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    “Eighteen years ago, an earthquake ripped through Gotham City, and in the aftermath, instead of helping, the US government sealed the city under a ‘quarantine’ and left them to die. Two years later, when signs of life and even civilisation were still detectable inside the shattered city, the government sent the military in to reclaim and rehabilitate Gotham. Gotham has not forgotten, and they have not forgiven either.”

    An AU where an altered version of No Man’s Land happened while Bruce was in his late teens/early twenties, and Batman was born in the hellish crucible of a trapped city that was left for dead and then violently retaken. Gotham may pretend to run by mainlander rules for the sake of those who would have died otherwise, but under the surface, Bruce, Jim, Leslie, Ivy and Oswald and their pack keep their own council, and look with jaundiced eyes on the mainland.

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    03 Apr 2026

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    "The Egocentric Temporal Order (ETO) bias is the finding that self-initiated action-events are perceived as having occurred prior to simultaneous externally triggered events."

    Or: Time is a polite fiction that only matters if you're paying attention, and Anakin is neither polite nor paying attention.

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    07 Mar 2026

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    Clark Kent meets Matches Malone while working on a story, and the pair hit it off almost immediately. Meanwhile, Superman is getting established as a hero, and slowly becoming friends with Batman. Bruce just wants to figure out if he can maintain three separate identities, raise a kid, and keep his reporter boyfriend somewhat in the dark. It's a three-way double-blind secret identity scramble.

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    30 Dec 2025

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    The celestial/infernal fallout of the Apocanope did not end with two botched executions, as much as Hell and (especially) Heaven would like that to be the case.

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    06 Jul 2024

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    It begins with another Bruce, looking around his cave and asking, “So where are the kids?”

    Bruce has never thought about having a family before. But once the idea occurs to him, it's hard to think about anything else.

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    23 Jul 2025