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Spyral had broken something in Dick.
When he returned to Gotham, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep going. He was the fun one. The easy smile, the glue that held everyone together. But what happens when the rock reaches his breaking point?
After two years of pretending, Dick starts to crack.
Now to keep his family from finding out.
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Dick self-destructs.
Featuring both the angstiest of angst and the author's attempts at humor to stop their tears from drowning the keyboard. Read at your own peril.- Language:
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16 Mar 2025
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The destination he has in mind is unclear — unnamed, yet, more accurately. Jason doesn’t know where he’s going, or what he’s going to do when he gets there. A few hours’ drive just didn’t seem far enough to be away from the expanse of Gotham, not when Bristol itself rolled out several miles around the city proper, so he cranked it up a few hours. Chicago seemed like a far enough place away, until he got onto I-80 and a terror seized him as he remembered Dick had spent a brief stint as an officer in Chicago. So he kept driving west.
Keeps. Keeps driving west. Jason Todd has no idea where he’s going or no idea what he’s going to do when he gets there, but he knows with certainty three things:
Jason Todd is a wanted man.
Jason Todd is the Red Hood.
And Jason Todd absolutely cannot go back home.
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The one where Jason flees to Montana, hides from his family, and inadvertently finds another.
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- English
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- 33,649
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- 2/10
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12 Mar 2025
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Heat of the Chase by argentoswan
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
18 Dec 2018
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Newt returns to New York to visit, but when he is drawn into Tina and Mr. Graves' new investigation, he finds himself immersed in a case that challenges his knowledge of magical creatures-- and what he thought he knew about Mr. Graves, the lead investigator who doesn't want the consulting magizoologist anywhere near his job.
"It seems there’s not a species in the world that doesn’t love you, Mr. Scamander.”
- Language:
- English
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- 93,286
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 8
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11 Mar 2025
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Not All Kidnappings are Bad by Cdelphiki
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
17 Aug 2020
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While out on patrol one night, Bruce encounters a kidnapping attempt. A pretty routine night, unfortunately.
When the victim in question happens to be a 9-year-old Jason Todd, however, Bruce finds himself getting a little too attached to a child he just met. Was it okay to kidnap a child right off the street and keep him?
- Language:
- English
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- 40,574
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 34
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03 Mar 2025
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"I only want to see you happily settled," Rhaenyra said her hand on her swollen belly - no doubt the coming child would be another silver-haired boy to make everyone look askance at Jacaera on two counts.
"Well, I am," Jacaera was. Jacaera had been happy, but her own stupid words and her mother’s spite might well have undone that. "Or I was until you decided to interfere.” She wished she had never said it. But her mother had not had to repeat it. She would not cry in front of her mother.
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- Part 6 of Nine Parts
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19 Feb 2025
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Following a string of mysterious disappearances, Dick and Roy have to go undercover as a married couple in suburbia. The fact that they're no longer on speaking terms complicates matters.
Featuring: pink polo shirts, pining, two rancid exes, grief, post Dickbats identity issues and a minor descent into madness.
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I’ll Bring you Sparrows by AnonymousMink for DenseHumboldt
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
30 Apr 2023
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His bitten-down fingernails dip into the grooves of the black mask, sleek and sturdy and gouged with knife strikes he was too slow to duck.
(The kind of strike that might kill a guy in a balaclava. Or a girl in a ski mask.)
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AKA Bruce upgrades Selina’s suit, in retrospect he might have asked her about it first.
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09 Feb 2025
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Tim doesn't like his medication. He feels really weird lately, and he's certain it's because of the blue pills. Yet every time he thinks too hard about it, his thoughts trail off until he can't remember what they were.
"The pills are good for you, Timothy." His parents tell him. "Don't you remember how much you struggled before? How disobedient you were? Look at you now, you never argue or ask those obnoxious questions anymore."
The worst part is, they're right. Tim doesn't argue or ask questions anymore. Mostly because half of the time when he goes to speak, his words have abandoned him before he even opens his mouth.
(Tim's brain is super messed-up. Good thing his parents have medicine to help him.)
(The Drakes don't appreciate that their son is extra intelligent in all the wrong ways, so naturally they start drugging him from age six and on.)
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04 Feb 2025
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And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose by SonoSvegliato
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
31 Mar 2025
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It’s been two months since Bruce has allowed Tim to go out as Robin, and every night Bruce patrols the city alone. Gotham’s shadowy knight is stalking the streets for a vigilante that seems to forethink his every move, and at the same time, dead ends; false trails; and strange, macabre clues haunt both the Batman and Bruce Wayne.
Meanwhile, Tim drinks stupid protein shakes made with milk from Wisconsin cows and fails online Precalculus. They are, Tim thinks bitterly, right back where they started.
(But there is a difference between waiting and biding your time.)
Title taken from “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman.
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- Part 3 of To an Athlete Dying Young
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29 Jan 2025
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And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose by SonoSvegliato, part 3 of their larger series, "To an Athlete Dying Young”
Love love love everything about this series so far. My favorite Tim fic, author writes him and the others so well, they feel like real people.
Parts 1 and 2 sucked me in, love how Jason is also written, and after reading back the first two parts after the Reveal of part 2, a lot of the story becomes more profound . Many moments where my jaw dropped , so good. -
And hold to the low lintel up/The still-defended challenge-cup by SonoSvegliato
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
14 Jun 2023
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Tim is almost-finally training to be Robin, kind of. (Emphasis on the “almost”). (Emphasis on the “kind of”).
He’s been sparring with the Hood, Gotham’s newest vigilante, but Hood doesn’t know Tim as Tim, he knows Tim as Jason, but Tim knows that Hood is actually Jason, and honestly, Tim’s just writing the rules up as he goes.
And the stakes are only getting higher. After tragedy strikes the Drakes, Tim ends up in Bruce’s care just as a new series of gruesome crimes plagues Gotham. More than ever, Bruce is determined to keep Tim out of it.
Tim does not keep out of it. (And there are consequences to starting fights you don’t know how to win).
Title taken from “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman.
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- Part 2 of To an Athlete Dying Young
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- 3/3
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29 Jan 2025
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The Lone Ranger Never Had to Deal with Bruce Wayne by theskeptileptic
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
27 Nov 2023
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Tim is an independent, clever, and super mature eleven-year-old. Unfortunately, his dopey neighbor, Bruce, can’t seem to understand that.
When he decides to disappear on a “solo camping trip” and run away to Canada, he figures it’s the perfect plan that will make everybody happy. He didn’t expect the Waynes would tag along with him and ruin everything.
A six-chaptered tale filled with identity shenanigans, s’mores, soon-to-be-brothers, and a kid who is in desperate need of a new family.
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- English
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- 25,522
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- 6/6
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26 Jan 2025
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the only way out (is as a carcass) by Scarlet_Ribbons for insane_falcon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
31 Dec 2023
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Jason tries for a laugh as he glances over at Robin, but it comes out sharp and a little choked. “You got another Robin, B? Don’tcha already have me? Why do you need another one?” Glancing down at himself, he adds, “And… Uh, why do I look like this? Did I fall into mutating acid or… or get bitten by a radioactive bat or somethin’?”
When he looks up, Bruce suddenly looks real pale; there’s white creeping up along his cheeks, rising up the sides of his face.
“Shoot,” Jason says nervously. “I— I was just jokin’ about the bats, really. Don’t tell me that’s really what— what happened. Or was it the magic or whatever, is that what made me look like this?”
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Jason gets mentally de-aged, and that ends up being the least of his issues.
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26 Jan 2025
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when doves cry by Scarlet_Ribbons for SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Jan 2023
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Tim is grateful Hood leaves promptly, in any case, because that means he doesn’t see Tim crawl the last few feet into his house.
[Jack and Janet die uneventfully— at the hands of a home intruder, at 3:41 in the morning on a Thursday. Two gunshots. Tim’s entire world comes to a screeching halt at 3:44, when he finds their bodies.]
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- 13,137
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26 Jan 2025
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Tim's always been something of a schemer.
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- Part 2 of Innocence Died Screaming
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- 4/4
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26 Jan 2025
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buy back the secrets by sundiscus for cairosene, remux, regional_catastrophe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
27 Feb 2025
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He takes a long, slow breath. Ignores the glares from the other students. “Superboy,” he murmurs. “It’s me. If you’re listening, I could use some help.”
Or: 5 times Superboy saves Tim Drake, and one time Tim Drake saves Superboy.
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- 6/6
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26 Jan 2025
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"M-My dad said you, you’d,” the kid says, swallowing. “That if I didn’t, that if I didn’t behave, he’d sell me to you. And you, you would…”
The shock burns away immediately; the ashes condense into a murky, muted sort of rage.
He stays still for a long moment, then pulls himself up against the wall. “Okay,” he says monotonously, taking a step toward the kid, and the kid- flinches. He flinches.
Jason reels back, not speaking yet, not trusting himself not to yell. And when he does speak, he says:
“Come on, kid. Let's go say hi to your dad."
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26 Jan 2025
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“I’m Tim,” he says, though introducing himself to a puppy makes him flush in embarrassment. “Are you hungry?”
The dog blinks at him, all scared eyes.
“Where’s your family?” Tim asks. “Did they leave you?”
(Or: Tim Drake finds a friend.)
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24 Jan 2025
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and when you see what I've become (will you love me for who I am, not who I was?) by Chemical_Processes, GalaxyThreads
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
15 Oct 2024
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“'Don’t. Let me make one thing—' Jason has to take in a sharp breath before he can finish the sentence, squinting his eyes open and hissing, '—Absolutely clear to you, Mr. Wayne. I am this close,' he lifts his fingers up, and makes sure that Bruce can see they’re pressed flat together, 'To shooting you. Shut the hell up.'"
AKA: After a mission goes wrong, Jason is left bloody, concussed, and pissed. Unfortunately for him, Bruce is just trying to keep Jason alive, which would probably be easier if Jason wasn't ready to strangle him.
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22 Jan 2025
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cold wind by modal_contingency
Fandoms: 悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series, Castlevania (Cartoon)
15 May 2020
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Trevor picks up Sypha, Alucard, and a new habit in the space of a few weeks, and he’s not sure which is the biggest problem.
One alpha. Two omega. It really should be simple.
It isn’t.
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20 Jan 2025
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Tim was completely still, staring up at Dick with a kind of steely determination that was completely out of place on his young face. “You’re his brother. I thought that if there was anyone who loved him like that, it would be you.”
Dick tried to swallow, but his mouth and throat were completely dry. “It doesn’t matter,” he said hoarsely. “You can love someone to the stars and back, and it doesn’t mean you get to keep them.”
Love alone wasn’t enough, had never been enough, would never be enough. If it were, then Dick wouldn’t have had to be dragged away, kicking and screaming, from every great loss of his life. If it were, then all of Dick’s howling grief would have meant something.
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There’s an entrance to the underworld beneath Gotham City. Tim is certain that the only way to stop Batman’s rampage is to give Bruce his son back. Dick just wants a second chance with his brother. It's an old song.
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15 Jan 2025
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Orpheus and Eurydice and stepping into a doomed fate. Really, really good