forget the sun

mostly dcu content | any pronouns ao3 | bsky

[forgetmesunflower]

forget about the sun

or don't.

Call me Sun, or whatever!

Fandoms!

DC (mostly Batman and Flash)

Doctor's Rebirth

Merlin

Tales of Symphonia

Naruto

J. R. R. Tolkien (I've not gotten around to posting for most of these others, but I'm working on it.)

Ao3!

Bluesky! (that I forget to touch)

Bad Things Happen Bingo Card! (open to suggestions)

Relevant posts about specific fics are tagged with their title.

Current WIP Progress Bar:

BTHB WIPs:

my lungs rattle in the casket of my ribs [Chained Heat, nc-ftw, secret identity] - 70%

bury my hands in saffron [Guilty Conscience, truly unrequited, mnc-sp] - 50%

Behold, this wounded creature, warning [False Sense of Security, forced A to O, mnc] - 40%

[red beanie] [Bloodstained Clothes, Hood goons and NW] - 35%

the form. [Breaking a Promise, mnc-sp] - 15%

Other WIPs:

[Outsider pov building collapse] - 80%

buried deep, these memories [bau!Jason spyral!Dick) - 80%

[Jim and NW post Blud explosion] - 75%

[russian roulette] - 70%

[Seastring sequel] - 70%

salt-sweet hills [Alfred teaching each bat to cook] - 60%

[Kurama possession] - 65%

One Bird Two Bird Red Bird Blue Bird [Jim meets the birds and bats] - 65%

Alfred's musings on bedroom anatomy - 60%

tombstone notice [] - 50%

fragile deaths, cupped in palms [OHS] - 50%

Consequences of Phasing [Wally Dick kidnapping] - 50%

[Protective Jim and NW, Hurt Jaybin] - 40%

[YJ Dick and Bart shared grief] - 35%

colony collapse [requit, no support] - 25%

Cordelia [Dick parentification] - 25%

[Jason Dick bodyswap] - 10%

[Worth the Weight sequel] - 10%

[Titans (fab five) bodyswap] - 5%

Morning seemed too long ago [Birdflash + Irey and Jai, Speedforce mass memory loss] - 5%, it's gonna be so long oh no

If you yell at me about any of these, I'll probably work on it.

As always, read what makes you happy (or tears you apart. Up to you.) And don't read what you don't want to!

[forgetmesunflower]

moon squeezed like sour lemon

“Hyung, do you find men attractive?” “Sure, I suppose,” Cheonhee said absently. Then he paused and turned his head to Halyun, blinking owlishly. Slowly, he sat back down at the table, eyes not moving from where they pinned Halyun to his seat. Halyun tried and failed not to feel self-conscious at the growing intensity of Cheonhee's stare. Resting his interlocked fingers on the table, Cheonhee took a fortifying breath. “Halyun, I want you to know that I'll continue to support you no matter what. You do not need to fear judgment from me–” He glanced down at Halyun's splinted fingers, the stitching he just performed hidden underneath, and his eye twitched. He looked back up. “–about matters like this.” “...What?” ─── Four times Cheonhee ignored Halyun's feelings, and the one time Halyun received an answer.

Fandoms: Doctor's Rebirth (Webcomic) Rating: Gen Words: 5.6k, 1/1 Relationships: Jin Cheonhee & Yeo Halyun, Jin Cheonhee/Yeo Halyun Characters: Yeo Halyun, Jin Cheonhee Additional Tags: Moral Dilemmas, Sworn Brotherhood, Age Difference, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Light Humor, Secret Reveal, Blood and Injury, Medical Inaccuracies, but i tried my best, 4 + 1 Things, Yeo Halyun Loves Jin Cheonhee, Soft Yeo Halyun, He's also insecure, Possibly Unrequited Love, Unreliable Narrator

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85453636

[forgetmesunflower]

Weather Network

While waiting for the appearance of the team's latest unsub in New York, Agent Todd notices two familiar faces.

For @criminalmindsxdc's CMxDC Week 2026 Day 5: Undercover

Fandoms: Batman, Criminal Minds (US TV), DCU Rating: Gen Words: 2k, 1/1 Relationships: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau & Jason Todd Characters: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Jason Todd, Donna Troy, Dick Grayson, BAU Team Additional Tags: Undercover, Jason Todd is a Member of the BAU

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83593526

[forgetmesunflower]

Phantom Killer

JJ’s shoes skid on the asphalt when she rounds the corner, stiffening limbs locking her in place as her stomach tumbles over itself and the air is sucked from her lungs. Her gun dips to her feet, aim taken off the unsub. Her fingers spasm around the handle in protest, but she cannot lift it. She cannot point her gun at a child. — The BAU doesn’t often encounter metahumans, children metahumans even less so. So when they begin to investigate the recent spree killings spanning Keystone and Central City, dubbed the work of the ‘Phantom Killer,’ JJ does not expect to find a nine-year-old girl in pigtails standing over the electrocuted body of an eighth victim, air crackling and skin blurring, looking like a ghost. alternatively: Irey West just wants to get home.

For @criminalmindsxdc's CMxDC Week 2026 Day 3: Time/Dimension Travel | "You're stronger than you think you are."

Fandoms: The Flash (Comics), Criminal Minds (US TV), DCU Rating: Gen Words: 6.5k, 1/1 Relationships: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau & Iris "Irey" West II Characters: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Iris "Irey" West II, Barry Allen, Derek Morgan, Jai West Additional Tags: Protective Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, Hurt Iris "Irey" West II, Iris "Irey" West II Needs a Hug, Speed Force (DCU), Barry Allen is the Flash, Secret Identity, Identity Reveal, Flashfam (DCU), Dark Multiverse (DCU), Dimension Travel, Wally West is in the Speed Force, Post-Flashpoint, POV Jennifer “JJ” Jareau

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[quenchiestcactusjuice99]

fic of the week

Malignant by forgetmesunflower

Usually, this is where suspects ask why they’re being held, if they don’t immediately request a lawyer. Grayson doesn’t do either. "You don't seem surprised," Gideon says. Grayson’s face pinches. “Unfortunately, I think I have an idea what this is about.” — While in Blüdhaven, Spencer Reid and Jason Gideon learn of four abduction cases that could resemble the pattern of a serial killer. When a common denominator is found in the girls’ gymnastics studio, their instructor, Richard Grayson, is brought in for questioning.

Criminal Minds and DC crossover. Outsider POV, case fic, very nicely done.

[forgetmesunflower]

All these fics were supposed to be short!!

Half of them are gonna be late...

[forgetmesunflower]

Malignant

Usually, this is where suspects ask why they’re being held, if they don’t immediately request a lawyer. Grayson doesn’t do either. "You don't seem surprised," Gideon says. Grayson’s face pinches. “Unfortunately, I think I have an idea what this is about.” — While in Blüdhaven, Spencer Reid and Jason Gideon learn of four abduction cases that could resemble the pattern of a serial killer. When a common denominator is found in the girls’ gymnastics studio, their instructor, Richard Grayson, is brought in for questioning.

For @criminalmindsxdc's CMxDC Week 2026 Day 4: Throwback Thursday (Profiling a Rogue/Bat) | Season One/Early Days

Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Nightwing (Comics), DCU Rating: Teen Words: 8.6k, 1/1 Relationships: The BAU Team & Dick Grayson, The BAU Team & Amy Rohrbach Characters: Spencer Reid, Jason Gideon, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, Dick Grayson, Amy Rohrbach, Aaron Hotchner, Derek Morgan, Elle Greenaway, Penelope Garcia Additional Tags: Case Fic, Interrogation, Blüdhaven (DCU), Blüdhaven Police Department (DCU), Post-Chemo Destroying Blüdhaven (DCU), Season/Series 01, Abduction, Secret Identity

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79866521

[forgetmesunflower]

Pace

The team gets called in after a boy was picked up outside of Norfolk, Nebraska, scarred, scared, and the skin of his ankles rubbed raw from chains. “Earlier this morning, another boy was reported missing in Blue Valley.” Aaron swipes his tablet to the photo. "Wallace West, thirteen, goes by Wally. His parents say he never made it home after school.”

For @criminalmindsxdc's CMxDC Week 2026 Day 1: Canon Case, Hero Victim

Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), The Flash - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Teen Words: 5.2k, 1/1 Relationships: Aaron Hotchner & Mary West, Barry Allen & Aaron Hotchner, Barry Allen & Mary West Characters: Aaron Hotchner, Mary West, Barry Allen, Wally West, Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, David Rossi, Spencer Reid, Penelope Garcia, Rudolph "Rudy" West Additional Tags: Case Fic, Episode: s07e18 Foundation (Criminal Minds), Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Kidnapped Wally West, Abduction, you can pry mary west from my cold dead hands, Good Parent Mary West, Good Uncle Barry Allen, Secret Identity, teased, vague allusions to:, Prejudice Against Metahumans (DCU), POV Aaron Hotchner, for the most part

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79698506

[forgetmesunflower]

I won't write a Hetalia fic about acculturation I won't write a fic about Indigenous assimilation I won't write a fic about Canada and America not just sprouting up as already white children but instead the white washing and erasure and killing of native identities I won't write a fic about genociding one's own people I won't-

[forgetmesunflower]

damniiiiit.

[forgetmesunflower]

I won't write a Hetalia fic about acculturation I won't write a fic about Indigenous assimilation I won't write a fic about Canada and America not just sprouting up as already white children but instead the white washing and erasure and killing of native identities I won't write a fic about genociding one's own people I won't-

[forgetmesunflower]

stones in my throat

The funeral is nothing like the traditions Dick once described to Cass. And no one is laughing. This is not the kind of funeral Dick would have wanted.

For Minty's 2025 Whumptober prompts: Day Twenty-four: “He is no guide. He's gone/and you are left with why?” Empty | Rabbit | Sunday Best

Fandoms: Forever Evil (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Gen Words: 2.3k, 1/1 Relationships: Cassandra Cain & Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain & Barbara Gordon Characters: Cassandra Cain, Dick Grayson (mentioned), Barbara Gordon, Batfamily Members (DCU) Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Cassandra Cain Needs a Hug, Presumed Dead Dick Grayson, Romani Dick Grayson, Crying, Disabilities, Introspection

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[forgetmesunflower]

chokecherry tarts

“Looks like the snow will melt today. Did you shovel it?” Jason asks. Alfred rests his hands in his lap, shoulders slanted. “No.” Bruce wouldn’t think to shovel such a meager amount, and Tim has been on the other side of the country for the last week. No one else lives here anymore. So Dick shoveled the snow.

For Minty's 2025 Whumptober prompts: Day Twenty-two: “he died shoveling snow/that melted the next day” Brittle | Teacup | Spilled Milk

Fandoms: Forever Evil (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Gen Words: 1.2k, 1/1 Relationships: Alfred Pennyworth & Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd Characters: Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson (mentioned) Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Jason Todd Needs a Hug, Alfred Pennyworth Needs a Hug, Presumed Dead Dick Grayson, Tea, or maybe the empty processing that precedes grief

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[forgetmesunflower]

if you could wilt a second time

Jason joked once, that for whichever of them died next, he’d make sure a string ran down to their coffin, attached to a bell. Dick Grayson's casket was never buried with a body.

For Minty's 2025 Whumptober prompts: Day Nineteen: “If there was an answer, a meaning, would it make you any happier?” Coward | Bouquet | Holding On

Fandoms: Forever Evil (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Gen Words: 1.5k, 1/1 Relationships: Dick Grayson & Jason Todd Characters: Jason Todd, Dick Grayson (mentioned), Damian Wayne (mentioned) Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Angst, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Presumed Dead Dick Grayson, Flowers, Introspection

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[forgetmesunflower]

2025 Writing Reflection

Fics posted this year: 10

Words posted this year: 130,121

Words written this year: No clue in total, but 71k in the last three months. Goes to show that my WIPs are extensive.

Favourite fic I've written this year: A Mother's Prerogative. It's a bit more niche, but it's the kind of thing I absolutely love, and I got to include a lot of my favourite world building and story elements.

Favourite line I've written this year: It's a real close battle with quite a few, and a lot of them I only love so much because they draw on other things from earlier in their fics, are a result of repetition, an amalgamation of different motifs, etc. If I had to ignore all of those and narrow down to one line (though technically a few sentences and better in context), it'd be in Jason's POV from these mouths we have are traps: "A half sob falls from Dick’s lips. . ., wet and only belatedly cut off by snapping his mouth shut, but that only succeeds in morphing it into a muffled, reedy whine. A sound like he's dying. Like Jason's killing his brother. He wants to die."

Favourite scene I've written this year: Eleven paragraphs in Angle of Consumption. From "He can't quite remember the saying. Was it three's a pattern? Or four?" to "He's made it a Habit." It was the first part I wrote for that fic and surprised me with how little revision it ended up going through.

Personal Achievement: Getting as far as I have with buried deep, these memories. This fic grew way beyond my expectations, and as the outline and word count continued to expand, I didn't have a lot of faith in finishing my first multi-chapter. But the end is in sight, and even now I'm proud of the work I've poured into it.

Here's to hoping I finish a few more of those several dozen work in progresses in the new year!

[forgetmesunflower]

buried deep, these memories

Chapter 12: I tell myself it is to protect you / Promise

“This isn’t an interrogation,” Hotch says. “I know it's not required to put in your file metahuman status–” “–and it’s illegal for an employer to ask,’ Todd adds. “–but are you in danger?” ─── It's been four years since the family lowered Dick's coffin into the ground, and Jason finally feels like he’s settling into his new job with the BAU. That is, until two people part of an illusive group called ‘Spyral’ arrive in custody. aka. Jason works for the BAU and Dick hasn't come back from Spyral.

For @criminalmindsxdc's CMxDC Week 2025 Day 2: Meta!BAU Agent

Rating: Teen Words: 62k, 12/15 Relationships: Jason Todd & Dick Grayson, Jason Todd & BAU Members, Jason Todd & Emily Prentiss, Jason Todd & Batfamily Members Characters: Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Emily Prentiss, Derek Morgan, David Rossi, Jennifer "JJ" Jareau, Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotchner, Penelope Garcia, Tim Drake, Paris Pantoja, Duke Thomas, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Bruce Wayne

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62983582/chapters/200353541

[3leafstem]

Screw perfect sibling dynamic tropes.

My brother locked me in the dog kennel when I was 12.

I put spoons on top of the forks and plates on top of the bowls in retaliation. (This was equal psychic damage.)

Where are the definitely life-or-death arguments and rivalries?

[forgetmesunflower]

“Hey, guys. Who’s winning?”

Steph ignores Dick as she guides her kart up the Rainbow Road ramp and through the ring, snagging two item boxes a hair’s breadth in front of Tim. He curses when he doesn’t have enough time to grab the next one over. Steph cackles and tosses a shell behind her. It misses, but she doesn’t expect it to hit. She decides to dangle the second shell behind her in case Tim tries something dirty.

The back couch cushions shift as Dick leans over the back of it between her and Tim. “Ah, not Tim I see.”

Tim shushes him through clenched teeth in a sound more akin to a toddler’s failed race car impression than a hush.

Dick chuckles. “Okay, I get it. I’ll let you guys focus. Come find me when you’re done and we’ll go get ice cream.”

“Sure,” Steph gets out quickly as she finishes her second lap, then lets her shoulders drop their tension in the following few seconds of straight and open road.

In Steph’s peripheral, Dick leans further over the couch, she assumes, to plant a kiss on Tim’s head like she’s sometimes seen him do before.

“Uh huh. Okay,” Tim agrees absently as he leans into the affection, shrinking the space between Steph and himself fractionally.

Steph turns all her attention back onto the game as Tim’s icon inches closer on the minimap, cutting into the bottom corner of her own screen every once in a while.

Then Dick’s head is in her space, and she prepares to dodge any sabotage or cry out righteous insults. Except he swoops in and presses a quick kiss to the bangs against her temple. For a split second, her brain short circuits.

Her kart hits a banana near the edge of the road, and she spins right off the track and into the void.

“Ha!” Tim crows.

“Dick!” Steph cranes her head around to glare at Dick’s retreating form as Lakitu returns her to the track. “This is sabotage!”

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