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Tim Drake puts together a very realistic Robin costume for Halloween and gets mistaken for the real deal.

When stopping a bank robbery becomes unexpectedly complicated, Dick and Jason find themselves in the past with a very drunk, very concerning, very teenage Bruce Wayne.

The recurrent pattern of coming and going, decline and regrowth, of Bruce Wayne.

At the end of the Third Age, Maglor finds his way to Rivendell, and must decide whether or not to sail West with Elrond.

Percy Jackson survives Mount St. Helens—only to wake up in Gotham. Injured, exhausted, and completely out of his element, he has one goal: get home. Between criminal empires, lurking monsters, and one very persistent Bat, that’s easier said than done.OR: Olympus meets Gotham. Percy just wants to leave, but the city—and its vigilantes—aren’t so keen on letting him go.

Currently a series of semi-connected scenes within a world where Bruce encountered Stephanie as Spoiler before Tim decided that if no one else was going to be Robin, then he had to. Tim and Steph found each other anyway.

Steph doesn't tell anybody that her mom died. Everyone's always bitching and moaning about cleaning up her messes, so Steph handles this one all on her own.No problem.

Dick is supposed to be on a boring stakeout assignment. Jason complicates that.

Percy was at least happy that this wasn't a prophecy. Stealing back some demigod weapons from a mortal? Sure, Iron Man was a superhero and a genius, but after dealing with Gaea, that was nothing. They just had to steer clear of anyone who might recognize them, and they were positive that they could pull it off easier than most of their quests. And potentially land Leo a job, while they're at it. But Percy should have known better. Nothing is ever that simple for a demigod.

Batman's tell-all memoir is about to publish. Normally, Bruce wouldn't care about the 100th Batman parody to hit the shelves. But when he gets his hands on an early sample, he finds this memoir contains a troubling amount of truth about him and his family.Bruce can't let this stand. As he knows better than most, the only way to squash a scandal is to create an even bigger scandal. Dominate the news circuit. Take up all the publisher's publicity resources. Sure, he has never written a book before, but how hard can it really be?Well, as Clark tells him, those are some famous last words, Bruce.

Working as a street fighter in the Iceberg lounge, Jason manages to attract all the wrong sort of attention.

There’s something wrong with Dick.Tim thought everything was getting back to normal. Bruce was alive and back in their timeline, the Birds of Prey were once again operating out of Gotham, Dick had the city well under control as Batman and even Damian had been less obnoxious than usual.And then during a firefight at a warehouse by the docks, Tim was almost hit by a flying boomerang. And Dick never noticed.When something is wrong with your big brother, who else do you turn to but your big sisters?

Jason is just trying to survive on the streets of Gotham--made slightly more difficult by the fact that some gang has apparently decided to make him their most wanted person. Until he befriends a kid-who-definitely-isn't-Robin, who promises to help him reunite with his dad. And, well, Jason's not in the habit of accepting favors. But maybe it would be worth it, just this once.Featuring ghosts or zombies or hallucinations, misunderstandings (both unintentional and entirely intentional), lots of identity shenanigans, and some discussion of dads.

When an adult Jason Todd is thrown into the past, he must balance raising his childhood self with reinventing his vigilante personae, all without revealing his knowledge of the future...A task made infinitely more difficult when he starts changing things in the past and attracts the attention of a young Batman and Robin.

The war ends. Kronos falls.Percy is tired. He's tired of being the leader, the hero, the general, the prophesied. He's tired of fate. He's tired of the Gods.Good thing the Gods can't reach Gotham.

One week of feverish research. Two days of furious tracking. Thirty minutes of hopeless fighting.It is all coming to this, a deal Tim has no choice but to accept.“I’ll release your family in exchange for all their memories of you,” Klarion the Witch Boy says.“I’ll do it,” Tim says loudly before he can second-guess himself. His fingers tighten around his last birdarang, but he does not throw it. Instead, he stands stock still, forcing himself to keep breathing, keep standing, despite the bone-deep exhaustion weighing his body down.After all, Gotham needs Batman much more than it needs Robin.

In which Jason Todd meets Tim Drake, who is inexplicably Dick Grayson's #1 Fan, and decides the only reasonable course of action is to plot to get the two of them to meet and see what happens. It definitely won't have a major impact on his life or anything.

Kon gets erased from reality, and Tim keeps trying to figure out why there are so many weird gaps in his life.

Tim takes a couple of months off in order to catch up on two and a half years of school all in one go - and graduates high school. He knows he deserves a celebration.He just didn't expect his whole family to show.

Tim is doing great being an independent vigilante, he's fine! He doesn't need help, he's definitely not estranged from the family -- he's just being independent.Good thing he's part of a family of detectives who have their own ways of reaching out.Featuring two powerpoints, one casefile, half a contract, a roomba, and several hugs.

In a family made of up people unused to having such a big family, sometimes you get lost in the noise. And Tim has always been taught to be the child that was seen, not heard.

Bruce is missing - as Bruce Wayne - and somewhere in Metropolis. Tim knows Bruce said to tell Clark Kent in case something like this happens, but why would you go to Clark Kent for help when Lois Lane is right there?

When Talia and Cheshire start a civil war against Ra's, they send Damian and Lian to safety with the one bodyguard they can trust: Jason Todd. Jason and his charges set up house in a small New Zealand town, and try to figure out civilian life together. They find more of a home -- and a family -- than they ever expected. Jason just can't let himself forget that this is temporary.

After his confrontation with Batman leaves Red Hood bleeding out on a warehouse floor, Jason Todd wakes up back in his teenage body and still trapped in his casket.When every death leads back to the same starting point, Jason stumbles through attempt after attempt to get things right. But he's not giving up until he's fixed things.