Top 10 Short TimSteph Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length TimSteph fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Wren: King of Birds
by CROWOFJUDGEMENT
“The tale begins with all the birds setting up a competition on who was to be King of all Birds. The eagle was the strongest, and everyone believed he would win. However, when all the other birds stopped flying, and the eagle had almost exhausted his strength, the small Wren leapt from the eagle's p
House in Sedona
by halftimejob
The people of Gotham are being targeted with a new, state-of-the-art truth serum. This presents more problems for Tim than originally thought. Let it be known that Timothy Jackson Drake had moved to France after his parents’ tragedy. The truth was carefully maintained.
Crash and Burn
by justiceiscalling
Red Robin crashes through Stevie Reed’s window and changes her life for good.ORAfter his trip to New York City and his brief team up with Spider-Man, Red Robin tries to be Neighborly in Gotham City of all places.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: He's Totally NOT Tim Drake!
by LemonadeInATophat
Because I can barely find ANY DC X Stargate crossovers, I made my own!Daniel Jackson and Tim Drake are such alarmingly compatible identities, I made a problem.Today, you get:- Genius-level pattern recognition- Obsessive research tendencies- Reckless curiosity- Chronic sleep deprivation- “I can absol
back to the future
by buttonbug
Tim winds up back when he was eight years old. Before Jason dies. Well, he figures he can’t exactly kill Jason Todd twice. Not that he was dead yet. or Tim Drake time travels, and proceeds to gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss his way into saving Jason Todd’s life.
Third Chances
by offdutyskye
Jason Todd knows better than to trust people. Unfortunately, he likes Maeve almost immediately. She’s forever working, always tired, and has an uncanny talent for pretending everything is fine when it never is. Between double shifts, mounting debt, and a father one bad day away from disaster, she ha
It's Always Best With The Covers Up
by Peachypeachtea
Tim is too distracted to notice the new stranger in his life isn't what she seems. What starts as an encounter at the local bar becomes something more fast and dangerous.
Long distance relationships: hardest difficulty (Paris and America can't be that far apart)
by Glassed_Fire
After the events of the Easter Bunny Attack, Marinette has to choose if she really wants to pursue a relationship with two girls in America, despite living in Paris (spoiler alert: she does). Even if Alya is happy for her, she's still nervous about her first relationship... at least they're good peo
It’s Hard to Hold on to a Cloud (Trust Me I’ve Tried)
by Batgirl_For_Ever
When Jason Todd died, Marianne’s heart died with him. People came and went, but her soul stayed six feet beneath a marble angel statue in the Wayne Family Cemetery. When she discovered that Jason was alive and really the Red Hood, she thought he’d be happy to see her, but he wasn’t, so she had to mo
Batman: Dawn Of The Dark Knight
by Jedi_Knight1997
After the death of Robin, Batman has chosen to go solo. Following the death of his partner, he finds it difficult to be Bruce Wayne, but when a rival threatens his family company, Bruce has no choice but to step in. It gets worst when a new threat has come to Gotham. Bruce will be pushed to his l
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Why Read Short TimSteph Fics?
Novella-length TimSteph fics — roughly 10,000 to 50,000 words — let writers fully develop a single AU, trope, or relationship beat without sprawling. Plenty of time for setup, payoff, and a satisfying ending; not so much time that you're juggling fifty bookmarks.
Great for trying a new author or testing whether you'll enjoy a sub-genre before diving into something longer.
About This List
This list of 10short TimSteph fanfics spans 200,550 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 182 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (5 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Tim Drake-centric (DCU) · Jason Todd is Red Hood · Jason Todd-centric · Angst · Slow Burn.
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