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“One hundred more reps.”
Bruce’s voice echoes through Dick’s mind, cold and calculating, disappointed. Disappointing is all Dick seems to be lately. Every move he does, every attack and inspection and plan seemed to have a fatal flaw that Bruce always finds, that Batman shakes his head at.
Dick is sick of it. So he sneaks out to prove himself.
It does not go as planned.
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17 Dec 2025
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A Gift for Him by meowzar56
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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Dick let out a long yawn, his arms reaching high above his head as he stretched. The soft fabric of his light blue sweater shifted up, exposing a hint of his stomach. His fingers brushed through his hair as he turned toward the kitchen, pausing as his eyes landed on the black box resting on the counter. The red ribbon tied around it was neat, elegant, but without a name. A simple but deliberate mystery.
Dick knew exactly who it was from.
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16 Dec 2025
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Dick’s goal for Thanksgiving (code named Operation F.I.S.H.): A family outing to the aquarium.
It feels achievable - everyone has been getting along better lately, Jason is spiraling closer, Cass is coming home. But there is a lot of unspoken hurt in every direction, and Dick’s own position in the family is shakier than ever since Bruce returned.
If Dick wants to realize his dream of family bonding, there will have to be many painful conversations between all parties. Dick’s own secrets will need to surface, the ones he has long kept submerged, the ones he will fight to sink forever.
(Or: Where Bruce is just a bit darker, even less emotionally available, and treats everyone a little worse, and how they all fix their family anyway.)
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- Part 1 of The Fishbowl
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09 Dec 2025
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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08 Dec 2025
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From day 1, Bruce Wayne has gotten really good at catching Dick when he falls. God forbid the kid ever hits the ground.
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A series of anecdotes of when Dick falls down and Bruce is there to catch him. Spans over the duration of their relationship. Takes place in my personal continuity (the Sam DC Universe or SDCU for short), so some things will be different from the comics/shows/movies as I continue to pick my favorite bits and make them one timeline because I can.
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- Part 1 of Sam's DC Universe (SDCU)
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05 Dec 2025