whumptober 2023
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Dick had always had a precarious relationship with safety, specifically with trust. The first few years of his life, he’d been a child, of course, trusting that his parents would always be there to help him when he fell down. When a trick didn’t work, there was a net beneath him and a warm stew and tight arms that made him forget all about his worries.
As an acrobat, especially in a circus, you have to trust yourself and your abilities, if you think you can’t do it, it will fail and you’ll land in the net or on the ground.
Dick loses that trust pretty quickly.
or: You haven't lived until you've experienced the epic high's and low's of Dick Grayson's live.
DAY 1: SAFETY NET
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- Part 1 of whumptober 2023
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Fever in a shockwave by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
02 Oct 2023
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If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. But if you put that same frog in normal water and slowly heat it over time, it won’t jump, even if it’s boiling alive. One of his English teachers had used it as a metaphor for staying in abusive relationships if it only became worse a little bit every time, which Percy was painfully aware of.
But now, this wasn’t just a metaphor or something, it was his reality. The water was getting hotter by the second and he had no clue how long he had, until he would boil too.
or: Percy has a bad time on a quest
DAY 2- DELIRIUM/THERMOMETER
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- Part 9 of Percy Jackson Events
- Part 2 of whumptober 2023
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Aren't we all refugees (running from a crippling reality) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
03 Oct 2023
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Dear Journal,
Mrs Mac isn’t coming. She just sent a reminder that she’s off for the week at her brother’s place in Kentucky. She told me about him, last time she was here. I can’t believe I forgot.
But I guess my parents forgot too, since I’m still locked in my room. I have to start school on Monday! I guess I could always climb down the tree... I don’t have a key, so I can’t unlock it from the outside. Also, I don’t want to wait until Monday, I’m starving in here and I’ve drunk way more water than I usually have.
Also, I think my cold is getting worse-
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Tim started keeping a journal sometime after he turned nine. He kept the journal throughout the most tumultuous year of his live, the year he turned ten.or: Tim's parents forget him at home. He takes matters into his own hands.
DAY 3: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT// JOURNAL
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- Part 3 of whumptober 2023
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put me in the dirt (let me be with the stars) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Oct 2023
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It hadn’t been a good day, a good week or a good month. Most of all months since Jason Peter Todd had tragically died had been bad.
On one such night with a heavy rain that only ever got worse, Tim found himself once more at the gravesite, sitting in silent contemplation.As he sat in front of the grave the rain almost drowned the sounds out. Almost. Because there were loud, curious sounds coming from below Tim. Only, below Tim was dirt and bones… or at least that’s what was supposed to be there. But those sounds, scratching and eery groaning did not sound like mice or whatever else built their burrows deep in the mud.
Wide eyed, Tim took a few steps back and listened more closely. There was banging, like someone was hitting wood with something hard, but it was muffled. Very muffled. Was this… a zombie attack? This was Gotham of course, so there was no telling what might have happened, but there was definitely something moving in the burial ground of the last ever Robin. What if it was Robin? He had to help!
or: Tim is there when Jason wakes up and it changes the course of history for the better
DAY 4: SHOCK // YOU IN THERE?
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- Part 4 of whumptober 2023
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It had taken weeks of careful planning but tonight would be the night. The replacement was all alone in the tower with none of his pesky friends there to help him fight off an attacker. His codes had never been deactivated—another painful reminder that Jason was forgotten more than he was mourned.
But, as he stalks through dark hallways; Tim Drake would not be forgetting him after tonight. He would have a very permanent reminder of whom exactly it was, he’d stolen from.
Originally, he’d been planning on just roughing the kid up a bit, maybe break a few bones, but inspiration had struck and his new plan was far superior.
or: Jason is in for a rude awakening when he claims Tim after the attack on the Titan's Tower.
DAY 5: PINNED DOWN
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- Part 5 of whumptober 2023
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might be a sinner (and I might be a saint) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Oct 2023
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It was possible Tim had lost the plot somewhere along the line. He was ready to admit that. How could he not, when he was currently staring at an intubation tube that contained a clone of himself?
After nearly a hundred unsuccessful tries to clone Kon, he’d come to the realization that he lacked the data to clone a half-kryptonian. And just to make sure it wasn’t the cloning in general that was at fault, he’d taken some of his own genetic material and tried that. Well—it was safe to say the general equipment was not at fault. And it was too far along to abort himself. Not that Tim thought he could actually do that, that would almost be suicide—right?
Listen; He hadn’t slept in close to a week and he was maybe slightly manic. And he had cloned himself.
or: Somehow numerous cloning attempts and an actual clone lead to Tim getting boyfriend. Yeah, he's not sure how he managed that either.
DAY 6: LAB RAT
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- Part 6 of whumptober 2023
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It was a cold day and a colder night. He’d been running around all morning, trying desperately to sell anything he had, since he hadn’t wanted to steal and he had sworn to himself never to return to the corner, to work with the girls.
But nobody had wanted to buy any of the scraps he had and now, here he was; on the Eve of the 24th of December, alone in an alley, shivering under a thin blanket, back against the frozen stone wall that had been warm with the heat of the oven indoors, hours earlier. Tonight, nobody was working, everyone was at home, celebrating with their families.
He palms for the lighter in his pocket that could offer him a bit of warmth.
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What could've been had Jason decided to be a little more morally upright.
A fairytale retelling of the little match girl.DAY 7: ALLEYWAY
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- Part 7 of whumptober 2023
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Called to the Devil and the Devil said quit by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Oct 2023
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He’d stopped dead in his tracks when he saw it. The glass pedestal that proudly displayed his old uniform, more red than black with yellow in between. His mouth fell open and his feet were glued to the floor. Tim was just another pillar for Batman’s guilt. A figure built up like his parents, any nuance erased until everything left behind was the good he’d seen. And obviously, instead of the love Bruce had found at the core of his devotion to his parents, he’d found something else entirely at the core of Tim.
His fingers brushed past the plaque: A Good Soldier. Internally, he was screaming, crying bloody murder. That was all he’d been to Bruce?
“Hood-“ came Jason’s hesitant voice from behind. Tim whirled around.
“You!“, his eyes focussed on Batman, standing at the very edge of the cave, almost like he wanted to escape. Tim took a few long, confident strides to cross the space until he stood a mere few feet away.
“What the fuck is this, Bruce?-“
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A Reverse Robin scenario, except Tim is just pissed at Bruce not Jason.DAY 8: I'VE GOT SOUL BUT I'M NOT A SOLDIER
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- Part 8 of whumptober 2023
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Don't you find it strange (Only thing we share is one last name) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
22 Oct 2023
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Jack,
This letter will be delivered should I no longer be alive to tell you this myself. It is with a heavy heart that I have to admit that Timothy is not yours. I had an affair with Bruce Wayne shortly before we became a couple and over the years it has become clear that despite my hopes, he is not yours by blood. It is my hope that you will continue-…
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Tim knocked on the heavy wooden entrance door and waited.
He was woefully unprepared for the butler that opened the door. He hadn’t even thought about what he was going to say, so he blurted out the first thing that came to mind; “Surprise, it’s a boy“ he made actual jazz hands… Honestly if the butler closed the door in his face, he would deserve it.
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Tim never becomes Robin but can't quite manage to keep away from vigilantes entirely. A shocking discovery means his sudden move-in with the Wayne's. Will he manage to keep his identity secret?
DAY 9/14/15/21/22
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- Part 9 of whumptober 2023
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You were never a saint (and I love in shades of wrong) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
10 Oct 2023
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Jason fucking Todd, storms the base on a one-man mission to free Tim and he’s feeling way too giddy for the situation he’s in.
His cell-door gets kicked in, and there he is, a gun in each hand, menacing and ruthless and splattered in blood.
Look—could it have something to do with Tim's latent abandonment issues? Sure. But he’d literally never seen anything hotter than a guy breaking into a villain’s base just to rescue Tim. Because he noticed, because he did something, because he sunk to his knees and carefully drooped his leather jacket over his shaking form, because he picked Tim up with so much fucking ease and carried him to safety- because, this was his soulmate.
or: Tim and Jason are soulmates, they make it work.
DAY 10: YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER LEAVE
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- Part 10 of whumptober 2023
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“Let me buy you a drink, sweetheart“ the man crooned and Shelby smiled timidly. She was stupid, probably more naive than she ought to be as a dancer, and so she didn’t catch the small pill Falcone had dropped into the rum-cherry coke.
(Tim did catch it, but he saw no way around it. He drank with trembling hands and nearly spit it all across Falcone’s fatty, bald head)
Desperately, he looked around, when he spotted him;
Jason was in the club, mingling with some of his goons and cooly overseeing the crowd.
Shelby (Tim, it was Tim) managed to twist in the lab of Falcone and made a signal with her manicured hand. Her nails are press on and long, a deep red in color and she signs like her life depends on it. In a way, it does. She knows Hood had seen her, was watching her, and behind her back she began to spell out her issue.
M-i-s-s-i-o-n / D-r-u-g / H-e-l-p / R-R
or: an undercover mission goes sideways and help comes from unexpected sources
DAY 11: DRUGGING
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- Part 11 of whumptober 2023
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Everybody’s waiting for you to break down (keep your eyes open) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
12 Oct 2023
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To be frank, Tim was exhausted. He was a teenager juggling the duties of a full-time CEO with those of a nighttime vigilante who-as opposed to Batman-actually tried to keep connections going, to have backup when the next world-ending mission was about to fail.
In short, his days needed to have about five more hours than they currently had. The only way to at least somewhat juggle all of those duties was through his sleep. Not that he really needed to try for that, since he’d been an insomniac since before he’d even touched a cape. He often went days without sleeping, running himself ragged to get everything in order. But now— peace.
Tim sank into his heavenly soft pillows and closed his eyes.
BRRB!
or: The core four know how to take care of their resident insomniac
DAY 12: I'M UP // INSOMNIA
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- Part 12 of whumptober 2023
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It would take three weeks until he was finally back in working condition, longer if Kon had had his way. It was one of the nastiest infections he’d ever had and at one point, Kon had panicked, looking up videos on how to attach him to a ventilator. Tim ended up doing it himself since Kon was way too anxious for it. He had to take even more antibiotics and lost nearly ten pounds, but he did recover, that was the important part. And it was nice to spend time with his best friend again, they hadn’t had time to catch up until now— not since Kon had returned from his not-death, at least.
(He tried not to think about the fact that his family hadn’t even known he was sick in the first place— they didn’t even know of the splenectomy. It was fine, he hadn’t told them, had he? And yet— Bruce knew most of everything about everyone, you’d think he’d notice Tim going to a public emergency room. Not even a card- nothing. It was fine, everything was fine.)
or: Tim catches pneumonia and deals.
DAY 13: INFECTION
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- Part 13 of whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of no surprises
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There was a knife sticking out of his best friends back and Tim’s eyes were rolling into his skull as he toppled over and fell to his knees. It was a gruesome sight and Bart let out a terrified shriek to his left.
Kon listened carefully and paled. There was no heartbeat. He started doing CPR, praying to any god or god-like entity that would listen, to save his friend, to not let this be the end, before he ever got the chance to confess to the crush he’d been harboring for Tim since they were children.
Nothing.
Tears began collecting in Kon’s eyes. His friend was dead, his best friend.
Tim woke up.
or: Tim forgot a few important details when he told his friends about his time abroad.
DAY 16: FLATLINE
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- Part 14 of whumptober 2023
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happiness hit him like a bullet in the back by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Oct 2023
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Studies have shown that touch is key to a healthy childhood. It stimulates the pathways for oxytocin, serotonin and dopamine, all important for the ability to build healthy relationships. Touch is important because it can counteract certain stress hormones like cortisol, strengthening the body and especially the immune system. (Tim was a sickly child, is a sickly adult). Touch deprivation in early childhood can lead to lower levels of growth hormones effectively stunting the child. (Janet and Jack Drake had been tall people, Tim is the smallest out of all his siblings)
Tim's parents were not affectionate people and by the time Tim had come into contact with the bats, he’d been well accustomed to his touch starvation, so much so that it had turned into somewhat of a touch aversion. (It was a real kindergarten-mentality; You don’t want to give me something? Well, I didn’t want it anyway)
Too bad Ivy reminds him of what he's missing out on.
or: Cuddle pollen fixes everything for a very grumpy Bat
DAY 17: TOUCH AVERSION
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- Part 15 of whumptober 2023
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It slowly dawned on Tim, that there was a secret third reason to capture one Timothy Drake-Wayne.
They hadn’t been as careful as they should’ve been apparently, and people had seen them together. Red Hood and him, that is. Apparently Jason had a snitch in his ranks who talked all too happily about the men that frequently entered Hood’s apartment. It would be his death-sentence, Tim was sure off it.
All of these men were part of the walking dead—he might not approve of Jason’s methods, but he could respect them and these guys would be shot before the night was over, no matter how much Tim might plead for their lives.
And he was really not feeling like pleading for them right now. The bruising was going to be a bitch to cover up and it would raise unwanted attention.
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Tim gets kidnapped and his boyfriend is not happy about it...
DAY 18: BLINDFOLD
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- Part 16 of whumptober 2023
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You are not a robot (you are lovable) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Oct 2023
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Technically speaking, Tim knew what was happening to him. He knew that it wasn’t actually real. That his skin wouldn’t peel off any second now, no matter how much it burned. He knew that the way he was feeling, the doom and the haziness were all side effects of the same common cause. He knew that his parents were busy people with busy lives and that they couldn’t be expected to be with him and hold his hand every step of the way. He even knew all the components that made him react in the way he did.
He had it all down to a science, knew how to deal with it all on his own, that everything was just in his head. But no matter how much logic he used and how often he told himself that nothing was actually happening to him, the tingling sensation on his skin didn’t stop and neither did the spiraling.
or: Tim gets hit with pollen and throws all caution to the wind
DAY 19: PSYCHOLOGICAL
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- Part 17 of whumptober 2023
- Part 1 of Not a Robot
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I'll meet you at five, my wings in the sky by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
20 Oct 2023
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It had been over something stupid, some small thing Annabeth had said, he didn’t even remember what anymore, but he’d stopped the car, had gotten out and just— let go.
He’d caused an earthquake so severe all his mom’s cups, over a hundred miles away, had toppled out of the cupboard.
A storm had started brewing so quickly, no one had been able to prepare for it, and it overtook the entire east-coast in minutes.
or: Percy has started cracking around the edges and one day, he breaks free
DAY 20: PEOPLE DON'T CHANGE PEOPLE, TIME DOES
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- Part 10 of Percy Jackson Events
- Part 18 of whumptober 2023
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“Only relatives are permitted to enter the temple for injured soldiers“
“We are his family!“ Bruce protested from beside him. The guard looked him up and down and gestured for Bruce to follow him, but as soon as Bruce tried, he was pushed back.
“Family has to be blood-related, or officially recognized on your home planet. Are you officially recognized as family?“
That was when it hit Tim. Shit! Jason had never gotten the paperwork done to come back to live in any official capacity, so all his legal bonds were null and void.
“B’ Jason isn’t part of the family…not anymore“
Finally, it seemed Bruce understood the problem. He paled significantly and looked around as if they could somehow fix this, millions of miles away from earth.
“Look, we’re his team. Could you make an exception, just this once? We only have to get our teammate out, we wouldn’t stay for long.“
He was exhausted and he was starting to panic. Jason might die again because of some stupid paperwork. Desperately he tried to find any other kind of loophole.“You said officially related? Does marriage count?“
or: Jason and Tim are married...they just forgot to tell the others
DAY 21: VOWS
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- Part 19 of whumptober 2023
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“-tt-“ Tim wasn’t ashamed to admit he jumped nearly a foot in the air at the sound. Paling rapidly he turned around, fingering for the pepper spray he had in his pocket. It wouldn’t do much in the rain but his accoster might not know that.
Except, instead of some big meanie Robin stood in front of him, hood pulled over his head but the unmistakable R gleaming on his chest.
“Uh“ he said dumbly.
or: Robin catches a little bird out in the rain
DAY 23: STALKING
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- Part 20 of whumptober 2023
- Part 2 of Not a Robot