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Stars Shining in the Darkness by LadyDae
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
05 Jan 2026
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“Red Hood.”
“Batman. You’re trespassing.”
“Didn’t know you could trespass on a public street.”
“Crime Alley is my territory now, and one of the rules is no Bats allowed.”
“So you say while wearing my symbol." Then, “All of Gotham is my territory. Crime Alley is in Gotham.”
“Of course you’d say that, as you gaze down upon us from your rich ivory tower of privilege. Lucky for you, I won’t shoot you because you’re just the man I need to see.”
A father and son went to Ethiopia.
The father didn't come back.
In the wake of Bruce Wayne's death, his family has to figure out how to live in a world without him... and somehow manages to grow bigger even without his chronic adoption habit.
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Desires Under The Desert Moon by nursal1060 for zeerat
Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
02 Jan 2026
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In the dusty frontier town of Smallville Gulch, Sheriff Clark Kent apprehends the elusive outlaw known as The Bat - only to discover that the man is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy heir who went missing years ago.
Bruce attempts to manipulate and seduce his way to freedom, causing Clark’s restraint to shatter under the weight of duty and lust. He lets go of his carefully guarded restraint - but that is exactly what Bruce wants from him.Series
- Part 28 of Superbat Collection
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The Robins: Robin Swap by SpiderFan_33
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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In a world where Bruce Wayne is presumed dead, the Robins must work together to protect the city of Gotham while they struggle to hold their makeshift, found family together. Their fragile status quo is disrupted after Damian Wayne, newly 18 and tired of playing sidekick to Dick Grayson's Batman, and Tim Drake, recent college graduate and newly on his own as Red Robin, swap bodies. Tim gets to go back to a time when things were simpler, while Damian gets to prove he can be the solo hero Dick doubts he's ready to be. But is this mix up and dream come true or a living nightmare?
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- Part 1 of The Robins
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Filling In by flitterwing
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Superman/Batman (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
30 Nov 2025
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Clark's reaction to Dick wearing the cowl was unexpected. The way he and Dick work out their grief is even more unexpected.
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Kon-El and Tim Drake aren't communication experts. Especially when it comes to Tim thinking that Cassie still wants Kon. And Kon, in Tim's mind, doesn't seem completely opposed to the idea.
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- Part 2 of Hands (TimKon)
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Saddest smile by pastelghostsilhouette
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
21 Nov 2025
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Tim knows that Bruce is alive, and now he has undeniable proof. But he should’ve listened, now Dick thinks he’s crazy. He’s sent to Arkham, where people leave worse off than when they enter.
Or: Dick follows through on his threat to send Tim to Arkham and he attracts some unwanted attention resulting in the birth of Joker Junior.
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Batman: Arkham Evolved by legionnaireblaze, TheRedeemer1995
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham (Video Games), Batman Beyond
19 Nov 2025
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Twenty years after the events of what became known as the City of Fear incident and the apparent death of Bruce Wayne, Gotham City has given rise to Neo Gotham, complete with new technologies, new sciences, new fashions... and a new breed of criminal that fears nothing and no one, now that Batman is dead and Red Hood, Nightwing, and Red Robin are retired, causing the city to spiral further into the abyss once more, with the corrupt elite further worsening the state of the city.
However, the wheels of fate begin to turn when a young man named Terry McGinnis gets himself in trouble a criminal, and as a result, gets chased by a group of thugs onto the front lawn of what used to be Wayne Manor, now owned by late billionaire's "identical twin," Matthew 'Matches' Malone, where he has a fateful encounter with the old timer.
In order to serve Neo Gotham as her greatest defender, Terry must become a new Batman for a new age... a Batman who has evolved and risen above and beyond the original myth.
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- Part 1 of Arkham Evolved
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Tim needs help. There's one person he trusts more than anyone when it comes to that: Kon-El.
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- Part 1 of Hands (TimKon)
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suffering with you by MelonPalooza
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV 2012)
31 Oct 2025
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Dick leaves his family to protect them. Bruce's spirit tags along.
(At least... Dick assumes it's his spirit.)
((It's happened before, right? It can happen again...))
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- Part 10 of DC/TMNT: Earth-2012
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“He’s alive,” Tim whispered. His face and eyes were dry, but his voice hitched like he was trying not to cry. “I know he is.”
“Tim—”
“No. No, you and Dick don’t get it!” He snapped his head back up, face twisted in frustrated fury.
“I—”
“Jason, you died before and managed to come back. You of all people should be able to see a fake death.”
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A scared eleven year old Bruce Wayne arrives at Wayne Manor years in the future. An older, supposedly dead Bruce Wayne arrives at Wayne Manor years before. The families work to get them back to their own times while everyone learns something about their relationship with Bruce.
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Damian always knew that what chained him to this house was Bruce, his father. He was the blood son; he was the rightful heir. He had his father's blood running in his veins; no wonder he felt entitled to everything Bruce-related: his manor, his butler, his children, his love. It was all Damian's—his right. But now everything seemed to be ripped out of his hands, the same way his father's throat was ripped apart. Damian misses his father, but he also misses himself.
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- Part 2 of Destiny can't be earned or returned
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Every part of this house is haunted by Insomia004
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
27 Sep 2025
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"Your anger is misplaced, you know?" Oh, here he was. Alfred had been waiting.
"Master Bruce," he said wistfully, his vision blurring. He wasn't real, but Alfred would take anything—even fragments of his broken mind conjuring an image of his son. He didn't get lucky all the time; only in the early dawn or late at night did he see him, after a practically grilling day and maybe after swallowing whatever painkillers he had lying around.
"Alfie," he said bashfully. He looked younger, not much younger than the age he died in, but his hands didn't carry so many scars anymore, his face seemed a bit more round.Series
- Part 1 of Destiny can't be earned or returned
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But whatever you say, I'm just a dead end kid, Waiting to kiss your grave by BurritoWitch
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
24 Sep 2025
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Ten years ago, Bruce Wayne was hit by Darkseid's Omega Beam and thrown through time. In most universes, Tim Drake figures out how to bring him home after a few months to a year. In this universe, that didn't happen. So a decade passed. Things changed. And then Bruce comes back to a world he thought he'd never see
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Birds, bats, and other pains in the back. by Pleaseletmehugyou
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
09 Sep 2025
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Set in a Reverse Robins au
Damian takes over as Batman after his father’s “death”.
I’m not good at summarizing I’m sorry idk what I’m even doing!!!!!!!
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Not Yet by deadstart for surely_silly
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
30 Aug 2025
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After Sam Manson loses her two best friends, Danny and Tucker, in a freak accident, she can't stand to stay in Amity Park any longer.
She blames herself for their deaths and looking their families in the eyes makes her feel terribly sad. She knows that they blame her too. She's supposed to be Wraith, the ghost girl, Amity’s hero—but failing to save her friends doesn't make her feel very much like a hero at all.
When she ends up fleeing to Gotham City, the last thing she expects is to still be considered a hero. But, that's what Robin calls her anyway.
“Even if you don’t feel like a hero right now,” he tells her, "It doesn't mean you can’t become one.”
Sam just wants him to be right.
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A classic "Danny ends up in Gotham after the events of TUE," but instead of Danny, it's Sam, reverse trio style.
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Jason Todd has killed alpha Bruce Wayne. He needs to mate a current member of the pack to solidify his hold. Out of the kindness of his heart, he lets Dick decide who that will be.
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Written for Omega Dick Week Day Six
Hurting The Pack Omega To Hurt The Pack | Dick Using his Body to Bargain | Omega Talon | Late/Surprise Presentation | BONUS: Courting RitualsSeries
- Part 6 of ODW 2025
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Homecomings by JeanjacketCarf
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
01 Aug 2025
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Following the murder of Bruce Wayne, Wayne Enterprises is in a state of chaos with no clear successor as CEO. Lucius Fox, CFO of the company, reaches out to Bruce’s heir apparent, Dick Grayson, only to learn that the new majority shareholder is in fact 17 year old Tim Drake-Wayne. The board of directors can’t appoint a new CEO without Tim’s approval and Tim has been AWOL for months.
Dick is strangely unhelpful on the matter which means Lucius will have to use his own resources to find Tim before WE’s stock crashes to rock bottom. That includes his daughter, Tam.
Or Dick cooks up a plan to get Tim to come home.
Sequel to A Bad, Bad Idea
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- Part 8 of Personal Canon
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Lost Kitten by Kazz_star, LuzenVenus
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
21 Jul 2025
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Peter doesn't know where he is, or who he wants to become after being dragged to another universe after his uncle's death. He doesn't know what to do, more than survive.
That's when some villains, vigilantes and the grief that reunite them becomes what helps him understand who he wants to become, and what he must do.
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Or "Peter in Gotham and traumatized" but also "Everyone learns how to heal and try to become better people" because I wanted to write one too
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Tim knows Bruce isn’t dead. He knows because the body was wrong, because the clues are there if you just look hard enough, and because Kon believes him.
But he’s still here. He’s the only one who listens. The only one who helps Tim patch his wounds and tells him he’s not crazy.
And maybe that’s true.
Or maybe Tim’s just getting better at lying to himself.