brandywine421
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He liked the lady, but he really wished he didn't have to see her. She was the last remnant of the rich man's promise, another promise broken by accidents out of their, and his, control.
He'd flown for the last time with his parents six months ago, soared through the air inside the circus tent he'd considered home. They promised to never leave him and they'd both left him in a puddle of bone and blood.
He'd had hope for the last time three months ago, when Mr. Wayne took him back to his fancy Manor, a home without wheels in one place, and enrolled him in school and promised to give him a new life. But he'd left him without a word, disappearing into the night in his armored suit and leaving him only fake words from strangers about being 'lost in time' and 'not dead, just - not here to handle this,' or whatever Mr. Wayne's kids stammered in their voicemails or passed along through social workers.
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Dick kept his eyes on Bruce. “And what does this have to do with me?”
“You’ll be going undercover. Back in.”
Dick blinked. “Back where?”
“The Olympics.”
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or, three years after winning gold, Dick thought he’d left the mat for good... until the Justice League sends him back to the Olympics as himself for a mission.
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- Part 2 of the off season (sports AUs)
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14 May 2026
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look back in anger by vechter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
04 Sep 2024
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Dick and Bruce are like this:
Not the sun and moon, a love devastated by circumstance, a story of light and gravity, but a different beast altogether. A nucleus fissuring into two, borne of the same energy, the same matter, the same decay.Their story has always been radioactive.
A canon-divergent take on Dick's return after Spyral featuring debilitating self-loathing and guilt, interspersed with the ordeal of being unmasked, and the subsequent waning sense of personhood.
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09 May 2026
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Accismus by honeycombclaire
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
12 Apr 2024
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/ækˈsizməs/
noun
1. when one feigns disinterest or indifference for something they desire
2. a form of ironyExample: Dick buys two birthday cards for Damian. One starts with “For my son,” and the other says “To a cool guy.” Dick gives Damian the latter, and keeps the former locked away. He doesn’t need to make this into something it’s not.
Or, Dick is tasked with raising Damian in the wake of Bruce’s death. This is the fallout of their separation upon Bruce’s sudden and unexpected return.
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21 Mar 2026
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“Gotham is filthy,” Damian says flatly, honestly. “I understand now why Mother sent me here instead of coming herself.”
Nightwing’s face is turned to the left, but the smile on his lips is audible. “It’s not all bad,” he says.
Damian thinks of Grayson, and the too-sweet donut he had given him, and the Chinese restaurant with the nice Asian lady and the park and the stray cat that had crossed through the grass in the darkness.
“No,” he admits grudgingly, “I suppose not.”
(Or, in a world where he was never sent to live with his father, Damian al Ghul is contracted to assassinate one Dick Grayson.)
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- Part 1 of live your life with arms wide open
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19 Mar 2026
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When Nightwing has to leave town, he asks his youngest brother to keep an eye on Blüdhaven. Things do not go the way that Damian expects.
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18 Mar 2026