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While the Heart is Young and Gay by gracefulbirb for StarTravel
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse)
01 Aug 2025
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Based on the prompt: Modern AU where Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr meet at Erik’s mother’s flower shop, and Erik assumes Charles is getting flowers for his girlfriend. Charles comes back several more times before they both realize there has been a misunderstanding.
It’s just another ordinary day for Erik, filling in at his mother Edie’s flower shop - until Charles Xavier walks in, with his stupidly angelic blue eyes, oversized cardigans, and a voice that could hypnotise crowds. Erik is whipped. Instantly. Shamelessly.
The only problem? Charles is buying flowers for someone named Raven: “the most beautiful person I've ever met,” Charles declares, sounding almost lovestruck. Erik, naturally, spirals. Of course his perfect man is straight. And taken.
Cue misunderstandings, on both sides.
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The Thread that was Buried by gracefulbirb
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
27 May 2025
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Charles remembers the first time he saw her: clothes too big, eyes too hollow, clutching their father's hand beneath their mother’s disapproving glare.
“Charles, this is your older sister,” his father said, his mother bristled with barely concealed anger at the sight of an illegitimate child, a bastard.
He was five. He only heard “sister”—and reached for her hand with joy.
She died two years later. Crushed by a car, gone, and buried - forgotten by the world. And Charles never quite stopped blaming himself. Meeting Raven was like salvation.
But the dead don’t always stay buried. Unbeknownst to him, she clawed her way out of the grave, and survived—shaped by war, shadows, and the gift she never got to name. While Charles dreams of building a better world, Xylia walks the one that's already burning.
And when their paths cross again, nothing will be as it was.
-- basically Charles had an older half sister, she died and then came back to save him (plot still follows X-Men: First Class closely)
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This Little Light Of Mine by gracefulbirb
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Robin (Comics), DCU (Comics)
14 Nov 2021
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Bruce's newest girlfriend tittered at some joke that Bruce had made and without warning, clutched Dick's hand. Her false nails caught on his sleeve, and exposed the clear handprint-shaped bruise Two-Face had inflicted on Robin last night.
She froze. Her airy smile slipped off her plastic-like face.
Bruce's excuses fell onto empty ears as she grabbed Dick and cracked open her phone.
"Don't worry Dick," she crooned reassuringly, as the police dragged Bruce away. "You're safe now. He can't hurt you anymore."
And that was how Dick found himself wrapped up in her small arms, and being adopted for the second time in his life, by a multi-billionaire.
__When one of Brucie's airy-headed girlfriends notices the injuries Dick sustained from his time as Robin, Dick finds himself being wrapped up in a cocoon of love and confusion as Bruce is arrested for being an abuser. And he's not sure if he wants to lead the life as Robin anymore, because Bruce's girlfriend may not be the sharpest tool in the box, but she sure did openly love him. And he craved that.
Dick knew that Bruce loved him. But maybe it was time for a change.
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- Part 9 of Batfam Prompts and Stories
- Part 1 of What a world it could have been
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Flying Solo by gracefulbirb
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
30 Aug 2021
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In a deeper, darker world, where only one Robin lights up the sky.
Dick Grayson, who lost his entire world at age six, falls in the hands of the dangerous and ruthless Court Of Owls who mould him to be their perfect little shoulder.
Batman, still desperate to find the little Dick Grayson who vanished after seeing his family murdered before his very eyes, stumbles across Talon three years later.Talon becomes Dick Grayson once more and sores across the skies as Robin. He makes friends for life and is Bruce’s only light in life.
Jason Todd never touches the Batmobile’s wheels, Tim Drake’s father is never murdered, Stephanie Brown lives with her perfectly sane grandparents, Barbara Gordon lives with her mother- far away from her commissioner father, Damian Al-Ghul is the upcoming League of Assassins heir, Cassandra Cain, his trusty right-hand and Dick…well…Dick had other plans for fate.
Because this Dick Grayson remembered his past life- if only vaguely- and is going to change the fate that had been written for him.
Starting off…by finding his siblings again.
So what if he was now a tiny murdering psychopathic Talon? Family came first.
Always.
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- Part 1 of Birds Fly In Different Directions
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Where Did It All Start To Go Wrong? by gracefulbirb
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Super Sons (Comics)
29 Aug 2021
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After Dick's unexpected death, Jason and Damian navigate the murky waters of brotherhood which Dick once paved the paths for. Tim has all but fled since the funeral, and Bruce hadn't even visited Dick's grave once.
And for the first time in forever, Jason decided to take on the mantle of being the older brother - and reach out to those affected by the older man's death. Starting with Damian.
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- Part 7 of Batfam Prompts and Stories
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Cherik Stories by gracefulbirb
Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies), X-Men - All Media Types
08 Sep 2020
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Birds Fly In Different Directions by gracefulbirb
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types
30 Aug 2021
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What a world it could have been by gracefulbirb
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
14 Nov 2021
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Take Me Out by Petroica
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
01 Oct 2023
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Four years on from his brutal escape, Dick Grayson has managed to carve out a simple, if a little lonely, life for himself – that is until he meets the imposing but kind hearted “successful businessman” Jason Todd.
Four years on from the incident at the Court of Owls, Batman finally has a lead and wrangles Red Hood’s help to track down the last remaining Talon. It’s a case that Jason isn’t awfully concerned about until traces of the Talon keep popping up around his sweet but naïve new boyfriend Dick – a man he would do anything to protect.
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Bookmarked by gracefulbirb
11 Jul 2025
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Harry would do anything for Peter, but he's not sure his friend feels the same.
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Bookmarked by gracefulbirb
20 Dec 2022
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No Time For Us by certifiablymadmax for lorvstyrell
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi)
02 Jan 2019
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After discovering Spiderman's true identity, Harry questions everything. Too far down his current path to turn back, he's filled with uncertainty of where this information leaves him and Peter. When Peter returns wounded, they try to figure it out together.
Bookmarked by gracefulbirb
20 Dec 2022
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After the events regarding Venom and the Sandman, Harry disappears and leaves no word to Peter and MJ to help them find him. Almost five years later, MJ's gotten married to her old fiance, Peter Parker (or rather, Gwen Parker) has been out as a trans woman for nearly four years, and Harry finally comes back to New York City.
He makes his debut at a party thrown by the new owner of Oscorp, the very same night Gwen and her best friend are going out to celebrate four years on female hormones. It isn't long before they're hopelessly infatuated with one another, and Gwen is forced to explain why Harry finds her so familiar, and why he's so hopelessly drawn to her.
Bookmarked by gracefulbirb
19 Dec 2022
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"You love him more than he loves you."
Bookmarked by gracefulbirb
19 Dec 2022