Gods I want to know about the NightDad au but I don't know what to ask.
It sounds amazing
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The questions in my head are
What's the ages? (like did Dick just turn 18 and he adopted an 11 or 13 year old)
Are the Titans in it?
Is Jason Robin or Flamebird?
And I suppose is Dick dating anyone (Dick what is that child doing there. I didn't sign up to be a parent)
And what is the theme (fluff/comedy/ect)
And if you have anything else to say ❤
Sorry if that's a lot in one place I'm still not to used to interacting/asks
(Oh this is perfect thank you so much!)
In this au their ages are adjusted so their canonical age gap is doubled putting Dick at 20/21 and Jason at 8/9 when the story starts. In this AU Dick meets Jason during a Blackgate system failure that causes a breakout. Jason, after living a few months on the streets after his mother’s death, had gone to Blackgate in hopes of finding his father. He kicks Duck in the shin and runs when Dick tires to help him, and a few days later Dick goes to Crime Ally with the Batmobile as bait. Jason hits him with the crowbar but Dick catches up with him, offers him help, and ends up adopting him.
The Titans are a big part of the story actually! It’s similar to how they were when Roy had Lian while still with the Titans. They babysit Jason from time to time and all generally love him, and Dick is always able to turn to them for help when he needs it.
Neither! Jason doesn’t become a hero until he’s a lot older than Dick had been (so about 15/16) and he takes on the name Nightingale (Betty is already Flamebird and Robin is not a mantle up for grabs so neither title was really an option and he wanted to match Dick).
Dick is not in a relationship when the story starts but he and Wally has been about to start a relationship. When Dick adopts Jason, they get stuck in this weird relationship where they’re not together because Dick doesn’t have time for a relationship right now much less a long distance one but they still don’t act like just friends anymore. Wally loves Jason to death though, and he outright tells Dick that when he’s ready and when Jason is ready to accept another adult in his life, he would still want to be with him and Dick having a kid doesn’t change the fact that he cares for him.
The story actually jumps between it all! It’s very fluffy in the sense that there is a lot of family fluff with Dick and Jason but there is angst and drama, and a lot of it is meant to be kind of grounded in a sort of reality of what bring a single parent with a full time job and a superhero nightlife would be like.
Only other big notes I can thing of are that at the start of the story Dick and Bruce are still fighting and aren’t in contact with each other, it had been Babs and Kate who called Dick for backup with Blackgate. Tarantula and Blockbuster do happen and it’s that whole situation that finally forces Dick to go back home to the manor because he knows he’s not in the condition to be caring for Jason alone (so Bruce finally gets to meet his grandson).
One last thing is that there will be story in this au not connected to the main story but also connected at the same time? In it Jason becomes Robin at fourteen and is killed only a few months later by Joker. It follows Dick and Wally grieving their son (after he and Babs kill Joker) and trying to find a way to move forward. Then one day they’re at the cemetery and notice the soil above Jason’s grave shift... after that it follows them trying to bring Jason back from his comatose state. The story ends with Dick waking up screaming and Bruce and Wally holding him. He blinks back into reality and learns he was hit with fear toxin and the entire story was the vision the toxin gave him and his Jason is perfectly safe and waiting for him to get better.