• Dick gets sent to an orphanage, but escapes to get REVENGE on Tony Zuko. Bruce doesn't find him ("How could you LOSE a kid??" "You forget to cherish them apparently")
• Dick, Jason and Tim are only 1-2 years apart in this au
• Catherine dies and Jason is left to fend for himself. He eventually steals Batmobile's tires and gets caught by the Bat. Bruce is so distracted by adoption urges that Jason manages to hit him with the tire iron and escape.
• List of kids Bruce wants to find and adopt:
1. That small black haired kid with blue eyes
2. That other small black haired kid with blue eyes
• Tim gets bored being left alone in the house, learns how to hack and realizes DI is into some really shady business on the side. He reports it to the police and in the ensuing legal fight the Drakes lose custody of their child. Tim gets sent to an orphanage until further notice, which never comes
• Bruce Wayne is very concerned about his neighbours's kid. Too bad he can't quite find where they sent him away to
• Eventually Dick Jason and Tim get put in the same orphanage
• All this time Dick continues to sneak out at night to vigilante in his Robin costume. It may not be for revenge anymore but it's the closest thing he has to the life he used to have and he LOVES being Robin
• Jason and Tim catch Dick going out at night and follow him (Jason is very suspicious of their roommate and Tim is still pretty star struck by The Dick Grayson (their first meeting at the circus happens the same as in canon) )
• T&J get ambushed by a group of muggers and Robin jumps in to protect them and the 3 of them beat up people together. Que bonding with team montage music. Then Tim recognises the costume and Dick admits that he is a vigilante (at this point he's still mostly unknown to the public)
• They form a team. For the purposes of extra safety and fucking with everyone, they all take the name Robin and wear matching costumes. Gotham doesn't know what hit it
• It helps that they look similar enough that it confuses the hell out of criminals and Batman alike. Robin gets spotted everywhere and nowhere at once. Dick's knowledge of acrobatics, Jason's secret pathways and hideouts in the city, and Tim's hacking the cameras makes them seemingly disappear at random times. People just started recognising Batman as more furry than mythical demon of the night and suddenly there's another mysterious figure running about
• Bruce FINALLY finds the 3 kids on his mental grocery list and LOOK AT THAT! They are all together!! It's a buy 1 get 2 free sale, Alfred! We can't NOT adopt them all
• So Bruce continues to Batman and, unbeknownst to him, his newly adopted kids continue to Robin
• It takes Tim 1 day after their adoption to figure out Bruce is Batman and they spend the rest of said day freaking out
• They take on the extra challenge of avoiding Batman on patrol like their lives depend on it. Bruce knows Robin (who is possibly more than 1 person) exists, but he can't ever catch a good look. They seem like they stick to the smaller crimes and don't hurt anyone too badly (Tony Zuko's murder is a forgotten case and the Robins are sneaky around the Bat) so he leaves them alone. His kids are more than enough to occupy his attention anyway
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