chasingfigments

[chasingfigments]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Jason Todd

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Kidnapping, Imprisonment, Non-Consensual Drug Use, in order to achieve the kidnapping, Blood and Injury, Explosions, jason is going to blow up so many things, suffocation, Not in a sexy way, food/water restriction as a form of control, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Emotionally Hurt Dick Grayson, Tim Drake is Robin, Angst

The ringtone lets Bruce know before he’s even pulled the phone out that someone in his family is calling from a civilian line, which—given the current hour—should mean Alfred is calling. The caller ID displays Tim Drake instead.

Threads of concern and apprehension coil through him, but it’s possible—something prevented Tim from heading out with Dick tonight. If he were sick, or injured, Alfred would have let him know already, but it’s possible something came up with school or his friends. Dick would be just fine handling a solo night in the Batman suit.

There’s no proof that anything is wrong yet. Bruce takes a steady breath and accepts the call. “Hey, Tim,” he says as he unlocks his car. “I’m—”

“Sorry,” a mechanized voice cuts in, and Bruce goes still, fingers curled around the driver door handle. “Tim’s not available right now.”

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Or: Instead of taking over the drug trade, Red Hood kidnaps Bruce Wayne.

(Inspired by this prompt by @ghost-bxrd.)

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#jason todd #bruce wayne #dick grayson #tim drake #batman fanfiction #for some desperate glory

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Chapter two is written. 🎉 Gotta edit, but with any luck, it will be up by this time tomorrow.

#pointless rambling #for some desperate glory

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FFXV 2024 Remix - Writer Eligibility

Hey, writers! Wondering if your stories qualify for the remix this year? Here's a quick guide to qualifying stories:

To participate in the remix as a writer, you will need:

Four [4] qualifying stories &

An AO3 account

For more information about this event, check out the FAQs and Rules.

#signal boost #final fantasy xv

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FFXV 2024 Remix - Artist Eligibility

Are you an artist and unsure if your art qualifies for this year's remix? Here's a quick guide to qualifying artwork:

To participate in the remix as an artist, you will need:

Four [4] qualifying pieces of art &

An AO3 account

For more information about this event, check out the FAQs and Rules.

#signal boost #final fantasy xv

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FFXV 2024 Remix Schedule

The 2024 Remix Event kicks off next month, and we'd love to see you there! Check out the schedule below~

#signal boost #final fantasy xv #ffxv 2024 remix #i love remix season #this is one of my favorite fandom events

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Sure hope everyone’s excited to read about a grown man hiding under a blanket, having many anxious thoughts, and then finally sleeping a bit for real.

Sure hope everyone's excited to read about a grown man pretending to sleep, hiding under a blanket, and wandering a cell, shackled and forlorn.

#for some desperate glory #and then he gets to have an alarming conversation #pointless rambling

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Nice whumpy thing: when people are intensely pragmatic about their injuries illnesses.

“Listen, if I pass out…”

“If you let up pressure, I’ll bleed out. So just, don’t move.”

“I know it ill hurt, just do what you need to.”

#yes this #tropes #i have actually done the i think i’m going to pass out now thing #i was correct

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"Do you like this character?🥺?" I want to see him sobbing and writhing in a ditch. Leave me alone

#this is me

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a lil while ago you mentioned that you hadn't been reccing ongoing fics thus far and it made me wonder if there has been anything good u were reading lately? in return i offer u my fave incomplete works lately: 'the foreigner' by somecaveats; 'whether a beast or a human being' series by goldmonger; 'you happen to me, you happen to me (all over again)' by ivy_and_ivory; 'something to last' by lawsome; 'recitatif of danaide' by neptunary; and 'times are gone for honest men' by hedgebitch. thx ily!

Hi, anon! Thanks for the ask and the recs! I don’t think I’ve read any of these, so lots of good stuff for me to check out!

Here’s a list of fics from my subscriptions that have updated in the last month or so, all gen and Jason-centric.

Delusions of Negation by dragonpyre @dragonpyre, fresh out of the pit, Jason thinks he’s a clone of the dead Robin, so he goes to Gotham to prove it

summer by BoneRot19 @bonerot19, part 3 of the author’s something in the static series, a Jason joins the family late AU

March Relentlessly by elluv_asun, post rhato #25, Jason gets sent to an alternate universe, the one he was actually stolen from when he was resurrected

For Some Desperate Glory by chasingfigments @chasingfigments, instead of taking over the drug trade, Red Hood kidnaps Bruce Wayne

Thanks again for the ask, anon! I hope you find something here to enjoy! 💙

#i am immensely flattered to be included on this rec list #thank you #❤️❤️❤️ #lots of other fics to check out

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

#why not

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I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

#writing resources

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Caitvi Scenes: 14/? ↳ Cailyn and Vi address the Council together.

#arcane

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + text posts and stuff

#help me i'm dying of laughter #fullmetal alchemist

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"who woke me up?" said lazarus.

"i dreamed that i was dead."

#jason todd #fanart

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Repent, even if it’s too late.

White Christmas (화이트 크리스마스) 2011,  Episode 02 of 08

#white christmas #white christmas kdrama

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Okay, okay, look. This has been a long time coming, but I think it's finally time to talk about

"The catastrophic, unrelenting, world-ending nonsense of the year Tim Drake turned fourteen (14)"

because! There is a lot of it!

Some background: in "A Lonely Place of Dying," Tim's effective introduction, he is thirteen (13). After ALPoD, Tim is in training to become Robin for some months, until his parents are taken hostage near the end of the year ("Rite of Passage") -- Janet Drake will die in this attack, and her funeral will be held on Christmas Eve. Shortly after this extremely depressing turn of events, Tim officially dons the Robin mantle for the first time.

Tim's first year as Robin, then, begins very close to January 1. Do you know what else begins January 1? That's right, No Man's Land! (In brief: No Man's Land happens when the US government decides that, rather than pay for all those pesky repairs from the catastrophic earthquake Gotham just had, they'll just kick it out of the country instead. Cool beans.) Tim canonically turns fifteen (15) at some point during No Man's Land, which, canonically, lasts one calendar year (Jan 1 to Jan 1).

All of this means, that, by a strict interpretation of the canon facts I've laid out**, all of the following events must take place within the same calendar year, the first year that Tim is Robin: (I've used red for general world-ending nonsense and black for Bat-specific events)

"The Death of Superman": what it says on the tin. Superman fights a potentially world-ending foe in Doomsday and gives his life to stop him. The whole world mourns him. (Tim appears briefly as Robin at the funeral, which is why I include it here.)

"Knightfall": Bane wears Batman down by breaking all of his enemies out of Arkham, before breaking Batman over his knee. Bruce, unable to fight, appoints Jean-Paul Valley as Batman ("Azbats"), which turns out to be a terrible idea because of the sinister subliminal programming in JPV's head, but, uh, that's a future bullet point --

"Bloodlines": horrifying alien parasites come to earth! They feed on humans, which usually kills the humans but sometimes gives them fantastic powers instead! There's a whole plot here involving the potentially world-ending final form of the alien parasites, which Robin is involved with, along with Nightwing and Azbats, because -- (more under the cut) (I want to stress -- a lot more)

"Knightquest": JPV is still Batman! Growing increasingly less hinged by the day! Locking Tim out of the Batcave and also choking him a little! Meanwhile, Bruce is out of the country -- in his defense, he's rescuing Tim's dad from kidnappers -- and, look, there's no completely reasonable interpretation for how long this period lasts, but it logically has to be at least a few weeks.

"KnightsEnd" / "Prodigal": finally, Bruce comes back to Gotham, gets rid of Azbats, and just ... asks Dick if he wants to be Batman for a bit instead. This goes significantly better.

"Zero Hour: Crisis in Time": Hal Jordan goes mad with grief, becomes the megalomaniac supervillain Parallax, and attempts to rewrite the universe. It's a whole thing. His best friend has to dramatically shoot him in the heart. Tim is not directly involved in this, but the event is important to the fabric of the DC Universe for a bunch of reasons, and also, it definitely is a time the universe as we know it almost ended.

"Underworld Unleashed": Neron, a demon from Hell, gets frisky and decides to offer a bunch of people unimaginable power in exchange for their souls so he can take over the world. (I'm eliding the main plot a ton, because this post is long enough as is.) Notably, this event features Killer Moth taking Neron's deal, becoming an actual moth-man, and almost devouring Tim in one of these gross cocoon things that he can suddenly make now.

"The Final Night": A Sun-Eater is devouring the sun! Oh, no! We need that to live! Without the sun, Earth starts freezing, giving Tim the chance to reflect on his newfound existential crises in a tie-in issue. (They stop the Sun-Eater eventually. Obviously.)

"Contagion": Someone has released a plague in Gotham! People are starting to die left and right! No one is wearing a mask for some reason, even though the plague is plainly transmitted by coughing! Tim also contracts the plague ("the Clench") while doing crowd control for the mass riots that are happening, by the by, and nearly dies before a cure is found. Still, all's well that ends well, right?

"Legacy": Haha psych that wasn't a real cure. Everyone who had the Clench is gonna get it again and die anyway! Tim races across the world with Bruce and Dick in search of a for-real-this-time-no-takesies-backsies cure, since, like, he's kind of gonna die if they don't find one, and along the way they have to foil Ra's al Ghul's plot to introduce this thing into a whole host of other world cities. Where is Tim's actual dad during all of this? Fuck if I know.

"Genesis": A weird thing called the Godwave happens and fucks with a bunch of heroes' powers! Darkseid attempts to harness it to gain ~~ultimate power over everything~~ and the heroes have to stop him! This is probably the event that has the least to do with Tim personally but it is yet another point where the world almost ended and also, there's some sweet Tim & Helena stuff in here.

"Cataclysm": yeah, that's right, the actual fucking earthquake also happens at some point during this year. It is a catastrophic earthquake that destroys most of Gotham and kills, at the very least, tens of thousands of people. One notable thing is that there's a significant gap between the quake itself and the beginning of No Man's Land, featuring cleanup and aid, Bruce Wayne's futile attempts to get the government to not kick Gotham out, many early adventures of Young Justice, and, well,

"DC One Million": heroes from the far future come back to Earth and, whoops, while we were here we accidentally unleashed a massive virus that's going to create Solaris, the Tyrant Star! Future inhabitants in the present and present inhabitants in the future will have to work together to stop Solaris at both timepoints! This event explicitly takes place between Cataclysm and No Man's Land -- Tim briefly helps Batmillion with some stuff in the Batcave -- and other Bats (mostly Helena, Bruce, and Babs) are intimately involved.

I just want to stress -- all of this happens within one calendar year.**

** okay look. You may be asking "don't comics give contradictory or implausible dates all the time? Wouldn't it make more sense to extend this period over more than a year and just fudge some of the dates or time markers?" Well, first of all, you're no fun, and second of all -- I mean, yes, you're right, and there are probably even canon dates that contradict the timeline I've put down here, but also, Tim's entire preboot Robin period has to take place within less than 5 years (he never turns 18 onscreen), so I think it is actually pretty difficult to extend this period over significantly longer than a year. You're always gonna be borrowing time (and world-ending events) from somewhere.

Times the world almost ended, in the course of this absolutely bonkers calendar year: seven (7). Times Tim, specifically, almost died: look, I'm not going issue by issue but I count at least 5 (five). If Tim has doubts about being Robin during this period, it's not because Bruce is mean to him. (He largely isn't, not yet, but that's another post.) It's because every time he turns around, terrible things keep happening.

#batman comics #tim drake #batman timeline meta

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this doesnt seem like a popular opinion on here but sometimes i like when characters die. sometimes its needed to raise the stakes and sometimes its the end best befitting of the character and sometimes its needed to move the narrative forward and sometimes its the only way a character would believably leave their story behind and sometimes it just spices things up a bit. sometimes its fun to watch characters die . sorry

#there are few things as satisfying as a really good character death #tropes