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You're telling me WHAT now? by Trans_WithThe_Former
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series
16 Oct 2025
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What happens if the JL finds out about Batman's family or his identity? Even worse when that very reveal had caused the death of someone..
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Road to Hell by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
15 Oct 2025
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Tim is frustrated, bored, and at the end of his rope.
He seeks a solution more permanent than the constant cycle of catch and release they currently have for Gotham's various vigilantes.Or
Tim Drake’s temporary descent into villainy. Featuring numerous ride or die friends, a historic crashout, and canon-typical emotional incompetence.
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waltz of four left feet by caffeinlee
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
13 Oct 2025
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Damian is aware of how much his father loves him. He never made the kid feel unwanted, never once looked at him without affection. Bruce held Damian like he was holding the world, and Damian knows his father would give up everything for him.
He also knows his father isn't happy.
Not when he had a look in his eyes that Damian only saw when Clark was around. Not when every time Clark visited, Damian would walk past his parents' room later that night and find his father at the edge of the bed, head in his hands and crying.
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More Than You Think by Yuuji456
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
12 Oct 2025
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Stranded in Gotham, fifteen-year-old Peter Parker is broke, sleep-deprived, and just barely holding it together. After a week on the streets, he finds work at a half-decent café near the alleys — the kind of place that doesn’t ask for ID, which suits him fine. By day, he pours coffee. By night, he scours scrap to build a machine that might take him home.
He doesn’t want attention — not from the Waynes (who have too many family issues), not from Gotham’s masked shadows. But they’ve noticed him anyway. The kid with too-sharp eyes and questions he won’t answer. The one who takes cash without complaint but won’t accept a ride, a warm meal, or even a name.
Because Peter can handle things himself. He has to. Help always comes with strings, and he’s tangled in enough already. But the truth is clawing its way out — his arrival in Gotham wasn’t an accident. Someone wanted him here.
Now, caught in a web bigger than his own, Peter will have to decide if surviving is enough — or if he’s willing to let someone in before it’s too late.
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homefront by disaster_j
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
11 Oct 2025
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The Wayne family has refused to comment further on the youngest Wayne's disappearance, issuing their last public statement on the case three weeks after the alleged abduction, with Wayne stating- “I know my son is still out there. I can only hope he is safe, that he is returned to us soon. All I ask is that the public and the media grant myself and my boys some privacy while we wait for answers.”
Nearly half a year later, the GCPD has seemingly run out of leads to follow, and the mystery of Damian Wayne’s abduction may very well end up just another case buried under the mountains of missing persons’ cases that go cold each year in this city.
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Jason Todd stole Ra's al Ghul's heir. This action had Consequences.
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- Part 2 of brothers & sons
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I Just Wanna Save You (While There's Still Something Left To Save) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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Bruce can see it in the boy's eyes; he's going to try and run.
And sure, Bruce could track him down. It probably wouldn't even be that difficult. But he's had a long night, and apparently he still needs to put his damn tires back on.
So before the boy can run off, Bruce reaches out, and grabs his wrist. "Wait."
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- Part 8 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Dick rolls his lips and sighs out his nose, brow crinkling up. He tries, “Bruce, I know that you… know. About it.” He winces at just the thought. “I know that’s why you’re here. Because you know.”
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- Part 2 of "All Press is Good Press"
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Tim Drake is new at being Robin. He's doing everything he can to try to live up to the Legend of the Boy Wonder. But when he doesn't think something is worth his while, a terrible disaster gives him the guilt-trip of a lifetime. Thankfully, he has a wonderful new family to help him through it, even if half of them are bad at communicating.
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I know the bravest thing I ever did was run by annabocchi
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
22 Sep 2025
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Dick Grayson has reached one of the lowest points in his life. He doesn't know what to do or where to go, and the only thing that he can think of is that he needs to get out of Gotham and as far as he can from the Wayne Manor.
That's when, unconsciously, his feet lead him to Metropolis to seek comfort in the arms of someone who had been there for him for his entire life.Or: Dick gets fired but I decided to add some drama so that it's more traumatic.
This is my take on the argument that Bruce and Dick had (so it's different from the comics) and the aftermath of the fight, where the boy has to learn how to start a new life without his father, but with the help of some people who only wish to see him happy. -
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Jason and Bruce have a chat. Jason takes things the wrong way, Bruce tries to correct. At least no one storms out?
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- Part 4 of Home to Roost
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Bruce knocks softly on the door before nudging it open. On the opposite hip, he reaffirms his grip on Damian. His youngest son nuzzles into his neck, affectionate in a way Bruce only dreamed of when the boys appeared on his doorstep.
“Morning, Jay,” he murmurs, seeing his second oldest blinking blearily in the early morning light. “You need to get up,” Bruce reminds firmly. He sweeps a hand down Damian’s spine, stilling the boy a moment.
Jason stubbornly stays put.
His older son squints and Bruce realizes that his usually blank look is a genuine lack of comprehension. His pale, sweaty features take on a new meaning.
Bruce takes care of his children on a sick day.
An AU of Across the Sands
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Monster under the bed by LittleBitFeral
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Superboy (Comics)
15 Sep 2025
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Tim begs Jason to go check on Superboy while he’s on mission. He isn’t expecting what he finds.
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Or: Bruce is worlds best Oma (mom), Jason needs therapy, and Conner Kent needs a fucking HUG
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- Part 7 of Finding the Joys in Gotham
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you're not my dad by nowifi_noconnection
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and the Signal (Comics)
01 Sep 2025
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duke goes into the sewers even though bruce told him not to.
duke doesn't give a shit what this guy says, he's gonna go find his parents.
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- Part 2 of Reverse Robins AU
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the boy I once was (why is he more deserving of love than me) by notgivinguptoday
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU (Comics)
30 Aug 2025
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“Why can’t you look at me?” Jason asks, voice barely a whisper.
“Jason,” Batman’s voice calls from behind him, high-pitched and desperate. “Step away from the ledge,”
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Jason couldn't leave his baby brother with the league. He just couldn't.
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- Part 1 of brothers & sons
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Cabbages by Homemade_Papayas
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
26 Aug 2025
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A series of pranks Damian plays on Jason that somehow lead to a much nicer reunion with the bats.
Or: The James Acaster cabbages thing but with Jason and Damian.
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Hell Is For Children by clex_monkie89
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
15 Aug 2025
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Dick has been Bruce's ward for eleven days.
Dick was in juvie for nearly six months.
Bruce regrets.
Alpha Bonds Dick to Save his Life | Worshipped/Revered Omega |Dick is Extremely Fertile |
Lactation | BONUS: Reverse RobinsSeries
- Part 1 of Omega Dick Week 2025
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the bats & the bees by hole_in_the_roof
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon)
08 Aug 2025
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Bruce stalks over to the wardrobe and tugs open the door to find Wally West (aka Kid Flash, aka The Flash’s nephew, aka Barry Allen’s problem, aka what Barry “The Flash” Allen is about to get a scathing call from Batman about in approximately ten minutes) hovering in a t-shirt and Superman boxers.
Boxers. Underwear. There’s a boy in just a t-shirt and underwear hiding in his son’s closet.
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CaveBat by maplesnmulberries
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
01 Aug 2025
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Bruce Wayne is an emotionally repressed man who has made it his entire personality (or at least alter-ego) about remaining stoic.
But sometimes external forces (i.e., fear toxin,) force those walls to come down.
And sometimes?
Those walls crash so hard that Bruce is reduced to caveman brain.
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- Part 4 of Bat Drabbles
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Short summary I wrote six years ago for a no-capes fic where Bruce goes crazy after the loss of his parents and imagines everything about the Batman series.
This is part of a series of plot-bunnies up for adoption.
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- Part 7 of Plot Bunny Adoption Farm