12 Bookmarks by dcudickgrayson
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"I can't believe you actually saved a human," Jason said.
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Inspired by sink or swim by envysparkler and Peri_2.
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With a gurgled scream he's tossed back into the ocean. The waters rush to embrace their stolen child, but now, instead of their enclosure being a comfort, it's suffocating.
He thrashes, desperate, trying to swim but... but he can't.
Panic and fear washes over him as he slowly starts to sink to the bottom of the ocean floor, a trail of blood flowing from the spots his fins were supposed to be.
He's a shark mer. He needs his fins to swim, but... but they're gone. Taken. Stolen. Sawed away by those monsters. His fins... are gone.
Dick lets out a terrified shrill as he sinks down, down, down.... drowning.
For years he's been told to stay clear of the monsters above the ocean. Been told how there were humans that wouldn't hesitate to tear his fins off his body. But never in his life had he expected for it to actually happen to him. Now Dick's drowning, unable to move, defenseless, and... No.
No, no, no, no—
There's a something big swimming right toward him.
(OR Bruce Wayne finds a dying, de-finned shark mer and he does what anyone sensible would do: he takes him in and looks after him, all the while wondering if 26 is a bit too young to adopt.)
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- Part 2 of my DC fantasy-themed aus
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Except, a memory. One of the very few clear ones Bruce had of his parents.
The Waynes lived by interesting rules than the rest of Gotham's ocean. While killing other mer was frowned upon, it was not inherently wrong. The Waynes—Or rather, Bruce's parents—had thought differently.
～ DAY 7 ∙∙∙
inter-ocean travel, endangeredSeries
- Part 1 of MerMay 2026 - MainlyKnife Edition
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Bruce's utter bafflement must've been clear on his face, since his captain laughs. It is not kind, nor joyful, more sadistic. The smile he gives Bruce is sharp, "I understand this must be hard to accept, you've been with us for many years now, Bruce." That's not quite the issue Bruce is having currently though…
～ DAY 8 ∙∙∙
octopus and squid, pirateSeries
- Part 2 of MerMay 2026 - MainlyKnife Edition
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Four times Tim took in his family's emotions, and one Tim they took in his.
After a near-death experience, Tim begins to navigate the complexities of his Fae abilities, particularly the emotional bonds that tie him to his family. As he absorbs the overwhelming emotions of Dick, Jason, Damian, and Bruce, Tim struggles to balance his desire to help and the weight of his own pain.
Sequel to Trapped! Supernatural AU, Shifter AU
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- Part 2 of Tim Drake Fairy AU
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Jason hunts creatures and sells them to the highest bidder.
The feisty merman he's about to catch might make him break that rule though.
Jason deserves to keep something pretty all to himself for once, doesn't he? ;) -
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Rehabilitation Log #415 | Caleb
ID: 03301939
Subject/Species: Bruce/Homo aquaticus enteroctopus
Notes: After the most recent incident (see:[2]), the team has made the informed decision to keep the two genus' together until we find the equipment to separate them. Despite our doubts, Bruce has shown no overt signs of violence towards (Unnamed) subject 09171997. We do not currently have a basis for octo-mer behavior towards children on file. They are being closely monitored for changes.
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Bruce and Dick end up in the same aquarium tank by mistake, for better or for worse.
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Clark is an aquatic mammal trainer at the Metropolis Aquarium, and Bruce is their very unruly new resident. Clark doesn't realise that Bruce is only the first of many mers that are going to live in the Aquarium. He also doesn't realise that he may kinda sorta fall in love with being part of this pod.
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Too small to fight for his food and on the brink of starvation, Jason had seen the krakenmer emerge from the depths, dragging a large, weird-looking scaly shark behind him, and thought, surely the krakenmer could spare a small morsel.
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How Jason joined the Batfam in my Mer!AU <3Series
- Part 2 of Depths of Love (A Merman Batfam AU)
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Dick doesn't care what Bruce says, he was absolutely cheating at stealth training.
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Fathomless by Star_Gazing_Knight
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
29 Jul 2026
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fathomless / ˈfaT͟Həmləs / adjective – unable to be measure or understood, extremely deep
Wally never expected to come back to Happy Harbor. Not after his near drowning in the sea caves by his childhood home — which inevitably led to his parents’ divorce. But here he was twelve years later, fresh out of grad -school and moving back into his late father’s old house.
A summer spent in the sleepy town he grew up in on the Rhode Island coast should have been idyllic. A quiet three months working in his uncle’s aquarium as he figured out what the hell he wanted to do with his life. But, it turns out, finding a siren tangled in a fishing net at the bottom of the bay would only be the beginning of his troubles.
What happened to the poor Nereid who now haunted Wally’s thoughts? Why couldn’t he shake the feeling that their fates were more tangled than the net he’d cut away from its beautiful tail? And who was the so-called expert called in by the counties Game-Warden to investigate the new predator making waves in the Rhode Island Sound?
The further Wally dug, the deeper the mystery took him — and someone had swim to the bottom of it.
Good thing Wally has his diving license.
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- Part 1 of Thalassophilia
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Bruce owns a facility for the study and rehabilitation of mers, and runs a popular blog featuring the mers he interacts with. Having successfully released Dick, the mer he grew to see as a son, Bruce expects to retire the blog.
Then a little mer pup steals his equipment and his camera.
Daily-ish short stories from the MerMay 2024 prompt list on tumblr.