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May I present⊠to burn out forever or light up a spark!
My contribution for this yearâs Batfam Big Bang @batfam-big-bang is done!
I want to say thank you to my lovely Opal City team - you all made this experience incredibly, and Iâm so thankful to have had you all on my team!
@nycisâ and @qualitytotheteaâ, without you, this fic would be swiss cheese. You were fantastic betas, and I think if you were vigilantes in Gotham, crime rates would drop to about zero in like, two weeks.
@babbilonâ and @kuppatanâ, it was such a pleasure to watch your drafts become full blown artworks! Itâs incredible to see my words turn into art, especially to see the emotions splayed out in your art - I had to wrangle them into this fic, but you two make it seem so effortless!
@bisexualofthebladeâ, hearing you read out my fic and painting a picture with your voice is unbelievably stunning, and Iâm so happy you asked to do podfic! I donât have words, itâs just so cool.
And a shout out to the mods of @batfam-big-bangâ - you are amazing, and itâs only thanks to you that this made it out of my head after 1.5 years in my drafts.
to burn out forever or light up a spark
Tim Drake is fifteen years old when he dies. His family falls apart, and pulls itself back together, grieving and shattered.
And then Tim comes back.Â
But the man reborn in the pit isnât the kid they lowered into the ground. Faced with this new Tim, the family has to ask themselves: can the dead really come back? Or is Tim only a hollow shell of the person they loved and lost?
Trigger Warnings and Tags:
Graphic Depictions of Violence
Major Character Death (Tim Drake Dies And Comes Back)
Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU)
Alternate Universe - Role Reversal / Batkids Age Reversal / Reverse Robins
A very sad but very representative snippet:
Bruce just wants to go home. He doesnât care about this project right now, he just wants to go home and sleep and hole up for the worst day of his year. (And of every year to come.)
Bruce had always thought his parentsâ death would be the worst day of his entire life. He had never thought he would have children, and he could have never imagined he would have to bury them. Itâs not fair, but nothing in this cursed city is ever fair.
The investors and the architects and the board member who dragged him here are not even particularly interested in what he has to say, heâs just supposed to nod and hand over checks, and he doesnât know why heâs here. There is no point to it.Â
He wants to wake up from this nightmare of having a dead son. But he canât. There is no waking up from this. Not today, not tomorrow, and not on the anniversary of Timâs death.
The whole fic is up now (all six chapters in one go) and you can find it on ao3!
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