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Tim is always late or missing something with his boyfriend because of his busy life. He wants to make it up to him, but doesn't know how.
His boyfriend just has to hate him, right?
Or: 5 times Tim misses/is late to something with Bernard and 1 time he's on time
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you've always been home to me, always home by nike_the_joyless
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Robin (Comics), Superboy (Comics)
07 Feb 2026
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Bernard Dowd's life is going pretty well. He's twenty-six, has a stable career, two incredible partners, and plenty of time for his hobbies. So, obviously, when things are going that good what better time is there to have a baby?
One heat and almost a week of mind-blowing sex later, he's excited to enter a brand new chapter of his life. All he has to do to survive nine months of pregnancy and all its related hurdles. Pretty straightforward, right?
Except... the baby is a kryptonian hybrid. Which, turns out, might complicates things.
Oh, and all of a sudden, his parents are trying to reconnect.
Also, did he mention that his partners are superheroes? And so are their entire families? No?
Okay, so maybe things aren't going to be as straightforward as he hoped.
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- Part 3 of tmbrkn omegaverse
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Wayne Family Christmas by Silver_Inspiration
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
25 Dec 2025
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Various extended Wayne family members gather for a Christmas family portrait.
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He spends another twenty minutes staring at his phone before he musters up the courage to call Darla.It rings for several minutes. For a moment Bernard thinks he’s gonna get kicked to voicemail, which is exactly the kind of anticlimactic bullshit the universe would drop on him for being anxious about this.
The phone picks up, a quiet out-of-breath noise in his ear.
“Hey, dumbass,” Darla’s voice says. “You okay? Tim thinks you’ve been kidnapped.”
It’s her voice. It’s young and smooth and tripping over the corners of words in the ways a gangly teenager does, and how did she ever sound this young?
“Bernard?” Darla says, worried.
Bernard hangs up.
Post-Cult-of-Dionysus Bernard gets stuck in a time loop of the day Darla Aquista dies, which sucks just, royal balls.
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You always said how you love dogs (I sit at the top of the driveway) by JanthonyTheWombat
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
17 Nov 2025
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Bernard has known pain his entire life. From the pain in his stomach when his parents sent him to bed without dinner, to the sharp pain of his mother’s perfectly manicured nails digging into his skin, to his father’s belt against his back, it had always been there. Perhaps, that was what drew him to the Children of Dionysus. Until…
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“Tim?”
(Guys, don’t be put off, it’s like 80% fluff, it sounds a LOT worse than it actually is)
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This meant one of two things.
One, he’d be asked something ridiculously detailed and have to spend the next several hours humoring the one bat child that couldn’t just accept the surface level for an answer. Or two...
He’d be hiking his ass to the demon's armpit that is Gotham City.
“This had better be good kid,” he sighs.
And he admits, it is pretty good.
“What do I do about the Dionysian cannibal locked in my bedroom?”
Constantine freezes, and then can’t help but laugh.
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Tim liked exploring the Manor, learning all the secrets and it wasn't like he had a lot to do when stuck at home alone. He just never expected to find what he did. It had to be a joke, right? They were just a story.
And then his parents died and everything changed. Tim looked up to Batman and Robin, they were good for the city. He didn't want to be part of something that they would hate. But what choice did he have?
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My Love, Eternally by Scififan33
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU
15 May 2025
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Tim Drake and Bernard Dowd started dating after Red Robin saved Bernard from a certain cult. They both had secrets they were scared to share. But all secrets eventually come out. Can they survive theirs?
(Completely unconnected to the other fics)
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To Witness A Nightmare by littlepikmins
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
23 Mar 2025
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Sometimes, a stranger's death can hit far too close to home.
(Please mind the tags before you read! This fic contains death, homophobia, child abuse and a hate crime)
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Always, Everytime by littlepikmins
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Gotham Knights (Video Game 2022)
02 Mar 2025
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"Sometimes Tim was so tempted to abandon the cover up story that he was studying abroad so he could see Bernard in person as Tim Drake and not Robin. The closest he could get currently was online video calls."
Three times Tim runs into his boyfriend as Robin (Specifically takes place in the Gotham Knights video game universe)
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Bernard was just trying to have a normal dinner with his family but it goes horribly wrong. Now his parents must face reality.
Poor Tim.
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All the outfits were terrible, 2003 unbearable by TBH_Koi
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
08 Sep 2024
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Something was different about Bernard, something had happened and Tim couldn’t figure it out. Hell it was Junior year of high school anything could have happened. Bernard however didn’t expect to have his gay awakening after some stupid math test… the spiral into realizing he wanted his very straight best friend with his abusive parents hanging over his head really was something to be terrified of.
Basically; Bernard realizes he’s very queer for Tim. Only to have everything ripped from him- (depressive episode Bernard real?!?!?)
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Sometimes, his job just felt too easy. No evidence left behind, no witnesses, no motive. Just one body left behind in the old mansion. A perfect murder.
Bernard perched outside the mansion on a weathered bench, cloaked in the embrace of long shadows. The streetlamps along this desolate road were out of order, casting the area into darkness. Even the moonlight struggled to break through the thick canopy of towering trees. It was the perfect spot for his flawless plan.
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Bernard is a detective, but he kills people. Tim is also a detective and tries to solve a series of unsolvable murder cases.
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Ephemeral Walls: A Cartography of Cracks by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics)
23 May 2024
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(Just call this Ephemeral Cracks guys, I understand the title is long buts pretty yehhh)
Bernard and Tim love each other, but love has never been a saving grace.
Or, Bernard goes through it because he's my favorite and I love him. Actually they all go through it.
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- Part 1 of Timber AU's
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The Business Card by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
13 Apr 2024
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When you're under the Red Hood's protection, he gives you a personalised business card. The number on the card goes straight to Hood, or one of his more trusted goons.
Bernard Dowd's abductors do not know about The Red Hood Business Card. It doesn't work out well for them.
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- Part 5 of Networking
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What We Teach Ourselves by Peppermint_Magician_Lynn
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics)
08 Apr 2024
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Bernard Dowd had never been loved.
But that doesn't mean he didn't learn what it is.
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Coffee Conversation by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
31 Mar 2024
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Bernard isn't expecting the Red freaking Hood to turn up on his doorstep with pastries, but that's what happens.
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“Kid, seriously, you shouldn’t let me into your house. You shouldn’t accept food from me. I’m bad fucking news. You’ll get eaten alive if you keep being this trusting.”
Bernard spoke around a mouthful of pastry. “Are these poisoned?”
“What? No!”
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- Part 3 of Networking
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The boy's no good. The boy is just no good. by terrytheboxwithlimbs
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
11 Apr 2023
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"Bernard Dowd is sixteen years old when he realizes that he is completely and utterly fucked. He’s fallen head over heels for Tim Drake, and he wants to touch his hands and lips and this means his life is over anyway. He’s in the tenth grade, he knows these things. And, even more, he knows that he deserves everything that is coming to him, because a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what Bernard didn’t do, because he is weak and hollow and it doesn’t matter anymore. His relationship with his parents is already destroyed beyond repair, there’s nothing he can do to make it any worse - or at least he thought, now he’s not so sure."
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Bernard Dowd's relationship with his parents, a character study.
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Bernard Dowd and the Pursuit of Happiness by Paintedqueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
28 Mar 2023
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Sometimes Bernard felt like he was made wrong.
He had never been like everyone else. He didn’t seem to move the others did, didn’t think the same way either. His attempts at normal all ended up being a tragic emulation that ended with him being exhausted by the end of it. No, Bernard didn’t feel like he was made wrong, he knew it. That there was something intrinsically wrong with him, like it was woven into his very being.
The worst part was that others seemed to see that wrongness too.
or, 5 times Bernard was unhappy and 1 time he was
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To Star City and What Tim Found There by MammalSharks
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
15 Feb 2023
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Bernard suddenly suggests he and Tim go on a road trip. Against his better judgement, Tim accepts.
What secrets will the two learn about each other on the way?