13 Works in Bruce Wayne Can't Cope
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calling after me by bavariansugarcookie
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
06 Feb 2025
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Tim was in the middle of reading the world's worst pitch when he got a notification that a mysterious assassin shot Joker dead in broad daylight. Bruce was almost catatonic with shock, so Tim went to the scene of the crime alone - and found the shooter, waiting for a face-to-face with Batman. An almost-friendly spar led to a job offer, and the promise that Red Hood wasn't hard to find if Tim changed his mind.
So of course Tim went looking. He never did know when to leave well enough alone.
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Everybody's Watching Me by ParzivalHallows
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
28 Oct 2024
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This was wrong. So wrong. Dick snapped his head back up to look at Jason, who took an automatic stumble back. This was Dick. But it wasn’t. Dick’s eyes were filled with a lust – a lust for the blood he’d just spilled everywhere.
What had they done to him?
“Jason Todd…”
Jason didn’t like the way Dick was looking at him, nor the way he took a few steps forward, his eyes narrowed. “The Court of Owls has sentenced you to die.”
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Jason stumbles across a news article and learns what Bruce has been doing since his death.
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Replacement by IrrepressibleDomovoy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
12 Aug 2023
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Tim Drake's forceful entry into the Batfam and the consequences thereof.
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- Part 7 of Autistics, Emos, and Bats, Oh My!
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Codependency (Or: How not to treat a child, a presentation by Tim Drake) by Violettavonviolet
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
29 Jul 2023
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The thing is, right, that when you come from a family like Tim’s, where any affection at all is seen as unnecessary and not validated as a need for a person, it’s hard to pinpoint what a healthy relationship should look like. And Bruce definitely had not been in the right headspace to care for him correctly, or at all really. Paired with Tim’s conviction that Batman needed a Robin, well, it was practically fate that things started spiraling out of control quickly. This marked the start of the probably unhealthiest relationship between a Robin and Batman to date. (Yes, even including Jason, because everything with him happened after his death, not before.)
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.(Tim had been a child before he’d been a crutch, before he’d been a partner, before he’d been a hero. Tim had been Tim, young, idealistic and with an iron moral code.
or: Tim and Bruce are so similar they can't help but become codependent. They spiral from there.
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- Part 2 of no surprises
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There's A Reason We Say Happy Holidays by GrindalGuardian21
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
25 Dec 2022
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7 times the Justice League tries to convince Bruce Wayne to get into the Christmas spirit, and the 1 time Bruce explains (as much as he can) why he won't.
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Batman Begins. "Now, I've got a hole for the world to see." Childhood trauma and becoming fear.
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Mirth and Monstrosity by SkeletalConstellation
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
07 Jun 2021
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Years ago, A young boy lost everything in a single night.
Years ago, a man faced a horrific accident.
It was only afterwards did things get a little twisted.
Gotham lives under the protection of the Joker, its jovial Clown Crusader who dispenses jokes and justice with an ever-present grin. On the other side of the coin is Gotham's Nightmare, the Batman, a boogeyman who punishes all with lethal brutality. Somewhere in the middle, they meet.
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Jason's acceptance to seminary forces Bruce to confront the Grief and Guilt he has been clinging to.
Or: Bruce sees a picture of the Pieta, drinks too much, and has a serious conversation with Jason. It's not much, but it's a start. Set in Fr. Todd AU.
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Just as I begin to fade by BatsAreFluffy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe, Justice League (2017)
07 Oct 2020
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The valet's voice was pitched low. "It's your driver for the evening."
Wayne froze, sharp eyes focused only on the other man. "Tell me what happened."
"They've called an ambulance already. He - he collapsed in the back lot, sir."Now with the follow up: Dream in my Pocket
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- Part 7 of Like tears in the rain
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Omegaverse AU in which Jason attempts to flirt with his predecessor while Bruce begrudgingly helps.
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On Thursday morning Alfred finds a nude Joker in one of Master Bruce's guestrooms. It turns into a bit of a spectacle in the manor and only Alfred is left unswayed.
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Boss Needs a Robin by Molly_Hats
Fandoms: DC - Fandom, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017)
05 Mar 2018
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“The most OOC thing about BvS was that Bruce didn’t adopt that girl from the beginning.”
AU in which he did, and that girl was named Carrie Kelley.
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- Part 2 of Panic, but Carry On