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His journey had begun fractured, a broken boy lost between worlds and betrayed by his past. From those ruins, he had forged a new identity, an empire, and a family built on unwavering loyalty and genuine affection. Now, watching his domain thrive beneath the Gotham sky, he stood utterly fulfilled.
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Danny Nightingale moved to Gotham to escape his past with no idea he would find his one and only soulmate. Jason Todd never expected to fall in love so fast with a bookstore owner who smelled like mint and books.
But fate, and a ghost soulmate bond, has other plans. Now Red Hood is bleeding on Danny’s floor, Danny’s core can’t stop purring, and Jason’s ghost core is awakening for the first time with one goal: to protect his soulmate.
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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)
28 Jul 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 his new nanny 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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Adventures of a Caffeinated Raccoon and His Feral Boyfriend by soaring_bubblegum
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
27 Jul 2025
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"You're looking a gift date in the mouth, baby."
Tim Drake can plan a heist, a hostile takeover, or seventeen different ways to take down a meta-human, but he cannot plan his way out of being in love with Jason Todd. Jason Todd can survive death, resurrection, and fighting Batman, but he's not sure he can survive Tim's color-coded relationship spreadsheets.
Two former Robin disasters navigate dating while carrying enough emotional baggage to sink a small yacht. Somehow, it's working. Probably.
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There Was A Child by TheRealKeithKogane
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
26 Jul 2025
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When Thomas and Martha Wayne died, there was a child.
When John and Mary Grayson died, there was a child.
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(Major Character Death is tagged because it's the core of the story, not because Bruce or Dick die)
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realised it now i was the darkness (realised it now you were the light) by walkingparallels
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
25 Jul 2025
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“So,” Jason spoke a couple nights later, lying curled up on her stomach as she played with his hair, trying to distract both of them from the hunger pains. Winter had hit Gotham City, being on the streets without a jacket was a death sentence, both from frostbite and from the gangs looking to recruit pups, knowing they were more vulnerable when it was cold. “Your name’s too long. How am I supposed to say Ana Maria Rafaela-”
“Rafaela.” She corrected, twirling his hair around her finger.
“That’s what I said.”
“No, you said Rafaela. It’s Rafaela.”
Jason sputtered. “That’s-” he cut himself off, huffing. “Exactly, I can’t say your name. What if I use a nickname like-”
“Rafa.” She interrupted him. “I want Rafa.”
title from graveyard by mcafferty!
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Willis James Todd served his ten-year sentence, which was reduced to one year for good behavior.
It's been fourteen years since worked for the Two-Face.
He's also been on parole for two years.
Three years passed when he was informed in prison about his son's death, and everything fell apart for him.
After those two years of freedom, he stays away from crime, works, attends his scheduled therapy sessions as part of his rehabilitation program, and currently suffers from insomnia.
But something has changed in recent weeks.
He doesn't know why he receives several nightly visits on different random days of the week of the new Gotham player, who has quickly become known.
The Red Hood visits him in his apartment and speaks to him as if he knows him.
But something Willis doesn't dare say out loud is that the Red Hood often reminds him of his dead son. -
Stray Little Bat by Resident_Sunshine
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers (Comics), Daredevil (TV)
20 Jul 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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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
19 Jul 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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Rena was going to move out of Gotham in the beginning of the year, she had been dating this really cute boy before, he disappeared without explanation and Rena was left wondering just what happened. She does find out, eventually, in a grief inspired spiral of what was just supposed to be conspiracy theory that evolved into her knowing a bit too much for much too little reward.
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Or, uh, I saw that Rena existed while reading comics and she was ripped away from the narrative, so I oc-fied her and she's mine now <3 DC has no power over her anymore, and this is an "introduction" to her character, in the vaguest of senses.
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- Part 1 of Jason and Rena's reunion story
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Roy shook his head slowly, running a hand through his hair, voice quiet now. “You know it’s messed up, right? That this… is probably the most humane thing anyone in Gotham’s doing.”
Jason didn’t look back. He kicked open the bathroom door with his boot and vanished inside with his squirming burden, his voice echoing behind him like a warcry:
“You leave that dirty sock in the tub again and I’m burning it!”Another wave of shrieking laughter. More footsteps. Another child pushed toward the bathroom line with a wet plate still in her hand.
And in the ruined, bloodstained bones of Gotham’s dirtiest alley, Jason Todd kept doing what needed to be done.Because someone had to be the killer that tucked the kids in at night.
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- Part 1 of Clown's DC stories
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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
13 Jul 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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Army Dreamers by Paulina_02
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Batman - All Media Types
06 Jul 2025
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Após o plano de destruí o Vecna não sair como planejado. Maxine se vê em uma cidade desconhecida e caótica, além de todos as novas dificuldades pós-batalha enquanto tenta se adaptar a elas e a nova cidade, que parece ter saído de uma história em quadrinhos.
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Day 1: Injury by Himynameis4
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
06 Jul 2025
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When investigating some tire thieves in Crime Alley, Batman gets quite the surprise...
Written for Annabeth Wayne Birthday Week 2025.
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- Part 1 of Annabeth Wayne Birthday Week 2025
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Hard Cash, Hard Liquor, and Hard Candies: The Crime Alley Grannies by cookie_rock
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days, Batman (Comics)
04 Jul 2025
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They know everything that happens in Crime Alley.
EVERYTHING.
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too good to lose by auteureatheart
Fandoms: Heathers: The Musical - Murphy & O'Keefe, Batman - All Media Types
28 Jun 2025
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"you know, when you said 'grab a couple drinks,' i didn't think you meant slushies. like, those are for children."
tim wisely chose not to remind jason that he was still a minor.
"i completely agree." veronica had covered her mouth, shaking with silent laughter.
j.d. was staring at her with affronted indignity. "traitor," he sniffed, taking a long slurp from the drink the two were sharing, holding it away from veronica when she tried to reach for it back.
or: the bomb fails to go off, and jd and veronica just want to be seventeen. now twenty-eight and wanting to make up for the crimes they've committed, they decide gotham’s infamous crime alley is as good as any place to start.
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Reverberations by oldmannapping
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
24 Jun 2025
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Red Hood kills the Joker in the most dramatic and self-destructive way possible.
Gotham residents converge like a herd of overprotective bison.
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- Part 10 of Networking
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Chiroptera by RevengePanda
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
22 Jun 2025
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Jason recognizes the kid on the news, he realizes, when he idly glances up from his book to the TV playing silently in front of him.
That’s not unusual, per say.
Kids from Crime Alley, from the Narrows? They make the news all the time, and he knows, or knew, a lot of ‘em. They’re always warnings, tragic and broken, and even if they don’t use the kids’ names, he can usually recognize the faces the headlines are paired with.
They aren't usually being labeled as "domestic terrorists" on national television, though. But maybe Percy Jackson's just always been an outlier. Jason remembers he was a pretty weird kid, from the very few times they met.
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Adopt me once shame on thee, Adopt me twice shame on me. by BlazingBlack
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
19 Jun 2025
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It's hard to get adopted twice. Its almost impossible when your dad never un-adopted you or gave you away. Almost. But through a series of unlikely events Jason Todd manages. Somehow.
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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.