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    Well, just look at him. Driver's voice is flat. The difference from his usual tone is jarring; Driver is generally a quiet man, but that doesn't mean he lacks emotion. Ryland has learnt to identify the small tells in his mild-mannered voice — the lilt in his speech when he smiles, the tight, tense note that his tone takes on when he's feeling on edge, the way his words go all soft and warm when he's being shy. But Ryland doesn't think he's ever heard him sound like this, his voice so utterly devoid of inflection. Does he look like a good guy to you?

    In the background, the cartoon keeps playing, the animated shark now segueing into a villainous monologue.

    I smell blood and I bite! The shark declares. Its serrated teeth are drawn in identical isosceles triangles. That's just what I do!

    It's easy to take a stray dog home. The hard part is keeping him.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    “yes i do please keep me” AHHHHHHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    Dick shrugs, fiddling with the sleeves of his sweater, "I guess. I've never had my own room before. It is very… cold."

    "I can tell Alfred to turn the heating up in here," Bruce immediately says, grimacing when Dick looks almost embarrassed, eyes trained down on the rug in the middle of the room.

    "No! No, not cold like that," he grumbles, hunching in on himself, "It is lonely, being the only one. I used to sleep next to mama and papa."

    Bruce imagines knocking himself out with an inflatable hammer, "Oh. Right."

    (Bruce stops a city from drowning, goes to the circus and becomes a toy maker — in that order.)

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    06 Jul 2026

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    WAAAAA

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Well this was super cool

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    “You’re doing it again,” Bruce says, tone accusatory. “You’re faking.”

    “It’s not faking,” Dick snaps, a little more aggressive than he means to be. But he doesn’t like that word, doesn’t like the connotations.

    (Especially when he knows Bruce is lying about something, too.)

    “Then what is it?”

    “It’s called being charming and it’s nice.”

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    Dick’s mother raised her son to be a star. Dick’s father raised his son to be an athlete.

    Bruce's new ward is charming (manipulative), dedicated (obsessive), and way, way too smart for either of their own good.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    can i just say this is one of the best fucking fics of reevesverse batman Ever . I never really enjoyed fics where they give battinson a robin cuz i just can’t seem to place robins personality with this batman. but its so perfect in this fic

    i really really REALLY enjoyed Dick’s story here, i love how the author gave him such a deep story- adapting his family background and known backstory. but it’s the extra bit which is the Manipulation part, his need to put on a mask, his vulnerability is so well explored here, and it fits just right with the awkward reclusive bruce who has no fucking clue on what to do. I love their dynamic here so much, dicks too mature for his age (which isn’t even his real age!!), he understands expectations and knows how to act in order to get what he needs… but bruce doesnt give in as much as dick would’ve wanted cuz he can see through him. It’s so well explored and it makes so much sense because bruce knows all about masks and having to pretend (cuz he’s autistic and batman)

    I love this fic so much 🥹 im so glad i came across it. i really really love dicks character here so much i love love love how he is his own person here, the development into robin 🥹🥹🥹 He reminds me of young justice dick (My SON) i love it i love how all of the sudden Bruce gets jumped by this ball of sunshine that’s lowkey rain which turns into his rainbow. Dick is Bruce’s rainbow here

    I LOVE THIS FIC I LOVE THIS SO MUCH i can go on and on. this fic is my top 3 ever

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    That is how it starts. 

    My pebbles are all good kids and a tight knit group. There are rarely fights or tensions and I can honestly say that they are all friends.

    But Sam, showing all of them up with a gift that made Teacher Grace smile softly with tears in his eyes? 

    That means war.

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    A lucky find leads to lots of gifts for Teacher Grace from his precious pebbles

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    24 Jun 2026

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