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The Haunting of Wayne Manor by Imgonnaproposetotheastonmartin
Fandoms: DCU, Spider-Man - All Media Types, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
31 Dec 2025
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Cassandra Wu-San Cain-Wayne meets destitute Peter Benjamin Parker in Gotham's abandoned opera house. He is a meta, which violates Bruce's rules, but Cass understands that he means well. It helps that he enjoys taking photos of her dancing.
The obvious solution is to sneak him into Wayne manor and see how long it takes for anyone to notice.
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"WhereamI?"
His words are slurred. He can't remember what was the last thing he was doing. How come he's staring face to face with an unfamiliar kid?
"In the hallway."
"Yeah, which building though?"
The kid tells him the name and his head feels like it’s splitting as memories come back. This is the house where Tim used to live. Damn.
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Jason ends up in wrong time. Meeting the 8 year old Tim and taking care of him is not what he's supposed to do in a situation like this. But that's what happens. -
Death of a Dreamcatcher by starg4zr
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
31 Dec 2025
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Danny has to leave Amity Park, as much as he misses his hometown. He ends up in the city of Gotham, and there, he meets the anti-hero Red Hood, who's suspicious of the newcomer with what he discovers to be ghost powers by his own investigation. It seems like Danny's going missing was not unnoticed, however, and he and his new friends navigate tricky situations as Jason learns about the world of the dead, and as Danny finds himself accepting Gotham as his new home.
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- Part 1 of Death of a Dreamcatcher
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Chapter 8; Dynasty End by Corvix_Ailuranthrope_4313
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Absolute Batman (Comics), Immortal Legend Batman (Comics)
31 Dec 2025
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Bruce Wayne is a man, intelligent, dangerous and if the need be ruthless, but still a man, But Batman, Batman is a symbol that cannot die, for Two Hundred years, Batman has protected Gotham, from Villains, Mechas, Meteors and Dark Ages, now in The Year 200 of Batman, a New Batman arises, ready to defend a new Gotham from new threats that we both have and haven't seen.
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- Part 7 of Safeguard 27
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But the second bird flew away, landed on iron wings and did not return, and the first, most precious ward of Gotham began to go crazy. Gotham was afraid that sooner or later her curses would consume him. Then, without hesitation, she took the flame created by the previous birds and breathed life into it.
The boy slipped out of the shadows and went to Bristol.
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Or: Gotham has consciousness. After Jason's death, she creates a third Robin to save the Dark Knight. The story continues, but Tim is a cryptid -
In Control and Self-Possessed by natcat5
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
30 Dec 2025
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It's a well known fact that The Bat and its bird are demons, and the Waynes their unwitting hosts.
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- Part 21 of Dark Month 2025: Bat-tober
- Part 5 of Creature Feature
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Hope Is the Thing With Feathers by UnsweetenedTea
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
30 Dec 2025
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Jason knew how things were supposed to happen.
He'd planned on heading back to Gotham to stir up a storm — tear the city down and build it up again. No one would ever again forget who he was least of all Bruce. Jason was going to carve his name all over the city.
But this was how things did happen.
Talia refused to let him burn out. Not taking no for an answer, she sent him to college and told him to watch over his little brother. She made him promise that he would live, not just fight.
So he found himself taking six classes at Gotham University, pretending like he was just another college freshman. And maybe he could’ve kept on acting, but his class Gothic Poetry and Horror had other plans.
(Or, Jason goes to college and ends up in a semester-long group lit project featuring literal and figurative ghosts, people willing to risk it all for the A, and Gotham City's cursed weirdness. Somehow, this ends up being more stressful than his original plan for revenge.)
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This fic picks up after Part One of »Shadow of Doubt« (Chapter 10) – it is recommended to have read »Phantom of Truth« and »Shadow of Doubt« by HaiJu up to the noted chapter.
After his mother, convinced Danny was a ghost impersonating his son, shot at him, Danny ran away from Amity Park. He ends up in Gotham without a plan and little to no knowledge. He only knows that he cannot fall into the hands of the Bats, who would certainly return him into the hands of the Guys in White. But Lady Gotham has other ideas and Red Robin just cannot resist a mystery he cannot solve.
TW: Trauma, PTSD, graphic descriptions of violence, vomiting, a bit of eating disorders
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Obsession by SmittenVixen13
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU
29 Dec 2025
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Violated via surgery for Vlad's own sick plans, Danny goes into hiding under the protection of Lady Gotham, Fright Knight, and Cujo until Vlad is found.
The Dark Knights of Gotham hear rumors, whispered words of a quiet teenager who opens a little cafe and cares for those who enter. See the pale teen dad try to edge through life with a protective, giant of an uncle and a protective guard dog. Red Robin finds himself drawn to starlight blue eyes and tries to discover who Daniel Nightingale is.
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Tim Drake was going to die.
He knew that, he accepted that.
He'd found Bruce,.he'd done it. He smiled as his neck cracked against the trembling Gotham pavement.
So why- HOW did he wake up?
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This- it's surprisingly kind, for Tim's mind to give him an attempt at safety and comfort- in the form of a hallucination- while it's obviously buckling under the strain of whatever new heavy-weight toxin that Tim's been dosed with. And Tim- Tim will indulge it. Just this once. He stops his swaying and stumbles over to Jason.
OR: Gotham decides that the perfect time to introduce Tim to his Catatonic older brother is while Tim is drugged and convinced he's hallucinating.
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- Part 2 of [PODFIC] The Lady's Lullabies
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🕷️ Ghost in Gotham by Chris_Clevenger
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Movies), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batfamily (DC Comics), Spider-Verse - All Media Types
27 Dec 2025
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Gwen Stacy should have died.
Instead, she wakes up face-down in a Gotham alley, in the body of another Gwen Stacy—one who didn’t survive the night.Her spider-sense still works.
Her memories don’t.
Her back is pulsing with dark, branching marks that weren’t there yesterday.
And the ghost-echo of the girl whose life she inherited seems very, very upset.Now Gwen has to:
• Pretend to be a Gotham University engineering student
• Work with Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson without blowing her cover
• Rebuild someone else’s life
• Hunt down whoever killed her host
• And figure out what’s growing under her skinAll while keeping her web-shooters hidden, her identity intact, and her sanity mostly intact.
Welcome to Gotham City.
Try not to die twice. -
A House Divided by angryhausfrau
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
27 Dec 2025
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Who would have thought just being a decent fucking person would so completely reveal what a huge piece of shit Bruce Wayne was? But with the hunt for Red Hood heating up, Jason is going to have to start actually, you know, revealing the truth if he wants to completely destroy Batman and his legacy.
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- Part 2 of The Fall of the House of Wayne
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We Do Have Villainy, But We Also Have Great Compassion by Strings_Threads_And_Ties
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
24 Dec 2025
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The Court of Owls have kidnapped Dick Grayson and plan to break him. The Bat Family is more than ready to storm the castle but the Gotham Rogues want in on their rescue mission as well. Nightwing was the embodiment of hope and love to not only the Bat Family but also the Rogue Gallery.
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- Part 4 of Hope and Despair
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Gotham's Claimed by The_duke_is_back
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
24 Dec 2025
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It's a well-known fact among cities like Metropolis, Central, and Star, if Gotham claims you there's no escaping it.
Those who have lived in the cursed city don't often leave, most choosing to spend their entire lives there. The few that do try always find themselves returning, telling friends and loved ones that they MISSED the crime filled nightmare metropolis. Sometimes they're saved, sent by concerned friends and family to therapy or clinical institutions to try and save them from the strange darkness that lures them back.
But either way, they're never the same.
And those are only the regular, everyday citizens.
So what happens
when Gotham
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Wrap Me Up Tight (So I Don't Fall Apart) by Topaz_Feather
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
23 Dec 2025
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Dick Grayson, freshly wounded by his parents' deaths, deals with his new family's ridiculous aversion to affection. Some days go better than others.
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- Part 2 of Become Like the Shadows
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Some days, Gotham gives her Bat a break. Some days, she offers him a respite with the intention of showing off. No matter what Gotham gives him, Batman takes it.
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A bomb goes off inside of Duke’s mind. Distantly, he feels his knees hit the ground, but the pain never comes. His hands are clutching at his head, trying to hold it together. His mind expands. It shudders. Then, when he can barely think, it cracks open entirely.
(or, an Elseworld where Duke snaps into the borderline bond the exact moment he meets Bruce Wayne)
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- Part 2 of on the borderline
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Breathing Shadows by SummerKnight717
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Phantom Stranger (Comics)
21 Dec 2025
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He is Batman - he is human - he is human, among gods and monsters. He wants to, perhaps needs to, hold on to that. Hold it like a lifeline. But... it seems Gotham has decided upon a different path.
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Eldritch Gotham, and the complications that come from choosing to guard it. Her.
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- Part 2 of Eldritch Gotham - and Alfred
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Boy in a Red Hoodie by begaydoartcraft, Teen_Fox_Sam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Gotham (TV), DCeased (DC Comics)
20 Dec 2025
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Bruce wasn't expecting to see Batman at his door. He also wasn't expecting him to shove a lashing redheaded boy his way and grimly state:
"Stole tires"
Only two words, yet Bruce stilled, bound by ice-cold terror.
Batman places his big hand on the boys scrawny shoulder and persistently guides him forward, to Bruce. Before Wayne can process this statement and make up a response, Batman dissolves into shadows.
They're gonna have a talk about dropping off random kids by his door.
The child and he observe each other for one long moment. Bruce sees tired, but feisty blue eyes, haggard face..
The kid looks so…
"Are you hungry?"
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- Part 1 of Royals and Knights of Gotham