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  1. Rec 47

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    "Did Dick think this through? No, he did not. But he was working on it."

     

    Bruce Wayne is dead. But Batman still stalks the night. Meanwhile, Red Hood is on the rampage again in Gotham City, bringing his own brand of Justice™ to the criminals who reside there.

    Dick is tired and wants his brother to stop shooting at him. So he makes him a deal.

     

    (Part of a series of loosely connected and loosely canon compliant fics that i'm putting in order mostly for my own sanity. If you are familiar with canon, you don't need to read the other stories in the series to understand)

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    25 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 94

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    Between surviving Dick's teen years, meeting the demands of being Batman, and stopping Lady Shiva's kids from raising hell in westside Gotham, Bruce has enough on his plate. The last thing he needs is to be in the crosshairs of his former classmates' family drama, but a visit from an old friend does just that.

    ((Inspired by Batman: Soul of the Dragon, where Bruce studied martial arts alongside Shiva, Dragon, and Bronze Tiger when they were teenagers))

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    24 Jun 2026

  3. Rec *

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    On the fourth day, it becomes clear that Joe is organizing something—more muscle than usual, a few more Black Mask affiliates than there should be. The few glimpses of Joe that Dick gets, he’s on his phone, speaking rapidly and gesturing emphatically.

    On the fifth day, everything is quiet. No one comes, no one goes.

    On the sixth day, Tim calls Dick: they’re not sure where Jason is. And yeah, maybe that’s just normal, and they’re not panicking yet. But they’re not sure where he is. And they’re about to start looking.

    And on the seventh day, Bruce shows up at his door with Jason standing next to him, pale and hacking out a cough, putting too much weight on Bruce’s shoulder, and says: “I need to ask you a favor.”

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    Dick is supposed to be on a boring stakeout assignment. Jason complicates that.

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    “I’LL TAKE CARE OF YOU.” “IT’S ROTTEN WORK.” “NOT TO ME. NOT IF IT’S YOU.”

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    18 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 97

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    Somewhere in the garage, Jason squeaks to a stop again, but this time, there’s no shouted exclamations, and the footsteps don’t start again. Dick furrows his brow. It sounds like he stopped near the Japanese cars, and Dick can’t even remember what’s over there. He picks up his pace from where he had been meandering through the garage and beelines to where he thinks Jason is, the sudden silence unnerving him. God, what if something’s wrong, what if—

    Jason is standing, arms frozen at his sides, breath shallow, jaw clenched tight, eyes the size of dinner plates. When Dick sees what he’s staring at, he can’t help the smirk. Jason turns his whole head to look at Dick and says, in a near whisper: “is that a Supra?”

    “Yeah,” says Dick, “that’s the Supra.”

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    Bruce requests that Dick try to bond with Jason before the adoption and leaves zero instructions on how to do that. Dick improvises.

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    there’s no way they’re not all car guys, I can feel it in my bones

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    17 Jun 2026

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    “Don’t you dare tell me I don't know my own son’s face.” Familiar rage seethes at the base of his lungs. “Don’t you dare. Don’t you ever. I knew it against all reason. I knew it when it was impossible for it to be in front of me. I knew it faked and warped and desecrated and delusional and spitting mad. I knew it when it killed me to know it, to believe it to be true—”

    “Describe it,” Dick challenges.

    “I knew his face three years dead beneath a domino. I knew it as he carved a chunk of flesh from his own scalp and cursed my name…” His fingertips drift to a spot two inches behind his ear. Is that uneven texture the sign of a years-old scar, or just a tangle of hair?

    (Or: Jason and Bruce get bodyswapped. It takes two full days for anyone to point it out to them.)

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    12 Jun 2026