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Accismus by honeycombclaire
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
12 Apr 2024
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/ækˈsizməs/
noun
1. when one feigns disinterest or indifference for something they desire
2. a form of ironyExample: Dick buys two birthday cards for Damian. One starts with “For my son,” and the other says “To a cool guy.” Dick gives Damian the latter, and keeps the former locked away. He doesn’t need to make this into something it’s not.
Or, Dick is tasked with raising Damian in the wake of Bruce’s death. This is the fallout of their separation upon Bruce’s sudden and unexpected return.
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09 Jul 2025
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s: dancing leaves - matteo saggese
He looks over at Damian, who is watching Scooby-Doo with intrigued, yet confused fascination.
He’s already lost his father and two of his brothers. He can’t lose Damian too.
He doesn’t want to raise a child. He wants to go back to when he was Robin, when he didn’t have a care in the world.
Dick begins to look forward to each patrol, and he has a feeling Damian is, too.
“Killing the guy who murdered your son is unnecessary violence?”
(Dick has a quick thought that he’d kill anyone who dared to put their hands on Damian.)
“You’ve never been concerned like this before.”
Damian tilts his head away almost in shame. “I have something to lose. I would rather die than live without you.”
His boy. His son.
“Just know that I love you.”
Damian burrows further into Dick’s chest.
“I love you too,” he whispers.
Dick’s entire body wracks with sobs. “Dami,” he cries. “Baby.”
Damian makes a wounded noise.
“Shh, Baba’s here. Don’t try to move, habibi. Just stay with me.”
What if Dick looks away and he dies again?
Because Damian died. He died.
“The mission means nothing if it’s at the cost of you. There is nothing in this world that will ever be more important than you.”
"I got shot up last night, Alf. I could have died. You and I are all Damian has left. If something happened…”
Up in the sky, Batman and Robin.
It almost feels like a betrayal, seeing them up there.
“You were very brave,” Dick smiles. “Would you like a lollipop?”
Damian is not amused. “If you give me a lollipop, I shall choke you with it.”
“May I patrol with you in Blüdhaven one day?” Damian asks.
And oh, would that be incredible. What Dick would give to have that.
But he tells Damian, “You’ll have to ask Bruce,” because Bruce is Damian’s father, which means what he says overrules anything Dick says.
Every time he looks at Damian, he’s torn between forcing himself to be the boy’s brother and aching for him to call him Baba again.
“You need a therapist,” says Jason. “You don’t have a set place to think of as home, and you think the family is falling apart—”
“I get that you were his guardian and all, but it's not like he’s your kid.”
Jason must finally comprehend it all, because understanding dawns on his face. “Aw shit, Dick.”
“I hate them,” Damian says. “They are unfair to you.”
He has his father back, but at the cost of his son.
“How have you been?”
I miss Damian, he thinks to himself.
He wraps his arms around Dick.
“You came for me,” he whispers.
“Always, kiddo,” he murmurs, clutching him tighter.
Dick’s job is done; he’s no longer needed.
He’s getting that feeling a lot, lately.
Amusement sparkles across Talia’s dark eyes. “I am not here to take him from you.”
"His father is back.” Bitterly he adds, “I almost got him killed.”
Talia rolls her eyes. “So did I. On a daily basis. It’s part of the job.”
“I can get you money,” Ivy tells him. “I can get you and Robin away from here. Take your boy. Run.”
“Don’t tell me what to do with the kid I trained!” Dick shouts.
Bruce’s fists clench at his sides. “He’s my Robin, Nightwing, not yours!”
He’s my son, Dick almost says.
Dick watches in the hallway shadows. Damian calls Bruce “Father” and Bruce calls him “son”.
Dick leaves without a word.
Bruce knows. He knows.
“He’s not mine,” Dick sobs. “He’s Bruce’s."
Jason keeps a tight grip on him. “Why can’t he be yours and Bruce’s?” he asks quietly.
It just makes Dick cry even more. “He’s—He’s not mine,” he hiccups. “He was never m-mine.”
Jason makes a quiet mourning sound. “I don’t know how to tell you this, Dickie, but that kid has always been yours.”
"You let your son die once. I won’t do the same to mine!”
God, he thought they were goners. He was sure they were about to die there together the moment he got his arms around Tim.
“Damian is my son, and Damian is your son,” Bruce promises, “and I would never, ever take him away from you.”
“We need to talk about the Baba thing.”
“Alright. You are my Baba.”
“But Bruce…?”
“Father is Father. You are Baba.”
“You were the only thing I needed, Richard. I waited for the day you asked me to move to Blüdhaven with you, but it never came.”
Oh Jesus.
“You called me habibi once.” He pauses. “Did you mean it?”
Dick swallows thickly. “Of course I did,”
“Then you should know that you will always be my Baba,” Damian's voice is trembling. “My Baba.”
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In the end Voldemort always comes back to Severus. Bellatrix is his most devoted follower, Lucius is his most useful... but Severus is Voldemort’s mirror.
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03 Jan 2024
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For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would become a Dark Lord. For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would take down the Ministry or die trying. He should have known that Hermione and Ron wouldn't let him do it alone.
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13 Aug 2023
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Harry didn't know if Teddy Lupin was a werewolf, and he didn't give a damn. Remus Lupin had his flaws but he was a good man, and Harry would do anything in his now considerable power to keep the last piece of his family safe.
Voldemort. Grindelwald.
If it would keep Teddy Lupin safe, then Harry would gladly add Potter to the list.
“A Dark Lord cannot simply change his mind and decide to retire peacefully. You will always be a target. There has been no Dark Lord in living memory that died of old age.”
Harry frowned. “There was... Arsenic? That Russian one a couple of centuries ago.”
“The Dark Lord Arsenij rotted away in a prison in Russia for twenty-six years before he died,” Hermione hissed. “That was not old age!”
“Technically Grindelwald almost died of old age,” Harry pointed out. “He was, like, a hundred and fifteen.”
“And spent fifty-three of them in Nurmengard before he was killed by Voldemort, defenceless in his cell.”
“Right, that part sucked for him,” Harry agreed. “Some of them lived pretty long, though.”
“Until someone killed them!”
Hermione sighed. “You'll make a horrible Dark Lord, Harry.”
He grinned. “I know.”
“You think I'm going to let you bugger off to Azkaban alone? Hermione'll find a way to break us out.”
Hermione sighed.
“You don't have to do this, Neville,” She said quietly.
Neville gave them a long-suffering look. “Yes, I do. It's a Harry Potter-plan. Merlin knows he's the only one insane enough to get that idea in the first place. You'll need all the help you can get.”
Teddy made a happy sound and turned huge, inquisitive eyes back to Harry who winced.
“Your grandmother will kill me if your first word is 'Voldemort'. Please say 'grandma' instead. Grandma. Grandma.”
"All right, Potter. What are your goals?”
“A safe society for my godson.” It sounded so simple when he put it like that. A little obsessive, too, and maybe that was the Black blood in him talking. Even half-mad from Azkaban, Sirius had been relentlessly single-minded about his few causes – the death of Wormtail and the safety of Harry himself, for what little he had actually been able to do as a wanted man.
They had attacked his godson, had targeted a one year old child – and that Teddy was now around the same age that Harry himself had been orphaned at did not help in the least – and Harry was not particularly inclined to play nice.
Ron shifted just enough to dodge it, looking entirely too cheerful about it. “Sorriest excuse for a Dark Lord I've ever seen. He's got a nose and everything, he doesn't own a black robe that isn't from Hogwarts, and his hair looks like Norbert nested in it. ”
“Ron!”
This time it was Ron's turn to sigh. “Merlin, Hermione. It's still Harry. Yes, he's an impulsive, reckless prat with the temper of a disgruntled nundu and about half the charm, but that's not Dark magic. That's Harry. He's just a little more obvious about it these days.”
"Grindelwald was known for his wild nature. Voldemort had his obsessiveness and utter belief in his invincibility.”
“And Harry will be known for his recklessness and poor impulse control.” Hermione sighed.
“The Dark Lord Potter.” Dorea Potter finally spoke. “The first in your family. Black and Potter both.”
“I suppose,” Harry answered softly, “that it's one thing people can't say I got from my parents.”
Harry wondered briefly if that was how the Death Eaters had begun. With meetings hidden as merely catching up with old schoolmates, and the people around them very deliberately Not Seeing anything.
“How Hufflepuff,” Hannah murmured. “We always figured Hermione was the wrongly sorted Ravenclaw.”
“No, she broke too many rules to be a Ravenclaw,” Ron said cheerfully. “She'd have ruled them with an elder wand within a week. Better be Gryffindor.”
“Ron!”
"You lost any right to whinge about moral considerations when you claimed your title, Lord Potter. You are a murderer, a wanted criminal, and an enemy of the wizarding world. Nothing will change that."
“The Prophet calls you the Fiendfyre Lord."
The Fiendfyre Lord. The wizarding world liked their titles. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, Harry supposed.
“You don't expect to survive.”
Harry hesitated. “I expect it to be a possibility.”
Andromeda was silent. Then, slowly, she nodded. “Try to remain alive. I would like my grandson to keep his godfather.”
The face that stared back from the mirror reminded him uncomfortably of Bellatrix Lestrange at her most deranged.
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Harry goes back in time after years of careful study identifying the right moment: the moment when he can become Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and change the minds of the young Slytherins who became Voldemort's most loyal followers. Everything goes right. Except one little thing.
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26 Mar 2023
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Gaius is a quiet man, leading a quiet life in quiet, if a bit cluttered chambers, in the heart of Camelot. And then Merlin comes along. And suddenly, things are not quiet. [Father's Day fic.]
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01 Feb 2023
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loose leash by Artikka
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
06 Nov 2020
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"When he’s nine years old, the Jedi buy him from Watto.
Technically, Master Qui-gon wins Anakin in a bet. But the result’s no different all the same. The Jedi bought him, the Jedi won him, and he has to leave his mother behind."
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27 Oct 2022
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specter by Artikka
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types
04 Nov 2020
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“The Jedi never found you.” Vader says, the conclusion suddenly obvious. “. . . they never freed you.”
The specter snarls and takes a step forward. “I freed myself.”
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Or, Vader meets an Anakin Skywalker who never left Tatooine, and questions about his own freedom ensue.
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27 Oct 2022
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In Sacrifice, Peace by Artikka
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
05 Sep 2020
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“Shh. . .” Anakin says, gathering the younglings around him, reminding Obi-wan of all those whispered arguments where he had insisted to Anakin that yes, he was good with children, he’d be just fine teaching Ahsoka. He can almost feel the terror rising off Anakin from the hologram; Anakin doesn’t know what’s happening either. But he isn’t letting the younglings feel it. “You need to listen to me very carefully, okay? This--” his voice breaks, “--this is going to be scary. But you have to be calm, and strong. Just like Master Yoda taught you.”
* * * * *Or, the ROTS au where Obi-wan finds a very different type of pain while looking through the Temple's recordings of Order 66.
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- Part 1 of Sacrifice
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Doesn’t cast out that wretched woman. Becomes an unwilling father. Tries not to hate his son.
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29 Apr 2022
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Dudley Dursley was raised to be as hateful and bigoted as his parents. By the time Harry left the Dursley household, he'd at least partially shed those beliefs.
How did he get there?
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28 Apr 2022
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Mrs. Cole likes Tom Riddle. He's the only kid in the orphanage that hates children just as much as she does.
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21 Apr 2022
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In the summer of 1945, Caractacus Burke hires a new assistant to help with the shop.
His son doesn't know what to make of Tom Riddle, the young charismatic man that doesn't seem to mind working hard for just a handful of coins.
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23 Feb 2022
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/30537870
https://archiveofourown.org/works/24476011
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Tom Riddle and Abraxas Malfoy hate each other from the second they meet.
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17 Feb 2022
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The best place to start is at the beginning, and Harry supposes it all began with the mysterious Professor H. J. Prewett. Years 1 through 7.
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16 Feb 2022
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I Hate You For What You Did (And I Miss You Like A Little Kid) by CriticalColors (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Mar 2021
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When Sirius steps in front of the boggart, it takes mere seconds for it to transform into his mother.
Sirius, funnily enough, isn't affected by this at all.
The boggart stares at Sirius, and for the first time in its life, hesitates.
Or, Sirius Black was abused, boggarts can be very creative, and this was a really bad idea for a lesson.
Title taken from Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers.
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07 Feb 2022
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porcelain chips by thepolysyndetonaddictsupportgroup
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Dec 2021
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“Peter,” he tells him, “with great power comes great responsibility. Do you understand what I mean when I tell you that?”
“No,” says Peter.
“Ah, hell,” says Ben.
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Peter tries to write his origin story, but he can never seem to get past how goddamn sorry he is.
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- Part 1 of pottery shards
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- 1/1
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- 3
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05 Feb 2022
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Whenever Voldemort sees beauty, he wants to destroy it.
Bellatrix Black endures.(Prequel for both "Ouroboros" and "Either must die at the hand of the other", but can be read independently)
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17 Nov 2021
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/32288893
https://archiveofourown.org/works/24476011
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Tasteless Apples by Fanfiction_Lurker_1
Fandoms: Death Note & Related Fandoms, Death Note (Anime & Manga)
03 May 2017
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Post-Canon. After Light's death, Ryuk tries to find a human as entertaining as him. It doesn't go as well as he had hoped. Or: Ryuk appreciates what he had only after losing it.
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A strange man adopts Tom Riddle and it is not his father, as Tom desperately wants to believe.
Stranded in the past, Voldemort once again comes to the conclusion he's the only one he truly needs.
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- English
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- 258,416
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- 28/28
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02 Mar 2021
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/32288893
https://archiveofourown.org/works/30537870
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Harry Potter and the Welcome to the World of Grey by sobsicles
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2020
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When Harry fails to keep his anger at bay and Voldemort possesses his mind, the events that follow lead him down a long road to realizing the world isn't as black and white as it seems.
Chaos, hilarity, and tragedy ensue with a Dark Lord being honest all the time, a rival becoming something else, and a world demanding to be saved. Featuring frightened Death Eaters, deep conversations with a monster, Pureblood traditions being ridiculous, and the fight to do the right thing with no true options.
Harry's life just gets more and more bizarre with each passing moment.
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Or, the one where Harry's life gets split in half, and he has to figure out how to bring it back together.
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- Part 1 of Absence of Simplicity