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Flightless Birds by airyoubreathe
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
24 May 2026
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“We’re not like Tim or Damian,” Jason said quietly. “Our parents didn’t have a last name that meant money or power. Neither of us had a silver spoon shoved in our mouth until we arrived at that mansion.”
Jason held Dick’s gaze. “Biologically,” he said. “We’re trash.”
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Twenty years ago, Dick attended his first gala; a glorious, glittering affair that left his eight-year-old self wide-eyed and slack-jawed. Becoming a permanent fixture of Gotham Society was certainly an adjustment, especially for a circus kid whose performer’s smile was brittle with grief. But Dick was nothing if not a survivor. He soon learned that he could dazzle his audience with a smile and a quick quip just as well as he could with a trapeze.
And, sure, Bruce had always told him to be careful. To keep a watchful eye on his drink, and not to stray too far from Bruce’s side. But Bruce was overprotective, and Dick wasn’t a kid anymore. He didn’t need to fear Gotham’s elite because there was nothing to fear.
Besides, they were his friends…
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- Part 1 of Flightless Birds
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"How old are you anyway?"
Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”
“How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.
Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”
(A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)
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13 Jun 2026
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When they say Batman has a hypersonic jet, some plane that can go 3,800 miles per hour, tens of thousands of feet in the air without so much as a creak or a groan in protest, most people would say: “Cool. That's so fast.” What they don't realize is how bad it sucks when that plane does eventually break. Dick likes heights, but even he can admit that 57,000 feet is simply too high of a fall.
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- Part 13 of Rin's Whumptober 2025
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10 Jun 2026
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Renegade belonged to one person, and it was not Amanda Waller. No matter how many bombs she stuck inside his neck.
(Series is on permanent hiatus)
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- Part 2 of Up in Smoke, Down in Flames
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05 Jun 2026
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The Nightwing Protocol by PurpleSoot
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Animated Series), Young Justice (Cartoon)
17 Sep 2022
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In a universe that falls somewhere in between Teen Titans and Young Justice, Robin was fourteen years old on the day he was killed in action, caught in a clever trap laid by the world’s most dangerous mercenary assassin.
Deathstroke’s Apprentice was fifteen on the day he finally surrendered to the Justice League, with blood on his hands and scars that will never heal.
Dick Grayson is seventeen on the day he chooses to face Slade Wilson again.
Some things you lose and can’t ever find again. Some things you drop and leave behind. Some things you just have to learn how to carry with you.
(They’ll call that the Nightwing Protocol, if he survives.)