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By His Master's Hand by wayward_stray
Fandoms: DCU, Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Batman - All Media Types
22 Jul 2026
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Gotham City has always been a place where monsters wear human faces. For over two centuries, one secret has stayed buried deeper than all the rest.
The Szarr family arrived in Gotham in the early 1800s. Aristocratic, pale, and impossibly wealthy. They built a manor on the outer edge of the old quarter, kept to themselves, and outlived everyone who thought to ask questions. To the city's elite, Cazador Szarr is merely a reclusive eccentric billionaire.
The young man always at his side is introduced as his ward. Astarion Ancúnin is beautiful and charming and has not made a single choice of his own free will in two hundred years.
Nightwing has brought down crime lords, assassins, and monsters wearing human faces. He is very good at his job. When a string of missing persons leads him to the Szarr family's doorstep, he's confident he knows what he's walking into.
He has never been more wrong about anything in his life.
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Jason Todd doesn't do things halfway. He came back from the dead, found Gotham the same as he'd left it, and built himself into something Gotham's underworld has learned to fear.
What he didn't expect to find was her.
Cory Mora has been surviving these streets since she was twelve. She built something real here after Jason died and left her with nothing but grief and a shop named after a ghost. She wasn't waiting for him to come back.
But here he is. And here she is. And some things, it turns out, don't stay buried.
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- Part 1 of Between the Lines of Fire
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"Do you have any idea what it's like? to be trapped by a so-called destiny you didn't ask for? to not be able to leave the past behind no matter how much you wish to move on?"
Akari Mizushima. Found in the woods at a young age, barely scraping by on whatever she could find, was taken into Konoha. She started her training at the academy, hid her true abilities from the public eye. But she's running, and her past will catch up to her no matter how many times she tries to forget it.
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This was my first ever fanfic, originally written between 2019-2022 on Wattpad, and is being archived here for preservation. While I have lightly edited the grammar and formatting, the story itself remains unchanged. -
Sword Summoning Is Not a Sustainable Coping Mechanism by wayward_stray
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Apr 2025
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Jason Todd casually summoning magic swords mid-fight was not in the mission briefing.
Cory Mora would like to know why literally no one prepared her for this specific flavor of nonsense.
(And also if she can touch one. Y'know. For science.)Series
- Part 10 of Between the Lines of Fire
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This Would Be Funnier If It Wasn’t Me by wayward_stray
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Apr 2025
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Gotham's most elusive vigilante vanishes without a trace. Oracle's on the case. Red Hood is furious. And the shelter staff just think they have a really dramatic rescue cat.
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- Part 9 of Between the Lines of Fire
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Between the Lines of Fire by wayward_stray
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
20 Apr 2026
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Jason Todd came back from the dead with a gun in his hand and fire in his blood. Cory Mora never left Gotham’s shadows ー she just learned how to survive them.
Red Hood and Stray: vigilantes, outcasts, weapons forged by grief and grit.
But beneath the bullets and bravado are the moments no one sees, the scars that never healed, the choices that haunt them, and the quiet, stubborn loyalty that binds them tighter than blood. In a city that never forgives, they’ve carved out fragments of a life worth protecting: found family, fractured trust, the ache of the past, and the rare, unshakeable bond between two people who refuse to let each other fall.
They never asked to be heroes. They just didn’t want to be alone.
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Icebound by HMsmoreQueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DC Extended Universe
25 Jul 2026
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Dick knew certain cases weren't supposed to be tackled alone. Extraterrestrials kidnapping meta kids? That definitely required back-up. In hindsight this should have been handled with the assistance of the JL, but hindsight was always a bitch and as Dick sat wondering how he was going to get out of the thick metal cuffs digging into his wrists he could feel the ship rise. On one hand this was a shitty situation but maybe it could lead him to the center of this new crime ring. He was Nightwing, the Original Boy Wonder, he could get out of this, couldn't he? He just had to play along until they lead him to their leader and by that time the JL or his family will have sent a rescue team.
AN: This work is currently being rewritten and will be reposted when I'm closer to finishing it. 26/07/2026
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30 Jul 2026
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The Inevitable Fall by Saralie
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
09 Jul 2026
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The Gray Son knows the blade and the pain are a lesson, and it does its best to engrain them in its mind. It will not make the same mistake again.
With its training now complete, the Gray Son is ready to serve the Court.
This is, after all, what it was created to do.
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It’s been six months since Dick Grayson disappeared. Five since his body was found. Now, no step closer to solving his murder, the family is faced with a mysterious assassin making his debut in Gotham.
All signs point to him being Dick’s killer.
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22 Jul 2026
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It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up flat in the dirt, hands tied behind his back, bleeding. His head aches.
Wyll stands over him, uncharacteristically scared. "Astarion," he says, fast and frantic. "Are you back to yourself?"
There are two puncture wounds on his neck.
(It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up. The party says he attacked them. He does not remember this.)
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- Part 1 of opposite of a haunting
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23 Jul 2026
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A Million Reasons by Yashaan
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Apr 2026
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Post Spyral Dick has a hard time finding where he belongs in the family dynamics. Amid an evening of listening in on his family things change. Now he's trapped in a deagged body with no family, no friends and the person he latches onto is a deaf hero with his own problems.
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02 Jul 2026
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The Titan's Captive by the_writer1988
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
17 Apr 2019
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Thanos brings Tony to Wakanda with him and gives an ultimatum to the Avengers: the Mind Stone for Stark.
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18 Jun 2026