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Season 2 Thraxa AU.
Mark has a lot of time to think about his life and his heritage when Cecil was testing his loyalty after Chicago. After his best friend Willam encourages him to help an alien race, Mark decides to try and be the hero he thought his father was.
Mark shouldn’t have been surprised that William insisted on coming to an alien planet, or that his friend excelled at getting along with people, even if they were an entirely different race.
When the Viltrumites come to Thraxa looking for the soldier who abandoned his post, they are all too eager to test Nolan’s son, and end the life of the infant.
Or: Mark and William learn about Thraxa, themselves, and what it means to try and defend people.
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The Cuckoo in Gotham by smilingcrescent
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
03 Mar 2026
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Something about the city Mark found himself in was off. Stranger than the architecture, than no one calling him Invincible. Mark bit his lip, looking for something useful like a newspaper with the date, the name of the city or any clue for what he thought might have happened.
Don't jump to the worst case scenario. It could just be a fluke. No one expects to see Invincible walking around with a purple baby, so they see me and assume it’s somebody else. Chill… chill…
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Invincible in Gotham during the Knightfall comic series. (Bane) AU. Gen.
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At eleven, Tom Riddle is dead set on flying and deathly afraid of heights.
At seventeen, he is a Hogwarts dropout and a Dark Lord rivaling Grindelwald.
At twenty, he is barely a wizard, robbed of his magic and wracked by Muggle illness. A simple case of consumption shall end him, unless Harry unravels Riddle's mysteries once and for all.
(Or: An AU where Tom and Harry grow up together, fight a war, twist a prophecy, break Quidditch, and fall very badly in love, though perhaps not in that order.)
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- Part 1 of consumption
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03 Dec 2021
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I really like this. Talk about subverting expectations about prophecy! Lovely theme of love / friends to enemies to lovers.
Aaaaaaa it’s so good even if one’s passion for HP wanes.
We get to see Harry’s suspicious nature, how hard of a time he has reading people’s motivations and expressions (or maybe Tom is really that good at hiding it).
Harry has no idea of Tom’s motivations. Tom suffers. At first, Harry is suspicious, and then he is concerned.
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frame-switch by thislittlebagofdreams
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Invincible (Image Comics)
21 Jul 2024
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frame-switch: (v) to access different culture-specific mental modules or change one's perspective of the world, depending on the language that is used. a portmanteau of frameshift and code-switch.
Invincible and Omni-Man are the only two speakers of the Viltrumite language on Earth. After their battle leaves behind untold destruction, the world is scrambling to uncover why Omni-Man betrayed humanity. The key seems to lie in his last conversations with Invincible, recorded and shared around the globe, but the problem is nobody can understand them. Nobody, that is, except for Invincible.
Meanwhile, Mark's haunted by the last thing his father said to him. He can't tell anyone, not even his heartbroken mother or the increasingly desperate government. They can't know. Mark struggles to hold out under the intense pressure, but as Cecil and countless others continue their investigations, they grow closer to the truth with each passing day...
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09 Oct 2025
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What did Nolan say to Mark on that day? Everyone is trying to find out.
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Before Robin by wafflebish
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe
01 Jan 2026
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When Dick Grayson accidentally portals into the past, he finds himself on the Justice League’s Watchtower surrounded by younger versions of the original members of the Justice League...including Batman.
But none of them have any idea who Nightwing (or even Robin) is.
What a perfect opportunity to create a little chaos...while also trying not to break the timestream.
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29 Nov 2025
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Stranger than Family, Lovers, and Friends: Reading Batman and Robin's Relationship by MissBliss12
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
15 Jan 2025
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A meta essay that ruminates on different ways to read Bruce and Dick's relationship using various DC media -- but mainly comics -- and cultural context. Written in response to an anon on Tumblr. Cross-posting to AO3 for interest and if it's useful for talking about the kinky Brudick ship (if it is indeed necessary to justify the freedom to ship a kinky ship).
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28 Nov 2025
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make me stay by ohdeariemegoodness for stridingseer
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
21 Feb 2024
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“Dick,” Bruce says, low and painful like it’s been punched out of him. He doesn’t say anything else. Not that long ago it would’ve made Dick angry, knowing that Bruce was feeling so much and still refusing to say anything about it.
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28 Nov 2025