Beachfox
Fandoms
- Batman - All Media Types (8)
- Batman (Comics) (5)
- DCU (3)
- DCU (Comics) (3)
- Batman (1966) (1)
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Crescent City is home to some of the world's most infamous villains: The Good Pastor, Lady Lash, King Kudzu, The Rat Bastard, and dozens more. The only thing they all have in common is that all of them at some point or another have employed Konrad as a henchman.
If there's something you need done to further your evil scheme, he can do it. If you need something built, he can build it. He's been at this longer than some heroes have been alive (Looking at you, Sparrow), and was already experienced when Crescent City gained its own protector in the form of glowering gargoyle Vengeance and his tag-along Sparrow (the first one).
He's worked for evil villains, courageous heroes, gritty vigilantes, and amoral NGOs alike. The only person he's never worked for is himself.
These are some of his stories, connected by only the loosest strands of continuity and canon.
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- Part 1 of Cowls and Crimes in Crescent City
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The Mostly NonCanonical Adventures of a Crime Alley Kid by Beachfox
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Feb 2026
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A collection of stories that - although perfectly in character and probable - don't fit into the canonical timeline and instead exist in that strange nebulous space that many anime movies and side comics do of only really being "real" if some future writer decides to base something in mainline continuity that builds on it.
Mostly featuring Conrad getting thrown into some of the standard Batfam Fic plotlines. Poor guy.
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Side Stories from Crime Alley by Beachfox
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
14 Dec 2025
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Despite how normal and average the adventures of the Crime Alley Kid are, there are still even more stories out there of events just as unremarkable and cause for as little concern.
Here are some of these stories, along with the occasional Reddit screed and misplaced research paper for your reading enjoyment.
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You Can't Fucking Trust a Crime Alley Kid by Beachfox
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman (1966), DCU (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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Arturo was 17 when he was thrown into Gotham beaten, broken, and entirely ignorant about the city he found himself in. In the near twenty years since, he's learned. Through mob jobs and henching gigs and street-gang wars, he's come to understand Gotham inside and out. And if he's learned anything, it's that you can't trust a Lupu, you can't trust an Alvarez, and you sure as hell can't trust that fucking Crime Alley Kid.
Now if only he could make his Boss understand that as well before it's too late.
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The Crime Alley Kid Meets Jason Todd by Beachfox
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
17 Jul 2024
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Perfectly normal Crime Alley street-thug Conrad has been having a hell of a month.
In quick order he learned/unintentionally worked out that:
*The rando he'd been chilling/flirting with online was actually his boss' boss, The Red Hood
*Red Hood was actually the Second Robin
*Hood's estranged father figure, The Batman, was actually infamous crime boss and former dinner guest at his parents, Matches MaloneNow, Hood's going to fully demask for Conrad because everyone but Batman has agreed it's only a matter of time at this rate.
And sure, this is going to throw their whole casual Hench-With-Benefits relationship into uncharted waters. And sure, it's going to tie Conrad into Gotham's cape scene in ways he's spent the past decade trying to avoid. And sure, seeing your Boss unmasked goes against every Henching rule that'd been beaten into his head growing up, but it's Robin asking. How can you say no to Robin?
At least it's clear that Red Hood is most likely one of Matches Malone's infamous legion of nephews and stepkids, so there'll be no further shocking revelations there, right?
*looks up at title and looks back*
Right.
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It's a world of grim-faced vigilantes and colorful crimedoers. It's a world were one city has a dark fearsome protector while another has a bright vibrant flying man who can rip a car apart with his bare hands. A world where "Standing in the background monitoring a giant computer while your Boss monologues at a bound superhero" is a valid career path. A world were some people are just born with the ability to take a few random computer parts and a broken alarm clock and somehow build a functional raygun out of it all.
It's a world we've seen many times before, but this one isn't violating anyone else's copyrights so we can just go buck wild with it.
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The Completely Normal Adventures of a Crime Alley Kid by Beachfox
Fandom Batman (1966), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU, DCU (Comics)
08 Feb 2026
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Conrad is just your average Crime Alley street-rat.
Ignore how most of his extended family actively Hench for various Rogues, he went no-contact years ago.
Ignore his unreal fighting ability and expansive range of random skills, it's the bare minimum of what anyone would need to make it to 20 while homeless in Crime Alley.
Ignore the Red Hood's attempts at flirting with him, he's pretty sure he's just misinterpreting his overboss' perfectly platonic actions.
Ignore the people who say he comes back from the dead, no one around here knows how to check for a pulse.
Ignore the Bats, he's certainly trying to. Whatever they're after, it's certainly not him.
He's just a completely normal Crime Alley kid, after all.
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- 203,053
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 471
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Comic of Liminal Space by Calamityjim.
"Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension."
Bookmarked by Beachfox
24 Jul 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
[[Chapter 4]]
Hoooooly fuck, that's some good art.
Liminal Space is an excellent Batman fic. This is a finely crafted comic of Liminal Space. If you need reason beyond that, I've got nothing for you.
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The Fear Toxin Job by 666the_demon_cat666
Fandoms: Leverage: Redemption (US TV 2021), Batman - All Media Types
27 May 2026
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"And then Pretty Boy let out a breath and shifted back into a more relaxed stance, and it clicked into place. Cold dread traveled down his spine. Eliot hadn’t seen that stance in years, and he’d hoped he’d never see it again."
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Displacement and Difficulties by Muddell
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU
28 Feb 2026
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Robin cries out as he’s swallowed. The scent of ozone burns in the air, pungent and painful. He sees nothing but white. He feels nothing but heat. His muscles slacken, his nerves scream. And then, it’s gone.
Robin, is gone.
Or, Robin is managing a singularity with the team, when he finds himself transported years into the future, where apparently there's a new Robin...for the third time?
Meanwhile, Nightwing is investigating a problem of his own alongside the Batfamily when he's sent years into the past.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,679
- Chapters:
- 8/?
- Comments:
- 581
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- 2,232
- Bookmarks:
- 474
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Bookmarked by Beachfox
07 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
[[Chapter 8]]
Nightwing and OG YJ Robin get zapped by a glowy sphere and get switched. No one's happy about this.
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“This is where I take nutritional breaks and sleep. I have training scheduled in 24 minutes,” he explains, a little uncertain.
“Oh,” she adds, an automatic vocal filler that often gets interviewees to continue.
“Of course, if you need anything done now, I’ll do it,” he adds, with just a slight undercurrent of a rush.
His face may be smooth, his tone blandly professional, but this boy is terrified.
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Lois Lane rescues a teenager who looks a lot like someone she knows...
Featuring Kon angst and hurt/comfort!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,296
- Chapters:
- 15/17
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 1,752
- Kudos:
- 2,694
- Bookmarks:
- 805
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Bookmarked by Beachfox
28 Jul 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
[[Chapter 15]]
The earring was kryptonite. That's why Clark was getting freaked out by P13. Also, the world became too loud without it, so Kon's TK'ed himself a protective caccoon out of the CRT room. I'm sure it's fine.
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A teenage boy with anger issues ends up in a relationship he never expected to ever get into.
Bookmarked by Beachfox
07 Feb 2026