Bruce Hits Dick and Doesn't Get Away With It
Inspired by that Tumblr prompt. You know the one. Desperately needed these fics in one place.
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Hey, Brother, There's an Endless Road to Rediscover by TheSilencer
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
06 Feb 2026
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"Someone needs to go with him." Diana said. "She's a goddess of family. Her blessing will come from the strength of his familial ties."
All the more reason I should go. Damian thought.
Bruce and Dick shared a long look. Perhaps to the others in the room, it was a fast, indecipherable look, but Damian caught the pull of Dick's mouth and the tightness to his father's jaw. However, it was Bruce that said "Red Hood and Red Robin."
Damian's eyes widened.
Grayson was as good as dead.
Or the one where Dick's brothers manage to royally piss off an ancient deity that sends them careening through memories he'd rather they didn't see.
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- Part 1 of Oh, Brother, I Will Hear You Call
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TW: Abuse
“I’m not asking you to make Damian give up Robin, I’m only telling you that you need to stop raising child soldiers! Is that all we are to you?! Pawns in your screwed up fucking mission? You don’t deserve to call yourself a father, in fact, you don’t even deserve to call yourself human you-!”
Bruce’s fist makes a resounding crack! as it hits Dick’s face. He topples to the ground, and is left to stare up at Bruce while the man towers over him.
“You have no right to have any say in how I parent my sons. Or have you forgotten that you’re not even one of them?”
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Just A Mission by Valpalmalec
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
24 Jan 2026
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Dick Grayson has been back from Spyral for a few months now, and everything is time. His family needs time, and that's... that's fine.
But after a family dinner turned panic attack- a friend brings to light something that has been bothering Dick since his return.
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Haven't I Given Enough? by Valpalmalec
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
22 Oct 2025
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There was only one thing Scarecrow wanted to inflict. Fear.
In his head, Dick was grateful he was the one in the hot seat. He always had a harder time watching his loved ones be in pain than taking the pain himself. That face was one of the leading reasons behind almost everything he does. Furthermore, he and Bruce have been testing his level of resistance to Scarecrow's fear gas, and compared to the others- even Bruce- he was the best option for this. Right?
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OR: Scarecrow makes a fear toxin specifically for Nightwing, who seems to be immune to his normal batch. And maybe Dick could handle a newer version of the gas... if there wasn't also a device attached to his head that analyzed his thoughts to make him face his greatest fears...
What's worse is that his family, who have basically shut him out since his return from Spyral- from the dead- is there to witness his fall.
*Title from the song 'Gilded Lily' by Cults
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The Symbol of the Bat by GalaxyOwl13
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Grayson (Comics)
25 Jan 2025
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After finding out that Dick is alive, Cass confronts Bruce.
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- Part 4 of Cassandra Cain Week 2025
- Part 2 of The Ghost Who Is Still Alive
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a silent bird by liz1art
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
18 Dec 2025
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It was just some brotherly banter.
(Jason would never call him brother.)
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because of him (again).Or: Friendly banter turns into screaming match turns into hard hitting truths.
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Insert Trauma Bonding Here by That_One_Computer_Geek (T1CG)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), Forever Evil (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Young Justice (Cartoon)
02 Apr 2025
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Tensions in the Batfamily are razor-sharp as Damian’s sixteenth birthday looms. Tim Drake is unraveling—haunted by memories of the brutal “test” Bruce once put him through, convinced history is about to repeat itself. His paranoia coils around him like a vice, tightening with each passing day.
Damian feels the weight of Tim’s relentless scrutiny and bristles, his usual arrogance laced with something darker—uncertainty, maybe even fear. The unease spreads like wildfire. Dick grows wary. Jason watches from the sidelines, arms crossed, ready for a fight.
The family fractures under the pressure, each of them sensing danger but unable to name it. Then Steph—fed up, furious—drags them all into a room and forces the truth into the open. But no one is prepared for what spills out.
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Bookmarked by Fyrefly_Adi (Firefly_Aki)
05 Feb 2026
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Addresses not only Dick's grievances but Jason and Tim's too.
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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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i'll stay here with you, my dear by snoozingpeace
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
29 May 2025
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It started slow, usually.
The headaches. It was the tiredness that preceded everything else — his body preparing for the onslaught of pain that’d last him for a day. Usually, he texted Bruce when a headache would take him out for the count, but… Spryal still left some untended, gaping wounds in his fragile chest, the size of Bruce’s relentless fists. Bruce didn’t know his routine, Bruce didn’t deserve to know his routine — let alone when he was at his most vulnerable.
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Dick Grayson experiences a medical emergency without anybody knowing until it's almost too late.
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to memory now i can't recall by wildimaginingsofhalfbakedideas
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
17 May 2025
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Post-Spyral, Dick Grayson's family feels betrayed by the one person they thought was beyond reproach. They had mourned him and he had kept silent in their grief. Someone watching them from afar takes it upon herself to use her powers to bring a little perspective to the situation. No one has a good time.