Accidental Brother Acquisition
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Let me be without regret by WhisperingDarkness
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types
14 Jan 2021
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That time Desmond wore a white bed sheet (and also changed history).
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The Red Hood stumbles upon a Robin, beaten and broken and trapped inside a warehouse rigged to blow.
(Or: Jason’s plans of vengeful murder change instantly and desperately to protection, Tim can’t believe he’s been abducted by two different villains in the same night, and Dick refuses to lose his brother twice.)
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Jason begrudgingly gets saddled with protecting this weird little kid who runs around Gotham stalking Batman and trying to get himself killed, months before he meets the man himself and becomes Robin.
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Tim had a ringing headache, squeaked past hour forty of no sleep, and was now hallucinating vaguely menacing shadows with red helmets.
(Jason’s attack on Titans Tower ends up going very differently.)
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Days before Red Hood plans to reveal himself, Scarecrow escapes Arkham.
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Jason has a plan for dealing with the new Robin—he’s going find his replacement and impart a slow and painful lesson on why the kid should’ve left the costume well alone.
The kid.
He was just a kid.
(Jason’s overprotective brother instincts clash violently with his murderous urges. Tim is not quite sure which one is winning.)
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Tim figures out that the Red Hood is Jason Todd before anyone else, and with one move, manages to defuse the entire board.
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Jason Todd doesn’t have a memorial in the Hall of Heroes. That doesn’t mean he’s forgotten.
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His project queue updated with only one task. Jason is alive was accepted (dubiously, but Tim’s brain wasn’t exactly firing on all cylinders) and immediately translated to bring Jason home, thoroughly bypassing any common sense filters like Jason’s supposed to be dead and he’s trying to kill me.
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Jason’s plan to observe his family’s reactions to his resurrection…does not go as intended.
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Dick Grayson is patrolling alone in the wee hours of Thanksgiving morning and finds a group of men attacking a young turkey avian. And the kid really needs a home.
And, well, Bruce started it.
Dick impulse-adopts Jason.
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- Part 6 of Whump"tober" 20"20"
- Part 1 of baby birbs
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Jason watches the kid stagger down the hallway, wavering with every step, and follows on silent feet.
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“Sorry, Dickface, that my self-control wasn’t up to the task of watching my little brother get his throat slit, all for the greater good of the goddamn timeline.”
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There’s a new coffee shop in Crime Alley. It’s called the Red Hood.
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Green-Eyed Monster by iselsis for envysparkler
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
18 Dec 2020
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Jason thinks that fate has smiled down on him when he finds Tim Drake, the fucking brat who had the nerve to replace him, injured and alone in Crime Alley, but things don't go the way he planned. Maybe that was for the best, though.
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- Part 2 of Tim needs snuggles
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Beat Him to It by iselsis for envysparkler
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days, Red Robin (Comics)
30 Jul 2024
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Jason went to Drake Manor intent on killing his replacement, and he walked out with bloody knuckles and a kid in his arms.
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Damian Wayne, Nightwing, tries to calm the little boy he caught stealing the tires off the Batmobile. Adopting the child would also be satisfactory.
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Betting Warmth against the Cold by iselsis
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
25 Dec 2020
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Jason knows he's dying, freezing to death alone in an alley at the ripe old age of twelve. As the snow piles up on top of his numb limbs, though, he's approached by what is either an angel or some stupid kid wandering around Gotham with a camera in the middle of the night.
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- Part 1 of the weather outside is frightful
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all's fair in love & libraries by call_me_steve for ghostfaeries
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
28 Dec 2020
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“Hey- excuse me,” says Jason, feeling affronted and insulted. “I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m kind of using this whole table.”
The kid, as if he’d been previously lost in a haze, looks up and blinks. “I’m sorry."
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In which, Jason's at the library trying to read. Some kid named Tim Drake sits down at his table and things bloom from there.
(They talk about ciphers. Things are good.)
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- Part 1 of a kinder world (than our own)
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What are brothers for?
(Or: some minor dimensional travel, pseudo-kidnapping, and a whole lot of meddling.)
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What are brothers for?
(Or: some minor dimensional travel, pseudo-kidnapping, and a whole lot of meddling.)
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The kid was going to die at this rate, whether or not Jason had anything to do with it. Apparently dead Robins were just a thing, now, and Bruce didn’t give a shit whether they lived or died.
There was something almost comforting about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
There was something fucking infuriating about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
Well. If those fucks didn’t care about their baby bird now, Jason would just have to make them care. And he had a few ideas on just how to do that.
Robin might get a little broken in the process, but what was a little kidnapping and torture between friends?
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a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Steph. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. This is mainly hurt, angst, and reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come! There *will* be a happy ending.
[summary updated 1/21/22]
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- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood
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Tim Drake is the Stray: snarky genius child and protege to Selina Kyle. His primary after-school activities consist of running around Gotham dressed as a cat, stealing shit from mob bosses, petting animals, and generally being an agent of mild chaos.
Things get even more chaotic when a new Robin appears on the scene, unafraid of the world and eager to stop criminals like Tim.
But who knows? They could become friends. And given a few years, maybe even brothers.
. . .
A series of vignettes over the years. AU where Jason never dies and Tim doesn't become Robin, but somehow the family still always comes together in the end.
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A Tangled Mess Of Time by NightOfStarFall
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
17 Sep 2023
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Tim Drake make a sort of impulsive decision to go back and stop Jason from dying. These are the consequences of that choice.
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Aka, if Jason Todd never died, what would have happened to Tim Drake?- Words:
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As Jason laid in the wreckage of an explosion of his own making with a bleeding neck —he never expected the batarang slicing his throat wide open— and broken body, remembering how Bruce chose the Joker over him, he just wanted to laugh at himself.
Because how could he ever expect anything different?
Nobody cared about Jason Todd. He was just a Crime Alley fuck up. He wasn’t worth a damn. He wasn’t worth anything. He should’ve known better. He did know better. He just… wished that someone would pick him for once.
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When Bruce cut Jason’s throat with a batarang to stop him from killing the Joker, it damaged his vocal chords so badly that he could no longer talk. But Jason didn’t care anymore. He’s finally realized that no one wants to listen to what a dead man has to say.
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What the Water Gave Me (Selkie'verse) by Veriatas
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
19 Jan 2022
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How To Accidentally Acquire a Brother by 172
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Under the Red Hood
08 Aug 2022
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Jason's been stuck on this drug case for a whole month and he's got nothing. That is, until his tiny, anxious ex-neighbor shows up at his safehouse with a backpack full of evidence saying that the entire drug operation is being run by his parents.
Tim figured out that his parents were big-time drug traffickers at age nine, but when people start dying and Batman won't listen to him, the only available option is the Red Hood, who's just as likely to shoot him as he is to help him. That's why it's such a surprise when Tim shows up at his safehouse and Gotham's most undead and dangerous vigilante invites him in for spaghetti dinner.
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birds fly in every direction by distracted_dragon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
13 Sep 2021
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Tim Drake lives a perfectly good life. During the day, he's a freshman at Gotham Academy. At night, he surveils criminal activity and sends detailed analyses to Commissioner Gordon. If he's lucky, he might even get a photo of a Bat or two. He even writes increasingly popular LinkedIn articles about vigilantes and the criminal justice system under the pseudonym Jeffrey Anderson.
Gotham is the one that needs help, not Tim.
Bruce Wayne has a thing or two to say about that.
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Shutterbug by goldkirk
Fandom: Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics)
14 Sep 2025
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This series is meant to feel like a warm hug after a long hard cry. It’s about realizing and coming to terms with pain, fear, and grief. It’s about healing in community. It’s about living with, and despite, trauma. It’s about the power of authenticity and honesty and and doing better. It’s about breaking cycles and creating peace. It’s about choice. It’s about healthy relationships. It’s about the I share parts of me in you and you share parts of you in me and we make each other better for it. It’s about true safety, true connection, and truly unconditional love, even when the best of humans are imperfect.
It’s also pretty funny, if I do say so myself. I hope you enjoy it!!!
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Sibling Beta Test by StarryKitty013
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
05 Dec 2022
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As the Tin says. Batkids Beta Test fics that aren't connected technically.
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-Cass and Jason as Timmy Protection and Nurture Squad(TPNS,or tampons as Steph calls it(she's also in it too))
-Dami actually emoting
-Timmy being adorable confused birb
-Duke Thomas literally being a Ray of Sunshine
-Cass being the ultimate diffuser- Words:
- 64,404
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Jason and the Three Terrors by Cdelphiki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
03 Jul 2025
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One moment, Jason was peacefully sleeping, perfectly content with his life with the League of Assassins. Okay, so maybe not content content, but he wasn't unhappy, either. Then Talia woke him up at 2 am, threw three children at him, and told him to get them to America and far away from Ra's al Ghul.
What the fuck.
The last thing he wanted was to see Bruce. But with three brats relying on him and no Talia, there weren't many options for sanctuary. He just didn't expect the kids to grow on him so much in two short weeks.
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- Part 1 of The Three Terrors Cinematic Universe
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Worlds Apart by Fernandidilly_yo
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
26 Jun 2019
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Dick's world is falling apart. With all the heroes and Batman gone, the teen thinks this is the end. That is, until Dick miraculously end up in an Alternate Universe where the world is whole and there's a family waiting for him.
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Betting Warmth against the Cold by iselsis
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
25 Dec 2020
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Jason knows he's dying, freezing to death alone in an alley at the ripe old age of twelve. As the snow piles up on top of his numb limbs, though, he's approached by what is either an angel or some stupid kid wandering around Gotham with a camera in the middle of the night.
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- Part 1 of the weather outside is frightful
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What are brothers for?
(Or: some minor dimensional travel, pseudo-kidnapping, and a whole lot of meddling.)
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Jason knows there is an intruder on his territory. He can feel eyes on him, even if he can't pin the watcher down. Enough is enough. It ends today.
Things quickly take an unexpected turn after that. -
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The Red Hood stumbles upon a Robin, beaten and broken and trapped inside a warehouse rigged to blow.
(Or: Jason’s plans of vengeful murder change instantly and desperately to protection, Tim can’t believe he’s been abducted by two different villains in the same night, and Dick refuses to lose his brother twice.)
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Tim is already seeing stars by the time the man in the red helmet shows up.
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How To Accidentally Acquire a Brother by 172
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Under the Red Hood
08 Aug 2022
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Jason's been stuck on this drug case for a whole month and he's got nothing. That is, until his tiny, anxious ex-neighbor shows up at his safehouse with a backpack full of evidence saying that the entire drug operation is being run by his parents.
Tim figured out that his parents were big-time drug traffickers at age nine, but when people start dying and Batman won't listen to him, the only available option is the Red Hood, who's just as likely to shoot him as he is to help him. That's why it's such a surprise when Tim shows up at his safehouse and Gotham's most undead and dangerous vigilante invites him in for spaghetti dinner.
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Ports Bakery by RedStarfish
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
31 Jan 2024
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Jason is a baker. Nothing more, nothing less. So why the heck was Red Robin sitting outside of his shop?
Baker!Jason meets RedRobin!Tim AU
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The kid was going to die at this rate, whether or not Jason had anything to do with it. Apparently dead Robins were just a thing, now, and Bruce didn’t give a shit whether they lived or died.
There was something almost comforting about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
There was something fucking infuriating about that, that Jason’s wasn’t the only life that didn’t matter.
Well. If those fucks didn’t care about their baby bird now, Jason would just have to make them care. And he had a few ideas on just how to do that.
Robin might get a little broken in the process, but what was a little kidnapping and torture between friends?
***
a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Steph. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. This is mainly hurt, angst, and reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come! There *will* be a happy ending.
[summary updated 1/21/22]
Series
- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood