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The House and Crow by waterunderthebridge12
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics)
09 Mar 2024
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Mother tongue? But she'd had no mother. And her father had stolen her tongue.
Cass comes to terms with just how much her childhood took from her.
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- Part 2 of All Our Sweetest Hours
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06 Oct 2025
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Xenia (Greek: ξενία [kse'ni. a])
Derived from the word xenos, meaning “stranger”, or even “friend”.Xenia follows a long-standing tradition of housing strangers as honoured guests, where both host and guest have expectations and responsibilities to fulfill.
Guests treat their host with dignity, posing no threat, and likewise receive respect in return. Hosts freely offer food, shelter and warmth, and are repaid in kind by the guests with news and stories of their journey and the outside world.
When the time comes, guests continue on their way, often with a parting gift.-----
There are rumours— nothing more than whispers— of a shadow running around the streets of Gotham. Some say the Batman is back, but the Knights aren’t so sure.
If they're fighting for the same things, Barbara wants them as an ally, that much is clear.
The hard part is convincing them of that.-----
Or; Cassandra Cain joins the Gotham Knights.
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26 Aug 2025
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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29 Mar 2025
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Once More with Feeling by Rosie_the_Fanfic_Reader
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
28 Nov 2024
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Every once in a while, Bruce Wayne is slapped in the face with the knowledge that the Batman is not the strongest person in Gotham.
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Or, AU where Bruce Wayne isn't there when John & Mary Grayson plummet to their deaths. With no Bruce Wayne to take him in and the circus disbanded, Dick Grayson is thrown into the brutal reality of Gotham City's foster care system.
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04 Mar 2025
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Accismus by honeycombclaire
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
12 Apr 2024
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/ækˈsizməs/
noun
1. when one feigns disinterest or indifference for something they desire
2. a form of ironyExample: Dick buys two birthday cards for Damian. One starts with “For my son,” and the other says “To a cool guy.” Dick gives Damian the latter, and keeps the former locked away. He doesn’t need to make this into something it’s not.
Or, Dick is tasked with raising Damian in the wake of Bruce’s death. This is the fallout of their separation upon Bruce’s sudden and unexpected return.
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Bookmarked by redshirtdave
03 Mar 2025