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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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Sophomorically Whelmed by TheCleverestWitch
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types
14 Jul 2025
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Dick Grayson is not enjoying the beginning of his sophomore year of high school - Bruce is gone, his brothers are being overly protective, the gym teacher is a bit creepy, and there's one particular asshole that is making his life extra difficult. But when the situation gets out of hand and with his guardian out of reach, Dick finds himself unceremoniously thrown back into the youth detention center that he started in. And it does not go well.
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The Wayne family is left reeling after Jason's death. Dick visits the manor after an extended period of absence only to find Alfred taking care of a baby. Apparently, Bruce had a son with Talia, but he hasn't been able to get out of bed to take care of the child, and Alfred is getting to old to deal with an energetic, colicky infant.
Dick wants to help, but can he really fix all the cracks tearing his family apart?
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But I will Die Your Son. by TheyShouldHaveBeenCanon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
02 Jul 2025
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“You’re the reason I had him, okay?!”
I freeze.
“I thought that if I did a decent job raising him there was a chance he was gonna end up like you!!”
I turn around to face him my breath caught in my throat.
“And that thought got me excited because you are a wonderful person and I like being around you!!!” He yells, and the pure desperation in his voice hurts.
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To Fly With A Flock, Once More by Doc (DoctorB)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), DC Extended Universe, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DC - Fandom
26 Jun 2025
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All good things must come to an end.
Or, a Birdflash centric take on s2 ep20 of Young Justice
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“It’s April first…” Wally trailed off as he frowned. A deep sigh left his nose as he stepped away from the table and approached Nightwing, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder. “Babe, did… Did you forget?”
“I…” Dick’s shoulders slouched as he turned to face Wally and though Wally couldn’t see his eyes the heartbreak was still clear as day on his face. “I forgot. It’s been ten years and I… Wals, how could I have forgotten?”
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After Chemo, after Bludhaven, another Nightwing shows up.
It's him from another dimension, Dick knows it.
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- Part 1 of could be, who knows?
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My Future and all My Dreams by ToriaDarkFiction (ToriaFiction)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Apr 2025
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At twenty years old, Jason is certain that he is a beta. He has a mature adult scent that is neither alpha nor omega so he is obviously a beta. Nobody ever presents this late in life, so obviously, his body "settled" into a beta sometime during the period of time he can’t remember.
Jason has always been perfectly happy with this fact.
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All of the Bats know that Jason is a beta. Or at least that's what Dick thought.
When he hears the sounds of someone entering his apartment through the window, followed immediately by the unmistakable thump of a body hitting the floor, he rushes into his living room only to be hit by a tidal wave of scent. It's sweet, warm, and spicy the way hot cinnamon is but also fresh and earthy like a fragrant tree. Heightening that is the dark, heady scent of heat.The scent is so thick in the room, Dick would swear the pheromones hang in the air like a heavy mist.
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Lightning in his Eyes and Thunder in his Wings by ToriaFiction
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
05 Apr 2025
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It's only a few months after Bruce takes Dick in that he discovers that he isn't human. A fact that Dick is entirely unaware of. Not knowing why the Graysons never told their son and not wanting to cause his new charge more pain, Bruce decides to keep the secret.
Dick is seventeen when he discovers the truth. His and Bruce's relationship is already in shambles, and Batman doesn't let metas in Gotham. Dick doesn't want to lose a second home and family. So he doesn't tell anyone.
Years pass, and life doesn't stop moving forward and changing. Dick flies in the high moments and crashes hard in the low ones.
Then, just as Dick believes he has settled and gotten a handle on his life again, The Red Hood makes his appearance, and Dick’s life is flipped on its head once again.
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What I did by Babs_Gray
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Deathstroke the Terminator (Comics)
12 Mar 2025
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"I offer you two choices, kid. You can stay here and keep sinking, until this city finishes devouring you and wasting your potential out of fear. Or you can come with me. I will train you as you should have been trained. I will make you stronger, faster, more lethal. Exploit what your father feared so much. But that I was always drawn to." Slade slowly wiped the water from Dick's face with his free hand.
Dick didn't remember when Slade put away his mask.
Dick felt a shiver run down his spine. He knew this was not a selfless act of charity. Slade Wilson never did anything without getting something in return. It was literally the description of being a mercenary.
"But there's 'But', isn't there?" He asked humorlessly. But trying to smile.
Well, here I bring the continuation of this series.
This time it's how Dick agreed to go with Slade.
If anyone wants to read this chronologically, they should start with this one, then with "Who they are and what they did," and finally, "Who I will never be and what you will never do."
I recommend reading the whole thing to make sense of it 😅
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Our Lives Are Changing Lanes by Robin_Kid
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
15 Feb 2025
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The wounds left over from Spyral aren't so easily healed. Bruce learns the hard way that his mistake was here to haunt him a lot longer than he thought and this wasn't another disagreement they could brush under the rug.
He can try his best but some mistakes are carved in stone that aren't so eager to be chipped away.
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- Part 22 of Dick Grayson centric
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Everything is alright yes, everything is fine (Things swept under the rug) by Helecthra
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
07 Feb 2025
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Rikki knows she isn’t innocent, nor young, nor blameless, not anymore.
She hasn't been, not for a long, long time.
And she can't really tell when it started (it started with her parents’ broken bodies laid in the sand of the center ring and her father's too stiff arms tightening around her torso, preventing her from jumping after them), when she stopped being all those things (when she stopped being whatever she was before).
Deep in her gut, Dixie knows she isn't innocent.
She knows she isn't young.
She knows she isn't blameless.
Deep in her gut, Dixie only knows that she wants to disappear.
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- Part 14 of Robin's blues
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I hope my memory isn't lost in the afterlife, by WhelmedShoelace (FloatingShoelace)
Fandoms: Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice (Comics)
05 Feb 2025
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“Is it wrong for me to grieve for someone?”
“I didn’t say that. I’m saying the hurt will lessen.” And he knows that but fuck. Fuck. It doesn’t feel that way and it certainly doesn’t feel like it will ever lessen or be easier. “It gets easier Dick.”
Does it? Because it never felt easier than the last. That felt like load of bullshit.
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Downtown Metropolis was in ruins. They were at war. On the horizon was a global catastrophic risk.
But that’s his little boy in there.
If nothing else, Jason would be the last thing he saw, and that would be worth it.(Too bad not everyone felt that way)
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sons of sky by Kiwilart (Kiwili), ScarlettSwordMoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types
18 Jan 2025
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Dick is thirteen, leader of the Teen Titans, and already starting to chaff under Bruce’s thumb. When Bruce gets de-aged to fourteen, Dick thinks this experience will finally bring their partnership back to working order. It doesn’t. And then it does.
Nightwing 60th Anniversary Bingo: Age Regression & Reversal
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Somebody That You Used To Know by FadedFeathers
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
01 Jan 2025
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Death has always followed Dick Grayson, so when the final blade falls, he welcomes it—abandoned by his family, swallowed by loneliness, and convinced this is how his story was always meant to end.
But then he wakes up. Alone, in a Gotham that doesn’t recognize him.
In a world where Dick Grayson never existed.Now, eight years in the past, with his memories intact and no name to anchor him, he has a second chance:
To save the people he loves.
To fix the mistakes that tore them apart.
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Dick finds Tim in Titans Tower.
Tim's still spiralling, and it doesn't go well.
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- Part 58 of Alley Business
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After Eleven by forgetmesunflower
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
29 Dec 2024
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Dick froze in the entrance of his apartment, jacket still bunched up at his elbows. In the single kitchen chair sat a shaggy-haired kid, swinging his legs absently under the table. The chair squeaked with every kick, his socks shuffling against the floor. Neither spoke, the kid’s unblinking stare illuminated by the dim orange bulb hanging above his head. Fleetingly, Dick wondered if he’d lost enough sleep to hallucinate the thirteen-year-old boy Bruce had adopted a few months ago.
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Dick has a visitor. He's not quite ready to be a big brother. People don't always have the time to learn.
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- Part 2 of to everything that lingers
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restless heart by belovednightwing
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
14 Nov 2024
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Dick Grayson wasn't made for the ground. He was made for the air, made to fly.
Sometimes flying away is all he knows how to do.
Nothing ever lasts around him. Everything always ends; families die, homes kick him out, friends die and leave. Stability has never been in the cards for him.
So he runs until he doesn't remember how to stop.
(dick grayson quite literally running from his abandonment issues)