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• don’t tame your demons (keep them on a leash) by itsmily for rittu, carysoul

  Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  19 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson & Slade Wilson
  • Dick Grayson & Jason Todd
  • Dick Grayson
  • Bruce Wayne
  • William Cobb (DCU)
  • Slade Wilson
  • Jason Todd
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Dick Grayson is Renegade
  • Dick Grayson is Nightwing
  • Dick Grayson Needs a Hug
  • Dick Grayson Gets a Hug
  • Dick Grayson is a Talon
  • Eventual fluff (I promise)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Self-Sacrificing Dick Grayson
  • Dick Grayson Has Eldest Daughter Syndrome
  • Dick Grayson Has Issues
  • I'm really making this poor man go through it
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

  Summary

  In a world in which Dick dies during his time as Robin instead of Jason, is subsequently “saved” by the Court of Owls, before actually getting saved by Deathstroke, it seemed that the days of the Dynamic Duo were long over. That is, until a fight accidentally unleashing *time magic shenanigans* sends Dick to what appears to be an alternate universe where he never died, and became a vigilante named Nightwing? And who’s this Red Hood? Cue the healing.

  Title from Arsonist’s Lullabye by Hozier.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,679

  Chapters:

  2/?

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