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The memories he chose to bury by Estelle_starship
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
22 Dec 2025
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There was before her, during her, and after her.
Bruce never thought there would be an after her, and when she died a part of his soul did to.
He buried everything about her not being able to stand a single thought of her existence.
Yet someone like her could never be buried and that's when Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian find a part of her in a Manor swept of her existence.
And they didn't stop until they find every piece of her.
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when you tell your friends, you can / tell them what you saw in me, and not how i turned out to be by catwomanoftheeastend
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
18 Dec 2025
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"Come with me," Selina urges, leaning close. Almost begging, not that she would ever be willing to admit it.
Batman stares at her. Looking for something. Studying her face yet again. Like the thousandth time in the past six days. As if he's try to memorize the contours of it before he makes his choice.
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after the events of The Batman, bruce runs with selina.
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title from "goodbye, my danish sweetheart" which applies equally to both bruce and selina i think -
Cats and Dogs by riversiders
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
10 Dec 2025
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It's not that he doesn't like Clark. He’s obsessed with Clark, actually, and not just because he somehow conned his way into dating him.
As suspicious and crazy as it makes Bruce feel, he cannot deny that Clark cares. He’s constantly checking in on Bruce. They talk on the phone practically every day, and Superman has become a frequent and regular visitor at Wayne Manor. Dick adores him. Alfred does too. He keeps making hints about ‘letting Mr. Kent into the club in an official capacity’.
Clark is wonderful. He is good—too good.
He won't treat Bruce the way Bruce wants to be treated.
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- Part 3 of Orphansverse
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Joker drugs Bruce Wayne to reveal what he really wants. It does not end well for the Joker. It does end good for Bruce.
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- Part 90 of Meowmix's Red Hood Works
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Criminal Justice by ThatOneBizarreGuy
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us
01 Dec 2025
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Ra's al Ghul manages to blow up Gotham and Batman breaks his one rule, killing him for good.
It turns out Batman's really good at killing.
He also starts to like it.
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In a keep ruled by night and the undying, Lady Stephanie Brown endures the cruel theater of the court. She holds no love for it and would rather be anywhere else. Werewolves were never meant to be shut indoors, caged beneath dark, vaulted ceilings and the iron will of a ruthless father’s design. How strange, then, that after one fleeting glimpse of mortality, she finds herself running deeper inside — chasing after a fragile light not long for this cold, eternal world.
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Bryce tweaks out over Liam
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Elizabeth Wayne has always followed her brother, Bruce, through anything. She followed him out into the world to learn and travel, then back to Gotham, where she soon discovers her brother's plan to help their dark and twisted city by fighting crime himself as Batman.
She plunges herself into the darkness choking Gotham, taking the name Shadow and partnering with Bruce as her own vigilante. Their work has unintended consequences, however, inspiring a new kind of criminal to take drastic measures to unmask all the dark and terrible secrets of Gotham in a series of brutal killings. Batman and Shadow scramble to stop him alongside Lieutenant Gordon of the GCPD. This killer, calling himself Riddler, seems to know nearly everything, including potentially the Waynes' secret. Allies are few and time is running out. Can they stop him before he unmasks them?
[Bruce/Selina] [Elizabeth/Hal] [Briar-Rose/Alfred] [Explanation about 'Hal Jordan' in Author's Note] [Mature for violence, themes, and language. PLEASE heed the rating!]Series
- Part 1 of Elizabeth Wayne in the Multiverse
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Bruce loves his kids, but not when they are determined to kill him.
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Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see? by mar3316
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Justice League - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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Bruce's breathing hitched. A small, involuntary shudder ran through his chest, forcing a tiny, raw cough. His raw, scraped left hand twitched once toward Jason's voice, a single, agonizing motion of recognition and reaching.
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- Part 7 of Whumptober 2025
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Space Honeymoon (Wait, What?!) by troublestarter12
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
06 Oct 2025
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It isn’t unusual for each Batkid to go quiet sometimes here and there. Dick has done so a few times, Damian occasionally, Tim more times that anyone else, and Jason used to a lot until recently. Which is why after a few days of no contact, the other brothers get worried and go looking for answers that leaves them with more questions.
Or the story of how Jason got married, disappeared for several days, and gave all the Bats an aneurysm more or less
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Scarecrow is out of Arkham and ready to test out his fun science experiments. No one else is a fan.
Sometimes, though, you don’t need to be dosed with fear toxin to feel the effects.
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- Part 2 of unholy_elysiums whumptober 2025
- Part 13 of bats out of hell
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Every Little Thing Wants (gentle hands and a home) To Be Loved by Kingmorii
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
25 Sep 2025
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Where in,
Bruce, who to the honor of his late father took to being a renouned doctor founding many hospitals and clinics, receeds into obscurity after the death of his last close family member, a butler who raised him after the death of his parents. Months later finds Bruce on a beach house in a small island town somewhere in the europes. He stays far from the small town, only ever venturing for food and such, and lives on his private beach. He often takes his boat out to open ocean and spends hours watching the waves and sketching. It here he sees his first glimps of them.
A mermaid springs from the water, splattering droplets as his breaks the surface tension, and lands smack in bruces little yacht. Only, it looks more like a lad then a maiden and more like child then either and oh fuck, he choking on fishing net.
Or where Bruce wishes the universe, and the lovely ghost of his parents, would very kindly stop dropping ocean children on his front door and the secrets of his beach that he was not curious about at his back door. They make no plans to listen to his silly lil request.
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Everyone acts like Jason being the way he is, being the Red Hood, doing things his way, is the biggest failure of potential in the world, something to be mourned, to regret, something to rehabilitate and try to change. They look at Jason and they see a 15 year old Robin trapped in too many layers of anger, as if they could find their lost bird if they just peel enough layers.
Jason is tired of being haunted by his own ghost and seeing the grief and disappointment in everyone's faces when he fails to live up to his own past self.
His continued existence is something he is proud of and something he doesn't want to take for granted. Bruce and Co. can either get with the program and accept who he is, or they can get fucked and continue to mourn someone who's not dead.
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- Part 1 of family can be whatever you want
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Masters of Our Fate by leakypaintpen
Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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An alien invasion has destroyed the Justice League and much of the world. Together with the surviving heroes—and villains—Batman fights to protect what's left so the sacrifices of those they've lost are not in vain, but their time is running out.
Until, for him, it isn't.
Or: What will it take to save
Clarkthe world?A thousand thousand deaths, and just one.
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- Part 1 of Superbat Week 2025
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It started with a rough patrol, too little sleep, and words he hadn’t meant that were spoken in a fight.
“I would have been fine. I didn’t need you! There was no reason for you to step in!” Bruce needed this thick-headed little monster to listen just this once because he wasn’t going to watch this kid get himself killed. Dick’s death would fall on him.
“I’m not going to apologize for saving your life B! You say you didn’t need me, but you did! We’re a team!” The boy was red-faced as he shouted.
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Bruce makes a mistake and drives Dick away. He searches Gotham for the kid, hoping he reaches him before someone else takes him.
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JACIE WAYNE by maplesnmulberries
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
24 Aug 2025
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Jason is sick of seeing Bruce put himself in awkward situations for the sake of his "Brucie Wayne" persona.
His old man won't listen. So Jason decides to give him a taste of his own medicine.
And so?
Jacie Wayne is born.
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- Part 11 of Bat Drabbles
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Spider-man: Gotham's Home by smallestfox
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU, Spider-Man - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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After sacrificing everything to save his world, Peter is flung across dimensions and finds himself alone in Gotham, a city as unforgiving as the new powers he’s struggling to control. As Peter’s spider instincts sharpen, he navigates Gotham’s dark underbelly, evading criminals and catching the attention of the Batfamily.
But to Gotham’s vigilantes, he’s just another dangerous meta—until they realize he might need saving too.
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taste of spilled guts by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
17 Aug 2025
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The question lingers through the halls of the Watchtower like a contagion:
Which one is truly insane? The prisoner in his gilded cage… or the man who will not let it go? -
Don't Hold Your Breath by frozenpotions
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Superman (Comics), Batman (Comics)
13 Aug 2025
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“Hey, Bruce,” he said tentatively. “You have a lot of casual sex, right?”
Bruce raised one delicate eyebrow. “Mr. Kent,” he said slowly, amusement curling around the words, “are you calling me easy?”
(or: Not quite fresh out of a divorce, Clark attempts to have a hot girl summer. It goes well until it doesn't.)