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Dick's not doing so well at the moment. His family has discovered all that he's kept secret for so long, and it's bad. Worse than bad. He hasn't felt like this in years, and he can't even conceal it now. With no place to hide and reminders at every turn, it's only a matter of time before something breaks.
OR: Dick deals with the fallout of the family finding out about his absolutely horrid sexual history, and no one at all has a good time.
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- Part 2 of Glass
- Language:
- English
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- 40,254
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- 4/4
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- 5
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23 Nov 2025
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Dick's injured one night on patrol, which is no big deal. Sure, his face is a little burnt, but it's not like anything serious happened— so why is everyone acting like it has? Faced with a concussion and mandatory rest, he has a lot of time to think, and that's never good for someone in their line of business.
OR: An injury threatens to scar Dick's face, and it brings up a lot of things in him, things he hadn't realized were even there. The family acts and reacts.
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- Part 1 of Glass
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,581
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 13
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- 347
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- 7,651
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23 Nov 2025
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The Silence Grows Louder (Ringing Out In My Head) by Kirazalea
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
23 Jun 2020
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I feel the pressure building until I can't breathe,
And it takes everything.
Till it all spills out,
Reckless but honest words leave out my mouth
Like kerosene on a flame of doubt,
I just couldn't make it right…
Duke notices something while on a mission, and that one observation turns into a confrontation with parts of Dick's past that he's kept hidden from his brothers for years.Series
- Part 1 of Breathe In, Breathe Out
- Language:
- English
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- 10,263
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- 1/1
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- 5
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- 253
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23 Nov 2025
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“Could you come with me to the zoo today?” Grayson asks, dropping the amused expression for a second to take a serious one, as if a request to visit the zoo is the most important thing in the world.
Damian debates in his head for a second, “What’s in it for me?”
Grayson narrows his eyes like he does when he’s looking at a case file, “Does there need to be something in it for you?”
“Ideally,” Damian says, shrugging his shoulders.
“Damian, not everything has to be a transaction,” Grayson says, his shoulders drooping for a millisecond and an uncharacteristic edge of frustration in his voice.
Or: Damian meets Zitka and maybe sees a new side to one Dick Grayson.- Language:
- English
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- 6,844
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- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
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- 38
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23 Nov 2025
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Spyral had broken something in Dick.
When he returned to Gotham, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep going. He was the fun one. The easy smile, the glue that held everyone together. But what happens when the rock reaches his breaking point?
After two years of pretending, Dick starts to crack.
Now to keep his family from finding out.
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Dick self-destructs.
Featuring both the angstiest of angst and the author's attempts at humor to stop their tears from drowning the keyboard. Read at your own peril.- Language:
- English
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- 104,058
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- 24/24
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23 Nov 2025
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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
- Words:
- 35,525
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 397
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23 Nov 2025
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Dick has a whole family who would rather stab him or themselves before embracing him, and he respects their boundaries, but sometimes he just wants a hug he doesn’t have to beg for.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,167
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 21
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- 741
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- 18,909
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23 Nov 2025
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in the stretched-out silence by emavee
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
13 Sep 2021
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Four weeks. Four weeks trapped in cryo by some crazy villain before a city-wide power outage released Nightwing too early. One week and two days since a Nightwing copycat was killed in an explosion.
One week and two days where Damian had believed Dick was dead.
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30 Sep 2025
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bandaids on skinned knees by emavee
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
17 Apr 2021
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Dick is sitting in the principal's office for a fight he didn't start. Things only get worse when it's his social worker who walks through the door instead of Bruce.
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- Part 10 of dc, let bruce be a good dad you cowards
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27 Sep 2025
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Rail-Splitter, Brain-Splitter by motleyfam for justbeyondstars
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
29 Apr 2024
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“What are the side effects?”
“Uh..." Tim scrolls down. “It says, dry mouth, dizziness, fatigue, headache, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting—”
Jason cuts him off, “So the side effects of migraine meds are fucking migraines?”
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For Jason's seventeenth birthday, Tim “wins” three tickets to the iconic off-Broadway stage production: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (The Musical). The night is going pretty well until Dick’s head decides to nope out.
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- Part 9 of Settle Our Bones
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,021
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 800
- Kudos:
- 5,950
- Bookmarks:
- 542
- Hits:
- 50,642
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04 Sep 2025
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forgive and forget by wingedgrace
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
07 Sep 2020
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“Is something wrong?”
“No.” Dick gave a nervous laugh. “It’s stupid, I – never mind.”
“Don’t hang up,” Jason said quickly, alarm bells beginning to ring. “I’m sure it’s not stupid. What happened?”
(In which Bruce is difficult, Jason is trying his best not to be possessed by blinding rage, and Dick makes a phone call.)
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- Part 3 of i trust no one else 'verse
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02 Sep 2025
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right through my walls by wingdingery for pale_and_tragic
Fandoms: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
25 Dec 2022
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Sure, yes, Bruce and Jason attacked Dick and left him injured—but they were under the effects of fear toxin, so it wasn't really them. Dick’s gone enough rounds with fear toxin to understand that. He’s perfectly fine with what happened.
Now if only the rest of the family would believe him.
Translation available in Spanish (Español) by Luck__y
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- Part 3 of gen batfam fics
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,615
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 82
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- 1,745
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- 440
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- 12,757
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02 Sep 2025
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unleash the beast (with a kiss on the cheek) by InkpotSprite
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Jan 2023
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Dick's chest tightened as his lips parted to say something that he'd truly regret.
Before a pair of lips pressed against his cheek, then disappeared so quickly that Dick was almost sure he'd imagined it. If it weren't for Bruce's fractionally wide eyes, Dick would think he had.
Slowly, he turned his head to the side. Tim smiled back at him.
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Tim decides to try and be more affectionate towards Dick via cheek kisses. Little does he know what he's about to unleash.
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- Part 7 of Batfamily Fluff
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,400
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 45
- Comments:
- 230
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- 12,054
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- 1,808
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- 89,339
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02 Sep 2025
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flying over burning bridges by InkpotSprite
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
26 Jun 2024
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At his core, he was a detective. Maybe even a better one than Bruce.
So, Tim did what he was good at.
He investigated.
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Tim can't shake the feeling that something's wrong after Dick returns from Spyral. Despite everything, he still loves Dick. He still knows him. And he can't just let this lie.
One way or another, he's going to find out what happened to his brother.
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- Part 3 of Too Dry To Cry
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,216
- Chapters:
- 2/3
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 100
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- 1,821
- Bookmarks:
- 337
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- 22,826
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02 Sep 2025
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the one who left behind his name by Eccentric_Grace
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
14 Apr 2024
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The irony was, Dick didn’t see the green mist settle in until it was on his tongue. An acrid, medicinal film, seizing his lungs in a chokehold while he buckled over, hands clutching at his knees for a sense of stability.
His hand shot up to his mouth, it clamped around his nose, he held his breath; all attempts in vain to undo what he knew would begin soon.
He made an ‘abort’ gesture, stumbling back into the shadows. “Robin,” he rasped out. “Code Fern. I’ve been hit, we’re heading out.”
(or: dick gets hit with fear toxin. this experience reveals a lot of surprising conversations he needs to have with his brothers.)
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- Part 2 of batfam integration 2 electric boogaloo
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02 Sep 2025
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morning in the burned house by rimowho34
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
11 Apr 2024
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After watching Dick flinch away from Bruce while delirious with fever, Tim goes looking and digs up some footage of physical abuse. It turns their family upside down for the umpteenth time. Maybe there'll be something left to salvage - and maybe there won't.
or, I interrogate Dick's trauma and put Jason through the wringer while I'm at it.
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- Part 5 of one day we'll wake up
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02 Sep 2025
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take my heart clean apart by one_step_closer_to_death
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
24 Oct 2022
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It's to be expected that after twenty years of this life taking and taking and taking, Dick Grayson would break at some point.
Dick falls, and Bruce catches him.
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Day 24: FIGHT, FLIGHT OR FREEZE | Catatonic | “I don’t want to do this anymore.”
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- Part 13 of ace's whumptober 2022
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,042
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 85
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- 2,190
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01 Sep 2025
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“–And if you don't like it –” Bruce was still yelling, his hands flat on the desk as he leaned forward. “—Then you can get the fuck out of my house!”
Bruce Wayne would never yell at one of his kids.
But Dick had never really been his kid, had he?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,537
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 70
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- 2,366
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- 404
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- 20,325
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01 Sep 2025
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Rules were made because of Dick Grayson by KitsuneThorn for Lilituism
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Mar 2023
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Dick Grayson woke up tied to a chair in a warehouse, injured, drugged, and unable to remember exactly how he ended up there. It was probably fine.
There were protocols, rules in place, on how to behave when kidnapped as a civilian. Every Robin and Batgirl knew the rules. But most of them didn't know just how many of those rules existed because of Dick Grayson.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,291
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 77
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- 2,911
- Bookmarks:
- 681
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- 30,130
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01 Sep 2025
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a city on a hill (has bones underground) by honeycombclaire
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
05 Dec 2024
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When asked, the majority of the people of Gotham never mention Nightwing. They say Batman, because he was the first. Red Hood, because he murders without preamble. Red Robin, because he knows too much. Most will even say Robin before they say Nightwing, because murder is still ingrained into his bones.
But the oldest Gothamites, the ones who know Nightwing was the first Robin — the ones who saw Robin decay into Nightwing — they know.
Nightwing has always been the most frightening.
Bookmarked by ventisbabe
01 Sep 2025