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And The Sky Wept With Him by Smileorelse906
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
19 Jun 2025
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Dick didn’t have a problem; he was fine.
He wasn’t hiding an injury, he wasn’t faking his death again, he was completely and utterly fine... not that they would have cared if he wasn’t.Please read the tags!
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It was supposed to be just another mission. But with incomplete intel, no backup, and a "you’ll adapt" tossed like it meant something, it was more akin to suicide.
Jason warned him. Bruce ignored him.
When the mission falls apart, Dick finds himself outnumbered, outgunned, and cut off because “you’ll adapt” is the closest thing to care Bruce still knows how to give. Only one of them came for him and it wasn’t Batman.
He survived. But Nightwing didn’t.
What started as survival becomes clarity. Nightwing doesn’t return from that bunker, someone in black and orange does.
Someone who knows exactly where he stands.
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A story about betrayal, brotherhood, redemption, and the moment Dick Grayson finally stops being quiet.
[Contains gore, violence, angst, and foul language]
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5 Times Kai Protected His Family by Echo_K, reckless_red316
Fandoms: LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)
06 May 2025
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And one time they protected him.
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Kai had always heard tigers were solitary creatures. He'd heard the legend of the Zodiacs. He prayed it was just a legend. Then Nya gets kidnapped by Lord Garmadons' forces and it all becomes too real.
In other words; the canon rewrite au I've been thinking on for a while in which the ninja have to share their element with their zodiac counterpart and this makes all the difference in their worlds (also a crud ton of Kai angst, because you know me)
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- Part 1 of Keepers of the Zodiacs
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The Cassandra Metaphor by writersagainstwritersblock
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types
17 Jun 2025
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Through the carnage came a figure cloaked in shadow, she appeared to move through the bodies rather than step on top of them. Even standing somewhere around seven or eight feet tall, she was far too humanoid to be a foe, they had long since abandoned their ruse of playing at humanity. She wore a cloak that appeared to dissipate and knit together like threads of smoke, the gossamer threads like the grey of a new dawn. Under the hood, he could only just make out her eyes, a clouded sky blue, pupils, and her gaze unending.
She stopped before him, their eyes meeting through his tears. There was no empathy in her gaze, only his own agony reflected back at him, though her hand was light as a soft breeze as she tipped his chin up.
“Please,” Dick said, even though he didn’t know what he was asking for: release, mercy, death.
“You long to go back.”
“Yes.”
“For a different outcome.”
Dick nearly choked on the word, “yes.”
“I can make it so. I can give you the gift of foresight, but I warn you, it comes at great sacrifice as it does for anyone else who it is bestowed upon.”
Dick Grayson may not be able to change everything, but my god, is he going to try.