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1. The Rumor of a Ghost by UnsweetenedTea

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   29 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Tim Drake & Jason Todd
   • Jason Todd
   • Tim Drake (DCU)
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Bad Parent Bruce Wayne
   • Like really bad y'all
   • Tim Drake-centric (DCU)
   • Jason isn't really in this
   • But oh boy does Jason HAUNT the narrative
   • No Major Character Death
   • Just presumed major character death
   • Jason Todd is Red Hood
   • Tim Drake is Robin (DCU)
   • Tim Drake is Red Hood (DCU)
   • Tim Drake is a secret third thing
   • He's lot of things but mentally well sure isn't one of them
   • Tim Drake Has a Bad Time (DCU)
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
   • Mentions of Suicide
   • (but I'll tag that in specific chapters as it comes up)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • The comfort is just crammed into the very beginning and end of the fic
   • Angst
   • With a slight sprinkling of
   • Fluff
   • Mentioned Kon-El | Conner Kent
   • Mentioned Cassie Sandsmark
   • Mentioned Bart Allen
   • Timeline What Timeline
   • Physical Abuse
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • The tags make it seem worse than it is
   • Various OCs - Freeform
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Mentioned Alfred Pennyworth
   • Happy Ending
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Mental Health Issues

   Summary

   Tim had patched up Jason after Bruce slit his throat with a Batarang.

   Jason had offered Tim a place to stay after his sixteenth birthday.

   They were brothers in a world that had left them behind. They were brothers in a world that had been cruelly unfair time and time. They were brothers in a world that hadn’t given much else.

   So when Bruce nearly beat Jason to death, uncaring that his son had only shot Penguin with a blank? Tim did what he had to do.

   (Or

   How Tim became Red Hood.

   )

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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