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" Dick needed someone who was going to teach him how to swim and hunt and be the species he actually was. Bruce couldn’t be that for Dick, so he was going to give the pup to mers who could be. "
Bruce tries to give Dick what he needs.
**prequel to "Rough Waters". Can be read as a standalone.**
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- Part 1 of Rising Tides
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The Dark What Now? by FromDustReturned, Nation_Ustria
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Doctor Who, Doctor Who (2005)
14 Nov 2024
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What if Bruce Wayne was the Doctor, and the Robins were his companions?
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in the shadows by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DCU
24 Apr 2022
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“You’ve visited that kid every day for weeks,” Clark said. “Why?”
Batman stared at him. “How long have you known?”
“Batman…”
“You’re confronting me now because you’re worried about my intentions toward Dick. He changed your mind about something. Ergo, you’ve been sitting on this for a while. How long have you known I wasn’t real?”
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June (plus Nyla) adopts Zuko AU.
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Despite the fever and the barely-healed burn scar, the boy’s fast. June avoids his blade, but still he jams his limbs into her, desperate to scratch and kick and bite off her hand…
(Just like a baby shirshu, spitting poison from behind the bars of its cage. The comparison shouldn't be so endearing.)
Or: the AU where Zuko flees the palace after his Agni Kai, running right into Nyla and June.
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A Year Of Baby Steps: Attempts To Show Love To Baby Talons by drowningfire for AstraEllis
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
30 Aug 2025
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The Acrobat Rescue Support Organization Network (ARSON) has successfully rescued ten talonised Dick Graysons and fostered them into safe, stable, and secure homes. Helping the children in question towards feeling safe, stable, and secure is a whole other mission. ARSON meetings might be continuing for the foreseeable future...
aka. A series of vignettes from across the multiverse about the Batfamily (and friends) trying to integrate their most recent, traumatised members into their new loving families (who are trying their very hardest to be well-adjusted themselves in the meantime).
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- Part 1 of Multiversal Meddling
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(M=Talons)
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Title is from "Upside Down" by Jack Johnson
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After the flood, there are galas.
And Bruce befriends a two-year-old Tim Drake at one of them.
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After the circus, Bruce tries to bond with his newest ward.
He realizes they're more alike than he initially thought.
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Normally, Catwoman went for flashy targets: artifacts on loan at the Gotham Museum, crown jewels worn by visiting dignitaries, whatever dumb purchase the Wayne Estate had most recently made for its private collection… But tonight was different. Tonight, Selina wanted to test out her stealth skills a bit. Play with danger.
That was how Selina ended up in a warehouse owned by Tony Zucco. The mob boss usually fell well under Catwoman’s radar, but the man had always been a bit too boastful for his own good. Apparently, Zucco currently had an “interesting” piece of merchandise hidden in his East Gotham warehouse. Something he had gotten after murdering the previous owners.
At least, that’s what one of Zucco’s henchmen had claimed, right after Selina stole the gold watch off his wrist and got him to buy her a cocktail.
OR: What if Catwoman found Robin instead of Batman?
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Blair: So, he got to go on the trip?
Jim: Yeah, and I got to go on one of my own.
Blair: Right. Join the army, see the world.
Jim: Something like that. (Brother's Keeper)So what did Jim actually do?
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Scott Tracy has been under a lot of pressure since his mother died. But he can cope, it's not a problem. Jeff know that, his oldest is strong and capable and he doesn't need his father. Right? (Partly Outsider POV)
*Edited for grammar and continuity 18/08/20
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floor collapses, floating, bouncing back by fruitsdoesnotknow for ZombieMerlin
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
25 Jun 2025
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The kid’s face, stoney and blank and expressionless, suddenly blinks to life. His eyes are wide, hat pulled down on his head and his mouth parts before closing again. Can’t be more than fifteen, sixteen. Sullen but hopeful at the same time. Couldn’t care less but curious nonetheless. Howard reaches over, hand stretched out.
“I’m Howie, it’s nice to meet you.”
The kid stares at him for a moment, his parents watching them both cautiously.
It takes a moment. Makes him nervous that he’s upset him somehow; done the wrong thing, said the wrong words. But then, after a few seconds, the kid reaches his hand out, and Howie… Howie holds it gently, squeezes once before pulling away.
“I’m Ravi.”
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Ravi's a teenager in a hospital. Howie's a probie trying to find his place. They meet in the middle.
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- Part 5 of For Jaafar
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Not long after Daniel's death, Maddie goes looking through her parents' closet for anything of Daniel. She finds his baby box as well as hers.
Then she notices that little Evan doesn't have one and decides to do something about it.
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- Part 1 of The Firehouse Bingo 2025
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whole package, babe, i like the way you fit by a_alene for little_boats_on_a_lake
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022), DCU
01 Sep 2024
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“So hey,” Tomás says to Gordon, on another rainy Gotham night. “When did the Bat get a kid?”
He hooks a thumb over his shoulder to the walking traffic light standing next to Gotham’s personal incarnation of shadow. The traffic light in question is bouncing up and down on his heels, a stark contrast to Batman’s wall of darkness.
“I’ve gotta be honest,” Gordon says. “I have no fucking clue.”
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Officer Tomás Martinez is beset upon by precocious, acrobatic children. Featuring child endangerment, celebrity crushes, and candy.
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Five year old Tim Drake is abandoned at a police station by a mother on the run. Jim Gordon and Batman investigate to find out what happened to cause a mother to abandon her son like that. Meanwhile, what will become of Tim?
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(M=(themes of) child endangerment & murder)
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early-morning emergency by carolinaa
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
11 Sep 2022
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“Um,” asks the little voice at the other end of the phone, “are you Selina?”
Selina pulls the phone away from her face to check the screen again, making sure that she’s not going crazy. No, the phone calling her is definitely Batman’s.
“What,” she says, “the hell?”
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- Part 4 of bat things happen bingo
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- English
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another blink of an eye (twenty-five is gone) by iloveyourwords
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
14 Jun 2026
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Dick's already feeling at the end of his rope when an encounter with Death sends him into another universe. Where his counterpart has already died, aged 11. How did young Dick’s death affect that universe? Will this Dick fit into this new universe or will he follow in the steps of his counterpart? Will he ever find a way back home?
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- 24,891
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- 10/?
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To the Moving and the Strange by SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
28 May 2022
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For a long moment, Alfred is silent, and Dick chews on his lip, trying to fight back the tears he can feel rising. “Do you know I have quite forgotten how Mr. Wayne took his eggs?” he says abruptly.
Dick looks up in surprise, frowning, and Alfred nods before continuing. “He could be quite particular about them, I recall that much. I remember he didn’t like pepper in them, because Mrs. Wayne used to tease him about his… reluctance to enjoy spices. But I cannot for the life of me seem to recall whether he preferred them poached, or in the form of an omelette.”
“That’s not a big deal,” Dick offers uncertainly. “I mean, I bet you remember lots of more important stuff,” he adds hastily, trying not to sound dismissive.
Thankfully, Alfred tips his head in acknowledgement. “I do,” he agrees. “I remember a great many things. But I have forgotten things too, and I expect as time goes on, more of them will slip away from me, and it’s entirely possible that I won’t even notice they’re gone. My memories of them will simply be… less.”
Dick looks at him, studying the lines of his weathered face. “Does that ever make you feel like... like if you loved them more, you’d remember them?”
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How to Scratch a Record by TimTheToaster (tabletoptime)
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
18 Feb 2025
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There was absolutely no way this sunshine was from Gotham in April.
Not possible.
Which meant, Tim was no longer in Gotham, in April.
(In which Tim finds himself in the past, and tries to do the right thing. It's more complicated than he'd like.)
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Two Nickels: Time Travel Tim Collects Kids (Alvdoption)Loading: part 2
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“Hi, Flounder!” Dick's trainer said brightly, and Dick made a sort of clicking sound in response. When it was him and his pod, they communicated with a variety of sounds that made up their language, which was just as good as whatever they were speaking. Clicks, whistles, vocalizations, whatever. It didn't matter here, alone in this tank.
You look like a half-dead lionfish, Dick said. It was a bit lengthy, but oh well.
“Isn’t he precious? Mr. Wayne, we’re just so glad to have you."Bruce hadn't been sure there was a case here to be solved at all, but a person and two mer were dead, with rumours of misconduct and prior violations swirling around the park, so he'd used Brucie to get as close as he could to the best source of information–the other trainers in the park. Then he'd seen the furious grief and intelligence in the eyes of the surviving mer and realized there was a case–just not the one anyone else was seeing.
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- English
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Bird Buddies by MarshmallowBun
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
15 Mar 2026
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Danny works at the Watchtower as a Technician/Mechanic, although being scouted out specifically by the Big Black Bat himself seems to make it hard for him to get along with his higher ups apparently.
Along the way danny gets a traffic light colored duckling that follows him around every-once-in-a-while.
[Changed rating due to Ch 10 that I forgot to fix oopsies]
[reworked chapter 20, go give it a reread]
Reposted from my Tumblr @minnesota-fats
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- 69,824
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- 22/?
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Two Nickels: Robin!Dick & Watchtower staff Danny Fenton
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Jason, street rat extraordinaire and self-claimed broke bitch, saw a prime opportunity to make some easy money when he stumbled across the Batmobile.
He didn't account for the Talon that crashed landed on its roof and into his life.
Talon!Dick. Batfamily.
Now includes an epilogue featuring Tim Drake.
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- Part 1 of Colour me Black, Blue and Yellow.
- Part 6 of The many AU's of Jason Todd ◥▅◤ ҉ ★
- Language:
- English
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- 6,677
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 30
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- 1,451
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- 15,347
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