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The woman stared at him, shock obvious in every brushstroke of her being. “You’re one of Them,” she finally breathed. “One who Steps Between Stars...”
“I am. Took a hell of a lot of research to get me here,” Teddy said, eyes gleaming, “And I intend to make the most of every minute.”
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- Part 13 of Alternate Living Arrangements
- Language:
- English
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- 35,656
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- 15/?
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12 Jan 2026
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Penelope by NerdyGay
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics)
09 Mar 2024
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"Odysseus was clever, but his vanity and ego would have killed him long before his return home if not for his wife.”
“Penelope?” Tim asked.
“Exactly, child, Penelope," his nanny smiled. "The men of Ancient Greece would have you believe that she was idle, waiting for her husband to come home and solve her problems, but this is far from the truth. For routine and ritual are not powerless things. In pouring her love for her son and husband into her weaving, she called out to the goddesses Hestia and Hera. Despite never lifting a finger in violence herself, Penelope saved her family.”
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Tim finds that there are more ways to protect the Bats than just Robin. A little magic never hurt anyone, after all.- Language:
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- 26,837
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 351
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10 Jan 2026
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It didn’t matter that Harry wasn’t enrolled as a student anymore. It was the end of the school year and he was at Hogwarts, so of course something had to go wrong. It was a truth of the universe: Harry Potter must mess up the end of each school year.
Ah, well, at least he had Ginny with him.
Or: Harry gets sucked into an alternate universe where he died and James and Lily lived. Shenanigans ensue.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 67,096
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 333
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- 3,416
- Bookmarks:
- 978
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08 Jan 2026
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Stuck on Repeat: Darth Vader and the Twin Terrors by Haxong
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
31 Dec 2024
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Leia Organa is stuck in a time loop, repeating the day of her interrogation on board the Death Star. As she keeps defying Darth Vader, he keeps killing her. Yet every time after dying, she wakes up on the same morning again. How did she get stuck like this? How could she possibly convince Vader to spare her life and maybe even let her go? Well, apparently now she has all the time in the galaxy to figure it out.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, a certain farm boy is going through a similar experience. All Luke Skywalker wanted to do was get some power converters from Tosche station. Yet he has to chase after droids, rescue his family from Stormtroopers and listen over and over again to an old Jedi shamelessly lying to his face about his birth father. There's only so many iterations of this pointlessly repeating day a young man can take before he'll do something crazy.
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- English
- Words:
- 79,824
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Comments:
- 332
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- 708
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- 271
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28 Dec 2025
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The Best Laid Plans of Robins by Aleena_Pallaz
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Batman: Hush (2019), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
29 Jun 2025
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Tim's dad is dead, killed by a boomerang to the chest, and Tim is an orphan now. He knows Bruce would adopt him if needed but he couldn't possibly impose himself on the Wayne's more than he already has. It's okay though, because he has a plan for this, he just needs someone to play the role of his estranged "Uncle Eddie".
Except... the guy he hires is weirdly concerned about his well being and Tim can't figure out why.
Meanwhile, Jason Todd is forced to reevaluate his plans for his debut as Red Hood, because, as it turns out, his replacement is a suicidal idiot who can't be trusted to stay out of trouble.
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Tim Drake fails to recognize Jason Todd, back from the dead, and hires him to be his Uncle Eddie to avoid getting adopted by Batman. Somehow this ruins everyone's plans.
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- Part 1 of The Best Laid Plans
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,532
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 2,633
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- 6,318
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27 Dec 2025
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Tim Drake never actually wanted to become part of the Robin-Batman-vigilante outfit. No, really. But the last Robin up and died, and now Batman is going crazy, and no one else is doing anything about it, so...Tim decides to become Robin. He might as well, right? At the very least it'll give him something to do while his parents are gone.
Still, Tim's not taking up the mantle until he can put a couple of things in order. Step one? Making sure the Joker can't get it into his head to kill another Robin. Not ever again. (Good thing Tim's not the one with a 'no killing' rule.)
And then after that? Well, after that it's only just a matter of keeping Batman from learning Tim's identity and subsequently chasing him off. Not until Bruce can get back on his feet and pick a new Robin, a real one this time. Easy-peasy.
Sort of.
(Updates Mondays and Thursdays)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,010
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 30
- Comments:
- 1,562
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26 Dec 2025
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Fidelius: The Remaking of Remus Lupin by AuroraNova
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Apr 2024
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In one universe, Remus Lupin lets guilt and shame keep him from writing to Harry in the summer of ‘94. In this universe, he writes anyway, and in so doing, changes quite a lot.
Or, Remus concludes that Harry needs a stable and caring adult in his life. He also concludes that he’s not up to the job, but there’s a surprising shortage of candidates, so he’s just going to have to become the person Harry needs.
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- Part 1 of Fidelius
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25 Dec 2025
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Ari figures that finding herself in the world of Harry Potter with memories of things that haven't happened yet is a big enough plot deviance that she might as well go ahead and change everything else.
Now she has to plot several rescues, look for at least one competent adult, and find the nearest library. Hopefully before anyone figures out just how much she knows.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 148,104
- Chapters:
- 49/?
- Collections:
- 26
- Comments:
- 768
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- 2,944
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23 Dec 2025
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Harry was supposed to pick- move on and be with his parents, or go back to finish the battle with Voldemort. But even Dumbledore doesn't know everything, and Harry finds that there are actually a lot more options than those two.
Harry wants more than what he got. He wants a home. He wants a family. He wants a chance to be happy. He isn't sure he deserves all that, but he's going to try anyway. If only to spite Dumbledore and Voldemort's plans both.
OR: Harry Potter wakes up ten years old but with all of his memories from age seventeen. He immediately begins to make Mistakes.
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- Part 1 of time and other illusions
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 124,359
- Chapters:
- 34/?
- Collections:
- 41
- Comments:
- 2,792
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- 13,682
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- 5,339
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- 421,960
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19 Dec 2025
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Absolution by Miles_2_Go
Fandoms: Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
13 Jul 2023
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Batman is dead and Damian has taken his place. Damian, who spit on Tim when he was alive, when they were supposed to be brothers. Damian al Ghul who shares blood with Tim's former Master, his kidnapper, his torturer. Damian, who doesn't deserve to stand in their father's shoes. Damian, who treats the new Robin like the little brother Tim always wanted to be to him. Back then. Before.
And Tim has some things to say about all that.
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"Damian?" Tim chokes out. And it is. Damian is crouching in front of him. Older, bigger, wearing Bruce's suit, but his face is bare and his brow is knit in concern.But he has his grandfather's eyes and all Tim can see is Ra's between blinks.
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- Part 1 of Absolution
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 33,416
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 646
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- 4,808
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- 1,181
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28 Nov 2025
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Shades in the Desert by loosingletters for Jackdaw_Kraai
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
10 Jul 2020
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Not even from a certain point of view did Darth Vader kill Anakin Skywalker. He wished he did, but the specter of the Jedi’s light escaped before he could finalize his fall to the dark. Meanwhile, Anakin is raising his son on Tatooine.
It would be easier if:
1) he weren’t a Force ghost nobody but his toddler could see and 2) Obi-Wan would stick around so somebody could teach Luke about the Force.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,806
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 128
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22 Nov 2025
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Reprise I by Elfpen
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy
17 Oct 2023
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Ben Kenobi dies aboard the Death Star in the year 0 BBY. He wakes up shortly thereafter in the Jedi temple in the year 41 BBY. Haunted by memories and regret, Ben must forge a new path for himself in the Jedi Order of his youth while navigating the murky waters of time travel. Crafting a better future from bitter experience is hard, but learning to heal is even harder. Major AU.
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- Part 1 of Reprise
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 95,084
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 21
- Comments:
- 1,198
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- 9,934
- Bookmarks:
- 1,857
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- 346,859
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17 Nov 2025
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An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2017
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One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.
(A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)
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- Part 1 of An Ever-Fixed Mark
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 190,537
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 3,907
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- 5,868
- Bookmarks:
- 2,365
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- 274,014
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16 Nov 2025
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Power the Dark Lord Knows Not by Fantismal, Jormandugr
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Dec 2021
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“Regulus,” Sirius finally said, once he trusted he had his own voice under control, “has never once let me help him, even before I was a filthy blood-traitor. Why the fuck do you think I’d be able to save him now?”
Tomorrow night. Kreacher’s words throbbed inside his head. Regulus will die tomorrow night.
Sirius definitely wasn’t going to be getting any sleep at all this week.
Sirius thought he had cut all ties with his family, but when Kreacher shows up in his bedroom with a dire warning, he's hardly able to let his idiot little brother die. And when he learns about the Horcrux his brother was chasing, he's hardly about to let him take on Voldemort alone.
But getting tangled up in the House of Black again is not the best way to prove his innocence among an already-suspicious Order. Sirius has to walk a fine line if he wants to keep everyone he loves alive.
(This series is in chronological order but does not need to be read in that order. NO other stories in this series are required reading, but all are suggested to flesh out the backstory.)
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- Part 16 of The Fragile House of Black
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birds fly in every direction by distracted_dragon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
13 Sep 2021
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Tim Drake lives a perfectly good life. During the day, he's a freshman at Gotham Academy. At night, he surveils criminal activity and sends detailed analyses to Commissioner Gordon. If he's lucky, he might even get a photo of a Bat or two. He even writes increasingly popular LinkedIn articles about vigilantes and the criminal justice system under the pseudonym Jeffrey Anderson.
Gotham is the one that needs help, not Tim.
Bruce Wayne has a thing or two to say about that.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 169,596
- Chapters:
- 24/27
- Collections:
- 17
- Comments:
- 2,319
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- 9,482
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- 3,526
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- 365,345
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08 Nov 2025
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Most dragons sleep on their hoards.
Bruce's hoard sleeps on him.
Or: Bruce is a dragon. Predictably, he hoards orphans.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,949
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 27
- Comments:
- 656
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- 15,800
- Bookmarks:
- 5,050
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- 154,417
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17 Oct 2025
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Freakin' Me Out by goldkirk
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics)
13 Jun 2020
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Bruce hadn’t set out to become a doctor.
Bruce hadn’t set out to become much of anything, really, but life didn’t seem to care what Bruce intended. He finished out high school like Alfred wanted, booked a one-way ticket to Thailand, and set off to either find himself or die some way that would make him feel like it was worth the extra years in between.
And then fourteen years later, he found himself working his first day on call as a full-fledged pediatric general surgeon, of all things, at Gotham Children’s.
And Bruce?
He was the best.
Bruce is a doctor, in a world that took a few major left turns. His kids always seem to find him anyway. (one chapter for each child, not in chronological order)
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- Part 1 of Doctor Wayne AU
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,354
- Chapters:
- 3/5
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 292
- Kudos:
- 2,530
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- 583
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- 26,688
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15 Oct 2025
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"He should do something—stop this. Only Jason, half a villain, half insane, locked in a fucking asylum, to fix Tim and save Bruce and make everything okay again. And he can’t. He can’t."
Jason's new roommate bears a striking resemblance to the Joker. And the new Robin. And somewhere along the line, things have gone very, very wrong.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 93,095
- Chapters:
- 46/46
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 3,240
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- 4,109
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- 1,137
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- 84,790
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14 Oct 2025
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five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred moments so dear by MageOfCole
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
21 Mar 2020
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He's a Clone Trooper and she's a Jedi; their romance is against every code and regulation they live by, but surrounded by death they find that they no longer care. Overshadowed by the Clone Wars and hidden in secrecy, a hopeful relationship is built on fragile trust and moments shared in time.
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- Part 1 of Children of Hope and Glory
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 19,423
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 347
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- 1,307
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- 168
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- 30,263
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23 Sep 2025
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Inscribed on Body & Soul by drowningfire
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Jan 2023
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Jason Todd died knowing he was loved. His resurrection took even that from him. Turns out he came back to life needing saving just as much as he did when he left it.
Thankfully the Bats and Birds have always specialised in impossible rescues. And while love can't fix everything having proof of it can't hurt.
aka. In a world where the names of those who love you inscribe themselves upon your skin Jason's resurrection plays out a little differently.
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- Part 1 of Body & Soul