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Spider watches the fire at mealtimes and shovels food he-can-actually-eat into his mouth and laughs and tries not to think of Varang, and her wide, unblinking eyes, and the prickle of his neck. He looks at Jake, at Neytiri, at them giving him food and patting his back and calling his name and all he can think is: the forest, his knees cold, his hands trembling, the dull thud of his heart.
He might be accepted, now, he might be able to make tsaheylu and breathe the air and feel like he’s finally living, but he’s sure as hell not home.
Spider's life is better than it's ever been - but there's one thought he can't get out of his mind.
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Dick can feel Tim’s hands, pulling at the back of his shirt.
“Alfred,” Bruce says. “This is Richard Grayson,” Bruce says. “And this is Timothy Drake. Our neighbour, I believe. Their parents were…” Bruce glances at Tim. “They’re like me,” he says, more quietly, and Alfred nods. “Tim, Richard; This is Alfred Pennyworth.”
Alfred turns to Dick, face warm, kind, eyes crinkling. “Why don’t I get you two a cup of hot chocolate before we retire for the night?”
Dick nods. Behind him, Tim presses his head to Dick’s back, whispering a “Yes, pwease.”The night Dick's parents are killed, Tim's are, too.
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swinging the hammer of a dull future by starrysquarelight
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
26 Feb 2026
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He wants Neteyam back.
He stares at the water.
Let me do this again, he thinks. I’ll fix things. I won’t be so cruel. I won’t be so rash. I’ll make sure he survives. Please.When Neteyam dies, Aonung tests fate - and finds himself back at the beginning, on the day they first met.
This time, he has a chance to do things right.
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It’s almost easier, when Kiri drags him to the ylltxep, when Tuk talks to him at the shore, or laughs at an ilu, when Lo’ak stares at him like he’s trying to find words for something he can’t say, when Tsireya asks if he is okay, because then he can pretend to be normal, for a little bit, even if it squeezes the breath out of his lungs. Then he can pretend there isn’t a gaping whirlpool in his chest, dragging him under. It’s easy, until they leave, and then all that’s left is him and his thoughts, lead on his tongue.
Spider, after.
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- Part 5 of pit as deep as the black ocean floor
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Dad watches him in the morning, critical, assessing. “Stayed up, did you?”
At least Dad didn’t hear him sneak back in. “Yeah,” Tim says. “You know how it is.”
Dad frowns. “You’re a growing boy. You should be sleeping early.”
Tim swallows. “Sometimes I can’t help it,” he says, instead, and something flickers in Dad’s eyes. Tim shoves his guilt to the back of his mind. Dad doesn’t know - Dad doesn’t need to know. It would just make everything more complicated.
Tim is being stalked by Sebastian Ives. Unfortunately, this is the least of his problems: his Dad is finally awake from his coma and is getting suspicious; and, worse, there’s a killer running around in Gotham, targeting kids and rich heirs to fortunes - and Tim is beginning to worry he - or Bruce - might be next.
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Tim chews the inside of his cheek.
"...be careful," Bruce is saying. "I know you've bested him before, but--"
"I know, B. One wrong move and I'm dead."
Jason has remembered. And he's angry and Bruce, sort of, and distant to Tim - which hurts, in its own way, but Tim isn't thinking about it - but what Tim's really concerned about is Robin.
"Are you listening? Robin?"
Not for much longer, Tim thinks.
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- Part 3 of unbury memories supposed to be dead
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He finds his house, first. His legs walk him there, unbidden, and he finds himself staring at an old, cob-webbed, dilapidated mansion. He draws in a breath, lets it out.
Seeing this hurts. It shouldn’t hurt, it can’t hurt, he can’t afford hurt - not as Tim Drake, and certainly not as Robin - but his chest aches, all the same.
He walks away. His legs ache. It starts drizzling, and he wraps his arms around his chest, trying not to tremble.
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Tim Drake escapes one terrible fate, only to land in the middle of another. -
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“You’re the League’s little prince, hey?”
Damian doesn’t know how to answer. Yes, he thinks, loud and angry and sharp. I am. But he can’t say that, not now. Not when he’s nothing more than a disappointment. Not when Grandfather is - not when Mother is -
Not when Father cannot bear to look at him.Damian, and a long road to forgiveness. Somewhere in the middle of it, he learns not to kill, and talks - too much - to Jason Todd.
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There’s something wrong with Spider. Kiri knows there is. But there’s something wrong with all of them, right now - Tuk, crying herself to sleep; Lo’ak, itching to run away, eyes downcast; Dad, pretending his eyes aren’t red when he wakes up; Mom, disappearing to hunt every morning - so she pushes it away.
He’s just grieving, that’s all. Like the rest of them.Neteyam is dead, her family is crumbling to pieces, and Spider is acting weird. Kiri just has to convince herself she can fix things.
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- Part 4 of pit as deep as the black ocean floor
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There is always a Robin next to Batman. When one disappears, another takes his place. Gotham knows this. Gotham depends on this - the hope that Robin brings, dragged from the darkness, sharp and unyielding.
One by one, the children become Robin. One by one, they lose themselves.
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If there’s one thing Dick knows, it’s that Bruce isn’t a murderer.
He knows it like this: Bruce’s hand on his shoulder, warm; Bruce visiting his parents’ graves and leaving flowers every month; Bruce’s slow-to-come smile when Dick starts talking about his cases; Bruce, magnet-pinning Dick’s certificates and Damian’s drawings and Tim’s report cards on the fridge; Bruce, a second father, cold and angry and loving.Dick, Tim, and trust in Bruce Wayne.
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Stephanie Brown is fourteen and watching her father disappear for nights on end and tell her it’s for the best. She’s twelve, and watching her mother slip into something she’s long-known and long-dreaded. She’s ten and the house is empty and she’s lonely and pretending she isn’t, doing homework at the kitchen table and waiting for her parents to come home, tapping the rubber-back of her pencil against her cheek.
In one country, Stephanie Brown learns to defy her father. In another, Cassandra Cain leaves hers.
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There’s a small, small voice in Tim’s head that wants to keep this other him. That wants to give him a better life. That wants to - change things for him. And maybe it’s selfish, but Tim doesn’t want to let go. Not when he can help the boy in front of him. Not when he has the chance to change things for the better.
Tim’s day is going fine, until he sees himself.
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Sometimes Lo’ak wakes and thinks he sees Neteyam - the shadow of the sea, the pull of the waves, the murmur of froth, the sand crunching under his feet. And then his heart swoops, drowns in his chest, because Neteyam is dead.
Neteyam is never coming back.
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Lo'ak grieves.Series
- Part 2 of pit as deep as the black ocean floor
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one by one (all these bloodhounds keep coming) by starrysquarelight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
24 Dec 2025
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It’s foggy, at first. Like someone else’s memories, peeking through a dream, a dull haze. Snatches of conversation - Jason, Jason, Jason - a thick, choking heat on his skin, a distant thwang that has him flinching, unwavering darkness.
Jason remembers.
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- Part 2 of unbury memories supposed to be dead
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It hurts, leaving home, but Neteyam keeps a smile on his face, and consoles Tuk, and squeezes Lo’ak shoulder, even as Lo’ak scowls at him, and tries to talk to Kiri, but she’s still upset about Spider - “He’s my family, so why can’t he come with us?” - and all he can do is take breath after breath.
You need to protect them. You’re their brother.
Sometimes he stays awake at night and feels like the stars are crushing him.Series
- Part 7 of the world, turning
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Neytiri does not see when they kill her mate, but she hears it. The rattle of that dreaded gunfire, the low thump that echoes through the forest, the stricken look on her children’s faces.
She kills as many as she can, after. Heart burning, hands steady, shooting arrow after arrow.
But she is too late. They have already taken her children. They have already taken her mate.When her mate is killed and her children are kidnapped, Neytiri finds herself battling the RDA with an unexpected ally: Spider Socorro.
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There is a thrum in Damian’s head, all wrong. You killed a man. You killed a man. How do you forgive yourself of sins you don’t understand?
It itches. It pokes. He wants to claw it out of him, but he’s scared it’ll mean clawing out himself.
Father looks at him like he sees a monster. Damian thinks maybe he is.
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fragments of a memory already forgotten by starrysquarelight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
16 Oct 2025
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Jason's ribs burn. His fist is bloody. He stares into the wet darkness and sees out of one eye nothing.
Dad? Dad, I’m scared, I want to go home, I want to go home–
It hurts. Everything hurts, and he doesn’t remember why. Aching bones and burning eyes and pain, pain, pain–
“Batman,” he croaks, and his voice does not carry. “Bruce.”
He looks down, at his feet.
He is in his grave.
How do you escape the net that ensnares you?
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crawling through the throat of the beast by starrysquarelight
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
09 Oct 2025
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“Kiri?” He tries.
“What is it?” Kiri’s awake, of course. None of them sleep anymore.
Spider doesn’t know how to say it. The words choke in his throat.
Kiri sighs. “Go to sleep, Monkey-boy.”
Spider stares at the sky, dark and rippling. The hammock below him sways. The sea-salt spray of the air stings at his cheeks. Sleep does not come.Spider has been a lot of things: a boy, a warrior, a prisoner, a son.
He’s never been a liar, though. Until now.Series
- Part 3 of pit as deep as the black ocean floor