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Cass's hair is a disaster. Pulled too tight on one side, tangled and knotted on the other. There’s an elastic stuck in there somewhere, trapped in the escalating disaster that was the start of a French braid, along with half the comb that snapped off when Bruce tried to brush it out.
The seven-year-old glares at Bruce. Her Rapunzel doll gripped in an iron fist. She refuses to speak to him for the rest of the day.
“Well I don’t know what you expected,” Alfred says smartly, watching as Bruce pulls on the Batsuit later that night. “She asked for Rapunzel and you gave her Edward Scissorhands.”
Bruce bristles at the accusation. “Alfred, I can assemble and disassemble that Batmobile engine, blindfolded, in twenty minutes. It isn’t unreasonable to assume I could braid hair.”
“Oh yes,” Alfred drawls, moustache twitching. “Because little girls and car engines are exactly the same.”
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Seven-year-old Cass asks Bruce for a Rapunzel braid. It does not go well.
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- Part 5 of Adventures in Bat-Dadding
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Bruce Wayne becomes a Dad a lot earlier than expected, and learns a few things along the way.
Unrelated stories about the Baby Bats. All in the same timeline, but you don't need to read one to understand the others.
Stories 1 - 3 in chronological order, but you can dip in and out as you please.
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eye in the sky by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us
24 Nov 2024
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The Justice League went dark ten years ago. The only thing that remains is the Regime.
Batman, stripped of his cowl and suit, has been imprisoned on the Watchtower since the JL dissolved, forced to train the Regime’s younger superheroes. The leverage keeping him compliant? His own kids are part of the Regime’s program.
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03 Jun 2026
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eye in the sky - TheResurrectionist
The Justice League went dark ten years ago. The only thing that remains is the Regime.
Batman, stripped of his cowl and suit, has been imprisoned on the Watchtower since the JL dissolved, forced to train the Regime’s younger superheroes. The leverage keeping him compliant? His own kids are part of the Regime’s program.
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this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart by pasdecoeur
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Superman (Comics)
27 Jan 2019
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And then she said, “Oh,” in that clear, low voice of hers. “You're in love with him.”
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- Part 3 of superbat works
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19 Apr 2026
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this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart - pasdecoeur
And then she said, “Oh,” in that clear, low voice of hers. “You're in love with him.”
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Summer vacations have been going on just long enough for Jason to start getting bored, when he gets an unexpected visitor.
From the future.
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23 Aug 2025
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Mint Chocolate Chip - LemonadeGarden
Summer vacations have been going on just long enough for Jason to start getting bored, when he gets an unexpected visitor.
From the future.
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"We should have sex."
Jason chokes, spluttering and coughing a few times before turning to look at Cass with wide eyes. “What?”
Cass comes to Jason with a proposition.
He takes her up on it.
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- Part 42 of Tumblr Prompts (DC)
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11 Jun 2025
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the language of touch - Tauria
"We should have sex."
Jason chokes, spluttering and coughing a few times before turning to look at Cass with wide eyes. “What?”
Cass comes to Jason with a proposition.
He takes her up on it.
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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25 Apr 2025
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door, opening - cowboysorcerer
Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.