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    A collection of 31 one-shots inspired by this year's AI-less Whumptober prompt list, each centred around a variety of Kindergarten 1-3 characters!

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    DAY EIGHT:

    Already mottled with bruises from his abrupt arrival at kindergarten that morning, Felix’s back aches whenever he moves. It now boasts a dull, constant throbbing that ripples persistently up his spine, catching on every pointed vertebrae. Whilst reduced to lying on the floor like some– some plebian, its tiles had seeped ice water through his shirt. It had been something to distract himself with, during the… Beating.

    Felix is no stranger to a little pain. The squelching wallop of wood against his temple echoes in his head like a gunshot, and the experience of being hit again and again and again seems to repeat itself afterwards in sudden, vicious spikes. Felix is loath to touch his forehead now, feeling the remnants of that sticky crimson substance congeal in his hair, sticking to itself and painting the line of his scalp with filth.

    Red is not Felix’s colour. And yet– he thinks resentfully, staring down at his shirt– it is everywhere.

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    11 Oct 2025

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    Kindergarten Whumptober 2025!

    First year doing this officially, check out my mates Lilac_The_Book_Lover, The_Fear_Is_Red and KPwritesMarvelousFics all on Ao3 for their Whumptobers.

    Check each chapter title for the characters, and the summaries for the prompts used.

    Have an amazing October, don't get cursed my fellow writers!

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    02 Oct 2025

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    Dick Grayson, the emotional glue of the batfamily, sacrifices himself to save his brothers from a vengeful sorcerer...except he doesn’t die. Instead, the sorcerer wipes all traces and memories of Dick Grayson/Nightwing’s existence from the universe.

    What's a touch-starved older brother to do but exhaust all options to return home and get kidnapped by an owl-themed cult?

    Also, how will the batfamily react to the spell being broken and realizing that their golden boy is missing?

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    11 Feb 2025

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    Death has always followed Dick Grayson, so when the final blade falls, he welcomes it—abandoned by his family, swallowed by loneliness, and convinced this is how his story was always meant to end.

    But then he wakes up. Alone, in a Gotham that doesn’t recognize him.
    In a world where Dick Grayson never existed.

    Now, eight years in the past, with his memories intact and no name to anchor him, he has a second chance:
    To save the people he loves.
    To fix the mistakes that tore them apart.
    And maybe—if the universe allows—to find his way back home.

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    27 Jan 2025

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    Dick released all of the air in his chest with a sigh of relief and slumped against the couch. His neck rested on the couch’s back as his head hung loosely over it. He studied the ceiling and went over Bruce’s contingency.

    1. Make sure you are in the past and check all your bases. Determine whether science or magic brought you there.

    Definitely in the past, but also in an alternate universe. Definitely a magic trick.

    2. Stay out of anyone’s way and don’t move until I find you and bring you home.

    Rescue’s not coming, and I need to move.

    3. Whatever you do, never ever mess with time.

    Well, …rules are for losers anyway.

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    After being hit by a magician's spell, Dick is stranded in a universe where he doesn't exist. Determined to bring his family back together, Nightwing sets out on a mission to bring his siblings home.

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    25 Dec 2024