You offered to do some fic recs...I was wondering if you had any angsty DC favorites you could share? gen & finished, please :]
[if you like my recs, PLZ let me know :) .]
[also - my ask box is still open!]
So, first of all - basically everything written by envysparkler (I started, and figured out half of the fics on my recs were written by envy)
ghost story by envysparkler
Jason Todd dies in Ethiopia. Well. Kind of
outlast the rain by ScarlettSwordMoon
During a routine patrol, Dick’s glove malfunctions and he almost falls to his death. Bruce redesigns them. Problem solved, right? Only Dick is refusing to take the new pair. AKA Trauma is irrational, but love endures all.
Day 4: Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome & “Catch me.”
For the City Sweetly Whispers by Drag0nst0rm
The first time Bruce hears the city speak, he thinks he's losing his mind.
By the time Gotham's killed Dick's parents and forced a nine year old into the Robin suit, he only wishes that were true.
Tim Drake: Myth and Legend by siren_of_the_ocean
between a rock and a hard place by envysparkler
Tim curled up in a ball and shook with several, near-hyperventilating breaths. Jason clenched his hands into fists.
“Hood?” came Nightwing’s tentative check-in, “How’s everything going?”
I’m trapped under a building, he didn’t say. Tim thinks I’m going to murder him, he didn’t say. Get me out of here before I claw my own skin off, he didn’t say.
Vulpes by Snow_Wyvern (warning -it really scared me! It's like the old Grimm's tales)
No human is permitted to see the Animal Court. But Tim, a feral, too-small thing, with tangled hair and teeth that yet remember how to rend, who scrambles about on four legs as often as two because there is no one to lift him to his feet - Tim, who wandered into the nighttime woods and has no one to call him back to the light of human homes - why would the forest have any reason to think him a man-thing?
Liminal Space by Calamityjim
Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension.
When Young Justice Batman comes across an angsty, seemingly abandoned by his Batman Tim Drake, he decides to step up to the plate and parent the crap out of him.
Words: 77,186 (it's a series, this is the first fic).
muzzled by envysparkler, Periazhad
Tim, bound and gagged, listening to a group of people haggle over his fate, is hard-pressed to think of how this situation can get worse.
Black Mask hires Circe to keep Red Hood out of his way for a week. Circe's spell will only last a week and she doesn't think Batman will notice or care that she placed a time-limited memory spell on a minor criminal.
Fifteen-year-old Jason Todd wakes up in a future he doesn't understand.
fault lines tremble under my glass house by paperxcrowns
In a moment of clarity, Tim remembers his emergency button. He remembers patrol, and he remembers a gang and a shootout.
He uses his free hand to fumble around until he manages to find the chest piece and press the emergency button. His vision is fuzzing at the edges and the last thing he sees is a dark figure leaning over him, a gun pointed at his face.
Well fuck, is his last thought before everything fades to black.
A Recipe for Disaster by Calypso_Rambles, JUBE514
Titan AU. Red hood came to hurt the baby bird, but find him cooking and grieving his father. FEELS.
Under A Parent's Wing by IzzyMRDB
When Tim found out that Dick Grayson was a gymnastics instructor in Bludhaven, he quickly signed up. After all, learning gymnastics from The Nightwing himself is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Dick Grayson is more concerned at the obvious signs of child abuse he sees in one of his students.
Dick Grayson, as a childcare worker, is a mandated reporter who knows how to recognize child abuse in his students. Tim Drake, after a lifetime of fear and confusion, learns to trust adults.
Detainment by DragonflyxParodies
"Do you beat your children?” Bruce asks, voice flat and odd in a way unlike any Hal has ever heard before, and Hal’s blood runs cold, and –
Other Batman’s jaw clenches. He does not answer immediately.
The whole fucking League visibly draws back.
In which Bat has instituted very strict measures for handling alternate versions of himself, and the Justice League finds out why
Family Ties by Wafflesssss
At ages 15, 12, and 9, Dick, Jason, and Tim had found a home in Wayne Manor. Never mind the fact that Dick was the only one Bruce had legally adopted, and never mind that Tim and Jason's parents had no idea where they spent their time(not that either set cared). The three were brothers, and Bruce was maybe sort of like a dad, and it was perfect.
And then Wayne Manor goes up in flames, and only the kids make it out.
Four years later, Dick is angry, Jason is a vigilante, and Tim is a ghost. When Dick has an encounter with the Red Hood, it sets off a chain of events that could bring all three brothers back together. But, for some reason, Batman has taken an interest in each of them. Why?
I Have Come Back To You Broken (take me home) by LylaRivers
His Replacement stares at him with glassy, unfocused eyes, his begging for mercy long since silenced. Jason doesn’t dare let himself think about how the Replacement had pleaded for Robin to save him.
Mēnin Aeide by ApatheticAthena
Batman has taken personal time off from the Justice League when they capture the notorious Gotham crime lord Red Hood. The league thinks he's just another crazed criminal and Jason is doing absolutely nothing to dissuade them of that notion. In fact, he may be making things worse.
Freshly resurrected, Jason comes back to Gotham with a plan for vengeance and zero interest in reconciling with his family.
Things don't quite work out how he anticipated.
A different take on Jason coming back to the family.
When Jason Todd died on that fateful April day, Bruce was tempted to just... stop. To let the world know he was Batman, and that it'd just lost a hero in Jason Todd.
It didn't keep him from mourning the death of his son.
Or: Bruce quits being Batman in the wake of Jason's death, tells the world who he is, then retires to Montana and slowly finds healing. And when Jason comes back to life six months later, and Talia tells him 'you remain unavenged,' he can't find any evidence to support that, so he goes home.
Code of Silence by JHSC (TW: lots of triggers! Mentioned CSA)
Willis Todd doesn’t die in prison. That doesn’t change much, until it does.
Don't All Birds Belong in Boxes? by Maladaptive_Daydreamer
scream out my memories as if i was never there by CosmoKid
Tim realizes that the Red Hood is Jason Todd and makes a snap decision: Tim Drake needs to disappear.
that awful sound by MasterOfMyFateCaptainOfMySoul
Dick Grayson is fed up of losing people. So when the Joker kills Jason, kills his brother, he doesn’t let it slide. It changes quite a few things.
Leaving You For the Last Time (Warwick Avenue) by unpossible
A lot of different ways it can go
(Jason, Trauma, and life)
Jason Todd: The Not-So-Outlaw by GoAwayOlivia
Jason Todd isn't what Batman made him, he isn't what the Joker made him, he isn't what the League of Assassins made him, and he isn't what the Lazarus Pit made him. He's his own person and he's taking himself back, one home renovation at a time. Also he might just make friends with the people who are supposed to be his brothers while he's at it.
Jim didn’t know it, until Maggie barged in, opening his door with such force that it bounced off the wall and broke a glass panel. Whatever he’d wanted object was lost the moment she said, “Somebody killed the Joker.” His first thought was that he expected her to tell him the city was melting down, not to give good news.
His second was, ‘Is the killer worse than Joker?’
The Joker's dead. Now what?
Batman and Robin(s) (and Batgirl) (and Oracle) by IzzyMRDB
Simultaneous Robins AU where Bruce is just juggling being a single dad who loves his children very very much.
Ain't No Compass, Ain't No Map by ebjameston for Limnaia, SparrowsNest
A CPS agent gets sent to investigate a tip that Tim Drake has been abandoned by his parents and is living with the Red Hood. The CPS agent leaves with no Tim Drake, a date with Red Hood's lieutenant, and an intern who's promising to fix the IT systems at his office.
It's a weird day for Theo.
There Will Be Darkness Again by dukeaubergine
The Toxic Masculinity of a "Hero" by Todd Peters by orphan_account
When Jason gets his newest paper prompt in his Intro to Women and Gender Studies class, he knows just who he wants to write about.
Like Going Through Hell on a Sunday by probablyanxious
Jason Todd has to bring Damian to Gotham for his protection, meets Billy along the way and just doesn't know how he's supposed to keep these kids safe while dealing with his trauma (aka killing that damn clown)
