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the deep breath I would take by idontshaveforsher_yesyoudo
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022)
22 Mar 2022
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"Just tell me something small about yourself. If we’re going to be working together, I want to know who my partner is.”
She doesn’t mention that this is about more than just getting to know her work partner. She figures that he understands, anyway.
It’s silent for a while, then, “My favorite skittles are the yellow ones.”
or, five (plus one) times Selina learns something new about the BatmanSeries
- Part 2 of outsider povs on an outsider
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06 Jun 2026
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Gleaming, Guileless, Gone by 061828
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU
25 Aug 2021
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Years after Gotham had stopped keeping track of the last of the Waynes, Bruce arrives back in his city, newly-scarred and newly-hardened and newly-strengthened with resolve. Batman was what the city needed, he'd decided, and Bruce Wayne wouldn't be much more than a cover.
But Bruce Wayne used to mean more to certain people than Batman ever could.
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22 May 2026
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you take the things you love (and tear them apart) by Ro29 for medusaceratops
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
04 Apr 2020
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Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne, the modern-day tragedy.
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21 May 2026
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A ghostbat-centric reimagining of Batman: the Knight, intended to smooth out the timeline inconsistencies between the original comic and the Ghost-maker canon pre-established by James Tynion IV.
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21 May 2026
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Learning Curve by wingdinged
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
17 Oct 2024
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In which Bruce Wayne is not born of natural means, which has some interesting consequences for himself, Batman, and everyone he interacts with (including the children that force their way into his stone-cold, definitely not longing for acceptance, heart).
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10 Things Every Brucie Fan Needs in Their Life by pomeloquat
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Superman - All Media Types
28 Jun 2024
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In which Bruce Wayne is the nation's boyfriend instead of a playboy, and his merchandising power accounts for most of Gotham's budget.
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19 May 2026
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Dad, Where Were You Tonight? by Did_you_see_the_light_in_my_heart
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
20 Jun 2025
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Bruce Wayne is a man of many vices. Everybody knows this, but particularly his family. At night he vanishes into the dark and Wayne manor holds its bated breath for his return.
Is it drugs this night that he has gone out to look for? Is it sex? The fights he likes to get into, underground rings? Or perhaps the wild parties he likes to partake in? Those perhaps the most harmless of his vices.
It is always a coin toss with him. But one thing is for certain. Bruce, father and son, always, always comes back to his family.
Or: Bruce Wayne is Batman, but nobody knows. To his family, he's just a most flawed man whom they are doomed to watch destroy himself night after night.
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14 May 2026
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You Can't Escape Yourself by Did_you_see_the_light_in_my_heart
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
01 Sep 2023
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Bruce yearned to be free. Whatever form that freedom would take.
Prompt: Journey l Flight
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- Part 6 of Abril's HSB Bingo 2023
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14 May 2026
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Loading and Aspect Ratio by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe, DCU
07 Nov 2021
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So, it didn’t start out like this.
Alfred would scoff at the statement, about how Bruce was trying to justify the whole situation to himself. It had started out as a simple design, black everything with black outlines and black hood. It got a little more intense as the world went on, got wind of his ghost on the streets, and became scared of The Bat . So Bruce got a little more creative with it, Alfred and him had a good laugh over the name, the scare, and Alfred had a vicious streak of humor that he had passed onto his ward-
So now the suit had a visible bat-theme, an insignia to drape in the shadows and to paint across the streets of Gotham.
It only took a year into the whole charade of heroism for Bruce to overhear a conversation between some goons- some low level thug hired by the Riddler this week- about nothing at all pertaining to what the hell the Riddler was doing in the sewers but instead:
“ The Batman can fly, you know, I’ve seen his wings.”
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A world where nobody has wings, but people think they do, and that changes everything.
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14 May 2026
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Minimum Height Requirement by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
07 Dec 2017
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a universe where letting his children dress up in capes and follow him into vigilantism seems like a good idea.
Bruce is determined that it isn't going to be this one . . . Despite his children's repeated attempts to convince him otherwise.
(Or: "When you're eighteen, you can do what you want. Until then, no capes.")
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- Part 1 of Childish Things
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09 May 2026
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Dick Grayson has figured it out. His new guardian must be a Vampire, that explains everything, the wearing Sunglasses in the house, the vanishing mysteriously on a night and being tired in the day... the lack of eating-
Bruce must be a Vampire!
aka Baby Dickie thinks Bruce is a Vampire. Bruce thinks he's figured out he's Batman. Misunderstandings and Identity reveals ensue.
// Day 104 of One Word Prompt Fics where the Author is sleepy but keeping going...
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- Part 104 of 365 Days of One Word Prompts (and my Suffering)
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04 May 2026
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two wrongs (they never make a right) by myastoners
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
26 Feb 2021
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Harvey Dent falls in love with Bruce Wayne in his junior year of university.
Two-Face becomes obsessed with Batman some ten years later, when Harvey is all but gone.
Either way, there's no chance. He can't decide if it's good for him or not - can't choose between Harvey, Two-Face, and all the things that they stand for - Harvey, Two-Face, Harvey, Two-Face, Harvey -
Like all other choices, the coin will decide what’s best.
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03 May 2026
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“I see you have a new addition to the family,” Bella says, smiling at the group pushing their father along toward the plaza stairs.
“Yeah, we stole him from his backyard,” Jason tells her brightly.
“average billionaire adopts 1000 children a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average billionaire adopts 0 children per year. Orphans Bruc, who lives in cave & adopts over 1 child each month, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.- Language:
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02 May 2026
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and i'll be two steps on the water by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types
27 Mar 2022
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Studying his profile as she pours, the name clicks in her head like she knew it would. Even downturned, that face is unmistakable, and the realization thunders lightly in her mind.
Bruce Wayne.
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- Part 2 of DC outsider POV
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02 May 2026
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Like a Thief in the Night by Cdelphiki for Batbirdies
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
10 Apr 2021
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Jason Todd has been living with Bruce for two months. Jason was such a joy to have around, even if he rarely let people near him. Which was fine. Bruce was perfectly willing to let Jason adjust, and go at his speed.
But when one day Jason suddenly starts acting clingy while in public...Bruce is more than a little worried. What had even triggered it, and would Jason even tell him?
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01 May 2026
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AT THE FIRST SIGN OF SPRING. by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
11 Dec 2022
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Dick shrugs, fiddling with the sleeves of his sweater, "I guess. I've never had my own room before. It is very… cold."
"I can tell Alfred to turn the heating up in here," Bruce immediately says, grimacing when Dick looks almost embarrassed, eyes trained down on the rug in the middle of the room.
"No! No, not cold like that," he grumbles, hunching in on himself, "It is lonely, being the only one. I used to sleep next to mama and papa."
Bruce imagines knocking himself out with an inflatable hammer, "Oh. Right."
(Bruce stops a city from drowning, goes to the circus and becomes a toy maker — in that order.)
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01 May 2026
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After inhaling her food before Bruce's even halfway through his vanilla milkshake, Stephanie seems to have sobered up a little. She's looking less green, and more like she's trying to develop x-ray vision and look into Bruce's soul.
Or maybe she's still drunk, because she very suddenly and very bluntly tells him, "I used to wish you were my dad," drowning her chips into a little pot of ketchup.
Bruce pauses. He slowly drops the chicken nugget he was about to put in his mouth — since now is probably not the time to complain about how the nuggets are a little dry today.
(Bruce Wayne is not Stephanie Brown's father, not at all.)
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30 Apr 2026
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“Are you gonna join?” Dick asked.
“No,” Bruce said instantly.
“Why? Don’t you wanna have super friends?”
“A team like that shouldn’t be about friendship. It should be a professional coalition.”
“Can’t it be both?”
He watched the newly formed Justice League fumble to answer the most basic questions. It didn’t look like they had hashed things out at all before starting the press conference. No forethought went into this whatsoever. “Not with a group like that.”
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In which Batman is dragged, kicking and screaming, into loving relationships.
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30 Apr 2026
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Your Mentor, My Dad by thebatdadnomad (aylooktaekook)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
12 Jul 2025
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As Batman signed for him to add his backup smoke pellets to his belt after forgetting to in a recent patrol, Dick was suddenly hit with the memory of the man scolding him for it. He remembered how Bruce had walked towards him, brushing the dirt off of Dick's face and pinched his cheeks. He recalled sticking his own tongue out at the man and the low — but free, so free — chuckle Bruce let out in response. And Dick reminisced on how warm he felt in its wake.
Large age gaps between friends existed.
It made perfect sense.
Except...it didn't.
Or, how Dick transitioned from seeing Bruce as his mentor to seeing him as his dad.
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28 Apr 2026
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Despite All My Rage by HollowSr
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCeased (DC Comics), Batman: Arkham (Video Games), DCU (Comics), DCU
24 Nov 2023
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In a time travel mishap, a feral and reckless training era Bruce Wayne falls into the future. The league can handle seeing their leader impulsive, cocky, blood hungry. Flirty is... flirty is something they're unprepared for. Also the amount of villains he is close friends with seems... improbably high.
Damian's just excited to be at a higher rank in the league than him....
Clark whipped around, seconds away from catching whatever was flying at him before remembering he was currently Clark Kent.
He stumbled, allowing the projectile, a sharpened piece of metal from the warehouse, to just barely brush past him.
"Are you aware your prescription is fake?"
A hunched figure dropped down from the scaffolding. Lithe and quiet, his eyes down and stance alert like a wild animal.
"I'm sorry?"
The man stepped forward.
The boy?
The young man
"They're fake.” The young man repeated, “Is it a fashion choice or are you just a liar?"
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28 Apr 2026