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    “The Red Hood has been good for Gotham,” Robin continued. “Crime in Park Row decreased by sixty one percent almost as soon as you showed up, and that’s even taking into account all the crime you commit. Drug overdoses have decreased by twenty two percent in adults and seventy nine percent in minors. Homeless minors are ninety two percent less likely to—”

    “Kid,” Jason interrupted. “Enough statistics. What the hell is this about?”

    Robin slowly lowered the tablet with his powerpoint presentation and looked up at Red Hood.

    “You care about Gotham,” Robin summarised. “Gotham needs Batman. Batman is missing and so is Nightwing. We need you to fill in for Batman.”

    “You want me to cover Batman’s patrols?” Jason clarified.

    “No,” Robin said. “I want you to be Batman.”

    Jason bluescreened.

     

    (Or: Batman and Nightwing mysteriously disappear before Red Hood has even started antagonising them, Robin is desperate, Gotham needs Batman, and Red Hood is Batman-Shaped.)

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    05 Dec 2025

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    crying in the club again (the club is still “in bed while my spouse is sleeping”)

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    “Arthur,” Merlin says quietly, as if separated entirely from himself and also so terribly trapped inside his own body, “I need to show you something.”

    Arthur glances up, eyelids drooping with exhaustion, and opens his mouth.

    Merlin’s eyes glow gold. A golden butterfly manifests on his outstretched hand. It flaps its wings gently, fluttering through the space between them for a precious second before dissolving back into thin air.

    Arthur no longer looks tired.

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    Graveyard mud, heavy and dark, clinging to a stained and torn suit. One shoe missing, a leg bent awkwardly and blood staining a bare foot.

    Milk white skin beneath the mud, black hair hanging in muddy clumps around his ears. Blue eyes staring back at him, animal-bright and dilated in the brief moment before he flinches back from the light with a cry of pain that stabs through Jason to the soul.

    His shaking hand closes around the flashlight before he can even think about it, cutting off the piercing beam and letting it spill out in shards between his fingers. For a petrifying moment as his eyes readjust, he’s sure that when he looks again, there will be nothing there.

    “Tim?” he whispers.

    The lean and ragged figure, tiny, god he’s so small, lowers his hands away from his face, away from his eyes wide and glittering almost silver in the moonlight.

    Hands, mud-covered and torn. The red of his shredded fingernails is sickeningly dark in the broken light.

    He’s vomiting before he even feels the bile making its way up his throat.

    Day 30: DIGGING YOUR GRAVE
    major character death | left for dead | ghosts

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    04 Dec 2025

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    crying in the club (the club being bed while my spouse is sleeping next to me)

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    Strategy #448: Get someone in his family to kill him.

    Or: On the four hundredth and forty-seventh cycle, Tim breaks free of the time loop...without realizing it.

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    “Is there something you’re hiding from me, Richie?”

    “Don’t call me that,” Dick says nervously. “I’m- I’m not-”

    “What should I call you, then?” Clark presses. “Richard? Songbird? Robin? Were you the first Robin?”

    Dick chitters in response, tongue forming inhuman birdlike syllables, and then slaps a hand over his mouth, eyes wide and pupils shrunken. “N- No,” he says unevenly. “No. I’m- I’m Dick. I’m just normal, really-”

    “You’re more than that,” Clark snaps. He’s so close, he can feel it. “Come on, Dick, you can trust me. You’re a vigilante, aren’t you? Tell me the truth.”

    “Please,” Dick gasps, doubling over. “Please, please, I can’t- it hurts-”

     

    Or, Clark comes to Gotham determined to disprove the rumors that say the Waynes are possessed by the eldritch, inhuman Bats. What happens is... not that.

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