Eccemtric's fic recs
Engaging and endearing, a lot of these I've read more than once. Completed only.
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Flight Mode by librarylexicon
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
20 Aug 2023
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For Tim Drake – seventeen, grieving and unprepared to return to Gotham after personal tragedy – sinking into isolation is as natural as breathing. But when he is abruptly pulled into the future by his nineteen-year-old self, both of them find that their brief time together could give them the impetus and perspective they need to move on. Self-reliance is both a virtue and a vice.
[This series is ordered chronologically, but each story can be read independently.]
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- Part 8 of Corners
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“Hi,” she says in a breathless rush, then takes a moment to swallow and wet her lips. “I, uh, need your help?”
“Are you dying?”
“N-not exactly.”
“Then you don’t need me,” comes Jason’s lazy, uninterested reply.
The call ends with a click.
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Steph doesn't know what's more embarrassing: that she's been locked in a closet during a party, or the fact that her "friends" aren't really her friends.And to top it all off, Jason's the only one who can come rescue her.
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All the Corners That Are Left by librarylexicon for canaf_lilah
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
10 Jul 2022
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After patrol one night, Dick refuses to let an upset stomach and growing headache stop him from finding and visiting his estranged younger brother. But when Dick’s symptoms take a turn for the worse and Jason is forced to take care of him, the role reversal and subsequent conversations reveal to Dick more about his own fears and insecurities than he is ready to admit.
[This series is ordered chronologically, but each story can be read independently.]
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- Part 1 of Corners
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Crossing his ankles propped on the table, jostling his helmet next to him, his mouth quirked up. “At least I’m not you, who sees the idiot as some sort of pseudo father figure.”
Dick choked on his coffee, and Damian sputtered and took a step back. “What?!”
“You heard me.” He thumbed in the direction of Dick, who clumsily tried to mop up the hot liquid staining his shirt and scalding his skin with a crusty dishrag that smelled like mildew. “You see him in a way you don’t your own dear old dad.”
Damian’s cheeks darkened in a deep flush that even reddened the tips of his ears. “You don’t know what you’re talking about!”
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After Bruce's return to the Bat, Dick and Damian have to deal with just being brothers, but things are just a bit too messy to be that easy
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Firewall by ashenice
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU
10 Jul 2022
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“Is the Red Hood’s helmet watertight?” someone asked, and Jason was cold and dripping and on the ground next to Dick and he wasn’t breathing.
“No,” Tim’s voice was tight.
“We need to take it off,” Lagoon Boy's words were met by a handful of yells, both in person and through the comms.
“This is the Red Hood,” Shazam said. “They say he has explosives in his helmet. It might explode if you try to take it,”
“Seriously?”
Dick reached towards the helmet to unlock it with trembling hands, to everyone’s alarm.
“The explosives.” Superboy interjected.
“Connor,” Tim cut in sharply. “We know what we’re doing,”I had thoughts about Jason being super cagey about his identity as the Red Hood to the point that he has explosives in his helmet to prevent people from taking it off, and the vulnerability of the Batfam members knowing the ins and outs of his helmet and how to take it off despite it all.
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Built ourselves in the ashes of what we lost by Night_Wing_37
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
04 Aug 2025
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Everyone believes Deathstoke killed Robin 5 years ago.
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Dick Grayson has been stuck as Slade’s apprentice for 5 years. When Deathstroke is finally captured, Dick decides to become Nightwing in Bludhaven in hopes of redeeming himself.
Can he really wash off the blood on his hands?
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- Part 2 of Dick Grayson-Centric One Shots
- Part 1 of Dick Grayson is Renegade
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Over the years, Dick, Jason, Tim, Cass, and Damian have all made their way to Wayne Manor, each for their own reasons, and have carved out a home within its walls. The human residents of the manor, however, are unaware of this.
Or: Dick and his siblings are borrowers who live beneath the floorboards of Wayne Manor, unbeknownst to one Bruce Wayne. When a crisis forces their paths to collide, however, they find themselves increasingly entangled in the lives of the humans - and find that it might not be such a bad thing after all.
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Talia can’t believe it’s come to this, standing in a dingy apartment building in the worst part of Bludhaven to talk to her former ward.
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- Part 2 of Shrike (Vigilante Talia al Ghul)
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Heaven Shall Never Call Our Name by somanygalaxies
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
07 Oct 2022
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Jason slumped forward. “I just... I wanna see my brother again, y'know?” he admitted, dimly noting he was chewing on his thumbnail. “I dunno if he’d still like me, though. I’ve broken, like, a lot of his rules.”
Goldie’s hand returned to his shoulder as the other flashed a few quick signs. I do. He tapped Jason’s chest and flashed another. I’m proud of you.
Jason laughed. It was a wet thing, loud among the empty rooftop. “Well, it’s good you’re not him, right?”
An odd look, something Jason couldn’t name, crossed Goldie’s face for a moment. Then, that hand ran across his shoulders, pulling him into a side hug, as the other rounded up to ruffle his hair.
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Weeks, months, hell, a year pass since Dick Grayson's disappearance, and Jason begins to wonder, sitting on that rooftop next a mute, bronze-clad mercenary, and a greasy bag full of Batburger fries, if he'll ever come home.Renegade is stuck living what can only be described to be his worst life, but at least he can check in on his little brother from time to time, even if it breaks his heart that he can't be the big brother Jason seeks.
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How Far Love Goes by BeatriceEagle
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batgirl (Comics), Robin (Comics)
01 Aug 2021
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Plenty of family reunions end in fighting. Not that many end in explosions.
A mass Arkham breakout brings all of Bruce's children home, and with them, all the drama, secrets, and anger they've been keeping for years. Amidst rising tensions and a mysterious new threat in Gotham, the family has to work together to round up the rogues—and confront their feelings about each other.