Batcest Fic Recommendations

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This blog is for archival and entertainment purposes. Enjoy at your own risk.

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Browse by ship (name order not indicative of positioning/dynamic):

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Q. Why is Tim/Steph, Dick/Barbara, or (x) ship not included?

A. Generally, ships like Jason/Steph and Dick/Steph are more common in batcest circles than batfamily ones, while Tim/Steph is a popular ship everywhere (and therefore with antishippers). The same goes for Dick/Barbara. I am not particularly interested in arguing about what counts as 'batcest' or not, but anything under bat x bat counts within this blog.

Additionally, some ships are excluded for not being very popular, such as Dick with Cass, Duke with Dick, Barbara, or Steph. However, if more work including any of these ships becomes available (and that I've read) they are easily able to be added.

Note: Any recommended fic posted on this blog is guaranteed to be read by me - due to this, they may adhere to my particular tastes most of the time (*though my tastes are fairly diverse) but I encourage anybody to send in links via asks to fics you feel may deserve to be read more and appreciated! (It doesn't guarantee they will always be posted, because it is based majority in my approval and enjoyment)

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A Pain In The Ass by kleine_aster

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 2.4k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Jason/Damian

Additional Tags: Spanking, Verbal Abuse, Consensual

Summary:

Damian takes his inner masochist for a spin. Jason is along for the ride.

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Your fortress face belied your fort of lace by treacherous

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 12.9k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: Underage

Relationships: Bruce/Dick

Additional Tags: Truth Serum, Breaking Up & Making Up, Age Difference, Anal Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Dry Humping, Crying, sad crying and sex crying, Dick is Robin, maybe more but that’s the gist

Summary:

And does any of this lame introspection even matter now when his dick is chubbing up and Bruce is looking at him the same as when he’d brought flavored lube to bed and they didn’t come up for air until the next morning?

(or, Bruce and Dick inevitably come together, inevitably fall apart, and tonight, Dick is weighing the ethics of asking your ex exactly why he broke up with you while he’s dosed with truth serum)

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Accessibility by TastyTaboo

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 3.8k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Barbara/Damian

Additional Tags: Aged-Up Characters, Alternate Universe, Pseudo-Incest, Only One Bed, Paraplegic Barbara, Older Woman/Younger Man, age gap, Getting Together, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Masturbation

Series: Part 3 of Batship Winter 2025

Summary:

A dark, henna decorated hand drops to Barbara’s shoulder and squeezes slightly before moving away. Damian isn’t a touchy feely guy like Dick so it’s clearly a show of comfort. “Is there any way an extra duvet and a few pillows can be allotted?”

Batship Winter Week 3: Barbara Gordon - Only One Bed

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[User Locked] crystalline by prideinmymouth

Rating: NC-17

Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Cass/Duke

Additional Tags: Batship Winter 2025, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Getting Together, Dry Humping, Omega Duke, Omega Cass, POV Duke

Summary:

The bullet in his side probably isn't helping matters either, but Duke has other priorities.

or

cass takes care of duke when he gets hurt, but stitching someone up doesn't help stave off the cold. luckily, cass can help with that too.

(batship winter 2025, week nine: cuddling for warmth, injured on patrol, omegaverse.)

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Life on the Other Side by Akio_O

Chapters: 9/? - Words: 52k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Tim/Damian, Dick & Damian, Jason & Damian, Talia & Damian, Tim & Bruce, Tim & Jason, Tim & Dick

Additional Tags: Tim-centric, Damian-centric, PTSD, Stalker Tim, Tim is Red Robin, Case Fic, Tim Has Issues Hurt/Comfort, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Damian Needs a Hug, Slow Burn, Bipolar Disorder, Talia Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Tries to Be a Good Parent, Damian is Bad at Feelings, Tim is a Menace, Protective Siblings, Pseudo-Incest, Mystery, Canon doesn't exist, except for when it's convenient, Fluff, Smut, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Unhealthy Relationships, Trans Damian (FTM), Misunderstandings, Hot Mess Tim, Damian “I’ll make him worse” Wayne, Body Horror, Pedophilia, Weird teachers, Human Trafficking

Summary:

For Timothy Drake, obsession is far worse than compulsion.

Compulsivity is action. Action can be taken and completed at any time, it’s mindless. It’s repetitive movement, expected and anticipated more often than not.

Obsession is far worse. Obsession plagues the mind and overtakes rationality. It spins spiderwebs in the brain and warps your very being. It can spawn from the simplest thing and then spiral into an all encompassing essentiality.

TLDR; Tim needs to know everything, Damian is hard to know and the world makes it impossible. Plus a stroll on the darker side of Gotham!

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And You Ache For Things (You Don't Understand) by Timmyjaybird

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 2.5k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Underage

Relationships: Dick/Damian

Additional Tags: Autofellatio, Other Minor Relationships, Caught Masturbating

Series: Part 1 of Sex Lessons from One, Dick Grayson

Summary:

Dick has certain talents that Damian hadn't exactly thought of- until he's faced with a video that apparently has circulated among Dick's circle of friends and lovers for quite some time. And it makes him think- it can't be that hard

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those wild charms for you by Nokomis

Chapters: 1/1

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Stephanie/Jason

Additional Tags: fake date, Stakeouts then makeouts, Undercover as a Couple, Stephanie is Batgirl, Jason is Red Hood, Fluff, waterbottles for the win

Summary:

“So you’re saying we should go on a fake date and catch a serial killer so that we can have the moral high ground over Bruce,” Jason said. “Just to be clear. That’s what you’re suggesting.”

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Situation Normal: All Fucked Up by Fenris13

Chapters: 2/2 - Words: 15.4k

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Tim/Jason

Additional Tags: Sex Pollen, 5+1 Things, Mildly Dub-Con, (due to the sex pollen but it's pretty consensual ngl), Angst with a Happy Ending, (i prommy), Masturbation, Pining, Anal Fingering, Outdoor Sex, Humor, Banter, Kissing, Oral Sex, Dirty Talk, Anal Sex, Top Jason, Bottom Tim, Idiots in Love

Summary:

“Fuck off, we’ve all had our shots,” Tim grumbles belatedly. “Including you.”

“Sure,” Jason says easily. “But I bet this helmet’s lookin’ pretty good now that one of us isn’t hopped up on sex pollen—”

“Not what it’s called,” Tim grits out.

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No mercy for puberty by askatasun

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 3.9k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Jason/Damian

Additional Tags: POV Damian, Jason is a Menace, Self-induced emotional crisis, Damian Has Feelings, Damian Hates Having Feelings, Crack Treated Seriously, sexual awakening, Teenage Hormones

Summary:

Puberty is, Damian concludes, an undignified affliction.

Between the acne, the voice cracks, the lack of a proper growth spurt, and the deeply offensive betrayal of his own body, the universe appears determined to humiliate him at every possible opportunity.

Unfortunately, Jason Todd has decided to show up to a perfectly normal family afternoon by the pool.

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First Lesson by HK44

Chapters: 1/1- Words: 5.4k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Duke/Damian

Additional Tags: Fluff, Kissing, author is just tired tbh, hickey, trans!damian, First Kiss, Fluff and Humor

Summary:

The sketchbook was open, Damian’s laptop beside it on the bed. Duke froze as he caught sight at what was up on the browser, the screen titled back at just the perfect angle to hit him with a ton of references of people kissing.

He turned on Damian who was still standing at the door. Damian’s eyes narrowed.

Duke gestured loosely to the hallway, peeking through the doorway. “So, I’m just gonna-”

Damian slammed the door shut.

Duke nodded. “Okay then."

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Top If You Want by Falco

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 2k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Jason/Cass

Additional Tags: Pegging, Blow Jobs, Blood, Snarky ass Jason, Queer Het

Summary:

Jason and Cassandra have a very special relationship.

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Devil Made Them Do It by kleine_aster

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 1k

Rating: Mature <- (Author's Rating, I'd rate it NC-17)

Warnings: Underage

Relationships: Bruce/Damian

Additional Tags: Incest, Dub-Con, Corruption

Summary:

PWP-snippet. Bruce and Damian get corrupted into having sex, presumably in some weird fucknuts parallel universe where such a thing would ever happen in a million years.

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[User Locked] Recursion by vellaphoria

Chapters: 2/2 - Words: 20.8k

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationship: Dick/Tim

Additional Tags: Time Travel, Parallel Universes, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Dick is an incorrigible flirt, Tim is kind of a hypocrite, Sedcution, Mild Sexual Content

Summary:

When Tim started testing a machine that could rescue Bruce from the timestream, he was expecting to hit some roadblocks. What he wasn't expecting was for a malfunction to launch him through the timestream, putting him face to face with Dick... about six months after he became Nightwing.

Now, all he has to do is wait for the malfunction to reverse itself and to send him back to when he's actually from. And to not mess up the timeline via some sort of butterfly effect. And to somehow manage that while the guy who he's been a little bit obsessed with for his entire life won't stop flirting with him for more than three seconds.

Easy, right?

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Hands to Fuel Desire by Disniq

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 3.3k

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Dick/Jason

Additional Tags: Costume Kink, Fingerstripes, Anal Fingering, Dick is having a mild identity crisis, Jason gets to indulge his dressing up kink

Summary:

Jason has this little obsession with Nightwing's fingerstripes.

Dick doesn't get it. (Yet.)

For JayDick week 2023; Day 5: High School/College AU | Fingerstripes | Gotham Knights

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Expectations (Overture) by thebodydies

Chapters: 1/1 - Words: 2.7k

Rating:  NC-17

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Steph/Cass

Additional Tags: Masturbation, First Time, Vaginal Fingering

Summary:

“I was kind of hoping this would be easy,” Stephanie mumbled.

“Oh,” Cassandra said. “It won’t be.”

She fanned out Stephanie’s fingers and threaded hers through them. “That’s good for me,” Cassandra said. “You aren’t afraid of hard stuff.”

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the promise of a thousand autumns by blackbeanbao

Chapters: 2/2 - Words: 6.6k

Rating: NC-17

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Dick/Damian

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Imperial China, Arranged Marriage, Developing Relationship, Alpha Damian, Top Damian, Omega Dick, Bottom Dick, Aphrodisiacs, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex, Knotting, Multiple Orgasms, Art

Summary:

People’s hearts change with the seasons. Damian must learn what to do with a love that will not be commanded.

Omega Dick Week 2025

Day 2: Arranged Marriage/Mating + Drugged Heat