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[science-lings]

Bits and Bats prompt list

Last updated 11/19/2025

If any of these catch your interest, please send me an ask and I'll write a little bit for it!

Ao3 Link

Cass joins the batfam early AUs:

Pre-Batman era, Bruce comes across a little girl being trained as a weapon and takes her home with him (Link)

same as above but she's a baby and he's still determined to go through assassin training

Wanderer-era Cass takes an interest in the city's shadow creature and follows him home like a stray cat (Link)

Cass and Jason: homeless duo who get into hijinks and shouldn't be separated (Link)

Batman being stalked by multiple children (Tim and Cass run into each other following Batman and Robin around)

Babs feels the bat-urge to batdopt a batchild

Batman finds someone to sit silently and brood by gargoyles with

idk any trope or plotpoint would be better if there was a little Cass involved

Fem!Bruce AU? Mama bat and baby bat... Kane and Cain...

Battinson AU, awkward emo man and his adorable but eerily silent daughter, they would haunt dark corners together

Dark Knights of Steel

Bruce talks to his mom (I'm sorry there needs to be some closure)

Bruce and a Robin of your choice (Link-Jason)

just send me one of the Robins and I'll write something about them or their backstory bc the comic didn't give any of them one

Bruce and his best friend Harley (his one friend that isn't a child or his half-siblings or I guess beastboy)

literally anything with Bruce I'm obsessed with him

Misc.

5+1(+1) batfam nightmare fic (Link)

Platonic ABO

Dragon!Batman AU

Robin Training (homeschooling if it was real weird)

Cuddle Pollen batfam trope POV Poison Ivy

Cryptid batman/Human batkids

Cryptid batfam (they're weird now? THEY'RE WEIRD NOW) (Bruce-Link)

Ghost Batman (Bruce is dead but batman still looms)

The batkids bringing an actual bat along with them and convincing people that it's actually just batman

Something off of that Fairytale AU post (Dragon!Batman, Princess! Brucie, Knight! Bruce)

Battinson and a batkid of your choice

Wing!Au

I'll edit this post to add links when prompts get written for and to add more ideas as I come up with them. These are just the fic ideas that I feel like I can write little ficlets for that don't have to be a full 20k+ fic. I'm also just open to chatting about AUs and ideas, especially if you have ideas for the DKoS Robins, I would love to cooperatively develop them lmao.

I'm happy to get asks here or on my writing blog @sciencelings-writes

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[science-lings]

This pride month I think we should all be more aro. And more ace. And more aroace. And more gender-fucky. And less concerned about other people’s labels. And more willing to look beyond the binary. And also be more accepting of queer platonic relationships instead of just dismissing it as ‘being really good friends’. And I also think we should begin the imprisonment of cishets in the prideless dungeons.

[science-lings]

ten chapters into my ASC redux outline and the calamity hasn't even risen yet and like half of aoc happens after that fml, i might be biting off more than I can chew but i am not skimping on focusing on each of the champions and dedicating a chapter to Akkala Citadel actually being used as a military stronghold and the entire prologue being my ideas for the post-totk sage of spirit Link fic tacked on at the beginning.

There will be pre-calamity interactions with Links family, and there will be necromancy, and Sage's real identity will have time to lead to multiple dramatic reveals and I do want to focus on multiple characters as well as plot and maybe I will finally be free of this fic that has haunted me since i started it before totk even came out and made me have to completely redo everything.

[science-lings]

okay real talk, is there like a widely accepted name for botw Link's dad, or are there popular fan comic/fanfic versions of his dad, idk if I'm satisfied with my ASC version being called Sir Silvian but I lost my brainstorming list for when I was trying to come up with names for him and going on a whole sidequest into those naming websites sounds like hell

[science-lings]

i want to make a bunch of polls and i want to outline a long fic so i can try out a writing technique and I want to paint and I want to try a new dessert recipe and i want to get really into tarot and I have the energy for like... half of one of these things and the blackberry dr pepper isn't doing shit

[science-lings]

i can't believe i have to decide between saving up for a game that is out everywhere except where i can play, releasing nebulously this year or if I should use that money to splurge on special paints/art suppies that require a 70$ limit or else shipping is really expensive, all in all it would be about the same price and i haven't bought myself a little treat/fed my hobbies in a while..

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

every time I see someone act rude, entitled or disrespectful towards a fanfic writer and/or the fics, I think the writer should be legally allowed to kill them

[tortilla-of-courage]

help a guy out. im doing a triforce shaped project and i need help with color decisions

if you have each triforce colored their respective main Color (red, blue green), what color is better for the middle empty space?

who woulge

gold

black

Voting ended onMay 25

[tortilla-of-courage]

alright follow up question with an actual picture of the wip to see if it helps more

it's 4 triangle canvas, and while the idea was for all 4 to have items drawn on them for a fun design, i started having doubts(tm) wrt the middle one

here's 2 out of the 3 main ones done + the current mess the middle one is -- ignore my cat's legs. also have an edit with the middle being black

thanks to some friends I've got some different ideas here but i still cant choose

help

gold, continue the items theme

solid gold

solid black

black, some sort of design in gold to fill space

Voting ended onMay 26

[science-lings]

I actually did something similar to this!

I chose black bc it was the base color of the canvas that was the only correctly sized triangle canvas I could find but it gives the whole piece a darker vibe,

I think the gold gives it a bright aura that meshes well with the contrast of all the canvases, it just makes it look less like a cohesive whole if that makes sense. It looks good either way.

[luna-azzurra]

Tips for Writing Comas!

Your character has been in a coma for three weeks and just woke up, said something profound, recognised everyone in the room, and will be walking by next chapter. i love you. i respect your commitment to the plot. but i need you to sit down because we have to talk about what the human body actually does when it's been unconscious for three weeks.

⊹ Waking from a coma is not waking up. it is a gradual, nonlinear process that can take days or weeks. there's no moment where the eyes open and the person is back. there are stages: responses to pain, then to voice, then to commands, then inconsistent awareness, then windows of consciousness that come and go. Your character might recognise someone they love and then have no memory of it an hour later. the people waiting at the bedside have to live in that uncertainty for a very long time.

⊹ Muscle atrophy is immediate and significant. after one week of immobility, you lose a measurable percentage of muscle mass. after three weeks? your character cannot sit up unaided. they cannot stand. their legs do not work the way they used to and getting them to work again involves weeks of painful physiotherapy. They will not be walking to the window to look meaningfully at the sky. They will be trying to hold a cup without dropping it.

⊹ Cognitive effects are real and unpredictable. memory gaps. difficulty concentrating. words disappearing mid-sentence. personality changes that might be temporary or might not be. your character waking up is the beginning of finding out who they are now, which parts came back intact and which parts are different in ways that can't be fixed by time or willpower. The person who walked in is not quite the same person who wakes up.

⊹ The psychological experience of the people who were waiting is also almost never written properly. you visited someone unconscious every day for three weeks and talked to them and held their hand and made decisions about their care and lived in a sustained state of grief and hope at the same time. and then they wake up. and you're supposed to be relieved. and you are relieved. but you're also exhausted in a way nobody is acknowledging, and slightly angry in a way you can't justify, and you've changed too while they were gone. the reunion is complicated. Write the complicated.

⊹ What the coma patient experiences, if anything, is genuinely unknown. some people report nothing. some report vivid dream-like states they can't distinguish from memory. some report hearing voices around them, including things said at the bedside that were never meant for them. Your character might have three weeks of false memories they believe are real. They might have heard something they weren't supposed to hear. they woke up knowing something about the people in that room that those people don't know they know.

[firedragon1321]

Discarding old shit from like 10 years ago and

I may have changed a lot but the whump is eternal.

[science-lings]

I’m on bad terms with my tomodachi island bc Bruce’s favorite child is Jason and she (Bruce) is currently strained ex friends with Cass and idk how to fix it :(

[science-lings]

I need a version of Link that is visually unable to speak, not like he doesn't have voice lines, or he doesn't have dialogue, or he's kinda quiet but it doesn't matter in the story, or his silence is a result of his anxieties or other implied mental health issues, or he's cursed not to speak until the big bad is defeated then he's 'normal' again, I mean like, there is a physical scar across his throat that people notice and his silence is a major part of how he interacts with the world. Like he has to write or use a fantasy unspoken language and he might have trouble communicating with people. Like his silence is one of his most iconic features and none of the games ever really lean into it heavily enough.

[ritoposting]

Good news! Link from Echoes of Wisdom is rendered mute by the main antagonistic force and it's a major part of his characterization with dialogue about him. It's also implied that damage dealt by the rifts is never healed, so he remains as such even after the games!

On top of that, it's heavily implied that Hyrule warriors link is either severely averse to talking or genuinely mute by the fairy who talks for him in that game, as she states that he is not fond of communicating verbally. The most we see him do communicatively is the occasional shout/vocalization of fear.

[science-lings]

So in echoes of wisdom, Link is actually seen talking to the king at the end, implying that his mutism was magically cured by defeating the source of the rifts and part of his motivations to dealing the rifts was to find a way to recover his voice. I like how being unable to speak was and important part of his character but it’s just fixed at the end and I don’t like it when characters are just magically not disabled anymore.

Hyrule Warriors was a little funny about the whole ‘Link being mute’ thing when there are several versions of him walking around. The main Link has his fairy talk for him and young Link has Navi talk for him and toon Link has his pirates charm connected to Aryll who talks for him (which I think is a crazy way to fix the issue btw) but ultimately having the perfect translators out of the gate gives their mutism no actual impact on their characters or the story. They are extensions of Link rather than their own characters who link has any real connection to. It’s functionally as if he’s just speaking anyway.

[science-lings]

Sometimes the energy drink you have a little too late in the day… is evil…

[science-lings]

I need a version of Link that is visually unable to speak, not like he doesn't have voice lines, or he doesn't have dialogue, or he's kinda quiet but it doesn't matter in the story, or his silence is a result of his anxieties or other implied mental health issues, or he's cursed not to speak until the big bad is defeated then he's 'normal' again, I mean like, there is a physical scar across his throat that people notice and his silence is a major part of how he interacts with the world. Like he has to write or use a fantasy unspoken language and he might have trouble communicating with people. Like his silence is one of his most iconic features and none of the games ever really lean into it heavily enough.

[science-lings]

new totk theory bc im trying to worldbuild, anyway Sonia is the goddess's descendant but since her divine connection to the goddess is so far removed from the entire age of myth when Hylia was first reborn, that her sealing/ light power has faded over so much time that they had to introduce more lightpower with Rauru. I mean if she had totally different powers to Rauru then why do they manifest exactly the same and can be combined into a big fucking light laser.

I'm also a big believer in the implication that she wasn't using her time-regressing power to bring Zelda back, as that power has a very specific visual and audio that happens every other time it is used that doesn't happen during the dragon scene. (instead its triangling and sending light sparkles at her) This means it is logically possible for her to stay a little dragon-y/ suffer the effects of being a dragon for 10,000+ years after she comes back instead of it not having any effect on her after shes brought back.

This is the same light energy and it would make sense for the hylian priestess to be the goddesses descendent and have her light/sealing power more than it would make sense for Rauru to be the the origins of the royal family's light power (which rewrites everything that happened in the age of myth and thus EVERY SINGLE OTHER ZELDA GAME) She may identify most with her power over time but she also has power over the goddesses light. Anyway, this would have all made more sense if Rauru and Sonia had switched powers and she wasn't fridged before we could see that she had a child, thank you for coming to my tedtalk lore rant.

[interlink-au]

Yet another Skyward Sword oddity is how confident everyone is that Zelda is a girl. They don't know what Link is. Not a monster, apparently? But Zelda is a girl, no doubt.

What is she doing, running past every Kikwi and Mogma shouting, "No time to talk! I'm she/her by the way!"?

[forthoutoffive]

I assume the logic is that, IIRC, the people on the surface still worship Hylia, Hylia is a goddess, goddesses are female, Zelda is Hylia shaped, therefore, that Zelda is female.

Link however, is only kinda Hylia shaped, do people aren't quite sure what to make of him.