A Journey of Personal Discovery Through Social Isolation
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Heart's Bounty by ayzcollabs (ayzenigma), bewaretheboojum, chibi_nightowl, Nanimok, njw, Rider_of_Spades, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for clarityhiding
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
20 Aug 2019
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As dragons, Jason and Kon had always known they were soulmates. Together they'd flown between the stars, eked out a living collecting bounties on the outer edges of the Core, and fought anyone who would stand in their way. Even so, they'd always felt that something was still missing from their partnership.
But everything changed when their contact in the Core's underground all but ordered them to track down a disgraced Fleet pilot trying to prove his innocence. Commander Drake was running from his past, and only one thing was certain: he had far more in store for these bounty hunters than they could ever have anticipated.
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Facing the Music by bewaretheboojum, clarakent (mintaejin), Nanimok, njw for Rider_of_Spades
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
12 Sep 2019
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Red Hood’s eyes snap open and he realizes two things in quick succession. First, if this is a hallucination, it’s sure as fuck a vivid one. Every detail of the warehouse interior surrounding him, from the blood spatters on the floor to the crazed glint in the Joker’s eye, is exactly like he remembers from the night he died.
Second, there’s a goddamn kid lying on the ground, curled on his side braced against the coming blow. Everything’s exactly the same…
Except the red hair, that’s new. Definitely an alternate universe, then. At least it isn’t time travel, Hood fucking hates time travel.
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Blame it on Slade by njw, Silver_Snow_77 for Airdanteine
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Dec 2019
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Jason wakes up to the uncomfortable feeling of crumbs in his sheets, followed moments later by the recollection he’s staying at Dick’s pigsty of an apartment. Of fucking course there are crumbs in the sheets—he’s totally seen Dickhead eating junk food in bed before. He should’ve just insisted on taking the couch, but then again, there are some stains on that thing he’d really rather not get better acquainted with any time soon.
Well, whatever. He only has to put up with this for a few more days. Sure, his favorite safe house got blown up, his second favorite fell into a goddamn sinkhole last week because Gotham is an actual hellmouth, and the others are all infested with giant mutant termites and other vermin after that one grad student at Gotham University invented a growth-ray gun a few days ago and went a little crazy with it. He just needs to find some new safe houses, scrounge some shitty free furniture that doesn’t look too much like a murder’s been committed on it recently, and he’ll be golden.
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Double Up and Double Down by clarakent (mintaejin), Nanimok, njw, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for Azemex
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
08 Jan 2020
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“Okay,” Tim finally decides, “maybe you can help. So Bruce is lost in time—”
“Oh my god,” the other Tim whispers, eyes going wide with realization. “So there’s a time travel as well as a multiverse component to the tech that brought me here. Interesting. But wait, where’s Jason? Why didn’t he back you up out there?” He looks around, frowning as though he expects Red Hood to pop out from under the bed or something.
“Time travel? How long are we talking about here? And why would Red Hood be with me?” he asks, puzzled. No one believes him about Bruce being alive, especially not the man who still considers him nothing but a poor replacement.
“...Shit.” Other Tim flops down on the narrow hotel couch. “Things are even more different here than I thought.”
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Straight Shooting by bewaretheboojum, Nanimok, njw, Rider_of_Spades for strawberryjei
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
29 Feb 2020
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Hood stares in dumbfounded shock as Tim Drake, his replacement and sometime enemy, snickers and reaches out one uncoordinated hand to poke at his white streak. Two things happen in that moment. He spots the scar on Tim’s throat, the one he put there way back when he was at his most fucked up—or rather, he spots the smooth, pale, unmarred skin where it should have been.
He also hears Red Robin in his ear, calmly checking in with the Bats over the comms Red Hood secretly listens in on.
“Well, fuck,” he says, looking with new eyes at the grinning, way too trusting teen—and he’s definitely a teen, at least a few years younger than the guy he knows. “Guess you’re not from around here, after all.”
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Kidding Around With the Bats by bewaretheboojum, njw, Silver_Snow_77, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for niewanyin (mintaejin)
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
06 Mar 2020
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The only thing that stops Nightwing from launching himself into the warehouse with a cry of grief and rage is the realization that those kids look awfully familiar.
All three of the boys have black hair. The biggest one, maybe twelve years old, is wearing most of Batman’s uniform, which is sagging and bunching around his small body. The middle sized boy, who doesn’t look any more than five but is probably older if Nightwing’s growing suspicions are correct, is holding his hand and glaring around them defensively. He’s wearing Red Hood’s leather jacket. The largest boy is holding a toddler protectively against his chest.
The toddler’s wrapped in Red Robin’s cape.
Oh, damn.
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In Good Paws by artificiallifecreator, njw, Rider_of_Spades, strawberryjei, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for bewaretheboojum
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
13 Mar 2020
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“This was a great idea,” Tim mutters, relaxing into the hot bath with a soft sigh. His cuts aren’t stinging anymore and the water feels heavenly. He blinks, eyelids getting heavy, then spots the beer again. The amber bottle is beaded with condensation, and it looks invitingly cool.
There’s a soft sound outside the bathroom window, followed by the unmistakable hum of Krypto’s heat vision and a short scream. Ah, ninja. The sounds of battle and mayhem continue unabated as he eyes the bottle again.
What can it hurt? He reaches out and wraps his hand around the pleasantly cold bottle before bringing it to his lips. It’s bitter, biting and bubbly and cold enough to wake him up a little.
The popping sound of gunfire nearby cuts off almost as soon as it begins, followed by silence and then more screaming and curses. He thinks he hears a faint, distant, “Oy, my soddin’ nose—!” but can’t be sure. Tim tilts his head, weighing his options, then shrugs. Eh, he’s sure Krypto has the situation well in paw. He loves playing fetch with ninjas.
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Rise Above It (Spread Your Wings) by clarakent (mintaejin), njw, Silver_Snow_77 for vellaphoria
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
13 Jun 2020
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The dark fire twists and rises, orienting on the Gotham walls. It seems to be aimed for a point right in front of the battlements where Bruce and Damian stand, defenseless while casting their own spell. The black flames blast forward, closing in on the closest thing to a family Tim has left.
Like hell.
Tim knows exactly what he needs to do. Just as the black, corrupt hellfire approaches the village walls, he drops into a dive, closing his wings tightly around his body to plummet faster. He’s got this—he’s so close—
As he falls, what sounds strangely like grief-stricken cries of denial in his father’s and brother’s voices reach his ears, but that’s not possible. He must be mistaken. As the burning, excruciating balefire surrounds him, burning the very tears from his eyes, Tim’s heart twists in painful satisfaction. Now the others will be able to save Gotham and defeat Ra’s.
I did it, Bruce. Even if you never really wanted me to be part of your family, I hope… I made you proud.
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Death by Cheeto by artificiallifecreator, chibi_nightowl, clarakent (mintaejin), Silver_Snow_77, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for njw
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
02 Mar 2021
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Throughout the multiverse, there are several emotional, bizarre, and even anticlimactic ways that Jason didn't die in that warehouse.
Bruce shows Jason a few of them.
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In the Hall of the Demon King by artificiallifecreator, njw, Silver_Snow_77, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for SoleminiSanction
Fandoms: DCU, Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
07 Mar 2021
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Life is looking pretty darn good for Tim, right up until an actual freaking demon shows up to demand he return some artifact he’s never even heard of. Apparently, his parents stole it? From this guy’s grandpa, apparently, who sounds like a real character.
He stares at the demon, who stares back at him, muscular arms folded across his really unfairly broad chest. The demon is handsome, with black hair and rich, olive-gold skin, and green eyes which flash beneath dark, sculpted brows. His magnificent horns twist and arch back from behind his temples. Tim kind of wants to touch one.
He blinks. Yeah, this isn’t good.
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Turn the Scales by njw, SoleminiSanction, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for Silver_Snow_77
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
30 May 2021
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The scream of agonized metal fills the air and Superboy cries out as his arms buckle. He falls to his knees under the strain. He’s going to go down. Robin inhales, ready to jump in there, ready to scream, to do anything that might prevent him from losing one of his best friends today, and—
A plume of roiling, incandescent flames pours out of his mouth and engulfs the mech, consuming it with unnatural speed as it flails and spasms.
Huh.
That… was a thing that happened.
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Learning to Wing It by njw, Silver_Snow_77, vellcolabs (vellaphoria) for MyosotisTageteserecta
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
19 Jun 2021
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The journey back to consciousness is painful, every moment worse than the last as Tim’s aching, damaged body reports in. His head is pounding and everything hurts.
He shouldn’t be alive right now.
Memories crash through his mind, fear and agony blooming in their wake. The desert. Bleeding out after the Widower’s ambush. Z and Owens, oh god. They’re dead. And Pru—
Disjointed recollections of dragging himself and her into the vehicle and somehow making it back to the hotel are followed by a huge blank. There’s no way he should be alive—he lost too much blood. There’s no way the Widower’s sword missed an organ as it passed through his back. And his wings—the beautiful black and crisp white feathers he has always secretly taken pride in, iridescent blue in the right light, just like a magpie—
His wings—
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