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Year by Year Timeline of Events:
11 – 9: Bruce’s ‘Origin’
-Martha & Thomas Wayne are murdered orphaning Bruce
12 – 10: Edward’s ‘Origin’
-Edward Pennyworth’s parents die in an accident
-He moves in with Bruce Wayne & his Uncle Alfred Pennyworth
16 – 14:
-Edward Pennyworth comes out as trans and choses the name Edward
17 – 15:
-Edward Pennyworth begins to date his classmate, Drury Walker
20 – 18: Batman Year One
-Bruce Wayne becomes Batman, though Edward Pennyworth is stuck in the Batcave
-Bruce Wayne befriends Harvey Dent, soon becoming firm friends
-Edward Pennyworth and Harley Quin meet at a trans support group and become friends
-Edward Pennyworth breaks up with Drury Walker
21 – 19: Year Two
-They Take in Dick as Robin, Dick is 13-years-old
-Firefly debus, though Garfield Lynns had previously been arrested for Arson
-Killer Moth debus, Drury Walker was inspired and then warped himself away from Batman partly due to his ex
-Edward Pennyworth manages to convince Bruce Wayne to let Bat out onto the streets
-Joker Debus
22 – 20: Year Three
-Bruce Wayne goes on a date with Selina Kyle
-Catwoman debus
-Harvey Dent & Gilda Gold have their daughter, Duela Dent
-Bruce Wayne gives Edward Pennyworth his role within Wayne Enterprises
23 – 21: Year Four
-Riddler Debus [Never made his identity a secret]
-Harv has an affair that leads to Tamsin being born – he is not aware of this
-Jim Gordon [reluctantly] begins working with Batman & Bat
-Bruce Wayne finds out Selina Kyle is Catwoman
24 – 22: Year Five
-Jonthan Crane gets his Doctorate
-Bat manages to get the Riddler to Arkham for the first time
-Edward Pennyworth befriends both Dr Chloe Ravver & Dr William Jones
-Dr Robert Kirkland turns himself into Man Bat
25 – 23: Year Six
-Mad Hatter Debus
-Mad Hatter is arrested & befriends Riddler in Arkham
-Gilda Gold & Alberto Falcone have their daughter, Lola Falcone
Carmine finds out, causing Gilda & Duela to leave Gotham, Carmine keeps Lola.
-Edward Pennyworth has his son, Ichabod Pennyworth
-Bat breaks his shoulder blade, gets hooked on Opioids
Takes the rest of the year off to recover
26 – 24: Year Seven
-Harvey Dent becomes the youngest District Attorney at 26
-Within the same year Harvey Dent has his accident and becomes Two-Face
-Bruce Wayne tells Selina Kyle he’s Batman
-Dr Quinzel is controlled by Joker and breaks him out of Arkham and also becomes the rogue Harley Quinn.
27 – 25: Year Eight
-They take Jason Todd in as Robin, Jason is 15-years-old
-Johnathan Crane & Edward Pennyworth first meet
-The Hound debus
-Basil Karlo turns into Clay Face
28 – 26: Year Nine
-Edward Pennyworth & Johnathan Crane become friends
-Two-Face becomes Gotham’s 2nd biggest Crime Lord on his 2nd Anniversary
-Bruce Wayne spends most of this year as a recluse from high society
Leaving Edward to try and fill in for him
-Damian Wayne is born to Talia Head, though she does not reach out to tell Bruce
29 – 27: Year Ten
-Harv finds out about his daughter Tamsin Dent and begins to take care of her
-Johnathan Crane gets his job with Arkham Asylum
He starts experimenting on prisoners
-The Hound is arrested & revealed as Edward Smith
-Dr Pamela Isley mutates into Poison Ivy and makes it Gotham’s problem
30 – 28: Year Eleven
-Technically the 10th anniversary of the pair acting as Gotham’s vigilantes
-Edward Pennyworth starts taking ‘drugs’ with Johnathan Crane [Mainly forms of fear toxin]
-Two-Face ‘kidnaps’ Bruce Wayne to celebrate their 30th birthdays together
Bat doesn’t bother saving him after realising the criminal means no real harm
31 – 29: Year Twelve
-Scarecrow Debus
-Catwoman becomes a ‘connection’ to the Bat family
-The Company begins to form ‘underground’
32 – 30: Year Thirteen
-Scarecrow befriends Riddler & Mad Hatter
-Barbara Gordon offers Batman her help, she’s 19-years-old
- Bat gets hit with the Man Bat serum and causes chaos for a few weeks before he’s ‘cured’
-The Hound finally escapes Arkham
33 – 31: Year Fourteen
-Jason Todd dies at age 21
-Jason Todd is resurrected and returns as the Red Hood
-Oswald Cobblepot discovers Jason Todd is his son
This is not known by anyone other than the pair
-The Company makes itself known to the rest of Gotham
34 – 32: Year Fifteen
-Scarecrow tells Mad Hatter his own Identity
-Judge forms and breaks front, starting a few months reign of terror against the criminal underworld
-Tim Drake is taken in as the next Robin, he’s 16-years-old
-Killer Croc / Waylon Jones ends up in Gotham
35 – 33: Year Sixteen
-Bat manages to convince Red Hood to return to being a vigilante rather than a full criminal
Truly solidifies their bond, he also tells Ed who his father is but swears him to secrecy
-The Riddler & Scarecrow begin to date
-Stephanie Brown becomes Spoiler to take down her father, Cluemaster
-Bat befriends Waylon Jones, knowing how misunderstood the other is
36 – 34: Year Seventeen
-Stephanie Brown is taken in by the Bat family, she’s 20-years-old
-Serotine first appears though not with Fear Toxin yet
-Oswald Cobblepot ‘reforms’ though the Iceberg still acts as sanctuary to criminals
-The Riddler gains his number 2 / hench woman Miss Tuesday
37- 35: Year Eighteen
-Waylon Jones is briefly held in Arkham for the first time at the start of the year, he doesn’t remain in there long
-Johnathan Crane realises he’s firmly in love with Edward Pennyworth
-Edward Nygma finds out the Scarecrow’s real identity
-Cassandra Cain turns up as Black Bat and is instantly taken in / she decides this is her family now, she’s 22 at this point
38 – 36: Year Nineteen
-Main year of Bat’s lore
-Scarecrow is arrested and sent to Arkham [albeit briefly] and is revealed as Johnathan Crane
-In the midst of everything going on after Betrayal runs deeper but before first Tea party, Bat reveals himself as Edward Pennyworth to Waylon Jones
All events from Betrayal runs deeper to One of these Edwards
-Oswald Cobblepot finds out about his daughter Winnie and takes her in and under his wing
39 – 37: Year Twenty Technically future
-Edward & Edward technically get together
-Edward Pennyworth and Jonathan Crane take in the disabled crow Jordan
-Jonathan stops being in denial about the fact he has DID
-Alfred Pennyworth is attacked and turned into an emotional vampire
He does not tell his family yet
-Jason tells his whole family who his father is
-For Edward Pennyworth’s birthday Waylon Jones asks if the other can adopt him because he’s seen the other as a father figure to him and knows the other sees him like his kid.
40 – 38: Year Twenty-One
-Near the start of the Year Edward Nygma has a complete break-down, the Riddler goes underground for a good few months while he recovers
-Roman Sionis is killed
-Waylon Pennyworth-Jones gets to meet the rest of the Bat family
-Edward Pennyworth finally gets Top Surgery
-Edward Nygma is sent to Arkham
He will remain there for the next 8 months, seeping into Year 22
-12-year-old Damian Wayne meets and comes to live with his father
Talia apologises about not telling him sooner
41 – 39: Year Twenty-Two
-Secondary ‘main’ year of Bat’s lore
-Bruce Wayne & Harvey Dent become a couple it gets outed to the rest of the family pretty fast
-Scarebeast & Monstera emerge / happen
-Edward Nygma is released from Arkham
-Talia also moves to Gotham, her & Selina Kyle become the bat family mumstm
-Edward Pennyworth takes in Lola Falcone
-Edward Pennyworth has begun to lightly flirt with Oswald Cobblepot
42 – 40: Year Twenty-Three
-Edward Pennyworth & Johnathan Crane get matching ‘marriage’ tattoos symbolising the other
-The Edward + Rogues ‘Family’ Trip to England
-Edward Pennyworth discovers incredibly heightened emotions cause him to turn back into his ‘manbat’ form
-Harv & Apollo become a couple
-Mr Freeze retires from being a rogue as he’s close to curing Nora
-Edward Pennyworth fights for and eventually legally adopts Lola Falcone
43 – 41: Year Twenty-Four
-Lola Falcone gets her Service Dog Melon
-Gilda Gold and her Daughter Duela Dent come to Gotham due to the very public story covering Edward Pennyworth’s adoption of Lola Falcone
-Nora Fries is cured and taken out of stasis
-Jim Gordon steps down as Commissioner, he claims a very eye-opening family dinner for the reason
-Johnathan Crane and Edward Pennyworth get legally married
[On the Fifth anniversary of Johnathan being arrested to ‘be funny’]
-Edward Pennyworth gets his Service Dog Peppercorn
-Duela Dent becomes Red Hood’s Sidekick, much to her family’s requests not to.
44 – 42: Year Twenty-Five
-Lola Falcone is wrongfully arrested from a peaceful protest
-Edward Pennyworth has begun to work on the long process of setting up his own trust and alternative to Arkham.
-It becomes publicly known that Edward Pennyworth is the Bat
[Shared the fact to squash rumours after the wedding and because he’s comfortable with it]
-Edward Pennyworth starts to actually Date Oswald
-Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent become the parents of a pair of fraternal twins [Surrogated by Selina Kyle]
-The Justice League first turn up to Gotham, it’s a rather hostile first greeting.
-Green Arrow shares his identity with Batman, in return Bruce Wayne does likewise.
45 – 43: Year Twenty-Six [Secondary Designs needed]
-The Justice League comes to the agreement that Gotham is off limits / up to the Gotham vigilantes’ digression
It’s worth the further power / aid they can provide them
-Johnathan Crane ends up disabled after an attack ordered by Lex Luthor
-Lex Luthor creates a ‘child’ between Johnathan and Edward for future ‘use’
-Wayne Enterprises publicly declares they will never work with Lexcorp again
-Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent get married
-Jon has to have his worse damaged leg amputated
46 – 44: Year Twenty-Seven
-Bat & Scarecrow’s daughter is rescued and brought to Gotham by Superman
Superman also shares his identity with them due to this situation
-Selina Kyle and Talia Head have a child
-Johnathan Crane starts doing actual psychology again
Though is not trusted alone in a room with a patient, he respects this fact.
-Edward Pennyworth-Crane, Jonathan Crane and Edward Nygma all have a joint ‘mock’ wedding even if it can’t be legally binding.
Story Timeline:
While most will be uploaded to this doc in Order, there are a few bonus or side parts that will be uploaded separately, consider this also a sneak peak for all current entries
‘Origin’: Just a Pair of children -10 years old
+ 4 years
It’s Edward actually -14 years old
+ 1 year
Interested in me? -15 years old
+3 years
Year 1:
You want to dress up as what?
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Birthday Buddies
Year 2:
Broken wings shall fly again
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Year 3:
Congrats you’re employed
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Year 4:
Not my fault they’re fun
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Year 5:
A Pen and a Block in one name
+ couple months later
And our first Caller is…
Year 6:
Our New Birdie
+
Out with a Bang
+
The Papers
Year 7:
The ‘Cats’ out of the Bag
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Year 8:
Yeah, we’re keeping this one
+ couple weeks
I’m a bad babysitter
+ 5 months?
The Study
+3 months
‘First’ Meeting
+2 months
The Dog
+1 week
Year 9:
Can it be friendship, maybe?
+
A fall from Grace and a Rise to Power
+
A Usual Night
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Year 10:
Confessions
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Relax, please
Year 11:
Technically Kidnapped
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Year 12:
Scared of Crows <- Has it’s own Upload
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Mixed Feelings
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Year 13:
Fear Toxin
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Pride
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Year 14:
Blood Lines starts a few months Post ‘please not our son’
Please, not our son
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Year 15:
Power Couple
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Year 16:
Does this change who I am?
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An abandoned performer
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Year 17:
People Watching
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Twos of an Evening
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Baby it’s cold outside
Just before Bat’s birthday 3rd-6th December roughly
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Year 18:
I’m so sorry
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Year 19:
Includes the Jason & Ichabod Files
Betrayal runs deeper when you’re both lying
+1 week
I almost fear myself the most
+2 weeks
My name’s Edward
+1 week
Broken
+4 weeks
Lone Star
+9 weeks
First Tea Party
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Late Night for too many thoughts
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Let’s have that talk shall we
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Forgive me
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One of these Edwards needs to fuck off
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Year 20:
Date Night
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It’s cold here
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Movie Night
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Is this a thing now
+Next Day
I need to get this off my Chest
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One Last Lie
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Winged Daughter
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Year 21:
Breaking Point
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Things feel bad, that’s alright
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It's 3:30am
Year 22: Secondary Canon Year
Now it’s out There
Truth Poison
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I Don’t Want Us to Stay Angry
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Ritual Combat
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The Incident, The Beasts
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Stop Feeling Guilty
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Why’d you even keep that button
Year 23:
Been Thinking
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A permanent symbol
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Well it’s Christmas
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Year 24:
Too Good a Service Dog
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The Definition of I love you
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Not a cure all
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Year 25:
Do Something about it
Year 26:
Damaged
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Content Silence