17 Bookmarks by koiwynn
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Dick’s goals for his mission are clear: infiltrate the H.I.V.E. base alone, grab the intel unseen, and head back to Titans Tower before the storm hits.
Getting snowed into a cabin with Joey Wilson and Deathstroke was not even remotely part of the plan.
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- Part 2 of slade + dick
- Part 1 of mercyverse
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- English
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- 13,206
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
02 Jul 2026
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the thing where you’re lowkey enemies and can’t stand one another, but you both love the same person, so you’re compelled to coexist in order to care for the one you mutually adore. and perhaps, through that shared devotion, you come to realise you have far more in common than you initially assumed, and while you’ll never fully see eye to eye, you learn to live with a reluctant respect and a quiet, hard-won understanding of one another.
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“We can live without Bruce,” he tells himself, unfortunately not for the first time in his life.
“Sure, but why would we?” Robin asks so earnestly, like the thought had never even occurred to him.
Dick hates him.
On Dick's 30th Birthday, he gets a conveniently timed blast from the past. It goes badly, but he gets to say some things he's never been able to before.
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Small wonder Alfred doesn’t let him get close.
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gates of horn and ivory by mishencockles
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Titans (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
02 Oct 2024
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‘’You know the Mad Hatter?’’
An involuntary shiver runs up Roy’s spine.
‘’Jarvis Tetch? Short little freak with a hard-on for Alice in Wonderland? Yeah, Wings' mentioned him, once or twice. Dabbles in mind control. Gives me the creeps.’’
‘’Well, back in the day he built this thing called the Dream Machine, trapped its victim in a kind of dream world. It seems someone found the blueprint. Spruced it up a bit.’’
A cold feeling settles in Roy’s stomach.
‘’You’re saying…’’
‘’You’re looking at the Dream Machine 2.0.’’
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Or: Dick is dreaming and Roy needs to get him out. He learns a lot of things along the way, things Dick would've preferred to keep buried.
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A Blur of Spinning Wheels by chinuplargepup (chinuplilpup)
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
20 Dec 2020
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Dick is on the chandelier.
An eight year old. A genius gymnast, to be sure, but a child, small for his age and under Bruce’s legal care. On the chandelier. Twenty five feet above the ground, surrounded by glass and kept up by a single fifty-year-old chain bolted to the ceiling.
Bruce is going to have to check his blood pressure after Dick is safe on the ground.
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6ft Under the Manor by Rygdea
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
10 Apr 2025
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Concerned about the safety Blackgate Penitentiary can offer from and for the Red Hood, Dick decides to bring his brother back to the manor even if it means abandoning the penthouse.
The two of them will tidy up their childhood home to live a new life.
Yet, their bonding activities merely crystallize one thing: Jason doesn't want to be saved. If he can't own Dick, he wants him to die.
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“I think we should do it. Now.”
his first time with willem reminds him of other firsts, and he hopes this one will be different.
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“Help me, please.” Jude begged, defeated. “I don’t know how to do this.”
Set during The Happy Years, Willem finds Jude on the bathroom floor at Green St doing something he's never done before. This is a one-shot giving Jude a chance to explore the world of sex again, but this time on his own terms. Some sentences are directly from the book, although used in a different context. I do not claim them as my own.
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In the wake of Gotham War, Dick decides to give Bruce one final chance, but he doesn’t believe it will last very long. Bruce claims that Zur is gone, and, well, Dick believes that. It’s just that the problem didn’t start with Zur, so why would it end with him? Bruce has been hitting his apprentices since Dick was eight years old. He’s said he would stop before, and sometimes, it’s even lasted a while. But Bruce breaks all of his promises, sans one, and Dick is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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- Part 1 of Fool Me Thrice
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threadbare by inconstant_moon
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
28 Jan 2026
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That's the thing. Dick looked right at the kid, broken hand and all, and nearly let him in. He nearly let him train.
Because after all these years, he didn't process anything wrong with the image before him.
(Dick, Bruce, and the implications of raising a partner instead of a child.)
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- English
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- 80,668
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- 18/18
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
27 Apr 2026
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We were partners, and that meant more to me back then than it would have if you treated me like a kid. It’s just—I didn’t know any better, Bruce. I was a child.”
the experience of getting older and being challenged to relinquish your rose-tinted glasses and see your childhood for what it was, and how it has negatively impacted and turned you into an dysfunctional adult sighh.
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look back in anger by vechter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
04 Sep 2024
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Dick and Bruce are like this:
Not the sun and moon, a love devastated by circumstance, a story of light and gravity, but a different beast altogether. A nucleus fissuring into two, borne of the same energy, the same matter, the same decay.Their story has always been radioactive.
A canon-divergent take on Dick's return after Spyral featuring debilitating self-loathing and guilt, interspersed with the ordeal of being unmasked, and the subsequent waning sense of personhood.
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- English
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- 40,444
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- 3/3
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- 159
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
10 Apr 2026
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wow author, i want to get on my knees and kiss your knuckles in appreciation. what an exquisitely written, bittersweet fic. bruce & dick’s relationship is a devastating, emotionally muddled train wreck that never fails to pull on my heartstrings. i hate them so much i need them gone (i say lovingly).
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Declensions by dustorange
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU
29 Sep 2018
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“My father,” Dick says, “worked the rope. It cut him. His hands were never clean.”
- Language:
- English
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- 13,536
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- 1/1
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- 25
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- 264
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
28 Mar 2026
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so quietly brilliant. great retelling of dick’s story from the devastating perspective of the compounded grief of not only losing your parents, but also the violent uprooting from your culture and home and being forced to assimilate in a country that hates your guts.
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His brothers don’t want to see him. No one does. Not after Spyral. Not after the lies. And Dick wants to scream that it’s not his fault; it never was. But he can’t.
So he doesn’t. He’ll be fine alone anyway.
OR: Post-Spyral. Secrets are revealed. Traumas are addressed. No-one is happy.
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- Part 1 of standing on fault lines
- Language:
- English
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- 35,525
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 11
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- 419
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
24 Mar 2026
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You’re just wretched mirrors of each other. Binary stars. If you guys keep on the way you are, you’re bound to get drawn into each other’s orbits and explode
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The Nightwing Protocol by PurpleSoot
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Young Justice (Cartoon)
17 Sep 2022
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In a universe that falls somewhere in between Teen Titans and Young Justice, Robin was fourteen years old on the day he was killed in action, caught in a clever trap laid by the world’s most dangerous mercenary assassin.
Deathstroke’s Apprentice was fifteen on the day he finally surrendered to the Justice League, with blood on his hands and scars that will never heal.
Dick Grayson is seventeen on the day he chooses to face Slade Wilson again.
Some things you lose and can’t ever find again. Some things you drop and leave behind. Some things you just have to learn how to carry with you.
(They’ll call that the Nightwing Protocol, if he survives.)
- Language:
- English
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- 252,301
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 708
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
08 Jan 2026
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i’m really taken with the arc Dick undergoes in this fic. watching him slowly untangle and come to terms with his deeply conflicted feelings toward Slade was such a cathartic and emotionally rewarding experience. what i especially appreciated is that the fic never tries to flatten those emotions into something cleanly understandable or easily resolvable; it allows contradiction, shame, attachment, resentment, and longing to coexist in ways that feel painfully human (and very true to Dick’s character, considering his entire character is a masterclass in trauma bonding). because yeah, even in the aftermath of trauma as horrific as this, it’s never that cut and dry, and it will (often) leave behind uncomfortable and complicated feelings toward your abuser.
such an incredible fic that has quite evidently had a lot of thought and care put into it. great conclusion and payoff. everything tied together so well in the end in a way that felt simultaneously rewarding while still remaining open and ambiguous enough for the reader to build on where it leaves off. and there’s also the lingering understanding that this cycle will inevitably happen again, because Dick is Dick and will always do whatever it takes to protect others. that part of him is immutable.
the impact this fic has had cannot be understated. purplesoot, you have no idea what a hero you are.
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A Thing About Water by NoahWillow
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
30 Oct 2025
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Over a year of radio silence is all Peter Parker needed to understand where he stood with Tony Stark. Now, Spider-Man works alone, and Peter is done looking for a call back. Peter has built a new life, juggling high school, being Spider-Man, and surviving the foster care system that has once again, taken him from his Aunt May.
But when Tony saunters back in New York, Avengers Reassembled, he wants his boy soldier back. He’s expecting the grateful kid from Berlin. What he finds is a hero who’s grown to hate him. The fallout from their shattered relationship is about to make the next chapter between them the hardest of their lives.
Irondad adoption fic but slowwww burn and earned with angst and whump. Check tags for mental health.AU where Spider-Man never revealed his identity to Iron-Man
My take on Skip WescottCompleted
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- English
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- 238,716
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- 4/4
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- 285
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Bookmarked by koiwynn
14 Nov 2025
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a CSA story so grounded and well-written that i felt completely out of it the entire day after finishing the fic
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He is eight, he is fifteen, he is twenty (And this is how he is loved) by twotime_baby
Fandoms: Succession (TV 2018)
07 Jul 2026
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He is eight when he learns that his father might actually love him.
He is also eight, when he starts to learn the magnitude of what that love means.
- Language:
- English
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- 109,752
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- 20/28
- Comments:
- 374
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- 1,071
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- 35,101
Bookmarked by koiwynn
11 Nov 2025
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i have so many thoughts i don’t know how to verbalise. this is just an incredible work of fiction that resonates with something so deep inside me.
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“I couldn’t protect him, Dave. Within half a year, I’ve failed him twice.” Aaron balanced his head onto his fingertips.
“You didn’t fail him, Aaron. Not now, and not when Maeve was murdered. We’re a team; no one is at any greater fault than the other for what’s happened . . .”
Aaron let out a heavy, lamenting sigh. “For this unsub—whatever the motivation was before, subjugating a law official is going to give him a transgressive high. Reid’s time with him—however short or long—is going to be unpleasant.”
Peculiarly dismembered men are unearthed in the forest, and the locals request the assistance of more experienced investigators. The profile is complex and mercurial, leaving the team without substantial evidence to work with. So they wait on their perpetrator to ignite a series of events that will supplement their data for assessment. They don’t foresee that data being one of their own. Darkness descends.And yet.
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- Part 1 of Illuminate