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Duke thinks now might be a bad time to try and convince Bruce he isn't tired, not when he's got drool on his cheek from snoring away in the batmobile for an hour, "I wanted to help." He whispers again, but it sounds childish in his own ears.
But Bruce doesn't sound any less concerned when he gently says, "I know. I want to help everyone too, but sometimes you need to help yourself first."
(Duke is not supposed to be out patrolling at night, but he's going to help his ridiculously large family — besides, he's not even that tired!)
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freefalling by paperxcrowns
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and the Signal (Comics)
27 Oct 2022
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Duke blinks and finds Tim crouching in front of him, eyebrows furrowed in concern.
“What’s wrong?” he asks. “Did you get spelled during patrol?”
His voice is muffled, like Duke is underwater. Sinking, sinking. He tries to shrug, he tries to reply, but he’s so drained. There’s nothing left to give. He tilts to the side and with no strength to fight against gravity, he lets himself slide sideways against the wall.
Tim catches him and the concern is easily replaced with panic.
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day 27: magical exhaustion
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- Part 6 of Shades of Magic
- Part 12 of whumptober 2022
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Duke manages to sneak his way onto a multi-day stargazing trip out in Illinois. During the night, something catches his eye; a clear blue, glowing rock cold to the touch. He grabs it and goes back to stargazing. Upon returning to Gotham, during a night when he is out to compensate for an search of a dangerous new group he notices something different.
He's more floaty, the air around him is cold and gets colder the more pissed off he gets. Lights flicker as well.
His shadow, takes on a life of its own.
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- Part 1 of DC x DP I think should exist
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Duke Thomas still has parents. So why does it feel like he doesn’t?
or: sometimes you just need your surrogate grandfather to talk some sense into you
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Creatures of the Other World - Batfamily AU by insonniacaotica
Fandom: Batgirl (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman and the Signal (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), DCeased (DC Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Superman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types
16 Sep 2025
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The Batfamily AU where Bruce Wayne is Batman, the monster hunter, and adopts many little demons.
•Dick is an Incubus, a demon of emotions
•Jason is a Pooka, a shape-shifting spirit
•Tim is the incarnation of Vine, a king of hell
•Cassandra is a Daevas, a demon of shadows
•Damian is obviously half-human. His mother is Leviathan.
•Duke is human but has a curse
•Stephanie is a Pixie, a fairy creature
•Barbara Gordon is part Arachne, a spider demon
•Alfred is a house spirit and is at least three centuries oldThe series is complete and the main plot is finished (unless I get inspired to write more) :)
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After dying in the line of duty, Tim Drake wakes up in the past—thirteen years old, alive, and back in his childhood bedroom. Armed with the knowledge of everything to come, Tim chooses not to reveal himself to Bruce or the Batfamily. Instead, he disappears into the shadows of Gotham, becoming the nameless vigilante known only as Red. He works behind the scenes, subtly reshaping key events to give everyone a better future: saving Jason from death, bringing Cass home earlier, and protecting the Batfamily from the worst of what’s to come.
But time has a way of preserving tragedy.
When Duke Thomas loses his parents in a violent home invasion—different from the original timeline but just as devastating—Tim makes a drastic decision. At eighteen, he adopts Duke, becoming the guardian he wishes someone had been for him. Now legally responsible for a grieving teenager who barely speaks to him, and under public scrutiny for the shocking adoption, Tim must navigate media storms, Bats' suspicions, and the burden of rewriting the future—all without revealing who he really is.
He’s walked through Gotham’s shadows as a ghost long enough. But how long can a ghost keep his secrets before someone starts chasing them down?
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- Part 1 of Redacted
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Runs in the Family by motleyfam
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
25 Apr 2023
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Duke has a migraine and just wants a bit of peace.
Tim understands this better than most.
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Your Color on my Lips. (Float- June 24th) by McJones
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superboy (Comics)
24 Jun 2022
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Duke hasn't been with the Wanye's long at all, now he's stuck at this stupid Gala talking to rich people only interested in meeting "Brucie's Newest Stray." When he decided to get some fresh air out on the balcony he didn't think he would meet his soulmate.
The soulmate AU no one asked for but I did anyways cause uwu. Otherwise know as what happens when the author listens to 18th Floor Balcony on repeat all day.
Pt. 175 of One word prompts and the author just want Duke to find his Soulmate ok
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- Part 175 of 365 Days of One Word Prompts (and my Suffering)
- Part 43 of Suffering Lite TM
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"Just a couple of orphans," Duke mumbles sadly, laughing with just enough self-deprecation that it could be passed off as genuine, "Sitting on the roof of a mansion, all alone, wallowing in our self pity. Should we start a club? Make matching bracelets?"
Bruce gives him a funny look, his eyes impossibly soft, as he whispers, "I'm not alone."
Duke turns to him with a confused frown.
"I've got you." Bruce says, like it's that simple.
(After a painful reality check, Duke and Bruce sit on the roof and look at the stars.)
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Now It's Time For Us to Find Out Where Other Suns Exist by himejoshiangelz
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
24 Jul 2025
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Because there’s no beating Gotham. She’s going to be as she always has been since inception. People like them, people like Duke, Riko, the other Robins across Gotham, Batman, even some of the rogues, are by definition: insane. Aware and accepting of defeat but assured that they will be the ones to change Gotham, engaging in hopeless repetition and infallibly sure that there is a possibility for a new result. Maybe Duke doesn’t fully get Batman and his bad guys and all the mayoral candidates who lie through their teeth saying 'this time will be different I promise I swear' but he gets his Robins. He gets the audacity of youth. More than that, he understands that you’re only crazy if it doesn’t work.
Duke Thomas and ecosystems and namelessness and Gotham
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The civilian laughs, helping the other women to their feet, “What are you, some kinda teenage assassin? Kid ninja?”
Duke can't help the bark of surprised laughter that's pulled from him, slumping the henchmen against the back of the cargo container with more force than necessary — which they deserve. His laughter hangs onto his words when he helps the rest of the women out the container one by one, heart tight and heavy when they take deep breaths of fresh air, despite the stench of Gotham's river. It, hilariously, smells like freedom.
“Nah, just a kid from the Narrows,” Duke says with warmth.
(The one day Duke decides to take a day off from being Signal — everything goes wrong.)
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YOU HEAR ITS SONG FROM THE MORNING BIRDS. by orpheusaki
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
06 Jan 2023
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A series of Duke Thomas centric works, mostly featuring his growing relationship with his new kind-of-dad-boss-friend, Bruce Wayne.
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Bruce loves Duke! They all love Duke! Duke is good! He’s good!!!!!
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The wind outside howls with a restless force once again; Autumn is definitely here, but it seems too soon.
Almost like Duke has skipped over the last three months because there are certain things that are supposed to happen every summer.
He's supposed to go to the beach with his parents. They're supposed to see fireworks and buy sparklers and find seashells. He's supposed to stay up late and sit on the front porch eating popsicles while his mother plays the guitar and his father draws. Then as Duke’s tucked into bed, he’s supposed to be asked, "How many stars?"
On a great day he’s supposed to say nine or ten. But if it was amazing, the best day he ever had, he's supposed to cheat and say something like ten thousand stars.
But they didn’t get to see fireworks or eat popsicles or do any summer things, and Duke has this ache inside, like he's slept through Christmas.
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Jason Todd, Duke Thomas and the fundamental precepts of sub-atomic science.
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amazing writing style goodness me
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I found u, I found the door (but when I stepped through there was no floor) by irohkyu
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
19 Aug 2025
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Duke can’t help but remember the day he met him and feel nothing but resentment.
And Barbara doesn’t want to judge him —really doesn’t— but she can’t help it.
Bruce takes months to understand that it wasn’t strength. It was a scar. An open wound that no longer bled out of sheer habit.
And Alfred, in his infinite patience, has been around broken children before.
He knows when to speak. He knows when to stay silent. He knows how to wait.
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- Part 4 of Red Hood dami series
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waging my wars behind my face and above my throat by PrinceDork
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
26 Aug 2025
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One of the first things Duke always noticed about people was their mouths. More specifically, their teeth. He wasn’t sure why he looked at their mouths instead of something normal like their eyes. He did it anyway.
AKA Duke's fear of laughter and his habit of looking at mouths instead of eyes.
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“It's not fair,” Stephanie grumbles, shoulders shaking in suppressed anger. Duke doesn't blame her, his own heart beating loud enough to deafen him.
“Children are expendable in this field,” Jason says into the tense silence, watching the two of them with a heavy expression, “It's dangerous, so they're great when they're young and naive. Then they get old. They get harder to control. Then they're useless.”
Duke frowns. For a moment there, he wasn't sure if Jason was talking about competitive racing, or something else entirely.
Judging from Jason's glare, he's not so sure either.
(Duke goes undercover at a Formula 4 training camp for a case and realises that life isn't so different on a race track.)
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The Rescuer-Occupational Bargaining Intermediary Network (R.O.B.I.N) by MercurialComet
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
19 Jul 2022
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“To whom it may concern, this document establishes R.O.B.I.N, with Duke Thomas-Wayne as its primary representative.” The Wayne bachelor looked up with a curious eyebrow lifted. Duke shrugged. “R.O.B.I.N, which is short for ‘Rescuer-Occupational Bargaining Intermediary Network’, is the official union for all Robin and Robin-adjacent superheroes, vigilantes, caped crusaders, or other persons of extralegal activity. Duke-” He placed the papers down with a sigh. “-are these union papers?”
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aka i saw a tiktok by emptyjunior about Duke unionising the batkids and wrote the first meeting.
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- Part 1 of R.O.B.I.N "Comic" Run
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a little glimpse (of these brightened halls) by call_me_steve
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Apr 2021
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There’s a million reasons that can explain why Duke’s found himself living in Bruce Wayne’s manor and there’s a million more that can explain why this fact scares the living shit out of him.
The people here are the people that Duke’s looked up to ever since he first heard the names Batman and Robin. And now- what? He’s living with them?
Or, maybe, it'd be more apt to say that he lives in their shadows.
And he’s not sure he’ll be able to work his way up to their sides.
That’s not to say he’s not going to try. If there’s one thing that Duke Thomas does, it’s not giving up. He’s going to give this chance his all.
He just needs to find out where he fits.
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Duke finds out about a batkid tradition. Every year, they each pick an activity to add to a summer bucket list, and then they do them all together.
He might overthink what he’s going to pick just a bit.
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- Part 1 of The Summer Bucket List
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The Epic of the Colors of the Shrimp by PepperSoniRoni for RandyWrites
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman and the Signal (Comics)
26 Aug 2021
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It started with a harmless joke about cannibalism
It continued with jokes and offerings to the shrimp gods.
It ended with bitter betrayal, and a battle to the death.
*****Fic for Day 4 of Duke Thomas Week: Shrimp Colors
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- Part 1 of Duke Thomas Fics (Unconnected)
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ALL HAIL THE SHRIMP OVERLORD.
(His reign was brief, yet legendary.)
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The Epic of the Colors of the Shrimp
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