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Duke Thomas Week 2026 will take place from June 1st to June 5th!
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Thank you for an incredible Duke Thomas Week in 2025! I am excited to say that I am now planning Duke Thomas Week 2026! Keep an eye out for updates in the next few months :]
Duke Thomas Week 2026 status: Prompts have been released!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary:
In the back of the closet, hidden in a shoe box, were a stack of letters that all started out the same: "Dear Sunshine..."
Rating: G
Word count: 1,331
Written for @dukethomas-week Day 5: Sunlight (Poetry)
@dukethomas-week Day 4 - Growth: Zero Year/Riddler
Panel redraw! 💖
(I low-key butchered the expressions 😑)
Zero year was actually one of the first full Batman volumes I ever read, and I still absolutely love it!
Og panel under cut
Duke Thomas week 2026: day 4
Reverse robins au but with my weirdly pedantic version including big sister maps
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Duke was five feet away from the Batmobile. How? He didn’t know, he walked out of his foster family again and now he was stood in front of what was equally the coolest and scarier sight of his life. All eleven years of it.
The body was clean and black and smooth, it looked like a toy car in how it curved, sucking in the light.
Curiously he let himself reach out, the pads of his fingers tracing the paint, stopping at the crack of the door.
Wonder if…
Pulling at the Handle, he felt the lock pop open, the cars inner lights turning on. They were blue, oddly, probably to keep it harder to see.
Inside the car it was neat, the front two seats were fresh leather, the front console covered in flat screens, all covered in blue-green symbols, maps he thought.
If they were there was sometimes coming towards the Batmobile.
“Yeah Bats, I know I’m getting the car now.” It was a girls voice, maybe a few years older than him, high society accent. Fuck.
He was really glad his powers had better reflexes than him, turning him invisible before he could think about it. But he still panicked, sliding into the back, pulling the door shut. Not his brightest idea. At all.
“Yeah I know.” He could see her now, she was one of Gotham’s hero’s, dove he thinks. She was cool.
She pushed the door open, throwing herself into the drivers seat, pulling her mask off. There was no way she was old enough to drive.
Pushing himself up, he looked over the seat, watching the lights on the screens.
The girl sat back, looking over her shoulder. She froze as she focused on him.
Ok so realistically, he had two choices.
1) stay and explain himself, probably get sent back to the foster home he just left, which means he’s take a Step back in finding his parents
Or, 2) run for the hills and possibly have a bat on his tail
…
Yeah he can’t run that fast.
“Hi?” Turning himself back to visible he sat back down, back pushed to the door, just in case.
“Hello..?”
“Ok I wasn’t like trying to break in but like-“ “nah you’re fine, what was that?” She cut him off, climbing into the back with him.
“Huh?”
“You went invisible, you’re a meta?” She clarified, sitting cross legged.
“Yeah, is that a problem?” Honestly he wouldn’t be surprised if it was. A lot of Gotham had issues with metas, that’s why he wasn’t registered as one.
“Nope, just curious, I’m maps.” She hummed, offering him a hand.
“… duke.” Reluctantly, he took her hand. Maps grinned.
“Well Duke, welcome to the Batmobile, any reason you’re here?” She was getting information, he could tell. Considering the detective hero thing it didn’t surprise him.
“No I uh…” trying to think of a lie on the spot was hard.
“Doesn’t matter, wanna go for a drive? There’s a bat burger near here.” So she thought he was a street kid. Technically, since he just ran away again, not wrong, but he still didn’t appreciate it.
“Sure.” He wasn’t arguing with a bat.
Grinning, she climbed back into the driver seat, “right, cmon, get in, Batman will pay.” She hummed, tapping the passenger seat.
Was it still a bad idea? Yes.
He climbed into the front.
“This is how you get kidnapped right?”
“You think I’m gonna kidnap you?”
“… ok good point.”
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Duke Week day 4 is here!
June 4th: Growth
-Team Leader
-Physical Affection
-Zero Year/The Riddler
-Reverse Robins AU
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day3-light & shadow-glowing eyes
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Static Shock (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Virgil Hawkins & Duke Thomas, Duke Thomas & Damian Wayne Characters: Duke Thomas, Virgil “Static” Hawkins, Richie “Gear” Foley, Oswald Cobblepot, Kid Flash, Tim Drake (DCU) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Rock Band, Attempt at Humor, accidentally sending a group of kids to a bar, That’s it, Virgil is corny, Duke and Wallace are done with him, Wild Kratts (mentioned) Series: Part 3 of Duke Thomas Collection Summary:
Duke Thomas is friends with Virgil Hawkins; at some point, they made a band with Richie and Wallace.
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Duke Thomas Week 2026: Day 3
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85999401/chapters/227567821#workskin
So for today's prompt I went with glowing eyes/blood and added another chapter to spotlight for it.
Edit: forgot to tag @dukethomas-week whoops
Duke Thomas week 2026: day 3
This one is for glowing blood since.. apparently I can’t pass up a chance to write gore?
Tw gore, again. Mildly though, just blood
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Seeing practically gold tar leak from the gash in Duke’s Arm was weird. It was sticky and smelt like blood, it felt like blood, but it didn’t look like it. So, weird.
Tracing his fingers over the laceration on his upper bicep, he took in how it glowed, the metallic light shining onto his skin.
“Do ya think it’d still taste like blood?” Steph had been the only person to answer the distress call, probably because she was the only one awake, but still. “I mean, would it? If it’s gold maybe it tastes like that instead of iron.” She hummed, rummaging through Alfred’s stash, looking for steri-strips.
“Yeah I don’t think I know what gold tastes like enough to tell.” Thinking back it was a surprise this was the first time this had happened, he’d been injured before with the bats, surely he’d have noticed glowing blood before?
Apparently not.
What had happened was he’d gotten stabbed on patrol, lightly stabbed, obviously, but stabbed. It’d just barely cut through the skin, but it was bleeding, and a lot, so he’d called for help. He knows when the knife pulled back it was red. Clear as day in the sunlight, red.
“Be pretty cool to have funky blood, what metal do you think I’d need to have for purple blood?”
“Doesn’t potassium go lilac under a flame? Maybe that would work.” Duke half hummed, slightly considering tasting his blood, just to see.
By the time Steph had arrived it had been red, he knows that because he’d apologised about ruining her seat covers, and it was red then. Why is it glowing gold now?
“Aha!” Steph called, pulling out a pack of steri-strips, “got these and the wipes… where does-“ “I’ve got my own bandages.” “Cool beans.” She smiled, sliding next to him, tossing the stuff on the side, squirting hand sanitiser onto her palms.
He wasn’t taking his eyes off his arm, what if it changed again? Overall he’d looked away twice, getting out of Steph’s car, and when he’d stepped into the dark of the cave.
Into the dark.
He handed Steph a bandage, shooting up the second she pulled the knot tight.
“Hello??” Steph looked back at him, cocking her head to the side, “what are we doing?”
“Checking something.” He said, grabbing Steph’s keys from the side.
Her car was still parked in the sunlight, the light filtering through the glass. As he fumbled with the keys, he noticed the blood stain, all red, and all in the light.
“Dude if you wanna go for a joy ride we should just steal the bat-wagon or whatever it’s called.”
“It’s not that.” Duke clambered into the back seat, holding his hand up to block the sun over the stain.
It went gold.
“Huh.” Both breathed in unison.
Red, then gold. Light, then shadow. Red, then gold.
“Do.. you think we call Bruce?”
“I think we should’ve called Bruce when you got stabbed.”
“True.”
“You are so weird, fucking glowstick.”
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Day 3 of @dukethomas-week 2026!
Light & Shadow - Glowing Eyes
June 3rd: Light & Shadow -Fears & Phobias -Glowing Eyes/Blood -Hallucinations -Band AU
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Headcanon that Duke's blood does have a subtle glow since his powers got activated, but not overpowering. When he noticed it, he was torn between thinking it was cool, and the concern that the more he'd use his powers, it would get brighter.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary:
How does one fight monsters that are literally made of shadows? If Duke knew the answer to that, he wouldn't be in this situation in the first place. But then, maybe he already has an answer.
Rating: T
Word count: 1,184
Written for @dukethomas-week Day 3: Light & Shadow (Urban Fantasy AU)
Happy day 3! Can't believe we're halfway through
Tag this blog in your posts or add your works to the AO3 collection! If you have anything to share for day 1, still feel free to do so!
June 3rd: Light & Shadow
-Fears & Phobias
-Glowing Eyes/Blood
-Hallucinations
-Band AU
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman and the Signal (Comics), Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Duke Thomas & Elaine Thomas, Luke Fox & Duke Thomas, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas Characters: Duke Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Luke Fox, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Daxton Chill, Gnomon (DCU), Jack Grimm | Joker (Absolute DCU), Talia al Ghul (mentioned) Additional Tags: Camp Half-Blood (Percy Jackson), Guide!Luke Fox, Demigods, Demigod Duke Thomas, Demigod Dick Grayson, Demigod Jason Todd, Good Parent Elaine Thomas, Good League of Assassins, Dubious Consent, no beta we die like my will to write, Duke Thomas-centric, Duke Thomas is So Done, Duke Thomas is Not Signal, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Duke Thomas Week Series: Part 1 of Duke Thomas Collection Summary:
In all honesty, Duke would’ve preferred this whole situation started off with his Head coach being killed first.
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Hello! If anyone here manages the DTW collection, I have a request - I recently posted a work (https://archiveofourown.org/works/85275721) for this year's event, but I'm unable to add it to the Duke Thomas Week 2026 collection The only option that shows up is the 2025 collection 😔 (not anyone's fault, could be a glitch of the website or something like that). Would it be alright if I asked for a collection invite? Or just bookmarking my one shot to the collection is fine too, whichever one. I'll try my best to submit future works to the collection directly! 😅👍
Hello hello! Sorry you are having difficulty. It seems some people are able to add their works to the collection but others are not, so I do unfortunately think it could be an issue with the system, and not user-error on my part that can be easily fixed (I've also been having issues with the collection emails, even though I am set to receive those, and the 2025 collection's emails worked properly).
I have sent you a collection invite, so hopefully that solves the issue.
If anyone else is having difficulty, feel free to comment the url to your work and I will individually submit a collection invite.
Day 2 of @dukethomas-week 2026!
Community - We Are Robin
Duke Thomas week 2026: day 2
I saw trans Duke as a prompt and blacked out
Tw for needles btw, not that bad I don’t think but it’s there
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“Dami have you see my kit?” Yelling down the corridor Duke had poked his head into pretty much every single room two times over, and he still couldn’t find his kit.
It was Tuesday, so that meant T shot! If he could find it that was. Shit always went missing in a house this size.
Including Damian apparently since he hadn’t once responded to Dukes yelling.
“Damian!”
…
“Oh what the fuck.”
Maybe it was a little pathetic that Duke made his little brother help him with his shot, but in his defence he doesn’t fuck with needles. Plus Damian’s much better than him at it.
“Dami! Dude what the hell?” The yelling honestly wasn’t doing much.
“Damian-“
“Why are we yelling?” Tim was slouched against the wall, half out of his suit and his hair unwashed and pushed back.
“Oh shit- sorry if you were sleeping, trying to find the baby bat,” he huffed, falling back, resting on the wall opposite to Tim, “I need him for my shot. Can’t find the shot kit either actually.”
“Oh yeah, honestly forgot you did those. How much is one of yours?”
“Uhh.. it’s a 150mg shot I think, Why?” Duke cocked his head to the side, honestly it was pretty normal for detectives to ask questions, but that one? Not what he’d expected if he was being honest.
“Wanna use one of mine?”
“Huh.”
Tim sighed, closing his eyes, “forgot you didn’t know.” He hummed, pulling his collar to the side to show a binder strap.
“Oh.” Did this revelation surprise Duke? No. More or less he just thought Bruce would’ve told him first, whole acceptance thing and what not. “Wait why didn’t B-“
“He doesn’t know.”
“Of course he doesn’t.” Signing, they stood there.
“So like-“ “you can borrow one if-“
…
They both snorted, grinning at each other.
“I’ll pay you back.” Duke promised, pushing off from the wall.
“I’ve got access to two different billion dollar companies, you don’t need to pay me back.” Tim scoffed, shoving him in the arm, “you can do it yourself right?”
“Uhh..”
“I’ll do it for you.”
Ten minutes later, sitting on the cold counter of Tim’s bathroom Duke was swaying his legs, watching the patterns the light through the shower curtain made. Blues and pinks, reflecting off the porcelain.
“How long have you known?” He asked, not looking up away from the lights.
“Since I was 9, didn’t quite have the term then, but I knew,” he hummed, “when did you?”
“Just after my powers showed themselves, spent a lot of time on meta threads, trying to figure out what was going on, a decent chunk of us are queer so it kinda spiralled from there.”
Tim chuckled, “good old Reddit, that’s what told me to.” He was preparing the shot, sucking up liquid into the syringe.
“You ready?”
Duke hummed, only barely glancing over as he felt Tim’s hand on his stomach.
“It’s always so much better when someone else does it.” The needle was barely a pinprick at his skin, better than when he does it.
“God it is, I make Kon do mine half the time.” He pulled the needle out, now emptied, carefully tossing it into his sharps bin.
They sat in silence for a while, listening to the sound of each other’s breathing. It felt honestly nice, feeling the silence.
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, as long as you don’t tell B, it’s my longest held secret.”
Duke laughed, “it’s safe with me don’t worry.”
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