smilingcrescent
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The Cuckoo in Gotham by smilingcrescent
Fandoms: Invincible (Cartoon 2021), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
28 Nov 2025
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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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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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Before Robin by wafflebish
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe
26 Nov 2025
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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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- Part 7 of dc fics
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28 Nov 2025
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"Do you even know what you're saying, or are you just repeating what your accountants tell you?"
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28 Nov 2025
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we’ll be together (eventually, in time) by Laroyena
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon)
31 May 2016
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Dick Grayson has heard his soul-words spoken hundreds of times.
Or: the one where Dick and Bruce are soulmates, and they spend most of their time over the years pretending they're not.
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- Part 1 of Wandering Souls
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28 Nov 2025