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But the second bird flew away, landed on iron wings and did not return, and the first, most precious ward of Gotham began to go crazy. Gotham was afraid that sooner or later her curses would consume him. Then, without hesitation, she took the flame created by the previous birds and breathed life into it.
The boy slipped out of the shadows and went to Bristol.
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Or: Gotham has consciousness. After Jason's death, she creates a third Robin to save the Dark Knight. The story continues, but Tim is a cryptid -
Peter & Danny vs Gotham by Wamescat
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Spider-Man - All Media Types
21 Dec 2025
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Peter wants a way to check in on his home dimension; however, he doesn't know much about dimension tech. Good thing he stole a Dummy's Guide to Summoning from Dr. Strange.
Danny wants out of the GIW base.
Tim wants coffee and a less restrictive sleeping bag.
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I'm looking forward to the day When life can grow without decay by ButterflyWritter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
19 Dec 2025
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Tim Drake has always had a strong disdain for magic, after all Gotham was a cursed city made of death and ruin. when John Constantine arrives chasing a mage with powerful and ancient artifacts? Its a normal day in this hell of a city. Though when dealing with magic? Things tend to change faster than the tides of the ocean.
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Tim gets hit in the fight with a mage looking to leach magic from Gotham's catacombs and finds himself swapped with another version of himself, nothing in his life is a coincidence and within the chaos of trying to find a way home, dark secrets get pulled to light and shatter illusions that had been carefully constructed. Only time will tell if this is where they find themselves in ruin or closer than they ever could've imagined.
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- Part 1 of Cabin In The Woods
- Part 1 of Cottage In the Forest
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Glass Rain by soaring_bubblegum
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
19 Dec 2025
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Jason Todd wakes up in the wrong Gotham.
Here, he stayed dead. Here, his death broke his family so completely they became the monsters they once fought. Dick Grayson haunts the skyline with wings and talons, Barbara Gordon moves like a spider made of shadow, and something that might have once been Batman rules from a corrupted cave.
The city is quarantined, the air tastes of ozone and old blood, and Jason should be running.
Instead, he finds himself drawn to the creature that was once his brother—the one stalking him through twisted streets with eyes that still burn with something almost human.
Some hunts, it turns out, go both ways.
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Dick Grayson, upon learning that his father cosplays as a bat demon, promptly does a deep dive on bat facts, the way some kids fixate on dinosaurs. One thing leads to another.
(Can be read as a standalone.)
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- Part 3 of Become Like the Shadows
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Gotham was literally cursed but no one believed Bruce. He took it upon himself to fix it and after decades of searching, that solution came to him in the form of a little blue vial. Bruce was to take the curse within himself to temper it into something manageable.
He thinks the others would call him stupid and stop him if they knew about this, but (un)fortunately for Bruce, his family hasn't spoken to him for forever. There was no one here to stop him.
He downed the liquid and woke up as his nine-year-old self.
Ch3 Excerpt:
“Mother, do you remember those funny clouds above people’s heads I told you about? Well, I’m doing something about them but the process is very lonely. Or not. I think it’s just me. I’m the problem. I can’t seem to get people to like me enough to stay. I know–-… I’m aware that it’s due to my own shortcomings but sometimes, it feels like even the worst monsters have people that love them and yet I have no one.”
Bruce let out a humourless chuckle and rested his forehead on his knees.
“I just wish there was someone that cared about me.”
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Punishment, not Prayer by cigthedral
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham (Video Games), Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
17 Dec 2025
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Gotham is a city of faith, but not the kind you pray to.
She was meant to be their harbinger of faith—a sacrifice, the very means by which they intended to purify the human soul. Can Daphne Nazara change her skin, or the leopard her spots? Is her repayment to the city, or to the creator?
Gotham doesn’t bury its ghosts. It builds cathedrals for them.
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thank you for the venom by pommebeerbomb
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
16 Dec 2025
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Jason Todd is haunted and he walks the line between justice and vengeance. He confronts corrupted criminals guided by a ruthless philosophy. As his younger brother questions his soul and the possibility of his existence, Jason must face the darkness within Gotham and within himself.
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Pretirement and All It's Perks by Half_DeadSerious
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
14 Dec 2025
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Danny had been living in Gotham for a few months now, and had been enrolled in GCU for almost all of that time. No ghost attacks, no Government agencies on his spectral tail, and plenty of ecto to feed on.
It's been quiet, blissfully so. Unnaturally so. But whether that's because of intervention from Clockwork, or the fact that Gotham herself seems to have adopted him, is anyone's guess. It's been relaxing, fulfilling, and equally stressful as fuck. Is that an oxymoron? Maybe, but so is Danny, so.
This dimension is nice and all (It's got aliens!), and it's not like he can't talk to his friends or family when he wants and visit on breaks, but if Clockwork would explain what Danny should actually be doing, that would be great. And maybe if the cult would back the hells off, Danny's half-life would be peaches and cream.
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Surprises, Jumpscares, and Other Things Considered Magical by the Batfam by Ladybird_with_a_pen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
13 Dec 2025
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It had been a pretty routine magical decontamination meeting. The entire Batfamily gathered, Zatanna showed up, they got to see who won ‘the person closest to dying of the most curses without actually dying’ award. You know, normal.
Until Duke decides as their go to resident magician/supernatural wrangler, to ask if there was more he could do to against them.
For he is hanging on by the nails fighting them, and if something doesn’t change, he knows he’s eventually going to slip.
He will not let that happen.
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- Part 1 of Giving Duke presence in the DCU
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Not Batman by Sniper_mask
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Hellblazer & Related Fandoms, DCU (Comics), DCU
13 Dec 2025
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What happens when the curses in Gotham gain so much power that they spread to the world and threaten all of reality itself? What happens when every single affiliated member of the Justice League is destroyed by the curses except for two? What happens when those two have officially run out of options?
John Constantine sends Tim Drake back in time to save the world, that's what happens.
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Clover The Robin Anew by Eggsaladsandmitches
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Batman - All Media Types
12 Dec 2025
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Harry goes, he's looking for his dad, he needs to find his dad
Also this is inspired by justageneralbadidea fic to carry home my little soldier (early this morning)
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Gotham's Claimed by The_duke_is_back
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
10 Dec 2025
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It's a well-known fact among cities like Metropolis, Central, and Star, if Gotham claims you there's no escaping it.
Those who have lived in the cursed city don't often leave, most choosing to spend their entire lives there. The few that do try always find themselves returning, telling friends and loved ones that they MISSED the crime filled nightmare metropolis. Sometimes they're saved, sent by concerned friends and family to therapy or clinical institutions to try and save them from the strange darkness that lures them back.
But either way, they're never the same.
And those are only the regular, everyday citizens.
So what happens
when Gotham
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AUTHOR’S ANNOUNCEMENT: Thank you wonderful artists for your interest and appreciation of my work but I have NO INTENTION of commissioning ANYONE. If the only reason you’re commenting is to try and get a commission, please DON’T comment at all. Thank you.
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Toxicity by egg_writes_stuff
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Marvel (Comics), Spider-Gwen (Marvel Comics), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
09 Dec 2025
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The long awaited part 5 of the series - dont read this if you havent read the other ones xD
Peter Parker still has beef with ice-cream
Gwen Stacy is even more of a mess
Miles Morales is actually doing really great
Jason Todd found a family
Richard Grayson got rid of the mantle
Damian Wayne is still too young to be the most mature in the room
The Batfamily is collapsing
And Bizarro... Could you please give everyone hugs? They need it.
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- Part 5 of Hole in the Sky
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Congratulations, Your City Is Illegal by Lucky_Fox3000
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
27 Nov 2025
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Gotham has shown up on the Infinite Realms’ violation list one too many times.
Resurrections, Lazarus pits, an absurd death rate, and a liminal saturation reading that makes ancient ghosts swear—if someone doesn’t fix it, the automatic solution is quarantine. As in: cut the entire city off from the living world.
Enter Danny Fenton, very tired Ghost King, sent to perform a “royal inspection.”
He’s expecting hauntings, maybe a cult or two. He’s not expecting a semi-sentient city, a legion of bat-themed vigilantes, and one very angry, very Lazarus-tainted ex-Robin who’s technically a walking afterlife violation.
The Infinite Realms want a verdict. Gotham wants to live. Jason Todd would like everyone to stop talking about his soul.
Danny is just trying not to condemn an entire city before he’s had enough coffee.
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In Every Other Universe by Sebbybro
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), The Batman (Cartoon 2004), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
20 Nov 2025
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Brenna Valdez doesn’t remember what happened to her to end up here, but now she’s got a Council of Gods at her back and a whole sentient, deeply cursed city trying to right the universe’s wrongs. Our 22 year old sunshine girl has been tasked with surviving in Gotham City, of all places. She just wanted to finish college! Was that really so much to ask? Apparently, Yes.
Surely nothing odd will come from this. She’s too busy dealing with Divine Bullshit to pay any attention to the Bats and Birds that follow her around like a moth to flame. One in particular seems to have taken an uncharacteristic shine to her, too. SURELY she won’t have to deal with anything as silly as love? That’s just crazy talk!
(Don’t listen to what Cass says. She’s lying.)
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tugging at the surface of seas between us by starrey_night
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
19 Nov 2025
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“Why are you 1000 years old and at high school? Weird,” Rachel muttered, but Percy couldn’t focus as they began their dance.
“You don’t even know what’s happening, do you? Your precious camp will be up in flames and your friends slaves to the Lord of Time,” Kelli said, a cruel smile resting on her face.
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In which Percy Jackson fights in the labyrinth, and is investigated and observed by friends and family.
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Blades, Bandages, and Grappling Guns by justanalogy
Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs, Batman - All Media Types
11 Nov 2025
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The 16 year old Dazai Osamu has been to many places, like his shipping container, perched on the rocky coast of the Yokohama beach, and his boss's office, stained red in his memories. But after receiving a new mission from Mori, to take over Gotham city- and a promotion to accompany it- it seems the next place he'll be spending his time is far from home. Can he successfully infiltrate Gotham's underworld, spreading the Port Mafia's name and influence, and establish the Port Mafia as the new head of Gotham's crime? Will he make it that far? Or will he be stopped by the local gang of crime-fighting vigilantes? Only time will tell!
I'll add more tags as the story progresses!
Or: Dazai x Gotham
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Greater Need by ilostmygenderalongwithmydignity
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
09 Nov 2025
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Jason is adjusting to being connected to Gotham, but it’s not the most pleasant experience. He’s restless, something only partially helped by him going back out as Red Hood. He needs to get moving to silence the buzz under his skin, but that very buzz is making it hard to concentrate.
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Jack wakes up and Roy comes back :)
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- Part 7 of Jason Wolfboy Hours
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A Long Way From Home... A Longer Way Back. by BerryDontEatCake
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
09 Nov 2025
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What do you call a spider in a group? A clutter.
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After the event of No Way home, Peter One-Two-Three was thrust in another portal, not to return to their home dimensions, but a completely different reality all together.
A Peter in Gotham fic where not one, not two, but three Peter came to Gotham.