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On a Tuesday night, Bruce Wayne attends a circus. Halfway through, the trapeze artists are killed, leaving their eight year old son behind, hands wrapped in dancer’s tape and knees bloody with how he falls on them in his anguish. Bruce Wayne watches him for a moment, two, then turns around and leaves.Sixteen years later, the thing who was once a man named Dick Grayson nurses a bottle of scotch as he stitches the gaping wound in his side from where Batman got him with a batarang.

Jason's war against emotional competency, ft. a concussion, nosy neighbors, superhero RPF, and the local library's writing circle....Not that he's winning or anything. Fuck.

Stephanie Brown is many things: a vigilante, a gossip, an ally, a ragebaiter, and a friend. But when a blizzard knocks out her apartment's WiFi, she tacks on another label to that list - an uninvited houseguest. And uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave.

When Blockbuster burns down his whole life and Tarantula takes what isn't hers to claim, Dick ditches his life, his name, and his city for an anonymous, quiet life in the Bowery. Just till he can put himself back together.Jason is doing his best to fix his corner of the city, keep Black Mask out of his business, and arrange a confrontation with Batman, the Joker, and all the water under the bridge. He has no idea what to do with a Dick Grayson who's apparently in hiding and joined his gang by accident.But it turns out they need each other far more than they could have imagined, and if either of them are going to fix their broken pieces, it's going to have to be together.

Jason has a plan for his return to Gotham. Steal the clown's old Red Hood identity? Check. Make sure meddling birds know to keep out of his territory? Check. Recruit some homeless youth to keep an ear to the street in exchange for shelter? Check. Take over the Crime Alley drug trade, convince Black Mask to break the clown out of Arkham, murder his Replacement and force Batman to finally avenge him? ...he's still working on it.His plans are delayed when the homeless kids he's sheltering are joined by a fearful boy with hand-shaped bruises around his neck. Alvin Draper may not want to say who did it, but Red Hood isn't about to let anyone who beats up children go unpunished.

They know everything that happens in Crime Alley.EVERYTHING.

gotham city senior dolores patton and the teenaged crime lord she hangs out with sometimes

Tim is visiting Robin's grave when Jason Todd crawls out of it

Jason is having a hard time finding Tim Drake, but he's been running into a kid by the name of Alvin Draper in the Alley.In the meantime, Tim Drake totally has 5-step plan to bring get Jason and Bruce to reconcile! Nothing will go wrong.

Batman dies saving Red Hood.Jason Todd doesn't agree with this outcome and wishes for more time.He wakes up, thirteen and earnest, in his childhood bedroom in Wayne Manor. Bruce is knocking at his door in an attempt to rouse him. Jason remembers this day. They're going to a Gotham Knights game later in the afternoon. Bruce's blood is still warm and criminal on his hands.Or, the one where being Robin never gave Jason magic—he was a little magic all along. Jason decides to do things a little differently the second time around. This time, he’s determined to save Bruce—soul and all.

Jason hadn't expected much when he published his book. At most a few people might buy it and that would be it.What he hadn't expected was people would go crazy for his book, and it would end up becoming a best seller.What he also hadn't expected was that people around him would read the book and recommend it to him.Who would Jason be, if he doesn't take this God given opportunity to mess with his family?

Damian pulls out his phone and dials Richard’s number- his chauffeur has been unfortunately painstakingly instructed to answer no calls whatsoever from Damian, and Alfred has begun to pretend that phones do not exist during school hours. Unsurprisingly, as it is eight in the morning, it goes to voicemail. Damian waits impatiently for the beep. “Richard,” he says, in tones of the deeply suffering, “this place is a hostile environment. I must be collected post-haste, as after this latest indignity I am dropping out. Come at once, or I may die here.” The dynamic duo attend a parent-teacher conference. No one has a good day.

“You can’t participate in the Olympics, Dick.”Dick blinked. “Oh…” He tried to sound casual. “Uh, yeah, no, that wasn’t even– It was a joke.” He shrugged. “The Olympics are lame.”Bruce watched him for a long moment. “You know why, right?”Dick forced himself to meet his eyes. “Robin, for obvious reasons.”***or, Dick goes to the Olympics as an act of teenage rebellion.

Poseidon once told Percy he was his favorite son.But he's not the only one.

Dick picks Damian up from school, and they pass by a murder on the way home. Surprisingly, this isn't the most stressful part of their commute.

Tim Drake puts together a very realistic Robin costume for Halloween and gets mistaken for the real deal.

When stopping a bank robbery becomes unexpectedly complicated, Dick and Jason find themselves in the past with a very drunk, very concerning, very teenage Bruce Wayne.

The recurrent pattern of coming and going, decline and regrowth, of Bruce Wayne.

At the end of the Third Age, Maglor finds his way to Rivendell, and must decide whether or not to sail West with Elrond.

Percy Jackson survives Mount St. Helens—only to wake up in Gotham. Injured, exhausted, and completely out of his element, he has one goal: get home. Between criminal empires, lurking monsters, and one very persistent Bat, that’s easier said than done.OR: Olympus meets Gotham. Percy just wants to leave, but the city—and its vigilantes—aren’t so keen on letting him go.

Currently a series of semi-connected scenes within a world where Bruce encountered Stephanie as Spoiler before Tim decided that if no one else was going to be Robin, then he had to. Tim and Steph found each other anyway.

Steph doesn't tell anybody that her mom died. Everyone's always bitching and moaning about cleaning up her messes, so Steph handles this one all on her own.No problem.

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

Percy was at least happy that this wasn't a prophecy. Stealing back some demigod weapons from a mortal? Sure, Iron Man was a superhero and a genius, but after dealing with Gaea, that was nothing. They just had to steer clear of anyone who might recognize them, and they were positive that they could pull it off easier than most of their quests. And potentially land Leo a job, while they're at it. But Percy should have known better. Nothing is ever that simple for a demigod.

Batman's tell-all memoir is about to publish. Normally, Bruce wouldn't care about the 100th Batman parody to hit the shelves. But when he gets his hands on an early sample, he finds this memoir contains a troubling amount of truth about him and his family.Bruce can't let this stand. As he knows better than most, the only way to squash a scandal is to create an even bigger scandal. Dominate the news circuit. Take up all the publisher's publicity resources. Sure, he has never written a book before, but how hard can it really be?Well, as Clark tells him, those are some famous last words, Bruce.

Working as a street fighter in the Iceberg lounge, Jason manages to attract all the wrong sort of attention.

There’s something wrong with Dick.Tim thought everything was getting back to normal. Bruce was alive and back in their timeline, the Birds of Prey were once again operating out of Gotham, Dick had the city well under control as Batman and even Damian had been less obnoxious than usual.And then during a firefight at a warehouse by the docks, Tim was almost hit by a flying boomerang. And Dick never noticed.When something is wrong with your big brother, who else do you turn to but your big sisters?