Chapters: 1/13
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tim Drake/Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson
Characters: Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Ra's al Ghul, Tam Fox, Prudence Wood
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Red Robin AU where Damian crashes Tim's BruceQuest, Bruce Wayne is Dead, Aged-Up Character(s), Grief/Mourning, Unhealthy Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, The most dubious of consent, therapy is needed by everyone, me being salty about medicine in fics: HERE IS ALL THE MEDICINE, Codependency, predator/prey imagery, damian wayne muscling his way into tim drake's mental breakdown, damian 'i can make him worse' wayne, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Damian Wayne Needs a Hug, this fic is built on music vibes and me and hes screeching about these two
Series: Part 1 of the devil made me do it
Summary:
There’s a piece of him that’s spoiling for another brawl – the gaping wound that was his fight with Dick an hour ago is raw and hurting, and if Damian wants to draw blood, Tim will happily oblige him.
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Damian joins Tim on his quest for Bruce during his Red Robin run.
thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird
EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt
Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”
It's not cringe anymore (it SHOULDN'T be cringe anymore), just do it. You're doing something you enjoy, who cares what anybody else says! So spread the words my fellow internet brethren.
"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years
No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.
I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.
Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.