Come Alive
is a Young Justice (2010) Alternate Universe Fic, by CaptainOzone.
Dick went to Infinity Island on a mission to rescue three aspiring heroes. He never expected such circumstances leading him to return with two additional bats. None of them did.
In which the story take a sharp turn right before Rescue Op's ending, for the greatest happiness of the Batclan.
Contains the following tropes
- Affectionate Nickname: After hearing Tim's confession he only was a place-holder for his dead predecessor, Jason dubs him "Replacement", because the kid earned Robin.
- Came Back Wrong: M'gann explains Jason was catatonic because people aren't supposed to be resurrected, so his mind couldn't deal with the fact it entered the After but now was living again.
- Child by Rape: Batman's horror and shock when Dick introduces Damian to him is enough to indicate he wasn't a willing participant in the conception.
- Cool Big Bro: Dick Grayson takes his duty as eldest of the Bat-brood quite seriously.
- Jason isn't so bad with Tim when they relax around each other.
- Meeting Damian makes Tim realize he has the opportunity to become one of these. And he actually wouldn't mind so much.
- The Cutie: Tim Drake, full stop.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Cassandra and Jason had several opportunities to interact in the League, but Jason was mentally impaired and Cassadra didn't understand who he actually was — something she's very ashamed of.
- Give Him a Normal Life: Cheshire and Talia's reasoning when confronted by Artemis and Nightwing about them giving their children to the fathers.
- Hope Springs Eternal: Jason being alive and reunited with the Batclan is this for the Justice League and affiliates. They constantly give everything up for the world, but the universe gave something back this time.
- Innocently Insensitive: Jason casually namedrops Wally West in front of Dick. Seeing his brother's look informs him that Wally died.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Tim outright worships Jason-as-Robin, which unsettles the older teen a bit.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Stephanie had no idea there was another Robin besides Dick and Tim — justified since she's relatively new on the Gothamite cape scene, and Jason's death was very much a sore subject.
- Men Can't Keep House: Dick, who lives in an apartment in Bludhaven, doesn't do grocery and eats mostly cereal with milk; and when the milk spoils he eats cereal with water, orange juice or coffee.
- Nervous Wreck: Tim tends to go to pieces when he thinks too hard about something. Case in point, his reaction to Damian - is he going to kill the baby by breathing on him because he forgot to brush his teeth?
- "Not So Different" Remark: Brion Markov is stricken when he understands Nightwing wasn't trying to be a prick when preaching him to be more careful and patient in searching for Tara, but knew exactly how it feels to lose a younger sibling.
- Shout-Out: To Arrested Development when Bruce muses that Jason always scowled at him when Bruce overestimated how much a single banana costs at Walmart.
- Passing the Torch: Jason bitterly acknowledges he endured too severe a trauma to be Robin again, but meeting Tim reassures him that the persona will be in good hands.
- Poor Communication Kills: Glorious inversion. Actually discussing their feeling instead of repressing as fuck do wonders for the Bats. Except when Bruce lets slip Robin was replaced, which upset Jason so bad the teen threw him outside his room - and the big lug doesn't explain the circumstances of the switch!
- Pop-Cultured Badass: A factor contributing to Jason's dismay over his three missing years was all the memes he didn't got to learn. Tim helpfully offers his assistance with that.
- Trauma Button: Seeing the autopsy scar on his chest wasn't conductive for Jason's ability to keep his lunch within his stomach.
- Downplayed when Stephanie excuses herself from being introduced to Damian, as the baby reminded her of her own Teenage Pregnancy.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: Downplayed with Damian — the toddler is unusually cool with unknown people surrounding him and doesn't actively ask for attention. Tim hypothezises he was probably cared for by nurses, so didn't have a true parental figure to comfort him.
- Dick also notes that babies tend to cry when they look at Batman's cowl or try to play with it, but Damian laughed.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Hearing Damian wailing already put the Team on alert, but Jason freaked out so bad he broke cover and let Nightwing identify him.
