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    the lower and coarser soul by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    11 Feb 2024

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    "Good morning, sunshine," said Dick.

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    Strings Snapping at Bridge by for Karmawillcollect

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)  

    27 Dec 2022

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    It’s on the night of his parent’s fifteenth death anniversary and in the back of a darkened and gritty alley, when the imaginary strings that hold Dick’s resting sanity finally snap.

    OR

    While on a mission, an incident reveals to the family that Dick Grayson hasn’t been doing well… for a while.

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    Eye of the Storm by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)  

    14 Mar 2022

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    Dick Grayson becomes once again a traumatized volatile murderous eight year old, and the only thing more surprising is how adept Bruce is at handling him.

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    little suns by for Literarian

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics)  

    23 Aug 2021

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    While Bruce was presumed dead, Dick adopted Damian. Now that Bruce has returned, the three of them struggle to adjust to the new status quo. AKA Five times Dick struggled with being a father and a son, and one time he got the balance right.

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    if the sun's upset and the sky goes cold by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)  

    21 Jul 2024

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    Dick is finally forced to deal with the exploding pressure from being a vigilante for almost his entire life.

    aka Dick and Bruce agree therapy might be necessary

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    it is with my whole life by for daringyounggrayson

    Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types  

    03 May 2021

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    Nine-year-old Dick's been kidnapped.
    Bruce tries not to fall apart.

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    birdsong by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)  

    20 Nov 2022

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    After getting a face full of Scarecrow’s newest toxin, Dick isn’t haunted by his typical nightmares. No. This one has little green pixie boots. AKA Batman: Ego but make it Robin.

    Nightwing 60th Anniversary Bingo: Drugs & Toxins

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    outlast the rain by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)  

    09 Apr 2022

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    During a routine patrol, Dick’s glove malfunctions and he almost falls to his death. Bruce redesigns them. Problem solved, right? Only Dick is refusing to take the new pair. AKA Trauma is irrational, but love endures all.

    Day 4: Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome & “Catch me.”

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    When We Meet In The Next Life Tell Me To Say Hello by

    Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)  

    31 Oct 2022

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    Something about the severity of the situation made it impossible to remain strong, Dick feeling much more like a child than he had in a long time. Suddenly he wasn’t twenty-seven anymore, member of the Blüdhaven Art Society and proud social worker in a system so broken, Dick could only hope to save one kid at a time. Both as Nightwing and Dick Grayson. No, right now he was nine and his parents had just died, and the adults ignored him, even as the screaming permanently etched itself into the crevices of his brain, the smell of blood ruining his life for the very first time. Back then, Bruce had shown up, covering his small shoulders with his too large coat, talking to him even when Dick was too grief stricken to answer, his expensive cologne masking the heavy scent of death.

    Dick wanted Bruce to show up now as well, covering his shivering and pain-wrecked body with a jacket too big for them both.

    Mortally wounded and stranded on an alien planet with nothing but a destroyed airship and Batman, Dick and his dad take a walk down memory lane.

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    Cutting the Fruit by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DCU  

    28 Oct 2022

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    Clark isn’t wrong. Bruce knows most of the Justice League had seen the Titans as somewhat of a young-and-wild club; adored of course, but more so a handful of crook-winged angels taking in the stars for the first time, believers and lovers and feckless saints. But they had changed, tonight.

    Or, no, that isn’t quite accurate. They hadn’t changed. Instead, the Justice League simply shifted their worldview up and to the left a bit until the Titans fit again.

     

    or, bruce can't quite track the storm brewing in his chest, can't quite close his fist tight enough to keep the grains of sand from escaping. though, he's informed, that's what realizing your child has grown up feels like.

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    Making Time by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    27 Nov 2020

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    Bruce does not remember anything leading up to this moment. He does not remember teaming up with Superman recently, nor does he remember being anywhere but Gotham proper.

    He does remember having Robin at his side. Robin, it turns out, is not there any longer.

    God does he hate magic.

    Written for Batman Bingo 2020: Magic

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    Blurred Lines by for one_step_closer_to_death

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    20 Oct 2022

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    All it takes is one bullet.

    Post-Crisis. Bruce fires Dick.

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    Dick Grayson's Eldest Complex by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics)  

    23 Jul 2021

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    Chores aren't something that should activate a fight or flight response, in Jason's opinion. Dick can't see where the problem is.

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    When I Touch the Water by for medusaceratops

    Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types  

    13 Sep 2017

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    Bruce is trying to deal with an old injury alone, and alone is exactly the opposite of how Dick Grayson is willing to let him handle it.

    But Bruce can't really complain because it's nice to see his son again and not fight for once.

    (In which Bruce isn't a terrible dad and Dick is an excellent son.)

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    The Good Old Days (Weren't Always Good) by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    03 Jun 2022

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    “You’re saying that the reason you are looking into options for a year abroad is vigilante-related?”

    “Yes,” Tim says immediately. There is no hesitation there, no strange inflection to his voice. He doesn’t avoid Bruce’s eyes, nor is he fidgeting with anything.

    That is how Bruce knows he’s lying.

    Or: One by one, Bruce realises that his kids' future isn't set in stone.

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    Fatherhood; a Knife that Never Stops Cutting by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

    02 Oct 2022

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    A phrase Bruce liked to say when he was working as Batman was: once an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern.

    There always seemed to be a thread that tied all their histories, from Alfred to Bruce back to Dick. Repeated over and over. And now it seemed that Dick found that the thread had been longer than he first thought.

    And one day would he raise someone else’s son just like Alfred’s uncle, like Alfred, like Bruce had?

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    Twinges When It's About To Rain by for TokiNoKusabi

    Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types  

    16 Mar 2021

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    Today, just as it has always been in these years of doing this, he enters the room and approaches the couch. Bruce glances over the novel in his hands and then resumes reading, now with a small smile. Dick climbs onto the couch with years of practice, snuggles close to Bruce in a way that isn't possible outside this parlor room, outside of this couch so beloved to Bruce first and now beloved to Dick as well. A family heirloom of emotional attachment.

    (Bad Things Happen Bingo Prompt 6: "Cry Into Chest" + "Dick Grayson w/Bruce Wayne")

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    The Dark Knight Strikes Back by for medusaceratops

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)  

    03 Oct 2018

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    If Bruce knew anything, he'd know one simply didn't finish Minecraft.

    Tim would have told him, but he didn't exactly expect him to actually play-- Bruce didn't play things.

    Dick remembers Bruce playing things. Jason does, too.

    There's a hard line between what Bruce was like before and what he was like after the, well, you know. The thing with Jason.

    Maybe it's time for that to change.

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    Dad...I’m Bilingual by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)  

    20 Jun 2021

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    Dick hums—a quiet, sleepy sound. He’s drifting, but only slightly. The painkillers are doing their job. “It’s dumb,” he says. “I can beat up bad guys an’ stop an apocalypse, but I can’t even tell my own dad I’m bilingual.”

    Bruce just stares at him. Realization kicks in a moment later. “Do you mean bisexual?”

    “Yeah, bionical.” He said that, didn’t he? Bruce must be getting slow in his old age.

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    The Jason Project by

    Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days  

    21 Jul 2019

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    Jason had just wanted to see his autopsy report, he had only wanted to know what information Bruce had about his death. And when Bruce hadn't given it to him, he had stolen it. He hadn’t meant to stumble upon the bucket list of a dead child and the footage of a grieving father crossing one item after another off the list.

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