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It was a fact of life that every superhero had an archnemesis. Batman had the Joker. Superman had Lex Luthor.
Robin, Dick decided one wintry evening, had Talia al Ghul.
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It's thanks to Dick that Bruce didn't end up falling in love with Talia al Ghul, and he really thinks his siblings should thank him for the work he did over the years.
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16 Jul 2026
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“Dude, what do you mean you’re giving up? You said you’d chase him to the end of the world if you had to. You got him to play! That’s more than I’ve ever done!”
“I promised him I’d leave him alone if he got just one basket,” Kiyoshi said a little desperately. “I was sure he wouldn’t. I guess that was arrogant of me. He’s amazing. But the way he played didn’t seem like someone who wanted to quit….”
Izuki grit his teeth and balled his hands up into fists. “Then that’s his problem. If he wants to play or doesn’t want to play, that’s up to him. You can’t drag him kicking and screaming even if he’s the best shooting guard in the universe. We have five people and only a few minutes before the morning assembly. Do you want to play or not?”
“Yeah. I want to play.”
(OR: Hyuuga Junpei does not join the Seirin basketball team. Izuki Shun becomes captain in his stead. Everything is different, but maybe not so much.)
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04 Jul 2026
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Dust Bloom Static by LivingProof
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Jun 2026
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On the outs with Sam and just about everyone else after a mission gone badly wrong, Bucky travels, and wanders, and drifts right into a group of other drifters, fitted together by a shared sense of never quite fitting in anywhere else.
And a partner/coworker/guy with a mutual friend-less Sam finds himself doing some wandering too, trying to unravel the mystery of that mission gone wrong. Wondering if, by chance, his path might cross again with that former partner/coworker/guy with a mutual friend.
It does. Of course it does. It’s like gravity between them, an inexorable pull they can’t escape, no matter how hard they try.
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24 Jun 2026
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Canon Divergence following 13x21, "Beat the Devil".
Team Free Will and their new allies have escaped Apocalypse World unscathed, but Sam doesn't feel all that secure. Realistically, he got Jack and Mary back and managed to not only save dozens of people, but lock Lucifer away in another universe, so everything is fine.
Right?
Sam is haunted by his latest near-death experience, but worst of all, he's started to notice new things about himself. Things he's all-too-familiar with.
In the jumbled mess that his brain has become, one thing is for certain: something is very, very wrong.
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- Part 1 of Semper Monstrum
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06 Jun 2026
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Recovery Looks Bad on Us by Plutern2010
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
22 May 2026
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After noticing the growing distance between Damian and Tim, Duke forces both of his brothers into spending time together, leading to an unexpectedly good night that slowly starts repairing their relationship.
But when a mission in Gotham’s underground tunnels goes horribly wrong, one explosion changes everything.
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04 Jun 2026
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"Alfred," Bruce says into the handset, leaning forward on his desk to accommodate the wire and rubbing at a tired eye behind his reading glasses.
"Master Bruce," the butler starts, "sorry to disturb you, but I have your eldest here, downstairs. He's found himself in a spot of bother."
"Again?"
or, Bruce's kids like to keep him on his toes. featuring a miserable Dick Grayson and an emotionally challenged Damian Wayne.
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20 May 2026
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This World is a Wasteland (please let me go) by Halcyon (PeachTao)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
14 May 2026
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Whatever it was that told him he would see another day, it had leaked from his body, dissolved in the big green cloud that had engulfed Blüd, and washed away in years of blood spilling through his fingers.
Ahead, there was another half-collapsed building.
Heavy, unfeeling, and aching legs dragged him there. The apparition of Jason followed dutifully.
Together, they kept going, searching for more ghosts, until Dick’s body would give out, and he could follow Jason in turn.OR
Deathstroke dropped Chemo on Blüdhaven and Nightwing wanders into the nuclear zone to help with no care for his own life.Bookmarked by craneskull
19 May 2026
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It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by aSintobeRin
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
18 Oct 2025
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Dick Grayson is not okay. He tells himself he is. He musters on like he's fine. But the truth is, he's anything but. And now, at one of the lowest points in his life, the sky erupts in green flames. And then the epiphany hits him like a train:
No matter how far down he goes, he will never find rock bottom.Series
- Part 16 of Rin's Whumptober 2025
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19 May 2026
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“Don’t you dare tell me I don't know my own son’s face.” Familiar rage seethes at the base of his lungs. “Don’t you dare. Don’t you ever. I knew it against all reason. I knew it when it was impossible for it to be in front of me. I knew it faked and warped and desecrated and delusional and spitting mad. I knew it when it killed me to know it, to believe it to be true—”
“Describe it,” Dick challenges.
“I knew his face three years dead beneath a domino. I knew it as he carved a chunk of flesh from his own scalp and cursed my name…” His fingertips drift to a spot two inches behind his ear. Is that uneven texture the sign of a years-old scar, or just a tangle of hair?
(Or: Jason and Bruce get bodyswapped. It takes two full days for anyone to point it out to them.)
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14 May 2026
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Nearly a century after the last appearance of Sozin’s Comet, thirteen-year-old Fire Prince Zuko is banished by his father and given a near-impossible task: find and capture the elusive Avatar, the Fire Nation’s greatest threat.
After just three months at sea, he discovers a strange boy frozen in an iceberg. To both Zuko’s confusion and frustration, however, the Avatar is nothing at all like he expected him to be.
Why would he help Zuko and his uncle escape from Admiral Zhao? Why does he insist on dragging them all over the world to the abandoned Air Temples? Why is he so infuriatingly cheery?
…Why is he beginning to make Zuko question everything he has ever known?
As the weeks go by, Zuko slowly begins learns the truth about the Air Nomads and the War. Eventually, he finds he must make a choice that will forever change the direction of his life: his honor, his family, his throne… or the kind and charming boy who has somehow managed to sneak his way into his jaded heart.
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(CURRENT UPDATE SCHEDULE IS ROUGHLY ONCE A MONTH)
(Ongoing Russian translation available!)
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11 May 2026
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What's in a Name? by levi_cas_tho, maichan
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Oct 2019
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Following the attack on the Triskelion, the Asset is left injured, confused, and without guidance. Directionless and with no superior to give it orders, it must establish its own protocols. It assigns itself a new mission: gather intel on everything and anything regarding Captain America and Hydra, stay under the radar, and survive. Simple.
Except its not.
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Featuring a confused and questioning Bucky Barnes who doesn’t know how to handle his newfound freedom, a pining Steve Rogers who doesn’t know how to handle feelings, and the journey of a punk and a jerk as together they rediscover themselves, each other, and what it means to be in love.- Language:
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11 May 2026
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Never Like This by Faith Wood (faithwood)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
02 Aug 2021
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The Winter Soldier thrashed, drowning. It was taking forever. His mask seemed to be stuck. He pulled on it, struggling to draw breath, sinking and resurfacing, clawing at his face, the panic in his eyes terrible.
Steve's would-be killer. The very worst HYDRA had ever conjured. A symbol of death and everything he stood against. And Steve just couldn't bear it. He was ready to go, but this guy clearly wasn't.
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The premise: the Winter Soldier's mask doesn't come off quite as easily. Meaning, Steve never saw Bucky's face, and he didn't hold back during the fight on the Helicarrier. This is where the story picks up and is no longer canon-compliant. Though, I've stolen some ideas from the sequels and deliberately contradicted some future plot points/established canon.COMPLETED
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11 May 2026
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Jason Todd, Red Hood, and the Park Row Public Library (and her librarians).
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08 May 2026
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All the Roofs of Uncertainty by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
20 Dec 2015
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For all the blood on his hands, Red Hood was never just a villain. And Nightwing never gives up on family, not for good.
(Or: The one where Dick bleeds a lot and Jason argues with everybody.)
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07 May 2026
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Cracked Foundation by Cdelphiki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and Robin (Comics), DCU, Under the Red Hood, Batman (Comics)
16 Apr 2018
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The last thing Damian expected to happen when he ran away from home was to spend a day crammed into a small space with Jason Todd. His father's second son was a black sheep. An outcast. An angry, insanity driven criminal who enjoyed screwing with the batfamily in every way he could. At least, that's what Damian thought. Maybe he was wrong about Todd.
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07 May 2026
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"It's not."
Jason swallows thickly, "What?"
"My parents death is not the worst thing to ever happen to me," Bruce reiterates, as calm as Jason has ever seen him, eerily indifferent to the topic. But it's his eyes that remind Jason of the situation at hand, the way they're wide and glassy, pale blue eyes screaming for the words to stop.
They don't stop; "Losing you," Bruce continues, unblinking to Jason's expression of absolute horror, "Is the worst thing to ever happen to me."
Pain should not be quantifiable. It's with sinking hatred and pity, does Jason realise, guilt shouldn't be measurable either.
(Batman is hit with truth serum, Jason reacts to the consequences.)
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06 May 2026
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BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? by solistrix
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
30 Dec 2025
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There's no way he could pass for Dick’s actual brother and he’s got the face of a shell-shocked cartoon mouse — but not the cutesy mice, the ones in the old 80's movies that gave Dick nightmares as a child. That plus the fact the Drake kid’s got a thick New Jersey accent he can’t shake and that Dick doesn’t look grown-up enough to be toting around a preteen is sure to get people asking questions. Or worse. So Dick hauls Tim in by the strap on his backpack, steps onto the shoulder, sticks his thumb skyward toward the cloudless cornflower blue of middle America in summer, and prays whoever pulls over lies somewhere boring on the sliding scale between serial killer and snitch.
Dick Grayson turns 20 on March 20th, Jason Todd dies on April 27th, and by May 23rd, Bruce Wayne's ward-not-son is rattling around in the bed of a 1979 Ford F-150 heading anywhere but Gotham, New Jersey. Wayne money and Bat technology can't find him, but he's got a bug-eyed shadow and a raw Robin-shaped wound to haul across the continental United States.
or: road trip, coming-of-age, #Grief Fic triple-threat with a healthy dollop of early accidental Tim acquisition. or about as accidental as Tim acquisition can get
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- Part 1 of lpd road trip au
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01 May 2026
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For You, A Thousand Times Over by copperdwarf
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Cartoon 2004)
23 Jul 2026
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Bruce Wayne is a good man. He tries, at least. He tries to make a difference in a city that keeps rejecting his efforts, but it seems that there is always someone that gets left behind. That's why, when Batman finds a little boy trying to steal his tires, he brings him home, ready to offer him the world. And maybe save himself in the meantime.
Jason Todd is a orphan who's been living on the streets for a year. Then he dares to steal the batmobile's tires and suddenly he's... living with a weird billionaire? Why did he accept Batman's offer again? But, since he's already here, in a fucking manor of all places, he can see where this goes, live off this naive man's money without getting emotionally involved. Yes, this is a foolproof plan.
Dick Grayson is a teenager, unfortunately for him: this means one identity crisis a week and a good dose of fighting for indipendence with his legal guardian. Then he suddenly acquires a new brother, who looks like a wet racoon with an adorable pout, and now he has to decide who he wants to be while everything he loves changes around him. No sweat.
Three people's lives clash due to an improptu decision, that will shape them into better versions of themselves.Series
- Part 1 of The Batman (2004)
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30 Apr 2026
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A Hero Can Be Anyone –– Even a Billionaire by autumngray
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman - All Media Types
24 May 2024
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Bruce Wayne fights to secure the death penalty for Joker following the death of his adopted son, Jason Todd. It isn't as simple as that.
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- Part 1 of The only gift is a portion of thyself
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30 Apr 2026
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The View From Jade by lowflyingfruit
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
24 Feb 2019
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Being transported to the past is not the sort of thing one normally expects. But this having happened, and with no easy way back, Jason's determined to make the most of it. Though the Bat still stalks Gotham's streets, the city's crime is run by the mobs instead of the rogues. There's no Joker yet.
There's no Robin.
Maybe there shouldn't be.
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29 Apr 2026