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after getting the miraculous of the ladybug and having her terrifying first battle experience, Marinette simply can't do it. She can't be Ladybug. Paris needs a hero, someone who could help the people, who wouldn't get so panicked they run home and cry.
So she secretly gives the miraculous to her closest friend, and the bravest person she knows, Alya CésaireMiraculous rewrite by season. this will be season 1
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I had an idea so I'm trying it out. Brace yourselves, this will probably be a long series.Series
- Part 1 of Miraculous Scarabella AU
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A bird must learn to fly alone and with it's flock by Merlyn_River
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
23 Nov 2025
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In short, fuck canon I'll write what I want and they can't stop me.
In slightly longer, after getting the box of old stuff that his parents had and finding out Cathrine isn't his birth mom, Jason doesn't run away. He gets advice from a tiny (maybe ghost) child, Alvin, and talks to Bruce. As you know if you read the tags, this did not get him killed.
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- Part 1 of Estranged Little Song-Birds AU
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Batman is definitely (not) a cryptid by Merlyn_River
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
20 Dec 2024
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The JL calls their newest members to a meeting to tell them they think Batman is some kind of cryptid so they won't be freaked out
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Robin & Kid Flash - love on first talk about the batmobile by Merlyn_River
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types
16 Nov 2024
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It was cold and it was raining. So, you know, normal for Gotham.
However, for the flashes, it was not.
Barry actually likes batman's rule of no metas in Gotham, it meant he didn't have to deal with it's crazy villains and weather. Seriously, is this rain made of acid or something??
But since one of his villains of the week decided he has a death wish and went to Gotham he had no choice but to ask Batman for temporary access to his city and the bat had no choice but to approve.aka - dick and wally met through their respective adults 'work' and decided to get married. Though they have to wait a bit since they're both kids...
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New AU inspired my the fanfic "the drake's spoiled brat"
But I didn't want the whole knowing the future thing and I didn't want to just copy what sunny did
Then I got a FLOOD of ideas
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Terrified after her first battle experience and huge mess-up (see – origins), Marinette decided she cannot and will not be ladybug.
Enter her best friend- Alya!
Alya didn't want to live in ladybugs shadow, so she gave herself a new name. She's now known as the superheroine Scarabella, partner, and basically sibling with how they bicker, to Char Noir.
What happens then? Who knows! (other than me and Alix)- Words:
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Tim smiled wide in response. Brushing off whatever the hell happened. Nothing happened. He was exaggerating. As usual. It’s all in his head.
OR once Damian’s trauma metaphorically opens the tap for Tim, memories start coming to him in flashes. Memories that aren’t his. At least… he doesn’t remember them. Nothing really happened, right? If he can’t remember it, then it couldn’t have happened.
This is apart of “A Father’s Love: Conditional or Unconditional?” Revolving around Tim and his own journey towards recovery.
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- Part 5 of The Batfam’s Love Is Unconditional
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Bookmarked by Merlyn_River
19 Jul 2026
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Sad. Just sad. I love it. Reread this too many times to count.
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Reid doesn't understand that the team teases him because they like him. He agrees that there is a lot to hate about him.
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16 Aug 2025
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Tim’s been watching Batman and Robin for a while, okay? He understands what crime is. But then Batman turns a guy over to the police for reasons Tim doesn’t understand at all. It’s not a crime to hit your kids so they know what they did wrong, right? So Tim asks Batman about it. And, well, to say it quickly goes sideways is an understatement, AKA, what will later be referred to as “that time Tim tried blackmailing Batman to not call Child Protective Services.”
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30 Jun 2025
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“These kids won’t tell you what happened.”
Emily pinches her brow. “Why?”
“Child sexual assault victims don’t speak up,” Spencer says, “Not nearly as often as an adult might. So many of these kids don’t have a concept of what’s appropriate, and if they did question it, it’s almost guaranteed to be from someone older, either an older child or an adult they’re told to respect. It wouldn’t get anywhere. If they were teenagers, maybe, but most of these kids are four through ten. We can’t expect them to talk about it. Most of them can’t even conceptualize it.”
It feels like a very quiet whisper in a very quiet room: it was me, it says, but Spencer won’t admit to it.
This is what it takes for a victim to speak up.
Bookmarked by Merlyn_River
15 Jun 2025
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Incredible. Baby (Spencer), sweet loud protective older brother (Morgan), group grandpa (Rossi), group dad (Hotch). William Reid is a f-ucking bitch.
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Birds, Warehouses, And Scars by alvindraperszestican
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
26 Mar 2025
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Tim was believed to have died in that warehouse, as was Harley, and Joker, but only one of those was true. Joker did die yes, but Tim, with a smile cut into his face, a broken leg, bleeding from his side, and scratches and bruises all over dragged himself and a unconscious Harley out of the wreckage. Tim took Harley to Poison Ivies place, he knew the woman would care for Harley at least. When Harley woke up she was horrified when she was hit with the realization of what she’d done and helped Joker do. Tim, ever the forgiving one, told her the past was in the past, it was all behind them. Over the next few weeks, instead of kicking him out, Ivy and Harley take Tim in. They treat the smile sketched into his face, get the staple out of his tongue, cast his leg, treat his wounds, and wash his hair out. It took a few times or get the green out. After a few weeks it dons on the two woman that they shoudl send the birdy back to his nest. But Tim says no, very adamantly so.
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26 Mar 2025