Damian Wayne Calls Dick Grayson "Baba"
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Five times Dick Grayson stepped up in a situation that did not feel safe for his brothers, and the one time they noticed.
OR: All Dick's siblings know he is a mother-hen, but these protective tendencies tend to escalate at galas or balls. They assume it's because they cannot fight without their costumes, but they are wrong.
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Lifelines by SomebodyIUsetoKnow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Gotham Knights (Video Game 2022), DCU, DCU (Comics)
26 Aug 2024
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After everything that went down with the Crime Syndicate and then Spyral, Nightwing couldn't do it anymore. Five years after retiring the mask, five years after Bruce had once again cut him out of the family, Dick Grayson returns to Gotham. But Detective Grayson is not the only transfer from Bludhaven. An enemy from across the bay makes an explosive debut onto the scene of Gotham's organized crime that has the GCPD racing against a clock that could cost the lives of thousands. Including one of their own.
The Batfamily has only seventeen hours before it is too late to reclaim the piece their family had been missing for far too many years.
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- Part 4 of Must Be Tuesday
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Shard of Glass by Samuel_Walker
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Forever Evil (Comics), Grayson (Comics)
22 Apr 2024
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So, Dick hadn’t actually died. Big deal, Steph hadn’t either. Neither had Bruce. Hell, sometimes Cass just fucked off for a couple of months only to show up for a random Sunday dinner. It stung, sure, but Jason held no illusions about his life expectancy, about any of their life expectancies. He was bitter, he was upset, he felt betrayed, but he didn’t have time to waste hating his brother, he’d done that enough already.
Five times the Bats noticed something new about post-Spyral Dick and one time they found out the truth.
Sequel to "The Whole Truth"
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- Part 2 of The Truth (DC)
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Labor by ErebosBlue
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
09 Apr 2024
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Dick had always been good with kids; had always been the first one to scoop a kid into his arms. So, really, he wasn't bothered that he ended up being the main caretaker of the family behind Alfred. Really, he wasn’t.
Okay, so maybe he cared, but only when people called Bruce a father.
Maybe there was always a deep-seated grudge around Bruce being seen as the parental unit of the Bat Family. Maybe.
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Dick Grayson Week: DILF Dick Grayson, Apologizing To Dick
(honestly not DILF and just parent but I'm gonna say I'm using the prompt anyway.)Series
- Part 4 of DC Fics
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Patrolling in Gotham? A breeze. Justice League members complain about the difficulty of a Bat-designed patrol routine. But Dick Grayson? He's been doing it since day 1. Easy business.
Nightwing's return after Spyral strains relations with Red Robin, Robin, and Red Hood. A villain named Vanco exploits the rift, luring them into a dangerous plot. Trust issues surface as the team faces challenges, and Nightwing's struggles to make things work.
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even through the torture, it's the hardest goodbye by vivamus73
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
06 Nov 2025
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“Bruce, you would report parents like those to the police. And by the time I was with the Titans, I would too. And still, Bruce, still, I took it when you hurt me because—because I don’t know. Because maybe, somewhere along the way, I started pretending you weren’t my father.”
"Hurt you," Jason echoes, and now his voice isn't raspy because he's pretending to be Batman. Bruce hurt Dick. The first son, the favourite, the one most like him.
Bruce hurt him?
"Do you still not understand what you did? What you keep doing? ‘It is what it looks like.’ Funny how I only realised it after my death, after you beat me up and sent me away from my family.”
Dick stands up, all stiff movements. The light from outside hits him directly, and Jason realises he’s in a nightmare.
Jason was—he was dreaming. This—this man, hunched and shaking and bleeding—cannot be Dick. His brother’s face could never be dripping with blood from his father’s fists.
“Look. You’ve made me a victim,” Dick tells him.
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Dick finally realises Batman is an abusive piece of shit, and so do his brothers. What follows is never that simple.
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Retiring the Suit Soon, Was This Enough of a Reason? by MittenTroll
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
14 Oct 2025
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Dick has been diagnosed with cancer. He’s forced to retire early and take it slow. However, he hasn’t told his family and is struggling to deal with the criticism and recover.
Whumptober 2025 Day 13 Prompts: “How dull is it to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished.” | Never Enough | Forced Retirement
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- Part 13 of Whumptober 2025
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Silent Heartbeat Stilling by Halcyon (PeachTao)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
09 Dec 2025
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“Rao, Bruce, I’m so sorry,” Clark said.
Bruce knit his eyebrows together in confusion. “What happened on the mission?”
Now it was Clark who looked confused. “The mission?”
Bruce pulled up his tablet and began logging into the database. “You just came back from the YLA mission to Braal, no? Hal filed the report already.” Bruce tapped on the screen to open the report and scanned his eyes over it. “Looks like it went alright.”
A horrified look dawned on his friend’s face. “You don’t know.”
“Know what,” Bruce said, now starting to feel annoyed at clearly being out of the loop of whatever Clark was talking about.
“Bruce, I don’t hear his heart.”
Four months ago, Dick Grayson returned from Spyral, and faced his family’s anger at the betrayal.
One month ago, John Doe was shot and killed in a mugging.
Three days ago, Superman came to offer his condolences after returning from an off-world mission.
Now, Dick Grayson is lowered into the ground once again.
OR: Dick dies alone and his family grieves.
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“Your butchery of the English language astounds me.” Damian says, sliding into the seat.
“Second language.” Dick replies. “Can’t be blamed for my mistakes.”
Damian sniffs pretentiously as Dick starts up the car and gets them on the road, the reprimand already on his tongue. “Don’t be foolish, Richard, you have mastered a number of languages and are perfectly capable of speaking them as they were intended to be spoken, as I do. Making excuses as such is undignified.”
Dick hums, amused. “I think there was actually a compliment in there. You’re getting soft, baby bat.”
Damian’s scandalized face is exactly as Dick pictured it. “I am not!”
…Bruce died. Bruce came back to life. The months between those moments don’t stop meaning something even if it would be easier if they did.
It’s up to Dick to reassemble his life and find a way to be a brother to the boy he considers his kid. It shouldn’t be a problem (except that it is) and where the hell is his sweater??
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Bookmarked by Alice_Rosssi
27 Oct 2025
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“Then logic follows if you are Richard Grayson, and you are my baba, then I am Damian Grayson.”
