Dead_but_only_ironically
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He’s just begun to fruitlessly pick at his hair when there’s a bang, harsh and loud, and he ducks, dropping his comb. The second one makes him tuck and roll out of the room, reaching for a weapon. He’s got his hand on a loose wingding when there comes a harsh hiss. Water under a lot of pressure cracking off of tile. Dick creaks up into a crouch, poking his head around the doorframe, staying low. His shower is suddenly working again, water hammering into the stall and sluicing out onto the floor. His drain, never very functional, appears to have given up entirely.
It takes him half the wall to find the damn pipes and turn the water off, the shower blasting like a machine gun the whole time. For a moment there’s quiet, just water dripping. His phone rings where he left it on the counter, jumping with the vibration. BRUCE, it reads. Dick answers.
“You will not fucking believe the morning I am having,” Dick says. “Everything happens to me. I’ve told you about my landlord, right?”
“Dick,” Bruce says. Something in his voice makes the hair on the back of Dick’s neck rise.
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Dick has a bad day.
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- Part 1 of pillars.
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The End of the World (As He'd Known It) by RED2quill
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
28 Jun 2026
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Lex Luthor is president. Bruce Wayne is... lost... Omega rights have collapsed so fast Dick Grayson barely saw it coming. Lifelong alpha guardianship reinstated, supers criminalized, and forced bondings ignored by the courts. Even Superman was caught and "transitioned" into a dutiful mate.
Jason went underground. Tim disappeared chasing Bruce. Dick thought he'd be fine if he just kept his head down.He wasn't fine.
Warning!!: Dark! and not fully tagged! you have been warned!
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Toothless Dogs by airyoubreathe
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
28 Jun 2026
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“I can’t believe he has the balls to show up here of all places,” Jason said in quiet anger.
“He probably thinks it’d be conspicuous if he didn’t show,” Dick murmured as Rawling took a sip of his scotch and laughed at someone’s joke. “He’s a society event regular. Eventually, someone would notice that he'd stopped attending Wayne galas.”
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One year ago, an ordinary society event turned into the worst night of Dick's life. Left for dead in a pool of his own vomit and blood, Dick was rendered prey by someone he'd thought was a friend.
The recovery was as humiliating as it was painful, but Dick got better. He investigated his case. He caught his perp. He exacted his justice. So why the hell can't he sleep?
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The worst is over, but hell is near.
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- Part 2 of Flightless Birds
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Welcome to the Family by ViiA01
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
01 Feb 2025
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Bruce’s children want to meet the man that their father deemed worthy of a smile. So they do, in the only way they know how. By breaking into people's houses and lurking in dark places.
Bruce just wants his children to stop stalking Earth’s Green Lantern, if only because they're ruining his plans.
And Hal?
Well, Hal is convinced that Bruce has concocted a plot to get around his ‘no killing’ rule, by having his children stalk him until his heart gives out from the stress.
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Vienna by Luna_Moon22
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
21 Jun 2026
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There’s a magician living in an abandoned warehouse down on the Tricorner Docks.
Park Row has its fair share of strange tales and rumors floating through the cracks. The kids of the alley talk at length, telling ghost stories and cautionary tales. Passing advice on how to survive from one night to the next in the form of fun little parables that make the cold nights feel a little bit warmer, and maybe let them pretend that their lives are all a fun little game, just for a few moments.
The magician, at first, feels like a fable. Something that a kid saw and read just a little bit wrong and didn’t wait around to find out what was really going on. The kid who spotted the magician – a 9 year old red-head with green eyes and a smattering of freckles across his pale face – tells the tale like a myth.
A magician with golden hair and golden eyes, who clapped his hands together and rebuilt a car from scraps with a flash of light. Taking nothing in payment but a bottle of whiskey and a home-cooked meal.
(Or: The one where Edward Elric ends up in Gotham, decides Jason Todd is his, and makes it Bruce Wayne's problem.)
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Absolutely heartbreaking, like sailing out into the sea knowing you can’t swim. You know it was going to end like this, but like Orpheus you had to try anyway, just to see if you’ll get a different outcome. You cannot, it will always end this way