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Send a Message by Queen_B_Targaryen
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
15 Jun 2025
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Look—No one ever expected her to be a hero. Least of all, herself.
Deryn Castellan has always been good at two things: stealing and running. As the favored daughter of Hermes and the younger sister of a traitor, she's made a life out of staying three steps ahead of everyone, including the gods.
After fleeing the distrustful sneers at Camp Half-Blood, Deryn ended up in Gotham City under the reluctant care of her half-sister, Selina Kyle. But old habits die hard, and one heist too many puts her on Batman’s radar… and directly into the chaos she was trying to escape.
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- Part 1 of Halfbloods of the DCU
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All There's Left by maladaptive_daydreaming (annieyouknowhat)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
15 Jun 2025
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Esperança never expected to save the world — she just wanted to survive it.
She never thought she was lucky, but things have only gotten worse. Jason is gone, her body’s not cooperating, and every day feels a little heavier than the last.
There’s school to keep up with. Her family to look after. A community center that always needs more hands.
She’s not sure she’s doing enough. Most days, it doesn’t feel like much at all.
She knows she can’t fix this city. She can’t undo the choices they made.
But maybe showing up — again and again, for the people, the community around her — is enough.
Or maybe it isn’t.
Maybe this is just all there’s left.
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What if one night, when Jason was eight years old, he found Catherine overdosed in the bathroom. After a 911 call, Jim Gordon shows up to make sure Jason gets to CPS, and DOES NOT get attached to the kid.
And definitely does not keep him.
AKA Jim Gordon is a big softie and Jason finds a new family.
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One Shot In The Night by MythuzalasHeir
Fandoms: Spies Are Forever - Talkfine/Tin Can Brothers, Batman - All Media Types, Gotham (TV)
10 Jun 2025
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Ten Year Old Curt Mega experiences an event that will eventually set him on the path to becoming the hero of Gotham City
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- Part 1 of SAF BATMAN AU
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Damian didn’t die in battle or even with glory. He died because of an accident. He, Damian Al Ghul Wayne, died because the bus he was in was hit by another car and fell into Gotham Harbor.
He drags himself from the Harbor a few months later, not a memory to his name.
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Little Dark Things by Narratiuncula
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
08 Jun 2025
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Some SIOCs get reborn as chosen ones and get the full Isekai experience with loving families and prophecies about saving the world. I got Crime Alley, a drug-addicted mother, useless piece of shit father, and Jason Todd as my baby brother.
Finding out that my junkie mum was actually disgraced Unseelie Fae nobility and I was a bit too much like her didn't make things better. If anything, it made them infinitely worse. Turns out, inheriting otherworldly nonsense powers doesn't mean getting a fairy tale ending when you're stuck in Gotham's most dangerous neighborhood with a baby to protect and bills that won't pay themselves.
Jason was the only good thing in this second life I never asked for. Everyone else, from two-bit dealers to the Dark Knight himself, could go to hell. So I did what any responsible older sister would do: I turned to crime.
If the universe wanted a Mary Sue, it seriously miscalculated.
Rated T for heavy themes, violence, and (justified) extensive profanity. Read the tags for potential TW.
This is based on a one-shot I've written.
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The Gun in (My) Hand by Foglol
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), (kinda?) - Fandom
04 Jun 2025
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A case of the supposedly accidental death of a child is brought back to Tim Drake's attention after a whirlwind of post Red-Robin-origin batshit craziness. As a newly independent (emotionally repressed) hero, Tim will do everything in his power to resolve her cold case. It turns out to go a lot deeper than he bargained for. Tim will take the challenge and the downward spiral. New personal villain, anyone?
Cue the self destructive solo investigation.
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The drawing was beautiful. Not the sort of thing you'd expect from the little demon.
The face drawn in pencil had delicate features, sharp but still with enough baby fat to suggest its youth and eyes that seem transfixing from the page. He wore a kind of scarf like the orientals do (although he didn't know much about it).- “ It’s not bad ” said Jason in a breath.
Batman contacts Jason to inquire about a series of strange deaths of various doctors. As they follow the trail, morals are commandeered.
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On The Record by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
31 May 2025
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Bernard and Roy start a TikTok page. Red Hood reads thirst tweets. Nightwing is a troll. Roy gets candid.
Gotham isn't prepared.
(Part of my Networking series which fleshes out a Roy-Bernard-Jason friendship, but can easily be read as a standalone)
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- Part 9 of Networking
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Stray Little Bat by Resident_Sunshine
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers (Comics), Daredevil (TV)
29 May 2025
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Jason has lived a hard life, from growing up with an abusive father and a dead mom, to dying after a brutal attack, to digging himself out of his own grave, to his new father choosing to save his killer.
But what if fate had plans in store for him? What happens when he gets caught in another explosion after saving his sibling? What happens when he wakes up in a different box, in a different time, in a different world? Will he be able to navigate and survive?
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Or: Jason has a very bad no good time while caving slowly, much like a black hole. But then he gets killed and wakes up in the Marvel time line. Only difference is this time he no longer has a mission to stick to, and happens to be the same age he was the first time. Strap in for one choas gremlin with no more fucks to give, unleashed in a time line where Bruce can no longer hold him back. Stick around as he slowly pulls everyone in and forms one new family that will appreciate him fully, even if he may bite sometimes.
Plump with heavy angst, existential crisis, and a healthy dosage of crack to balance it all out.
⚠️ Will not commission art for any of my fics, so please stop asking⚠️
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- Part 1 of Guide to Co-Parenting the Multiverse
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Jason Todd, Red Hood, and the Park Row Public Library (and her librarians).
[Podfic version of Library Card by Mikkal]
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a red scarf to keep you warm by psychopiratepeak
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
21 May 2025
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Red Hood would like to say he’s nothing like his father, that he’s above “indoctrinating” children into his crusade against crime. However, while on the hunt for the madman calling himself Professor Pyg, he discovers he might have more in common with Bruce than he originally thought.
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Tims New Nanny by Cashinx
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman and Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Constantine (2005), Zatanna (Comics)
16 May 2025
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Eight-year-old Tim Drake has never met his new nanny She’s too young, too clever, and way too mysterious. She never gets mad, always knows what he’s up to, and sometimes Tim swears reality bends around her. His detective instincts won’t let it go. Who is she? Why does she slip into Gotham’s shadows at night? And why does it feel like she’s watching over him in ways he can’t quite explain?
As Tim investigates, he starts uncovering pieces of Evira’s hidden life: her strange connections to Crime Alley, her impossible knowledge, and the eerie sense that something dangerous is following her. But curiosity comes at a price, and when Tim gets too close to the truth, he finds himself in over his head. Gotham is bigger and darker than he ever imagined.
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Roman’s Problem Child by Codie_coda
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
16 May 2025
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Jason ends up being stabbed with a needle containing a de-aging drug while on patrol, which leads to Roman ending up stuck with a young child with attachment issues and a love for stealing tires.
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They Say Batman is the Best at Making Plans (But his Children are Better.) by TheEmpireAnt
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
14 May 2025
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Jason calls a meeting to discuss his plan to take over the drug trade, and Dick has a plan of his own.
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- Part 14 of #JasonToddIsOurRobin
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Things to know during your first trip to the Alley.
1. Don't drink tap water and double-check bottled water
2. Carry a gas mask when possible
3. Stay indoors during April Fools and Halloween
4. Don't litter
5. Don't smile at others. It's weird
Simple right?
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The Alley Update is a blog here to give you all of the necessary updates of the hellhole city that is Gotham. We've got Arkham breakouts and an ever-growing list of vigilantes. (Most of them are adults now.) Take a look and view the common and sometimes deadly incidents that happen here.
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Four friends with a blog and nothing to do in their spare time except give the Bats a run for their money while solving cases and getting into serious problems on the way.
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Updates on Wednesday & Saturdays
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- Part 1 of The Alley Update
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Green through Rose-Colored Glasses by 2LovelyWords4U
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
11 May 2025
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Our world is full of creators, people that make beautiful and vivid stories and art. Only some of them bring it to life and even bring people into their worlds. Those that can are Authorians, families trained in the recognition, manipulation, and even creation of dimensions and pocket universes for centuries.
The Authorians have many conventions that some more renegade members like to subvert, but everyone follows one explicit rule: You may not enter a universe you did not create alone. Unfortunately for Emma, she falls into someone else’s universe — Batman's.
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- English
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- 1,307
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
- Hits:
- 58
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Fall seven times and stand up eight by Monaslovely
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, Batman - All Media Types
11 May 2025
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Jason thinks about all the victim blaming in his life and how fucked it is. He contemplates on what would have happened differently if Sheila was alive as a witness.
Jason decides that leaving Gotham for a while wouldn’t hurt.
But then he gets a text.
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The Offer by NazgulWrites
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Simon Dark (Comics)
06 May 2025
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The Alley's new leader was gargantuan, filling doorways and built in a way most people weren't, but in exchange, he should be slower to compensate for his weight and mass.
He was not.
In fact, he was faster than should be humanly possible – quicker than most of the Bats, even, usually.
Sure, Simon Dark could teleport and was strong enough to garrote a head off, but every few weeks a video resurfaced on local rat forums that showed shaky footage of Hood, with a visibly broken leg, grabbing the Bat's cape near his shoulder and hurling him off a roof one-handed.
That was not the sort of guy to underestimate.
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- Part 19 of Red Hood | Jason Todd Brainrot
- Part 4 of Hood('s) Kids
- Part 4 of Gotham's Zombie Vigilante Club
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Always Be There For You by yumenoyousei
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
28 Apr 2025
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Shay was frustrated; her brother was still babying her, even if she knew his real job and her best friend was in love with a shady guy and no one was taking her warning seriously. Even worst, everyone seemed convinced she was jealous that her best friend was in a relationship!
She was about to prove everyone wrong by herself until Red Hood stumbled in her life... quite literaly.
aka an alternative universe of my fic about Shay, Awaking in Gotham.
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- Part 8 of Shay Frank's DCU