what does the bat say?
Everything about Bats, mostly Dick Grayson
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Before Robin by wafflebish
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe
13 Dec 2025
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When Dick Grayson accidentally portals into the past, he finds himself on the Justice League’s Watchtower surrounded by younger versions of the original members of the Justice League...including Batman.
But none of them have any idea who Nightwing (or even Robin) is.
What a perfect opportunity to create a little chaos...while also trying not to break the timestream.
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When You're Gone by SomebodyIUsetoKnow
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics)
21 Jun 2025
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What if...?
After Jason's death, Bruce was not in a good place. He made bad decisions and blamed the wrong people.
So, what If... Dick took Bruce’s order to get out a step further?
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- Part 2 of For Want of a Nail
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The Most Beautiful Thing I'll Never Have by TayyibesTeaTutorials
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
13 Jun 2025
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Dick Grayson is missing, and it takes a frantic ex-hero (?) and a furious ex-mercenary (??) for Damian's emotionally repressed family to get invested enough to start looking for him.
Too bad Slade finds (and takes) him first.
Still hurting from Dick's orchestrated death, the Batbrothers are going to going to have to work through their emotions, and confront some truths (and their own demons) if they want to reunite with their brother. If they want to become family they're yearning for.
Meanwhile, far away from home, Dick is navigating the unfamiliar waters of the Wilson family. Reconciling his past and his identity with his future and the people he loves, while trying to not hurt both his families? Even Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome might not survive this one.
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- Part 1 of Let Me Come Home
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I Don't Get To Lose It by That_One_Computer_Geek (T1CG)
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics)
08 Apr 2025
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Dick has always been the responsible one—the one who holds the line, keeps his cool, and plays by the rules. But after a long night of venting to Jason Todd about how he envies Red Hood's freedom to unleash hell, Dick comes home to find a custom-made Red Hood suit waiting for him. The note? Classic Jason: "Go nuts, Dickhead."
He knows it’s a bad idea. He knows he shouldn’t.
But Jason’s out of town. The city’s still a mess. And maybe—just this once—it’s time he stopped playing nice.
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Insert Trauma Bonding Here by That_One_Computer_Geek (T1CG)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), Forever Evil (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Young Justice (Cartoon)
02 Apr 2025
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Tensions in the Batfamily are razor-sharp as Damian’s sixteenth birthday looms. Tim Drake is unraveling—haunted by memories of the brutal “test” Bruce once put him through, convinced history is about to repeat itself. His paranoia coils around him like a vice, tightening with each passing day.
Damian feels the weight of Tim’s relentless scrutiny and bristles, his usual arrogance laced with something darker—uncertainty, maybe even fear. The unease spreads like wildfire. Dick grows wary. Jason watches from the sidelines, arms crossed, ready for a fight.
The family fractures under the pressure, each of them sensing danger but unable to name it. Then Steph—fed up, furious—drags them all into a room and forces the truth into the open. But no one is prepared for what spills out.
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Home Is Where the Heart Is by LittleLadybugs
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
25 Oct 2025
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Six months ago, Renegade broke free from his master. He’d had no home. No family. Had learned nothing beyond what he'd needed to be a predator.
Now free, he has vowed to use those skills to help instead of hurt.Only Nightwing really shouldn't have picked Blüdhaven for his debut. The neighbors in Gotham are kinda... a lot.
Like, A LOT a lot.
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Dick joins the batfam fashionably late. -
outlast the rain by ScarlettSwordMoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
09 Apr 2022
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During a routine patrol, Dick’s glove malfunctions and he almost falls to his death. Bruce redesigns them. Problem solved, right? Only Dick is refusing to take the new pair. AKA Trauma is irrational, but love endures all.
Day 4: Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome & “Catch me.”
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i'll stay here with you, my dear by snoozingpeace
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
29 May 2025
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It started slow, usually.
The headaches. It was the tiredness that preceded everything else — his body preparing for the onslaught of pain that’d last him for a day. Usually, he texted Bruce when a headache would take him out for the count, but… Spryal still left some untended, gaping wounds in his fragile chest, the size of Bruce’s relentless fists. Bruce didn’t know his routine, Bruce didn’t deserve to know his routine — let alone when he was at his most vulnerable.
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Dick Grayson experiences a medical emergency without anybody knowing until it's almost too late.
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these tangled threads, this outstretched hand by wildsofmarch for withthekeyisking
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Jul 2025
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Dick stared. There was a sign affixed to the inside of the bathroom door.
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1-888-3737-888
Text Help to 233733 (BeFree)
www.TraffickingResourceCenter.org -
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"What time is it?" Nightwing asked and his voice cracked badly, showing just how scratchy his throat was.
The Flash got the hint and zoomed away. He returned a moment later with a glass of water, passing it over to Nightwing. "Nine past three in the afternoon, why?"
Nightwing frowned as he took a sip of his drink. "I mean the date?"
"November 14th."
"Year?"
The Flash shared a confused look with Black Canary. "2010."
Nightwing stared at the now half-empty glass in his hands. His mind went completely blank. "I'm in...the past?" He muttered out loud. His voice echoed around the white room and back to his ears, sounding confused and small.
Series
- Part 1 of Through the Hands of Time