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of opportunities squandered and irreversible missteps by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
24 Aug 2025
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Privately, he wonders just when they’re going to run out of miracles. He left the part of himself that believed in hopes and wishes and gods in the trenches of the Western Front, but he prays to whoever may be listening that he’ll be long dead before that happens.
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- Part 4 of The Truth Companion Pieces (DC)
- Part 5 of The Truth (DC)
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Brother I Bet It All Gold (shudder with blood in my nose) by Winteress_Soldier
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
16 Aug 2025
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It’d been a long time since he realised he’d kill for Dick Grayson. It was only recently he realised that Dick would kill for him too. It was funny, how they always seemed to orbit one another but never came close enough to touch. The moon only lit from the reflection of the sun. He doesn’t produce his own light, he simply reflects the light the sun shares with him, the sun that’s sat next to him now.
Dick had always been the sun.
They’d always come so close but always seemed to miss.
They'd had it almost
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Inspired by Repeat Until Death by Novo Amor
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So Long (To The Kid I Used To Know) by RoriMoon9597
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Young Justice (Cartoon)
07 Aug 2025
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This… Jason just wanted to go home. He could, if he wanted to, but… the mission…
You did this to yourself, a traitorous voice in his head whispered.
He should've just gone home to the Manor.
Or, Jason's not stuck anymore, but he isn't exactly home yet, either. He's got a goal in his mind, and he won't stop until he achieves it. Even if it costs his mental health.
~This fic takes place after Redwing, so I highly recommend reading that if you haven't already. It has a lot of context for this fic.~
Fic title is based off of the song by Arrested Youth
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- Part 2 of Redwing AU
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Break the Wing, Mend the Man by Deadnite
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon)
06 Aug 2025
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Blüdhaven is gone.
Dick Grayson barely made it out alive.After a brutal fight with Blockbuster leaves the city in ruins, Dick is left broken—physically, mentally, emotionally. But what happened in the rubble was worse than any battle he's ever faced. When Catalina Flores takes everything from him, Dick returns to Gotham not as a hero, but as a shadow of the boy who once believed he could save everyone.
He can't sleep. He can't speak. He can't stop bleeding.
Recovery isn't heroic.
It's slow. It's cruel.
And it drags every member of the Batfamily down with him.This is the story of what comes after the fall:
The rage.
The silence.
The scars no one sees.
And the people who refuse to let him go under—even when he begs them to.A story of trauma, survival, and the long, ugly road to healing.
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We'll Be A Fine Line (we'll be alright) by Winteress_Soldier
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
30 Jul 2025
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Jason Todd Week 2025 Day 3 - Accidental Child Acquisition | Pre-Robin Jason Todd | Coming of Age
Jason had never been ready, and it seemed like that wasn't about to change.
He'd be alright, he always was, in the end. Except it wasn't just him now, and it never would be again.
He always knew he'd regret knowing Dick Grayson. But he promised, and he wasn't letting him down this time.
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- Part 3 of WinteressSoldier's Jason Todd Week 2025
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“Well shit me a brick.”
Bruce's head snaps. He turns and stares in horror at his new ward, Dick Grayson. His new ward, who is eight, might he just add.
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Or: Dick picks up a couple of creative swears while growing up in the circus. Alfred is not impressed. Bruce is trying his best to parent.
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Monsters by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
09 Jul 2025
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He couldn’t hear anything from the other side of the door, but he didn’t doubt that Dick was there, that he was listening. He could feel it. “Kids called me. They’re worried ‘bout’cha. But you knew that. Just like I know that whatever yer workin’ on in there’s gotta be important. So, I’m not gonna try’n drag you out, but I’m gonna be here when you’re ready to talk. Sent everyone else out. It’s just you’n me, Dick. However long you need.”
That wasn’t necessarily true. They would all find their way back by dinner time at the latest. But it was true enough for the moment. Sorta like when someone promises forever but they only really have right now. Because sometimes forever means the same thing as right now and sometimes “however long you need” is the same as “however long I can give you”.
Seven times the Bats learn something New about Dick's time as Batman and one time they go to court about it.
Installment Four of "The Truth"
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- Part 4 of The Truth (DC)
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How To Kill The Batman: Guide For Dummies And Reincarnated Souls Alike by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Jul 2025
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Thrown into the DC world, a world she thought only fiction, June would like the record to state that she is so, so unbelievably screwed.
She has never read comics; has only seen Teen Titans and a few episodes of the animated series. Sure, she knows things about the comics, but she never read any directly. All she knows is from friends, Tumblr users, and shitty fanfic on the internet!
Is this because she went on a month-long comic-fan-content binge before she died? Before that month of craziness, she hadn't even known how many Robin's there were! Was this cosmic punishment, for how many times she uttered “At least I'm not a comics fan” before making a hypocrite of herself?
Now, her favorite Robin (tied, of course, with Dick Grayson, which her brother would undoubtedly agree with and co-sign) is her brother!
Which iteration is she in? What does she need to be prepared for? Joker Junior? Ra Al Ghul? How shitty is this version of Bruce Wayne?
It's time to put her money where her mouth is: she always said, during that last month of life, that if she was ever transported to the DCU, she'd do one specific thing.
“I have to kill Batman,” June Drake swore.
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Yankee by AllThingsRepeat
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
05 Jul 2025
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When Jason, Dick, and Damian go to see the Minecraft movie, they expect popcorn and pixel jokes — not a hate-fueled confrontation. But when a group of racists targets Dick and Damian, Jason snaps. He can’t hit them (yet), but he can eviscerate them Jersey-style. Loud, proud, and seconds from violence, Jason reminds everyone exactly what Gotham trash is capable of.
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Yankee can refer broadly to anyone born or living in the U.S., more narrowly to only those in the northern U.S., or even more narrowly to only those in the states of New England. The broadest use is especially common outside the U.S.
// It took the children some time to adjust to being the only Southerners in a classroom full of Yankees.
// After years of international travel, he'd grown accustomed to living as a Yankee abroad.
- Merium Webster Dictionary Word of the Day July 4th 2025AKA Jason being a Jersey Yankee
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- Part 16 of Word of the Day
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In the Quiet Between Cracks by Riki666
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Teen Titans - All Media Types
24 Jun 2025
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Everyone thinks they know who Dick Grayson is: a cop, a good soldier, the one who left the Cave but never stood out.
They stopped paying attention years ago.
But Dick’s been building something in the spaces they ignored — between hero and civilian, between past and future.
When everything breaks open, the family scrambles to understand the brother they overlooked.
Not everyone will earn forgiveness.
But some never needed to. -
Okay by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
19 Jun 2025
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Jason watched as Dick’s chest expanded, and he heaved a tired sigh. “I’m sorry, Jay. I thought I was getting better.”
The words, weary and resigned hung heavy between them. Jason chose instead to listen to the crickets and cicadas filling the silence with creaky songs and droning tones. And for a second–just a second–he forgot the constant ache of his muscles. He forgot Dick’s words and the damage they implied. He wasn’t Robin or Red Hood or even Jason Todd. He was just a man, laying on an abandoned train in rural New Jersey, watching the stars with his brother. His brother who wasn’t Robin or Nightwing or Batman or Richie Wayne or Agent 37 or even Dick Grayson. He was just a man, laying on an abandoned train in rural New Jersey, watching the stars with his brother.
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- Part 7 of To Grow (DC)
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Everything but the Ring by Casey_Bones
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice (Comics)
17 Jun 2025
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Dick knew that the last thing Wally would do would be blindside him with something so big. Still. That didn't stop him from hoping, especially when it comes to the idea of a proposal.
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Damian gives the man who raised him a fathers day gift.
Its literally just dad Dick fluff. He deserves some recognition around here.
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Robin always knew his parents were gone. But when the Titans pull a cruel prank—pretending they’re still alive—he lets himself believe, just for a second.
When the truth hits, and the laughter doesn’t stop, something inside him goes quiet.
A quiet, character-driven story about grief, humiliation, and the moment you realize the people you call friends might never really see you.
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For Birdwatchers365 Day 146: "Highlight"
---Bruce reaches into his pocket and pulls out a USB drive. The small label stuck to the side reads “Grayson Highlight Reel.”
“What’s this?” Dick asks.
“A compilation of the best performances from your gymnastics competitions over the past two years. From what I understand, it’s intended to serve as the athletic equivalent of a resume.”
“Well, yeah, I know what a 'highlight reel' is, but why would I need one? Where’d you even get the footage?” -
Tears of the Blue by Akira_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
15 Apr 2025
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When Dick Grayson finds a young Peter Parker naked in an alley, a series of events unfold along with major misunderstandings.
Peter Parker, mute and unable to understand the writing of the city's inhabitants but able to understand them, will have to find a way to return to his own dimension.
But will he really want to leave in the end? -
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the sand and the glass by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
07 Apr 2025
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Dragging armfuls of stuff down the stairs, through the entry way, and across half the yard to shove them into his backseat was nothing compared to his usual workouts, but doubt was slowing him down.
Maybe this wasn’t the best idea. He and Dick were a couple’a beers and the newest Real Housewives type people. But that was the problem, wasn’t it.
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- Part 6 of To Grow (DC)
- Part 14 of DC One-Shots
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Dick doesn’t remember a time from before… before. Before the Garden, before the Earth became the desolate and barren place it is, before. Hell, he barely remembers a time from before Bruce.
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what i imagine dick's backstory in gotham city garage could have been
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Menagerie by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
12 Feb 2025
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It hurt to hear the stress in his voice.
“It’s okay, Dick. You’ve done enough. You’re doing enough.”
“I don’t feel like I’m doing anything.” Dick emphasized.
“Dick,” Jason sighed. Not exasperated. Not disappointed. Maybe a little tired, but mostly just sad. “That’s not true.”
‘You know that’s not true,’ he wanted to add. Except Jason wasn’t sure he did. Dick was one of the smartest people Jason knew, but it was hard to know things no one bothered to teach. So instead, he said, “Dick you’re the strongest person I’ve ever met. What you’ve been through, what you’ve survived. And that’s on top of everything you’ve done as Robin and Nightwing and Batman and shit, everything you’ve done as Dick Grayson.”
There was an unidentifiable shuffling from Dick’s side of the line. At least he was moving. And then he said, “As opposed to what?”
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- Part 5 of To Grow (DC)