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Why'd you have to chase the light, somewhere I can't go? by Speechless_since_1998
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU
19 Dec 2025
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"Why are you here, Nightwing?" Superman's voice was calm but firm as he spoke. He didn't even turn around, all his attention on the man lying on the bed, gripping his hand. He touched him as if he were the most precious thing in the world. Dick didn't want to look: Bruce shouldn't be like this, immobile, surrounded by machinery.
"I'm here for him," Dick said, standing in front of the bed, still looking at Superman, because he couldn't see his father Bruce in that way.
Superman made a contemptuous noise, completely out of place for him, "And obviously, you're alone. Where are the others? Minding their own business?"
Dick curled his lip, defensive. "Someone had to stay in Gotham, you know."
"If my father had been saved from a cult that wanted to sacrifice him to an alien god, I'd be right there with him," the alien said angrily. "But apparently, he doesn't even deserve that grace, does he?"
(Batman was a legend. Batman was invincible. But Bruce Wayne was just a man, and Dick wasn't ready to face the chance of seeing another parent die, without being able to tell him he didn't hate him.)
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03 Jan 2026
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Something warm fills Connor’s chassis, strong enough that he runs a quick diagnostic to check if something else had become damaged. Still just his thirium pump regulator and communicator. The feeling runs hot and pleasant through his thirium lines before he registers the sensation must be a part of his behavior conditioning programming, rewarding him for eliciting a positive response from Hank.
It’s not an emotion. Just a piece of programming.
Just programming.OR
A well-intentioned Markus kidnaps Connor and takes him to Jericho. But what happens when a machine that can feel emotions doesn't want to deviate? And what ends can justify the means?
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09 Dec 2025
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This was by far the stupidest thing he’d done in a long time. Hank did a lot of stupid things, but this had to be top five. Driving hundreds of miles for… for a fucking letter. A letter that just couldn’t be real. It had been Cole's name on the envelope. The sticking point was that dead people didn’t write letters.
Hank wanders off into a foggy, abandoned town in hopes of finding his long-dead son, and runs into some fucking bullshit on the way.
Silent Hill!AU based off Silent Hill 2. (Readable without knowledge of the game but heavy spoilers await.)
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21 Nov 2025
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A Roleswap AU. HK800 is a unique investigative android, and one of the oldest recorded deviants, almost indistinguishable from a human in his behaviours and attitudes. As the deviancy crisis sweeps the streets of Detroit, he is loaned out to the DPD, and assigned to a partner - the most robotic human he's ever met.
Struggling to get along at first, they learn to coexist, to cooperate, and, eventually, to fill the void in each other's lives.
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21 Nov 2025
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After a night of Russian Roulette and heavy drinking, Hank Anderson starts to see a ghost of a stranger in his house. Half-convinced he's gone off the deep end, he puts all of his time and effort into getting rid of the loathsome thing, but something goes wrong. Somewhere along all the yelling, cursing, and getting black-out drunk, he starts to realize that this stupidly earnest and infuriatingly odd dead man might just be the only thing capable of pushing him to live again.
So, naturally, he aims to return the favor.
a Just Like Heaven (2005) AU.
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21 Nov 2025