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Closed doors, open windows by EmiJinx
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
15 Dec 2025
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Running wasn’t bravery — it was survival.
Artemis came to New Jersey for one reason, and one reason only: no one knew her here. Fleeing a past that refuses to stay buried, Artemis moves into a run-down apartment in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, hoping anonymity will keep her safe. But Gotham doesn’t sleep, and it doesn’t ignore newcomers for long.A work written for Artemis on TikTok, hope you enjoy!
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Postcards from the Grandfather Clock's Last Chime by medusaceratops
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
15 Dec 2025
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This is a series of vignettes from the end of a story that can never actually end. In that way, these words can hardly be said to exist at all.
Now showing: Jason shudders, shaking himself. “Yeah. Yeah, James Blonde, I’ve fuckin’ retired, I guess. Hey, enough about my bullshit, what—”
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Aurora Green just moved into her dorm room on the Gotham University campus, and she has a strange dream during the heat of late August.
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- English
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- 843
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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Wayne’s Shadow, Spider’s Web by Sddungu6902
Fandoms: Peter in gothem, Marvel, Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
15 Dec 2025
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Peter G. Wayne is overwhelmed by blackouts, unexplained bruises, and vivid dreams he can’t make sense of.
At the same time, Gotham’s newest vigilante, a web-slinging hero calling himself Spider-Man, is stirring up chaos and testing the patience of the Bat-Family.
Struggling to prove his worth to his family while battling his own insecurities, Peter searches for answers about his strange condition. But the truth about Spider-Man’s identity hits far closer to home than he ever expected, forcing him to confront secrets his own family has been hiding—even from himself.
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Please let this be a normal work week (In Gotham? No way!) by Library_of_Gage
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
14 Dec 2025
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Local librarian is just trying to get through her work week. A combination of Wayne kids (someone really needs to tell that youngest one to chill), bats, and Gotham villains makes that harder than it has any right being.
Author Note: This is a self-indulgent fic I wrote because I wanted to explore what a library in Gotham might look like. It's very slice of life and chill; read it to relax and maybe laugh.
Also, fuck AI. No AI was used in the making of this fic. I don't agree to this fic being fed to AI. AI can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands.
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Paloma Negra by TianaRigel
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types
14 Dec 2025
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❝La noche siempre reclama lo que es suyo❞.
Peter se esperaba muchas cosas al mudarse a Ciudad Gótica.
Esperaba que la escuela le costara un poco más porque Ned no estaba con él. Esperaba que la ciudad lo molestara. Esperaba que ese nuevo mundo lo engullera, e incluso así tenía un plan de contingencia para todas aquellas situaciones.
Se suponía que ese sería su nuevo inicio. Se suponía que al fin podría ser normal. Pero se equivocó. En Ciudad Gótica nada era normal. Ni él, que pretendía ser humano, ni los cuatro chicos que parecían haber estado años buscándolo.
Como siempre: a la buena suerte Parker le parecía grosero tomarse unas ligeras vacaciones de cien años.
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- Part 1 of Spider-man/Batman
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better without me (but stay anyway) by sparrowwings
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
13 Dec 2025
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She wanted answers. Gotham gave her a war.
Between a missing sister, a criminal empire, and two vigilantes who can’t seem to leave her alone, Spencer learns that justice in this city doesn’t come clean and trust never comes easy.
A slow burn of love, found family, trust, and the cost of belonging.
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The 44 Below by velvet_alchemist
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Starfire (Comics)
13 Dec 2025
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Kori and Dick were looking for an additional way to spice up their already hot relationship.
And when they found you working at the 44 Below, they decided to take you in and maybe show you a better way.
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Asher finds out Jason Todd is alive!
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Red shadows over Gotham by SolarFlareX
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Daredevil (TV), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types, Daredevil (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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Three heroes, one city, and a whole lot of bats. Spider-Man, Deadpool, and Daredevil land in Gotham with nothing but their skills—and the watchful eyes of the BatFamily—to keep them alive against a man pulling strings behind the shadows.
Aka the Team Red winds up in Gotham fic
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Baby Damian and Fatman Plush by daintybrutalia
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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“Dada wake!” Damian declared. “Up, up!”
Bruce exhaled—part sigh, part helpless adoration. “I’m awake, little bat. I’m awake.”
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- Part 4 of Baby Damian
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Gotham River Ripper's Origins, Years 1-3 by JJ_Mars373
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Dexter Series - Jeff Lindsay, Dexter (TV), Batman - All Media Types
12 Dec 2025
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The early life of Jay Martinovsky, The Gotham River Ripper, starting from birth to adulthood. How will he balance his family life, school life, work life, and his darker pastures? Keeping secrets from Barbara, his sister who moonlights as a vigilante, won't be easy, but it has to be done.
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- Part 1 of Dexter-like OC in DC
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You Can't Fucking Trust a Crime Alley Kid by Beachfox
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman (1966), DCU (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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Arturo was 17 when he was thrown into Gotham beaten, broken, and entirely ignorant about the city he found himself in. In the near twenty years since, he's learned. Through mob jobs and henching gigs and street-gang wars, he's come to understand Gotham inside and out. And if he's learned anything, it's that you can't trust a Lupu, you can't trust an Alvarez, and you sure as hell can't trust that fucking Crime Alley Kid.
Now if only he could make his Boss understand that as well before it's too late.
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for a pessimist, i'm pretty optimistic by celestialbodys
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Batman and Robin (Comics)
11 Dec 2025
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When Robin is presumed missing or dead by the public, and Jason Todd has been absent from school for longer, Tim Drake takes it upon himself to investigate his disappearance. The problem is, things get much worse before they get better.
AKA Tim Drake's no-good-very-bad summer break.
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- Part 1 of dog days
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With you there is no morality by Caliziboang
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Harley Quinn (Comics), Grayson (Comics)
11 Dec 2025
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On the streets of Gotham, Harley Quinn has always been unpredictable, dangerous, and delicious. But when Nightwing crosses her path, the chaos takes on a whole new dimension. Between chases, secrets, and forbidden encounters, Harley discovers that not all heroes are what they seem... and Nightwing faces the line he never thought he'd cross.
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Monologue of a Dead Man by velvet_alchemist
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), DCeased (DC Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
11 Dec 2025
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Jason gives an internal monologue while doing a mission as Red Hood in Gotham.
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- English
- Words:
- 396
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
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September Tastes of Ashes by Anonymous
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types
11 Dec 2025
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Sam needs to find a way home before it’s too late, and there’s no way she’ll be staying in this universe if she can help it.
For now she’ll be avoiding the little array of vigilantes in this city, she has hunting to do.
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- Part 1 of Anonymous Works (Same Author)
- Part 1 of Greenberg
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Quid Pro Quo (Something for Something) by cryptidcookies23
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Dec 2025
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A job offer gets complicated. Too many unanswered questions, too many loose ends.
Tim gets put in the thick of it. Zsasz, who lives in the thick of it, is also there.Part of The Plotter: Plans by Design series, but can be read as a stand alone.
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- Part 2 of The Plotter: Plans by Design
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Lost Justice by Potterheadfan7
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), DCU (Comics), DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU
11 Dec 2025
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Izuku Midoriya believed he had perished in the ultimate battle against All For One and Shigaraki. However, that was not his fate. Awakening in an unfamiliar world where superheroes are ignorant of quirks, the once-defeated hero confronts his new reality by doing what he excels at—being a hero and rescuing others? Yes, but this time, he's not afraid to get his hands dirty.
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Meet at Harper-Todd mix family new version by Lynna5555
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, DC Animated Universe
09 Dec 2025
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Jason Todd got into another fight with Bruce. Needing a break, he left Gotham behind for a while, but he also didn't answer his phone. Jason was tired of everyone always taking Bruce's side and wished he had a family of his own so he could cut them off without feeling so lonely, even though he felt alone when around them. Meanwhile, Roy was having another fight with Oliver. Roy had moved to Gotham after his daughter was born, and Oliver was not happy about it. Gotham wasn't known as safe for children, so Oliver kept arguing with him about it-constantly. Roy was finally sick and tired of the arguing, picked up his daughter, and decided to go back to Gotham; but halfway there, he got a text from Jason.
They both decided to meet up and take a break, turning off their phones while Jason, who longed for a family of his own, already had a daughter but dearly wanted a mother for her. He missed having the companionship of a partner who had helped raise his daughter quite a lot, but he always wanted her to have a mother figure.