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On a stormy night, a ruthless dark mage named Nocturne battles the heroes for hours, his night-born magic overpowering them all—until Zatara strikes him down with a powerful spell. When the smoke clears, Nocturne is gone, presumed dead.
Not far from the battlefield, a traveling circus prepares to leave town. Among them are John and Mary Grayson, a young couple who have long dreamed of having a child. While packing, John discovers an abandoned baby hidden in the bushes—a boy with mysterious origins. They name him Richard, and raise him as their own under the bright lights of Haly’s Circus.
Years later, tragedy strikes when the ropes snap during a performance, taking the lives of John and Mary before their son’s eyes. The now-orphaned Dick Grayson is taken in by billionaire Bruce Wayne, beginning a new chapter of his life.
But destiny weaves a darker thread than anyone realizes-Will Dick discover his past life? Will Bruce accept him when they ever find out? Will they treated him diffrently after? Can Dick have his normal life back?
Every tag will be added if need to. This FanFic will have more than 1 Chapter idk why I couldn't adjust it
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Dance the Edge of Gotham's Shadow by AceOfDivineChlorophyll
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Teen Titans (Animated Series), Young Justice - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU (Comics), Shazam! (Movies - Sandberg), The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld), The Addams Family (Comics), Batman (Comics)
13 Oct 2025
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Reborn into a world of shadowy vigilantes, men of steel, champions, warriors, kings, and demi-gods… Medha sets out to try and not only survive but thrive in a world where alien invasions and world ending events are common enough to lose track of which one is happening this week. All while trying to figure out even which continuity he is part of and how he can make the best of it for himself. If he happens to help out a few teens along the way, break a few curses, spark debates on his humanity, and pick up a baby bird well… he's just fine with that so long as no one looks too close at his methods.
A/N: I am going to try and include a lot of at least mention of canon events / fanon interpretations but as I haven't actually read most of the comics I make no promises. (edit: I am in the process of reading them though) - It will focus mostly on Batfam, Gotham, Teen Titans, and Shazam (/Shazfam)
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- Part 1 of Ace's Batfam Self-Indulgence Fics
- Part 24 of Ace's DC Works
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What Good Is All This Talk of Wings When There Is Nothing Left Above? by AddyBby
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
01 Oct 2025
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The huffy laugh Dick manages to force out sounds a little too hurt for his liking. “This is a weird game, Bryan. Can you let me down and we’ll talk about it?”
“And miss the big show?” Bryan puts a little too much effort into sounding disappointed, the bastard.
WHUMPTOBER 2025
Day 28: Back Stabbing / Creative RestraintsSeries
- Part 3 of WHUMPTOBER 2025
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Mission Super Possible! by lilacswraith
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
01 Oct 2025
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Dick Grayson, young and still learning to navigate the tangles of grief, begins to see the cracks in the façade of ‘fine’ that Bruce maintains.
After a lifetime searching for an undertaking that will give him meaning, he has decided to embark on his greatest mission yet: making Bruce Wayne happy. Really, truly, properly happy.
He is convinced he is failing— namely because he can’t figure out what “real” happiness looks like on Bruce and goes with the safer answer of… it’s all fake.
Enter Superman: Hero, Journalist, Answer to his prayers. And, if his new and revised plan succeeds… his future step-father?
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Batman is not in love with Superman. He isn’t, stop looking at him like that! But his 9 year old seems to be under the assumption that they’re dating and Bruce… well Bruce can’t break his heart. Why don’t his parenting books ever cover this crap?!
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Clark? Clark is a bit confused, to say the least, because his best friend’s son is calling him papa and his best friend is… playing along? (Did they start dating without him realising? Surely not??) Oh well… There are worse things in the world than Bruce Wayne looking at you like he wants to kiss you. Sigh if only it were real…
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An FBI Agent and a Criminal Informant Walk Into a Circus by Silvers_Universe53
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV), White Collar (TV 2009)
29 Sep 2025
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No, it's not the start of a joke.
DC Crossover Week Day 6 - Saturday, September 20
World Fusion || Unexpected Team-up || Language BarrierSeries
- Part 4 of Silver's DC Crossover week 2025
- Part 4 of Silver's White Collar Crossovers
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A vigilante father, a thief mother, and an intuitive, acrobatic son.
When Gotham is on the brink of an all-out gang war, Bruce knows the city is about to be plunged into chaos. Between crooked cops and a malfeasant mayor; there's no telling who would pick up the pieces after the dominos fall. The Bat's mission? To ensure that the wrong people face the right justice; to save Gotham from both the criminals he can see, and the ones ruling from the darkness...
There's no time for a 'real family' as far as he's concerned. -
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Sometimes love is complicated. Sometimes it hurts.
Dick Grayson sees Damian and remembers Johnny—the cousin who was a brother, a teacher, a light in a dark world. Damian, trained to kill, sharp and unyielding, hides tenderness beneath a layer of survival instinct. Between violence and compassion, circus tents and graves, Dick finds a way to pass forward the lessons Johnny once taught him: to trust, to laugh, to love without fear. A story of family, legacy, and the quiet threads that bind us across time, loss, and hearts that refuse to break. -
The Fantastic Flying Graysons in... Safety Net by chainsore
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Aug 2025
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Come one, come all, to see the greatest show in Gotham!
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Elephant Tales by Silver_Inspiration
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series
13 Aug 2025
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Interactions Dick has with some special friends from his circus days.
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He turned to his mama—always behind him in these dreams, ready to sweep him into her arms and kiss his face and tell him what a great job he did—and saw a scrappy, terrified child standing in her place.
“Woah,” Dick said, his arms flattering. The kid looked horrified, body shaking and hands gripping the center pole hard enough to make his knuckles white. “How’d you get up here?”
“I—I dunno,” the kid forced out, fingers twitching around the pole. He had an accent Dick didn’t recognize, something loose and heavy. “I went ta' bed. Swear I did.” He paused, eyebrows furrowing down low. “M'bed on the ground.”
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Dick Grayson and Jason Todd are soulmates in every sense of the word. Too bad they both think the other is just a dream.
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(Find Me) Somebody To Love by dragonbuds
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), The Batman (Movie 2022)
28 Jul 2025
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Bruce didn’t want to wake up.
The simple act of opening his eyes took monumental strength and getting ready for the day felt like an overwhelming task.
Sometimes he didn’t even get up at all. He just couldn’t do it, and no one (not even Alfred) could get him out of bed.Or
Bruce is alone, until he isn't
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The first rule of circus is that circus hurts. by themostleastweasel
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Teen Titans - All Media Types, Titans (TV 2018), Titans (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types, DCU
26 Jul 2025
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Dick Grayson is having some thoughts just before going on patrol as Nightwing. He can't help but think back to circus life, when left to himself...
And calluses from the trapeze hurt more than his suit, but they were better for catching people.
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Robin and his Cuckoo by Mentallyindenial
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
25 Jul 2025
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A Robin and a Cuckoo are an unlikely pair.
But nicknames stickOR
Dick Grayson and Carrie Kelley are adopting siblings who met in Haly's circus, and how they learned they might not have wanted the other.
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5 Times Tim Drake Didn't Wear His Glasses + 1 Time He Was Forced To by gniwn
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
19 Jul 2025
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Tim Drake needed glasses ever since mandatory testing declared so when he was six. But what hero wears glasses?
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Robin by ThePickler
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), The Penguin (US TV 2024), Batman (Comics)
18 Jul 2025
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Robin seemed to take that as his cue, crawling back out of the cape. He ignored Rachel’s horrified noise, sticking his toes between the top of Batman’s tool belt and the Kevlar beneath. A quick, twisting jump, and he was perched on one of Bruce’s shoulders.
“Lying’s illegal, you know, Miss Caspian.” He pulled a knee up, rested his chin on it.
She was staring at him, mouth open.
“What— no it’s— who are you??”
“Robin.”
She turned her accusing glare on Batman.
“What the hell?”
“This is Robin.”
Or; The Batman gets a robin and they gradually evolve together.
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- Part 2 of The Batman 2022 universe
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Mr Michelson answered his phone almost immediately, before Bruce had had time to think about what he was doing and what he was supposed to start with.
So he just blurted out: “How do you adopt someone?”
That was followed by a surprised silence and Bruce thought he could hear the lawyer readjusting his mental gear to deal with the question and its implications. Then, slowly and carefully he asked, with a hint of suspicion in his voice: “Mister Wayne, are you by any chance planning on adopting someone?”Or, Bruce was about to become a lonesome vigilante but suddenly there is a child clinging to him and he can't just leave the kid alone.
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- Part 1 of Another Way? Universe
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The story of how Bruce's empty nest became full
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Sometimes Jason thought about the time before Willis Todd started hitting his mother. He hasn’t thought of it in years. Not since his swim in the green gunk of rage. He hadn’t let himself. Even after he’d been reassimilated into the Bats and he was being claimed as part of the family again.
Honestly, Jason thought he’d be fine if he never thought about his first family again.
Fuck Poison Ivy for feeling sentimental.
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Life's a Circus by KuroNekoFe
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
03 Jun 2025
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Dick and Damian Week 2025
Day 2: Life Lessons - Day Trip or Night In - CircusDamian is sent into the past and gets to meet an eight-year-old Dick and his parents.
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- Part 2 of Genderqueer Dick Grayson
- Part 1 of Platonic Fluff
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Uptown Man & Downtown Boy by Starbean02
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
17 May 2025
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Two months after the flooding of Gotham, infamous recluse Bruce Wayne has made headlines. Following his parents' philanthropic footsteps, his donations haven't gone unnoticed. From funding city repairs to renovating Gotham's orphanage, the prince of the city seems to be turning over a new leaf.
Prying journalists getting too close and corrupt politicians trying to push Mr. Wanye out had all been expected. However, Bruce definitely wasn't expecting a small boy to come knocking at his door with not only a delicious cake but a tragic backstory too!
In other words, the Boy Wonder is hiring Mr. Vengeance for his mission, whether he likes it or not. Cue a secret identity being revealed, a trip to the circus ensuing, and a grand finale twist to top it all off!
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- Part 2 of Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Batman