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Girl in Blue, Girl in Red (once again, with feeling) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
10 May 2026
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They say there are prices no man will pay.
But Harvey Dent had never been just a man.He’d been a district attorney once (he’d been clean-cut, sharp-tongued, righteous, once). He’d been the golden boy, the last best hope of Gotham’s broken heart.
Then he’d been something else entirely.
A nightmare in a suit.
A legend whispered through clenched teeth.
A monster whose story could only be told through the flip of a coin.But when they buried her, when they lowered his little girl into the ground, none of that mattered.
Not the man.
Not the monster.
Only the father remained.Series
- Part 23 of Robin's blues
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I was once the sea itself.
Then I became flesh...and from my longing, my son was born.Series
- Part 2 of The Ballad of the sea
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- English
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- 680
- Chapters:
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- Kudos:
- 3
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Nobody's soldier, Nobody's daughter (Blue Bird) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
14 Mar 2026
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Dixie Wayne died long before the day the Joker’s hands closed around her throat.
She died in quiet moments no one saw, piece by piece, year by year, until there was almost nothing left to kill.
But the Lazarus Pit gives her life again.
When she rises from its waters, the madness it brings to others never comes. There is no burning rage, no fractured mind, only a strange, hollow stillness. A quiet where fury once lived (where fury still lives. Where it will always live.)
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- Part 22 of Robin's blues
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Part of the crew, part of the ship by Helecthra
Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
22 Feb 2026
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Jack Sparrow dies badly.
Not heroically.
Not spectacularly.
No audience but the waves.Old age comes for him the way no ghost, curse, or navy man ever could: quietly, efficiently, without permission. His body simply decides, one night, that the game is over. His breath thins. His heart hitches. His fingers go numb around the compass he hasn’t dared open in years.
He collapses on the deck of a nameless little sloop.
And when his eyes open again, he is standing on a spit of mist, the threshold, the place souls go to wait for the Ferryman.
He knows it instantly. He’s cheated death often enough to recognize its bookkeeping.Series
- Part 1 of The Ballad of the sea
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Behind Blue Eyes by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
15 Feb 2026
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Her eyes used to be blue.
Thomas Wayne’s blue.
Legacy blue.
The kind that made people believe in ghosts.Then they turned gold.
And suddenly everyone saw something different:
a sin, a claim, a mirror, a nightmare, a second chance.Her face carries everyone else’s history…
But to whose history she belongs to?Series
- Part 21 of Robin's blues
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House of Cards by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
10 Feb 2026
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Dixie Wayne came back from the grave with a silent heart and no warmth left to give.
Dixie Wayne came back wrong.
But it’s not death that haunts her, but the way she keeps walking the halls of her life like a ghost in her own skin, watching the people she loves struggle to touch a girl who doesn’t feel real anymore, not even to herself.Because resurrection doesn’t grant clarity.
It brings questions.
And the truths waiting for her on the other side are heavier than the ice that once covered her.Series
- Part 20 of Robin's blues
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In another life by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
10 Jan 2026
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What if, in another life, Roy Harper managed to say the perfect thing, the one that would lead Dixie Wayne down a pact of (fractured) healing instead of self destruction?
Well, for the one year anniversary of this series, I guess you'll get your answers!
Or: three different ways in which love can start, end, and endure.
Welcome to my anniversary extravaganza!
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- Part 18 of Robin's blues
- Part 1 of Bonus works
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What Iris knew (and what she and Barry know now) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), The Flash (Comics)
09 Jan 2026
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Some love stories don’t announce themselves. They settle in quietly, and by the time one notices them, it’s already too late.
Iris West has always paid attention to the spaces people leave behind: the pauses in conversation, the way hands linger, the fear no one names out loud.
She just never thought that was the kind of future destiny would reserve for her Wally.Series
- Part 19 of Robin's blues
- Part 2 of Bonus works
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Bruce knows all of his sons.
He can break them down, read their patterns, identify every fracture in their psyches.
But Dixie? Dixie remained unreadable, unknowable, even being the one he has known for the longest time, even being the one whose bones were shaped just like the ones he has known since before his own birth, his mother's.
She was his daughter in a way the others could never be, not just by blood, not just by name, but in understanding.
She KNEW him.
She knew him in the way a mirror knows its subject.
In the way a grave knows its dead.
None of the boys have ever looked at him the way she did, like she could see every ruin inside him and still believed something beautiful lived there.
Or Bruce, Talia and Damian after the death of Dixie Wayne
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- Part 17 of Robin's blues
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Neat little chain of paper dolls (Flightless Birds) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
01 May 2025
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Jason loves his sister.
It's that easy, really.
It was inevitable, really, with his nasty habit of planting roots in the people he loves, always losing a piece of himself after they were gone.Tim loves Dixie, he always did.
Tim loves Dixie, he loves her like Janet and Jackson always wanted him to love God.
And so it doesn't really matter if her Godhood isn't the kind one of the new testament, but the unforgiving one of the old testament.
He loves her all the same.Damian loves Dixie, who is his sister (his ONLY sister) and his mama and the single most important person in his life.
Damian loves Dixie and he loves West and the little family of three they built too.
Damian loves, and maybe that's the most important gift Dixie ever gave him.Dixie lives.
Dixie lives (there isn't blood pumping in her veins anymore and her heart is unmoving and her lungs are bereft of breath).
Dixie lives anyways.Series
- Part 16 of Robin's blues
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Harleen never had any child at all and yet…yet she once had a niece, and she still has three nephews, and nothing, NOTHING, will ever take them away from her (like it happened to her niece).
She'll make sure.
Selina never had any children at all.
But the man she loves does.
The man she loves has three sons (and once he had a daughter too) and she is gonna help them, if only for his sake (if only because their sister asked her to).
Talia has a son.
A beautiful, beautiful boy born with eyes as blue as the purest lapis lazuli.
Talia had a daughter too, once.
But she'll be damned if she'll let that “once”, that past tense, prevent her from seeing her daughter again.
Or: three women and their relationships with love, rage, grief and (sometimes not) parenthood.
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- Part 15 of Robin's blues
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Just a little bit of Sunshine by Helecthra
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
09 Mar 2025
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Just a series of snippets of things that happened/ could have happened in "Cabin Seven's tango"
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- Part 2 of Drops of Sunshine
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Everything is alright yes, everything is fine (Things swept under the rug) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
07 Feb 2025
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Rikki knows she isn’t innocent, nor young, nor blameless, not anymore.
She hasn't been, not for a long, long time.
And she can't really tell when it started (it started with her parents’ broken bodies laid in the sand of the center ring and her father's too stiff arms tightening around her torso, preventing her from jumping after them), when she stopped being all those things (when she stopped being whatever she was before).
Deep in her gut, Dixie knows she isn't innocent.
She knows she isn't young.
She knows she isn't blameless.
Deep in her gut, Dixie only knows that she wants to disappear.
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- Part 14 of Robin's blues
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Of loving Nightwing (Titans edition) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Titans (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
12 Jan 2025
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Roy loves Rikki. He loved her when they were just two stupid kids pulling pranks at galas and he loves her still, even if in a different way.
Roy loves Dixie. He loved her when they were teens, her legs wrapped around him, her laugh always ringing in his ears, and he still loves her, even after all that happened between them.Donna loves Robbie, her twin wonder, her sister, her reflection in the mirror.
Donna loves Rikki, who decided to live in the world of men and died for it.
Donna loves Dixie, and now, now that her twin is nothing but earth again, she is more similar to her than ever before.Garth loves Robbie, who is like the ocean, and so, when he needs to see her again, he goes to the sea, his first home, the only thing that ever lets him forget that she is gone.
Wally loves Robbie. He loves Rikki Wayne. He loves Dixie. And yet love is a too little word to describe the universes he sees behind her smiles. Dixie is his everything, so yes, maybe that's why he doesn't care much about life, now that she is gone.
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- Part 13 of Robin's blues
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A cheerleader, a heroine, a socialite and a monster by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
03 Dec 2024
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The Justice League loves Batman's daughter, even if they don't know anything about her at all (it's a lie, they know what little Hal gathered in a hop gone wrong, but surely the Dark Knight's offspring isn't a cheerleader and Hal must have misunderstood something).
The Justice League loves (at least, the majority of them do) Nightwing, formerly known as Robin, the perfect foil they used to raise a next generation of heroes.
(Some of) the members of the Justice League also love Rikki Wayne, the only daughter of infamously well known billionaire Bruce Wayne (some of them hate her too, but it's difficult to explain the tangle of emotions the socialite elicits).
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- Part 12 of Robin's blues
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Interlude (Revelations) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
28 Oct 2024
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Hell is her own mind, her own wrongdoings (in actions, in words, in thoughts).
Her sins dance before her eyes, a twisted parade of every monstrosity she has ever committed.
They were all hers.
They were her.
Maybe she should have listened to Father Janek's sermons more closely.
Maybe, if she did, she wouldn't be trapped in Hell.
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- Part 11 of Robin's blues
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Little Miss Demon's blood by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
23 Oct 2024
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The little Miss is Thomas, and she is Martha and she is Bruce (she is also him, but that isn't all that important) the three people Alfred loved the most wrapped into one, so deeply intertwined that it's almost impossible to see where she ends and they begin. The little Miss is a wonderful, wonderful human being and he is proud of calling her his granddaughter, just like he is proud of being called her grandad.
Talia's daughter is...she is a remarkable being. And Ra's hates her for it. He hates her for the way she always seems to meet (and often exceed) his expectations. He hates her, because, after a while, it becomes clear she is everything he always wanted from his progeny, from his future heir. But Talia's daughter is just that, a daughter, a girl, a woman, and Ra's won't debase his own legacy leaving it all to a woman. Or maybe he will, if Damian will reveal himself as unfitting for the role. But he has to wait, wait for his grandson to grow, and the waiting is challenging even for a patient being like him.
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- Part 10 of Robin's blues
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Birds of a feather by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
28 Sep 2024
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Damian loves Rikki, who is his sister and the only person who truly loves him.
Damian loves Rikki, who tiptoes the line between being his sister and being his mom, and whose arms are the only safe place he knows.Stephanie loves Robin, who taught her that little girls can be brave and strong.
Stephanie loves Rikki Wayne, whose money fueled every charity in her neighborhood.
Stephanie loves Nightwing, who taught her how not to be helpless.Tim has loved Rikki Grayson ever since he first saw her flying through the air, more beautiful than anyone could ever hope to be.
Tim loves Rikki, even though now she is gone, he loves her so much that he sometimes thinks about cloning her but Dixie is…she is EVERYTHING and one can’t hope to replicate her in a laboratory, so he plots with his brothers and he hopes he will see her smile again.Jason loves his sister, who saves people (who saved HIM) and brings criminals to justice.
Jason loves his sister, and now that love is dead and buried in her grave (when it should be dead and buried in his).
Jason loves his sister, and his sister loved him too and that love brought him back to life.
He'll make sure his love will do the same to her.Series
- Part 9 of Robin's blues
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Running high on shattered dreams (Wally’s reprise) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Titans (Comics)
04 Sep 2024
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Wally runs.
No directions in his plans, no thoughts in his head.
He is the fastest man alive.
He is still unable to save everyone (he was unable to save Dixie).
He loses people.
He saves even more people.
Behind every single one of their faces he sees Dixie.
He doesn’t know if it hurts more when it’s in the dead or in the living.
Wally runs.
No directions in his plans, no thoughts in his head.
The only thing that really moves him, nowadays, is grief.Series
- Part 8 of Robin's blues
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Father Figure by Helecthra
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Titans (Comics)
24 Aug 2024
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“I will be your father figure / Put your tiny hand in mine / I will be your preacher, teacher / Anything you have in mind / I will be your father figure / I have had enough of crime”
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- Part 7 of Robin's blues