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    “Do you think I was a good Robin? Was I… useful?”

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Tim Drake was dead.

    It wasn't anything remarkable. In fact, his death went unnoticed by the world for nearly a decade. That's because despite having died, Tim kept on living. Sure he might be a ghost now, but he still got hurt, he still bled when cut, he still ate, he still went to school. To anyone else, it looked like he was a normal, if slightly pale and skinny, boy. He worked hard to pretend that he was alive when he knew he wasn't. Hiding what he was from everyone, including Batman.

    But all that starts to unravel when his grave is threatened to be disturbed.


    The major character death tag is for Tim.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    It’s like he can feel the void Jason Todd has left behind, and it makes him unexpectedly ache. You’d think it wouldn’t, maybe, since Tim is in a rare position of absolutely knowing there at least can be something after death. But no, it doesn’t help at all. If anything, it almost makes it worse.

    At least if he were a fellow Gotham ghost, even a weaker shade, he’d still, in some way, be here. Where he was born and bred, where he learned to fly, where he belongs. But from what Tim can tell, he isn’t.

    He’s just… gone.

     

    Tim Drake is a ghost; literally — he died like four years ago. However, he does not let this stop him from helping Batman. And in the wake of Jason Todd's death (and the aforementioned Batman's truly terrible lack of healthy coping mechanisms), he's not taking no for an answer.

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    10 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Bruce is chasing down the Joker halfway across the world instead of searching for Tim's brother. Alfred is sleeping. Babs is in the hospital.

    Dick is in space.

    For the first time since he moved in with the Waynes, he feels completely alone.

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    In 2002, Tim Wayne loses his brother and both of his (former) parents. Then he has to learn to live with it.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Wayne Manor has stood almost as long as Gotham itself. From the outside, it looks like a haunted house: all dark stone and shadows with lives of their own.
    Every so often, someone “has to ask” about the rumors that the building is haunted. A nosy reporter. A drunken socialite. A paranormal YouTuber.
    Outwardly, Bruce Wayne laughs them off, dismissing the idea out of hand. It's not his secret to tell.
    The reality is that Wayne Manor is much warmer and more welcoming to those who reside there than it is to outsiders. Laughter echoes through the halls. Little faces peer out of the windows, waiting to welcome him home.
    That's not to say there are no ghosts.
    But they don't haunt the Manor.
    They make it a home.

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    Bruce somehow finds himself parenting some very traumatized ghost kids. And an equally traumatized living child. Sometimes family is a billionaire, a butler/dad, a gaggle of ghost children, a toddler assassin, and a weird, drunk, magic uncle.

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    09 Jun 2026