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“It’s not about frickin’ money, B,” Jason grumbled, readjusting his ice pack.“Yeah, B,” Dick put in, lighthearted, teasing. Rescuing the emotional tone as usual, when he wasn’t the one who was angry with Bruce himself. “It’s not about the money. It’s Robin tradition. You can’t renege now.”“You want me to be the tooth fairy. Again. For you,” Bruce said, slowly, still looking at Jason.

Bullying?Damian scoffed at the word. He wasn't being bullied.What a quaint idea. It conjured up visions of being smacked around or shoved into toilets. Of being forced to ingest alcohol or some other mind-altering drug. Of having his locker defaced with filthy insults or stuffed with trash. Which wasn’t what was happening to him at all.

The last thing Peter sees is Tony's horrified, heartbroken expression leaning over him. The guilt in his eyes is almost worse than the burning pain that's taking Peter apart piece by piece. The world starts to go dark.There's a flash of gold and green. For one moment, he finds himself standing amongst the Guardians and others. And then darkness again. It feels like blinking; an extended period of nothingness that ends as abruptly as it begins. One moment there’s nothing, the next there’s light.“Easy,” a woman says. Her words are gentle, and carry a slight accent that he can’t place. "I'm called Wonder Woman. What's your name?"

Damian tightens his grip on the knife that he’s still holding, although logically he knows the teenager sitting across from him is not the threat here.“So then, how do you suggest we proceed?” he asks through gritted teeth.Timothy Drake leans forward on his elbows and clasps his hands together, eyes hollow and exhausted as he considers Damian.“I think Bruce and Alfred are in trouble. We have to help them.”

In which Dick Grayson learns about consent, with some help from his family.

Cass and Jason agree on one thing and one thing only: Duke Thomas is the most precious baby brother ever. What they do not agree on, however, is who Duke loves best. Recruiting family allies, triggering various traumas, and sparking online hate trains, Cass and Jason battle it out for the title of Duke's favourite older sibling.

Jason felt like they were forgetting to tell Damian something, that they were sending him into the mouth of the hellhole that was Gotham City without all the information. He didn't think it was a small thing either, he felt like it was something big, something that could make or break Damian's chances of success integrating with the Bats.Talia told him he worried too much, told him they had covered everything, that even if they hadn't it would be fine because Damian was skilled at adapting to new information. She told him to focus on his studies, on getting the degree he'd always dreamed of. He'd worked hard to get into Oxford's English Language and Literature Program, after all, he should not waste the opportunity by being too focused on worry for his brother. She even killed the clown to put his mind at ease, so that Damian wouldn't be in the same city as his murderer.He and his mom had covered everything. He had to trust that.Damian, meanwhile, happens to be missing the key information that Jason is supposed to be dead.

in a scheming attempt to make them bond, Bruce forces Jason and Tim on what should be a simple quest: retrieve Alfred’s birthday cake from across town and make it back before the party.But this is Gotham. And nothing is ever simple in Gotham.

Bruce is dead.Dick takes Damian to the museum.

Clark discovers Bruce in the middle of an “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” dilemma.Getting him on his feet is complicated.

Kaz turns up at the Van Eck manor in the middle of the night after losing his cane, a fight, and a glove.

Investigating a mysterious uptick in criminal knowledge of the Bats, Duke discovers the source of their information: fanfiction from Gothamites on AO3. Recruiting seasoned fanfic author Tim Drake and world's best hate commenter Damian Wayne, the three youngest Bats set out to spread misinformation, cause chaos, and snag a high hits-to-kudos ratio along the way.

Jason’s in a small town somewhere in the Russian wasteland the first time he sends a postcard to Dick.

Five times Jason stole the Batmobile’s tires, and one time it was absolutely, completely not his fault.

Dick Grayson woke up tied to a chair in a warehouse, injured, drugged, and unable to remember exactly how he ended up there. It was probably fine.There were protocols, rules in place, on how to behave when kidnapped as a civilian. Every Robin and Batgirl knew the rules. But most of them didn't know just how many of those rules existed because of Dick Grayson.

Jason may have been trying to take over the criminal underworld while avoiding Batman until his big dramatic reveal, but he still had time for hobbies. Hobbies like finally finishing the Pride and Prejudice AU he had started before his death, and posting the finished chapters for the 3 people who were still interested.Maybe he should have double checked the subscribers list first.

One Year Later, Niko Sasaki comes home.

Years into the future, magic has been revealed to the world, and Peter has the responsibility of testifying at the public inquiry to explain the inner workings of the Folly. He's dealing...about as well as can be expected.

It starts simply, as do most things. Jon turns sixteen.Jon turns sixteen, and Kon suddenly realizes that if anyone were to treat him the way he was treated at sixteen, he'd tear the world apart.The revelations, unfortunately, don't stop there.

Jason Todd has been dead for almost three years now. Everybody knows this. Tim definitely knows this.And yet here he is now, looking very much alive, three years older and approximately 200 pounds heavier, in the middle of lecturing a bunch of sophomores about poetry and having just introduced himself as their new English teacher.Bullshit, Tim thinks.

Dick gets his hands on a dimensional transporter, which means there's only one thing to do: save as many versions of his little brother as possible.

Jason doesn’t know how he got here or who that red-helmeted asshole is, but he’s not going to stand by and watch him kill people.

Tim Drake, aged 11, finds an abandoned walkie-talkie and decides to start his own little personal radioshow to combat his loneliness. Jason Todd, Robin, happens to have the other walkie, and soon Tim doesn't feel as lonely anymore.Tim Drake, aged 16, is lonely once again. But now he's Robin. He keeps talking into the walkie, and his one-man audience happens to still be the same... if a bit more murderous.