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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
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PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT PIECE I'VE LOST. by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Jan 2023
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It is relief that washes off of Bruce in great waves of uncertainty. Talia relishes in it all, dipping her feet into this new sea of understanding he's letting her in on. She wonders if he even realises that she knows, that deep down;
Batman is glad the Joker is dead. Batman is even more pleased that it was not him who killed the Joker.
The air between them smells like vindication.
Talia smiles to herself, "I didn't do it for you."
(Talia al Ghul kills the Joker. This manages to solve a lot of problems.)
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14 Jan 2025
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leave as though fire burns under your feet by perissologist
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
09 Jul 2023
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That glow is gone, now. Gone from Dick’s skin, gone from inside him. It used to shine out of him, out of all the cracks the world put in him. But now Bruce looks down at him, and he is as dark and cold as a snuffed star. That’s what gets to him the most—not how cold the morgue is under its colorless fluorescent lighting, or the cloying smell of formaldehyde that clogs his throat. It’s how still Dick is, on the cold, sterile surface of the examiner’s table. It’s unnatural. The boy never learned how to sit still.
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On a dewy Sunday morning in April, Dick Grayson, trust fund baby and local celebrity, is found dead at the tender age of 25. His abrupt passing sends his hometown, the sleepy beach town of Gotham, into a tizzy--and his former guardian, old money stalwart Bruce Wayne, reeling. But as Bruce struggles to come to terms with his ward's death, it rapidly becomes clearer and clearer to him that there's something off with this tragedy--no, this "town"--no, this entire reality...
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13 Jan 2025
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Something something about grief and unexpected loss, and having to Persist in a world that doesn’t feel right. Also in love with stories where reality literally isn’t right , and maybe this new reality is better, until something bad happens and shatters the illusion. Story finishes pretty open ended , which fits perfectly.
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"How old are you anyway?"
Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”
“How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.
Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”
(A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)
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13 Jan 2025
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nothing would be beautiful by mishencockles
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Titans (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
25 Oct 2024
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A life changing injury pushes Dick off the deep end. Going on his farewell tour, before he closes the curtain on his life for good, Roy comes along for the ride of a lifetime.
It’s better, after all, to go out in a blaze of glory, than to simply fade away.
OR: After the events of Batman v1 #408, Dick loses the use of his arm, and Robin, in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, Ollie’s left for good, and Roy’s in a downward spiral of his own.
In other words, Dick heads to Atlantic City, ‘’with Bruce’s credit card in one pocket, and Roy in the other.’’
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Coming in Clutch by bowditch
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
31 Aug 2020
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Colonel Roy Mustang decides that Edward Elric needs to learn how to drive.
It goes about as well as anything with Edward Elric usually does.
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07 Jan 2025
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Sometimes You Gotta Burn the Bridge to Rebuild It by Harpersdragons
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
15 Jul 2025
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If you ask him, Dick wouldn’t know when it started.
When did it go wrong?
At some point when he was fighting to be recognized as an equal?
The first real, noticeable point is when he got shot.
It wasn’t even that bad! Just a graze, really. But it’s the catalyst of this whole sequence of events.
Bruce is just overdramatic.
Sure, it didn’t just ‘graze’ him by the literal definition. But he didn’t die! He didn’t even pass out.
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Bruce is emotionally inept, Dick spirals, and things get out of hand.
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- Part 1 of Bridges Universe
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02 Jan 2025
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The Jason Project by loosingletters
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
21 Jul 2019
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Jason had just wanted to see his autopsy report, he had only wanted to know what information Bruce had about his death. And when Bruce hadn't given it to him, he had stolen it. He hadn’t meant to stumble upon the bucket list of a dead child and the footage of a grieving father crossing one item after another off the list.
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30 Dec 2024
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"I kill so others don't have to," Bruce states firmly and clearly. This entire situation didn't seem like it could get any more bizarre, what with Bruce sitting in the dark and polishing guns, but somehow it just has, "While you are here you will not kill."
Jason's throat is scratchy and dry with terror, but the insatiable feeling of being talked over and disregarded is a fresh wound. He can't back down from this if he tried, "I've killed. I still kill. Who the fuck do you think you are to stop me?"
Bruce gently sets down his gun, and picks up the blade beside him with practised ease. Jason's blood runs cold when the man wearing his father's face says, "You will die by my hand if you try."
(Jason meets a version of Bruce who has manifested his fears very differently.)
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30 Dec 2024
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JJ can’t stop staring and as he stares, the words come easy. Like floating. Or surfing. Or falling in love.
“So, this is stupid,” he starts. “But. You remember that time when I showed up to the Chateau and basically fell off my bike?”
“I remember.” John B traces the bone of JJ’s wrist with his finger. “Scared the shit outta me.”
“Yeah, sorry, I guess?” JJ tries and John B snorts at him. “Well, you picked me off the ground and once you realized I really couldn’t walk straight, you kinda put your arm around me? You helped me inside, kept asking what happened. I couldn’t even answer ‘cause the only thing running through my head was ‘I didn’t know, I didn’t know.’”
John B stops moving. “Know what?”
There are Kooks and Tourons and Pogues on Kildare, and then there’s something worse. Maybanks.
*a shamelessly JJ centric story.
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- Part 1 of Seabird Collection
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28 Dec 2024
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Ain’t Nobody Gonna Care About You Except Me by Wilde_Shade for queenofthorns
Fandoms: Walking Dead (TV)
22 Dec 2011
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The Dixon brothers work best alone.
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24 Dec 2024
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In the aftermath of the Riddler’s “cleansing” of Gotham city, the Batman works tirelessly to keep crime in check and assist the civilian population. An exhausted Bruce Wayne turns his efforts towards humanitarian relief for his city.
Things can never be quiet, however – a series of bodies start showing up in various locations in the Narrows, Gotham’s bottom of the barrel district. The masked crusader and Lieutenant James Gordon unite their efforts to catch the killer while also struggling with a corrupt police force. The case reveals complex ties to Gotham’s sex trade and reinforces the unfortunate truth that in Gotham trust is inadvisable.
A new tragedy strikes Gotham just as the situation is starting to look better – a terrible accident at the travelling Haly’s Circus leaves nine-year-old Richard Grayson orphaned. Suspecting sabotage, the boy goes looking for answers and runs into the mysterious Batman, also on the same track. Things get complicated when Bruce Wayne accepts Dick into his home, but there is a front of healing for all parties involved.
Time runs on and heals all wounds. Despite everything that might happen, the sun always comes back up. Stay put and feel the sunrise on your skin.
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- Part 1 of Gotham In The Sunlight
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Daryl doesn’t know what it means or why it keeps happening–why he keeps letting it happen. He sure as shit doesn’t know why Paul started it in the first place.
He should put a stop to it, he knows that. Resolves it yet again: he’ll tell Paul to cut it out.
Another month passes, which makes it two months running that Paul’s been cornering him somewhere private so they can do… stuff. Stuff that leaves Daryl breathless and confused and euphoric and too embarrassed to say a single word about it afterwards.
That seems to suit Paul just fine. He doesn’t say a goddamn thing about it either, and hypocritically Daryl really wishes the goddamn hippie would take a goddamn minute to explain what in the goddamn hell it is they’re doing.
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11 Dec 2024
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Contingency by ThePickler
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), The Penguin (US TV 2024), Batman (Comics)
23 Dec 2024
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In the wake of the Riddler’s flood, Bruce realizes he needs to moonlight as an idiot.
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- Part 3 of The Batman 2022 universe
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08 Dec 2024
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Wars aren’t always fought on battlefields.
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- Part 5 of Founding Fathers
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02 Dec 2024
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After another devastating blow, the communities are falling apart. Carl’s vision of the New World is in jeopardy. Daryl sets out to make wrongs right again.
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- Part 4 of Founding Fathers
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30 Nov 2024
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oh where have you been, my blue-eyed son? by azablue
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon)
15 Nov 2024
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“Yup.” Jason said, popping the ‘p.’ “I’ve never been. There’s a new drug thing set up in nice-”
“It’s pronounced neece.” Dick said, before he could stop himself. Bruce would’ve corrected it, but it was something so ingrained in him it was hard to let it slide. Jason stopped aiming and rolled his eyes.
“Of course you know that.” Jason shook his head. “I bet one of Bruce’s fancy tutors-”
“I used to live there.” Dick said, cutting him off. Jason gave Dick a lot of flack for the fact that he got the Wayne sliver spoon placed in his hands first and earlier, which was fair, but this was different. This was from before.
“What?” Jason stood up straight.
“I spent the winters there when I was in the circus.” Dick shrugged. “My parents loved the beaches so sometimes we’d stay longer too. It was some of the longest stretches of time I’d spend in one place, I think.” He cleared his throat, “well, before moving here.”
OR Dick Grayson and his relationship with home throughout the years
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- Part 1 of in the shadow of the stars
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25 Nov 2024
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They called it the Final Battle, but the war has just started.
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- Part 2 of Founding Fathers
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If they're going to stay in Alexandria, Daryl knows things are going to have to change. He just hopes those changes are for the better.
He doesn't know if they are.
Season 6, Shiner-verse.
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- Part 6 of Shiner-verse
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20 Nov 2024
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Chuuya and Dazai have been sharing things with each other their entire lives: clothes, screenshots, bathrooms — you name it. The one thing they've never shared is a kiss.
Until one night, they do, and everything changes.
What they don't know is that all the confusing, angst-ridden feelings that arise in the aftermath of that kiss? They're going to be the least of their problems.
Or, a fem soukoku coming of age fic.
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19 Nov 2024
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Need to reread
Fem skk you’ll always be famous