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Name: Paint/Paintball Pronouns:She/Her

Masterlist

I've been meaning to make one, and I finally had the motivation today.

Last Updated - [23-11-2024]

All of my fics are posted only on ao3, and I'm only including the fics that are currenltly ongoing/completed. There are several fics that I've written, but I'm going to rewrite them someday. And until that say comes, they won't be on this list jsksjks.

Oneshots will be on top of every section.

Pre Robin Tim makes a TikTok account documenting his night photography adventures and Bruce, for the life of him, cannot figure out who’s following them. If there is one thing Tim learned from his parents it’s how to do things right, and how can he do things right if Bruce figures out who he is and makes him stop,

On one hand, there’s these really nice moments being captured, on the other hand, they *cannot* spot Tim in the wild. It’s driving Bruce crazy, much to the enjoyment of his two sons ( who have definitely run into Tim at least a few Times and have said jack and shit to Bruce about it).

Btw, Jason just found out their neighbors have a kid that goes to school with him. He’s gonna hang out for no other reason than the kid looks like he needs friends.

Damian: Why did Richard quit being Robin and move out?

Jason: He- wait, why did you?

Dick: Joker shot me in the shoulder.

Tim, scoffing: You wouldn't quit because of that, c'mon tell us the actual reason.

Dick: How would you kn- Oh yeah, your stalker years.

Tim: I wasn't a stalker

Dick: Keep telling yourself that.

Damian: Richard stop deflecting the question.

Dick:

Jason: Dick

Dick, sighing: Bruce got really upset and didn't want me getting hurt as Robin.

Tim: You wouldn't listen to that without a fight so do tell what else did he do to make you quit?

Damian, catching on: Did Father fire you?

Dick: He did it to keep me safe.

Tim: If he fired you, did he kick you out too?

Dick: I guess...

Damian: Richard was 17 at the time, was he not?

Jason: Roy mentioned you staying at his place once. Did Bruce not give you a place to stay?

Dick, getting increasingly nervous: I only spent a few nights, and I could make money perfectly fine.

Tim, growing pale: B didn't help you?

Dick: Don't worry, I don't think he'd do that to any of you.

Damian, appalled: I'm his blood son but what difference is there between you and Drake?

Dick: Well, I was going to age out in a couple months anyway.

Jason: Age out?

Tim, dread filling him: The articles only referred to him as B's ward.

Jason: Why are you mentioning that now, there's some more important things to be thinking about!

Damian: ...Was Richard not adopted?

Dick: I'm still here, y'know.

Damian: Apologies, but I require a proper response. Were you adopted?

Dick: I am now.

Everyone:

Jason: I'm murdering Bruce.

Tim, grinning: I have some alternatives in mind

Jason: Oh?

Damian: I shall sharpen my blades in preparation.

Dick, exasperated: stop, please.

Listen: Jason died, which means that Tim can legally do this for him too. Tim and Babs can also use the express adoption bit on Damian and argue that B would want then to help a child in dangerous circumstances to be safe.

What's B going to do, call them out on the legality of a maneuver that He taught Them how to perform? If he does this, it'll come back to bite him so hard.

Tim is also of an age that a court wouldn't contest it if he liberated himself. Thus:

B *trying not to facepalm on patrol*: Hrnng. (Translation: you boys are being too loud on patrol.)

J/ RH: *snort* (Translation: Try and stop us, Old Man!)

B *double mic click in ear* (Translation: we are not doing this!)

D/ NW: Red! Bats is being mean again!

B: grrrgh! (Translation: grounded!)

T/ RR: You don't get to ground my sons!

B: *sad Batblob noises*

D/ R: Tt.

B: 👿

T/ RR: Nope, not him either. Best you can do is ground Alfred, but I suspect you have enough brain cells not to do that!

B *plans to go bully Hal until he feels better*

Batfamily reunion, kinda ?

Not my idea: https://x.com/tocartss/status/1897135638438404416?s=46&t=zkCvxQnVoZvDMu4v7483qg

why is this so sad for no reason

Talia: *attempting to calm a newly conscious Jason Todd* I am sure this must come as a shock to you, child, but it’s been three years since- Jason: *jolting up in bed, scaring the shit out of five watching assassins* FUCK, MY FICS HAVE GONE UN-UPDATED FOR THREE YEARS? Talia: Jason: I PROMISED MY SUBSCRIBERS— Ra’s: *leaning over to Talia* what is a . . “Fic”? Talia: *shrugs*

The tags on this! Of course my baby boy is out here writing Jane Austen fics. He's probably on Derbyshire Writers Guild. I've probably read his fics.

Tim had a book report to do but he needed to get invested in the characters or he wouldn't be able to focus on the book and books usually do that very slowly but fanfics don't because they assume you already know the character and have your opinions so the obvious solution is to go read a fanfic first and then read the book.

He read a couple, then he found Jason's. He only realized it was Jason's after he died though ):

3 years later, THE FIC WAS UPDATED.

The tags there said what happened already :)

Bro the COMMENTS

AO3 curse headcanon done

Now I'm tempted to write one myself 😂

Tim Drake is the cover up Batgirl.

He is not even a girl.

It all started when Cass was batgirl and she got really sick, like, bound to bed sick, and she asked Tim to cover her case. But to do that he NEEDS to be Batgirl, so he and Babs decided that he kinda looked feminine enough to pass as a new batgirl (or even Cass herself) and rolled with it.

Then it started becoming more random “Hey I don’t want to patrol tonight cover for me” “Hey I’m currently on the republic of Congo lol cover for me” “Tim I’m watching the best series in this fucking world cover for me” than actual emergencies.

Obviously Bruce confused Tim with Cass all those times and Tim used the excuse of his parents visiting to skip patrol so Bruce never found out about Tim’s escapades as Batgirl.

So when Bruce was lost in the time stream, he didn’t have the Robin mantle to fall back anymore AND Cass wasn’t Batgirl anymore; he just grabbed his old Batgirl costume and did the whole Brucequest making everyone believe he was a girl. Ra’s thought he transitioned so he told the assassin trio to user female pronouns with him.

It would make the scene with Steph so much funnier like he coming back from his trip as batgirl only to find out THERE WAS ALREADY A BATGIRL AND IT WAS HIS EX GIRLFRIEND????

Tim: No???? Take it off, IM batgirl.

Steph: No you’re not??? Babs made ME batgirl. YOU ARE NOT EVEN A GIRL

Tim: So??? I was batgirl before you

Steph: What????

Babs: girls, girls, you can both be batgirl stop fighting.

They both operate as Batgirl until Steph goes back to being Spoiler and Tim keeps being Batgirl.

Had a dream where a villain somehow kidnapped all five Robins and broadcast like a game show where people could call in & vote for their favourite Robin/least favourite Robin & the Robin with the least points would be killed on live TV (like an in world version of fans voting to kill Jason but for all the Robins) and they have to sit there beaten & tied up watching the results come in while Batman & the others separately try to find them in time.

And "just for fun" the villain made the Robins vote as well & then mocks/shames them for their votes. He told them the Robin with the most votes would get to live. Dick & Damien voted for each other, Steph voted Tim, & Tim & Jason voted for each other because "Jason deserves someone trying to save him" and "I tried to kill him, I owe him this" and Tim is shocked and horrified at having the most votes because he genuinely thinks he's the least deserving/no one would vote for him.

Woke up before the call in voting ended. Think I might have to turn this into a very angry fanfiction.

And maybe Dick gets the least of all and all of them are just like- I-

THE THING IS!!!! DICK WOULD BE PROUD OF THEM! Dick would be so proud of them that they're saving eachother.

He 100% would tell each one of them to forget about him and save each other and themselves. The martyrdom runs deeply in this family, so for him, the eldest sibling, to take fall- the sacrifice- is basically what he's expecting to do as the big brother ever since Jason was introduced.

Yes, he would be scared deep down. No, he does not want to die. But he wants his family to live more than he is scared. And maybe, just maybe... he'll get to see his parents again.

Had a dream where a villain somehow kidnapped all five Robins and broadcast like a game show where people could call in & vote for their favourite Robin/least favourite Robin & the Robin with the least points would be killed on live TV (like an in world version of fans voting to kill Jason but for all the Robins) and they have to sit there beaten & tied up watching the results come in while Batman & the others separately try to find them in time.

And "just for fun" the villain made the Robins vote as well & then mocks/shames them for their votes. He told them the Robin with the most votes would get to live. Dick & Damien voted for each other, Steph voted Tim, & Tim & Jason voted for each other because "Jason deserves someone trying to save him" and "I tried to kill him, I owe him this" and Tim is shocked and horrified at having the most votes because he genuinely thinks he's the least deserving/no one would vote for him.

Woke up before the call in voting ended. Think I might have to turn this into a very angry fanfiction.

I think the fact that Tim’s childhood was actually fairly normal makes things funnier, actually.

He was raised in boarding schools and a bit of a latchkey kid, but he knew his parents loved him and he was supervised the majority of the year. He has normal interests, like skateboarding and superheroes. He has plenty of friends and meets up with them outside of school and everything. Even when he has to go to a new school, he finds a friend group. He dislikes school and he’s a dork. He has had multiple girlfriends, a homoerotic friendship, and a boyfriend. He’s intended to be the reader-insert, the Everyman, the guy that teenage boy readers identify with. As far as Batman comics go, he’s practically Normal McNormal Face on a surface level.

He also:

  • Responds to a temporary lack of adult supervision by stalking Batman with a camera to prove that Batman is being reckless. How did Tim know Batman was being reckless in the first place? Who knows! Maybe he just stalked him recreationally first.
  • Travels to New York City alone to break into Dick Grayson’s apartment.
  • Tries to clone his dead best friend (the other half of said homoerotic friendship).
  • Climbs out the window in the middle of a conversation with his guidance counselor.
  • Fakes an entire uncle and hires an actor to play him because he wants to live independently.
  • Runs away to a quarantined disaster zone, resulting in a huge manhunt.
  • Deduces Batman’s identity at age 9 and keeps it a secret (look, 9-year-olds are chatty).
  • Falls asleep on a rollercoaster, in the middle of a stakeout, and other inopportune places like the freaking dormouse from Alice in Wonderland.
  • Desperately attempts to keep the family together in Gotham War to a frankly disturbing degree.
  • Routinely ends up in random countries without adults, but it’s fine because he’s Competent (TM).
  • Hero worships Dick Grayson so hard he literally steals his identity.

Like, no, Tim’s insanity is not the result of cartoonish childhood neglect. Which means…

He’s just like that.

nightwing being hurt in the field, and over comms he can’t get out what was wrong, nearly in shock, and jason puts on his best batman™️ voice and says “robin, report.”

and it snaps dick out of it enough to say concussion, possible broken ribs, and a gash in his side.

no one talks about it, and then a year later, damian does the same thing to tim

i've just decided you're all wrong and the actual funniest scenario of the league not knowing bruce has kids until they take his place as batman during league meetings is the scenario where bruce never even asked them to pretend to be batman.

when he can't make an important meeting he sends either jason or dick in his place just as themselves, because if he can vouch for them as proxys then why would the league have an issue with it? they just need to show up and say they're there to take notes for batman or something, there's no need to lie. he doesn't even realise that his identity is being stolen until he shows up after a meeting he sent a sub in for and when he shows up everyone is staring at him awkwardly.

batman: what's everybody looking at

green lantern: nothing! we're just... concerned.

flash: yeah... how was your surgery?

batman:

batman: what surgery

green lantern: ...well you ran out of the meeting last week yelling about how you were going to be late for your 'piles removal operation'

green lantern: so uh. how'd it go big guy?

batman:

batman: i wasn't here last week. jason was.

the league:

flash: who the fucks jason

batman:

batman: *slowly turns to superman, who is staring at the table stubbornly*

batman: clark-

superman: THE KIDS SEEMED SO EXCITED TO DRESS UP, I DIDN'T WANT TO BE THE BORING UNCLE AND SAY NO!

bruce ends up calling jason in front of the league to demand an explanation and clear his name. jason straight up doesn't even remember what he did.

jason, on call: oh hey B, thought you were at a JL meeting this afternoon?

bruce: i am. what happened last week?

jason: i sent tim the report to hand over already! i didn't get all of it though, i had to leave real quick towards the end because damian was threatening to set my safe house on fire if i didn't pick him up from school

bruce: and the league let you go early?

jason: yeah i made some excuse, i think i said-

jason: *pauses, remembering what he'd done*

jason: oh my god

bruce lays his head on the table while jason laughs through the loud speaker for the next eight minutes.

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