Cirque de Triomphe
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Science Fiction Double Feature by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: DCU, Batman (Comics), Superman (Comics)
24 Jun 2016
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Ultraman hates everything. And everybody. Especially all things that are green. Or smarter than him. Because he isn't stupid, no matter what Owlman and Luthor think.
(They should be grateful he knows that destroying the world is a terrible rhetorical device, because it means whoever you were arguing with is dead and can't admit you were right, and also you don't have anyplace to live.)
He also hates people who think they're funny.
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- Part 41 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Nightingale (In A Golden Cage?) by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
28 Mar 2015
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"Fuck," Jason pronounced, slamming a folded newspaper down on the kitchen table. "He's got a new one."
(It's been four months since Jason Todd defected from the Court of Owls and ran away to join the Circus. Bruce Wayne now has a small, dark-haired ward. Owlman doesn't waste time.)
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- Part 42 of Cirque de Triomphe
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That stupid cryochamber, she thought bitterly, as she dragged his dead weight over her shoulders and began the long trek uphill. Oh, she understood that sometimes people would do anything rather than let go of someone they loved, but did he have to keep trying to improve it? The Missus was good and frozen already, wasn't she? And if he had to tinker with it, why'd he have to drag Crystal and her extensive experience with supercoolants in?
You were all for it, her better nature reminded her acidly. Lower the power requirements for Nora's Cooler? Save money? Do awesome science? Where's the downside?
The downside was slumped across her back, with a rapidly dwindling core temperature that Crystal's own body kept trying to cannibalize even as it fell.
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- Part 43 of Cirque de Triomphe
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for the good are always the merry by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
12 Apr 2015
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"Tourists," said a disgusted voice from the blackness.
The clown regained his grin and turned his bright little flashlight on the place, illuminating a confidently slouching figure against the brick, brown leather coat and red fiberglass mask and a well-battered pair of boots.
"A local wouldn't've gotten grabbed that easy," the young Red Hood stated, shrugging away from his wall and strolling to the near edge, hands shoved deep into his pockets. "And sure as shit wouldn't've been afraid of you."
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- Part 44 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Gnaw Your Bones Dry by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Firestorm (Comics), DCU
10 Mar 2018
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"Guys!" came Enigma's voice, bouncing up the narrow stairwell. "News just in! Werehyenas on Beacon Street!"
Jokester fell unceremoniously out of bed.
"Were-what?" Harvey demanded, folding his paper back on itself so he could see over it.
"I'm there!" Jason shouted, springing to his feet to grab his jacket, his sword, and the biggest gun he had access to.
He snagged his helmet and was out the door before J had located his boots, and Harvey threw on his own mask and charged after him, still tugging it straight. Teenagers.
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- Part 45 of Cirque de Triomphe
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It Takes A Village by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
14 Jul 2017
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Your family is big and full of amazing people and everybody loves you. You most of all. You never have to worry about being forgotten, or nobody having time for you.
The only problem is, no one can ever know.
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- Part 46 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Hell's Heart (or High Water) by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
17 Apr 2015
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"Be still."
For a second he was. The command cut straight past the fog of pain to parts of him that would know that voice until he died. He froze in place where he slumped, wrist hanging loose in its shackle as the flesh along his arm knitted back together, awaiting further orders.
Then he jerked, like an electrocuted corpse, and brought his face up to glower at the man in the mask, lips curling back.
"Like hell."
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- Part 47 of Cirque de Triomphe
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I Did Not Die (And Yet I Lost Life's Breath) by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
16 Jul 2015
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They should probably have washed off some of the blood, before taking Jason to Leslie.
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- Part 48 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Circus of Dreams by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
20 Mar 2016
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Some people say that one mark of a good man is the fear of being a bad one.
Generally speaking, the Jokester is afraid of nothing and no one.
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- Part 49 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Brought To You By The Letter S by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
15 Oct 2015
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Owlman's training wasn't all obedience and pain management and the best way to sever any given body part in one blow. There were critical thinking skills in there; Talon was designed to operate semi-independently at need, even if Jason's leash had never been as long as his predecessor's. He'd had most of a year of involvement in wacky vigilante schemes since then. And he wasn't stupid.
So of course his attention fell on the obvious resource, lying discarded in the pile of useless items without sentimental value: Willis Todd's little black address book.
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- Part 50 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Breathing of Statues by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
09 Aug 2016
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The search for Jason Todd's real birth mother continues, and the Red Hood knows he should be grateful but it kind of feels like everybody's in a hurry to get rid of him.
And he knows he didn't deserve to be offered a place with the Circus in the first place, but he doesn't want to go.
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- Part 51 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Human Voices Wake Us by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
17 Jul 2016
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Jason was one of twenty kids the Owls grabbed off the street, when Owlman wanted a new Talon. He was the only survivor.
That was a heavy little sentence, but Jason had never felt like it was enough.
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- Part 52 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Cooking Time May Vary by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
22 Mar 2019
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Family is a thing you build together. With knives. And forks. And spatulas. And a daily tablespoon of trust.
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- Part 53 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Beware Green Eyes by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics)
25 Mar 2016
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If you run hard enough, for long enough, you'll start to catch up with yourself.
Grayson has learned freedom. He has not learned regret.
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- Part 5 of Grey Feathers
- Part 54 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Cicero by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Batwoman (Comic)
01 Nov 2015
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Bruce Wayne's control over his Court slips for the first time in fifteen years, and the rest of Gotham gets to deal with the fallout.
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- Part 55 of Cirque de Triomphe
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The master of the League of Shadows is used to spies and plots against him. His favorite tactic is to recruit the enemy's agents out from under them.
Owlman's third apprentice is a hard nut to crack.
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- Part 56 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Don't Say A Word by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
31 Mar 2017
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When Thomas Elliot was eight years old, Thomas Wayne chose to save his mother's life. Bruce...
Bruce has made other choices.
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- Part 57 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Not For Publication by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
01 Apr 2016
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Red Hood, with his mask off, turned out to be in his early twenties, dark-haired and good-looking in a way that fell just short of 'striking,' except when his eyes sharpened with emotion. He had given his name as 'Jason,' no surname, and she was sure he was carrying at least one concealed weapon.
Jokester, in contrast, was boisterous, gregarious, warm, and after about twenty minutes in his company it was surprisingly easy to forget that he had a face like some burgeoning special effects technician had gone to town with the sculpting putty, then coated the result liberally in white latex paint.
In all likelihood, everything they could possibly say would be off the record, but Lois couldn't help but think of this as an interview.
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- Part 58 of Cirque de Triomphe
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Giving It Your Best Shot by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
11 Nov 2015
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Red Hood's sword flashes out in one of Talon's signature moves, licks along Strawman's thin arm, and arcs around, trailed by a stream of Jon's blood, to jab for his throat.
And it would sink straight in, parting flesh and sinew for good, except that before the steel can bite, the Reformer hits the Hood like a mudslide, bodyslams him straight through a carved wooden chair and into the wall.
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- Part 59 of Cirque de Triomphe
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See How Eagerly The Lobsters by Kieron_ODuibhir
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: The Animated Series, Batman (Comics), DCU
22 Apr 2017
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Or, the Problem of the Missing Hats. In which our hero visits at least one madhouse and at least one stage, breaks a minimum of four laws mostly relating to trespassing or impersonation, and is not actually given the opportunity to formally accept an invitation to tea.
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- Part 60 of Cirque de Triomphe