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“It’s not a real kid, Chase.”
Chase is technically underage, he’s a year away from being able to drink but the bartender didn’t bother to check his ID. Chase has always looked a little older than he was, it works in his favor now.
Nobody at a hero bar like this would assume he was so young.
“How the fuck do you think that?” Chase asks, spits. His hands still shake with the memory of it. The beer in his hand shakes with the tremors of his hands. “How the fuck do you do it?”
Mechaman sighs, deep, disappointed. He leans back, taking his whiskey with him.
The rest of the Brave Brigade was downstairs, drinking in victory, dancing with the other heroes, celebrating.
“It’s the Astral Pulse.”
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20 Dec 2025
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It's too easy to forget, with everything that's happened since meeting him, that Robert was fresh out of a coma.
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30 Nov 2025
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Wild's recent history is rocky and bruised – something he'd carved for himself after emerging from a tomb, alone and unsupported.
But he travels with friends now, and it's a special kind of heartbreak for them when his old wounds snag and tear, and they can do little-more than watch their loved one struggle past the setback.---
During a three-day trek back to the champion's little home the group is forced to take passage over Proxim bridge, and the trial of standing witness to a loved one's anguish becomes their reality.
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24 May 2025
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I'm a Good Pretender by orphan_account
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
19 Apr 2023
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“You’re doing it again,” Bruce says, tone accusatory. “You’re faking.”
“It’s not faking,” Dick snaps, a little more aggressive than he means to be. But he doesn’t like that word, doesn’t like the connotations.
(Especially when he knows Bruce is lying about something, too.)
“Then what is it?”
“It’s called being charming and it’s nice.”
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Dick’s mother raised her son to be a star. Dick’s father raised his son to be an athlete.
Bruce's new ward is charming (manipulative), dedicated (obsessive), and way, way too smart for either of their own good.
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31 Mar 2025
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"B?" Robin asks, confused at Bruce's long silence, "They're going to move. What's your call?"
Batman realises he can't ever remember the last time Dick waited for his call before jumping headfirst into a skirmish. Well before he turned fifteen, at the very least. A long time ago now.
They're working properly together all of a sudden, listening to each other and waiting for instructions — but for some inexplicable reason, Bruce feels as though they're two completely different people. It is still Batman and Robin, but it's not Batman and Robin.
It's… strange.
(Something is different about Dick. Bruce notices.)
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30 Mar 2025