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Like Looking in a (Broken) Mirror by forestofbabel, ifdragonscouldtalk
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
16 Jul 2026
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“Nothing is mine,” he managed to force out, voice coming out broken, like a fragile mirror just shattered. He knew that didn't make sense, could read the confusion in the pursing of B's lips. “I'm not even me. I never got to be me.”
B took a breath, something crossing over his face that Richard couldn't read. “I... don't understand. What do you mean?”
“It's all Dick Grayson's,” he whispered, and tears pooled back up on his eyelashes.
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Richard has been coming to grips with the idea that he might be complicit in hurting the Waynes. At the same time, he's realizing he doesn't know who he is anymore. He's tired of keeping up the charade. He just wants his dad. Unfortunately, his dad isn't always available.(Part of a series. Will not make sense without reading the previous works.)
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- Part 8 of The Waynes and the Bats
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Room for Growth by forestofbabel for ifdragonscouldtalk
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
16 Apr 2026
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Clark got the news because Justice League benefactor Bruce Wayne called his emergency line that he never touched before and asked for help. Crying. Distraught. Clark had never seen Batman lose his composure like that.
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A series of interviews and interactions between Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne.
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- Part 6 of The Waynes and the Bats
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All Seeing, All Seeming by forestofbabel for ifdragonscouldtalk
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
02 Apr 2026
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As Oracle, stationary and behind the scenes, she was less likely to be unmasked. And, perhaps selfishly, she wanted to feel useful again. Without the use of her legs, she’d lost half her identity. So Barbara became determined to forge a new one.
It did, however, come with the same downside as before: lying to the Waynes.OR
Barbara deals with the guilt of keeping the Bats' secret and how it's affected the Wayne family.
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- Part 5 of The Waynes and the Bats
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A Tale of Two Tims by forestofbabel for ifdragonscouldtalk
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
25 Mar 2026
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“Robin fucking tweeted at me. The fucking— AUGH! ‘Drake calls himself boy genius but he still gets kidnapped on the regular? Couldn’t be me.’ The fucker. He knows exactly what he’s doing. At least everyone is going to make fun of him for getting kidnapped as a civilian.” Drake hung his head and pressed it against his phone with a deep sigh and reached into the bag of Sour Patch Kids between them. “Although I’m going to get the same stupid flack.” He looked up with a weak smile. “I cannot begin to thank you for being one of the only people in my life to believe me when I say I’m not Robin."
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Where Tim Drake is dealing with A Lot™, but the thing that always comes back to haunt him is the fact that everyone thinks he's Robin.
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- Part 2 of The Waynes and the Bats
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The Waynes and the Bats by forestofbabel, ifdragonscouldtalk
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
16 Jul 2026
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Welcome to a world where everyone knows Bruce Wayne is Batman... only he actually isn't. What does that mean for his children?
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In freshman year of high school, Danny pulled away from his friends without explanation.
At sixteen, he disappeared. Sam and Tucker presumed him dead. His parents insisted he was taken by ghosts.
As young adults, they run into him in Gotham, of all places. It's a stroke of luck that brings their best friend back to them.
If only it was that easy for the Bats to find the god damn engineer that's been running circles around them while they try to track him down.
Tim's not sure what he'll do first when he finally finds the brilliant bastard - kiss him or punch his teeth in.
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- English
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- 46/?
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05 Jul 2026
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Better Halves (and other such falsehoods) by Astereae
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types
28 Jul 2025
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Danny’s looking at him like he’s crazy. His hair’s dried up into a mess of waves, and there’s some tomato seeds on the corner of his mouth. “You just bailed me out of jail. And you think this is a good idea?”
“I don’t have bad ideas, Fenton. And like you’ve just said, I have collateral on you.”
“So you’re blackmailing me into pretending to date you?”
Tim shrugs. “Or you could just sign the NDA.”
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Danny's trying to recover all the shards to an entity's chalice so that it'll stop destroying the zone while tensions rise amongst his subjects- and trying to finish high school.
Tim's juggling his case load, his work as CEO, and does not have time to be embroiled in a sex scandal right now. If that means he has to pretend to date a very suspicious heir to a rival company, then so be it.
It's a mutually beneficial relationship. So what if Tim's becoming a little too intrigued by the illusive, powerful Phantom? So what if Danny can't stand the Justice League for leaving him to deal with all of Amity's problems when he was just 14? That's a superhero thing.
And their fake boyfriend has no clue that they're a superhero.
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- Part 1 of Want (and what it has to do with it)
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- English
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- 282,278
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- 50/50
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05 Feb 2026
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After a difficult year (for many reasons) Tim goes back to Gotham to help Jason Todd reconnect with his family. Whether Jason wanted that or not, well, Tim had time to wear him down. Between the tutelage of Deathstroke and Lady Shiva, he was well equipped to handle himself as Jason's equal and hit Gotham's vigilante scene as the Buzzard. His parents were dead and the lonely cavity in his chest kept growing every day, but it didn't matter. Tim's mission could and would succeed despite his personal feelings and failures. He was fine and he had a job to do.
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- Part 2 of The Buzzard
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- English
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- 408,175
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- 40/?
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06 Jan 2026
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“What day is it?” Derek demanded.
“What?”
“The day! What day is today?!” Derek let Stiles go, but only so he could reach into his pocket and pull out his phone. He tapped at the home screen, and then went so perfectly still that Stiles was pretty sure this guy wasn’t human. No human could stand that still.
When it was clear Derek wasn’t going to move again without some prompting, Stiles said, “It’s Wednesday.”
“That’s impossible,” Derek whispered.
“Not really, it comes around every seven days.”
“This is impossible,” Derek said again, looking around himself, as if he was searching for something.
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- English
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02 Aug 2025
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Existential Crisis Mode by LuciaInTheSky
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, DCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 Jul 2026
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Peter was alone, mid-way through an existential crisis after the Erasure™ and was dreading the upcoming month of May.
Jason was sick of people telling him how he felt. ‘You don’t need us anymore,’ Artemis had told him, as if saying it would make it true. As if Jason needed someone to justify keeping them around. But three weeks back in Gotham and all Jason felt was fucking bored and lonely.
It was a relief, then, when some random New Yorker was thrown into his living room through a portal straight out of some LSD daydream.
Finally, something interesting to deal with.
Cue some wild family misunderstandings, criminal conspiracies and cults.
Because there’s always a goddamn cult.
(Portuguese translation available; Spanish translation available)
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- Part 1 of Crisis of Faith
- Part 1 of The Spideyhood Obsession Continues (More at Five)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 332,308
- Chapters:
- 60/?
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- 72
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25 Mar 2025