfort him* : what's wrong chum?

Tim, steph and duke *run into the room in various levels of crying*

Bruce *actually starts to panic* : kids?

Damian and cass *walk in sniffing* : baba! (Just dami lmao)

Bruce *pale and looks about ready to cry himself* : what's wrong?who was it? Give me names,descriptions, anything-

Jason-youre-not-my-dad-i-dont-live-here-fuck-you-mothefucking-todd *walks in red-faced and barely keeping it together*: dad..

Okay, picture this we've got Bruce pale and sweaty, holding a still sobbing dick and and surrounded by steph,cass,duke and picking damian up all quietly crying and/or sniffing and we've got tim pressing his face to Bruce side, shoulders chaking and then jason of all people starts sniffing and Bruce literally goes even paler (of that's even possibe) and pulls him in

Bruce : What's wrong? Talk to me, sweetheart

Dick : it-it's they- * Starts wailling*

Bruce : they? Who's they? Did you get their names?adresss? Social security number?

Steph : n-no it's not- *hiccups and buries her face on him, you can hear her crying*

Jason :..I don't think I'll ever be the same

Bruce : from what? What is it?

Barbara * Wheeling in, popcorn in hand, eyes red and sniffing:

Bruce : Barbara?

Babs: hey b

*Que lots of sniffing*

Bruce : what's going on?

Babs:Oh, we watched a movie

Bruce: excuse me?

Babs: Yeah, grave of the fireflies, man that was heartbreaking

*higher crying*

Bruce:

The next day

Headlines go like this :

*brucie Wayne secretly just a loving father*

*brucie Wayne threatens whoever hurts his children*

*Wayne children being dependent on their dad no matter how old they get*

Social media similarly is bursting with :

"I love how he was ready to commit murder for them lmaooo"

"Is it just me or did brucie just get 10 times hotter*

"Man, dick grayson crying is something I didn't know I needed, that man is such a pretty crier"

"Damn, I love how tim drake and Stephanie brown just buried themselves in their dad"

"My God I always thought damian wayne was bratty but he's actually really cute?"

*God brucie holding damian, dick and still hugging all his other children is so hot"

"Hold on, isn't jason todd dead?"

(And no, this isn't me projecting. grave of the fireflies did not emotionally destroy me. What?)

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I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.

Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.

They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.

The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It's about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That's the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo's last living relative on her homeland—it is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the "mainland" for her dream!

Not to mention, Nani's actress isn't fucking Hawaiian. She's much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.

Don't even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley's "human" disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn't have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his "human" disguise is a non-fat white man—which part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.

This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don't give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.

The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.

This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I've seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.