Brightest in the Dark
Batfam | DCU
These are some of my favorite DC fics with an emphasis on the Bats/Batfamily. Tim Drake (Red Robin) is arguably my favorite so he shows up quite a bit. I adore Dick Grayson and Wally West’s relationship so they’re here frequently as well. There are also a good number of White Collar crossovers (usually with a Bat as Neal).
If you want more fic suggestions check out my bookmarks (@aurora_rising), I have even more!
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Tim Drake knows that Batman needs a Robin. When Bruce and Dick aren't interested in what he has to say, Tim makes his way to the cemetery to say a few words to the boy he's trying to replace.
Tim has the chance to say far more than he expected when Jason digs himself out of his grave that night. Tim does his best to get Jason home to Bruce. The League of Assassins finds them first.
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Tim starts his night trying to calm down a graduate student with a ray gun. He has no idea that he is part of a time loop.
Future Tim (which will be him in three minutes) won a second round of the Titans Tower fight and managed to put Jason on the path to coming home. Past Tim didn't do much other than think he was dreaming when he met a much calmer Jason. Future Tim decided that three minutes was plenty of time to figure out just get everything right and stabilize a time loop on the first try. No pressure.
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Swing Free of Darkness by Zoobazoo
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
30 Jan 2026
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The ‘Vampire Killer,’ reporters had almost lovingly dubbed the culprit. It made her sick to her stomach. The media would say anything if it gave them a good story. How horrible it must be to the grieving families to see people’s interest in this ‘vampire.’
Detective Carson followed her gaze. “Looks like Nightwing is having as much trouble with this case as we are.”
Amy sent him a sharp look. “We don’t rely on criminals to solve our cases for us, Detective.”
“Right…”
[AKA: A recent string of murders has the team sent to Blüdhaven to bring the culprit to justice. The mysterious Nightwing, longtime vigilante of the Haven works to deal with his own thoughts catching up to him after the return of Batman from the time stream, and realizes he no longer wants to work in isolation like his predecessor did. And if one of the people he wants to work with is a cute redhead? Well, it's a good thing he has a type.]
Rated M for Murder, Cussing, and Birdflash's loud thoughts when seeing each other
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- Part 1 of And Salute the Light
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What Makes a Gothamite by Dragonfly_Dream
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, White Collar (TV 2009)
31 May 2025
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Sometimes, Neal Caffrey displayed the strangest behaviors. The White Collar unit tries to make sense of their resident CI's quirks while Neal - alias Dick Grayson, alias Nightwing - has the time of his life messing with their heads.
What would they say if they knew everyone in Gotham shared his odd habits?
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In Love With Justice by PlotsOfCoffee
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
07 Mar 2023
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Batman is notorious for his secretive ways, so when the Justice League meets someone he associates with, they naturally have questions. The questions continue to pile up when it’s clear that Batman is rather. . . close to him.
Or the Justice League thinks Batman and Nightwing are dating.
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- Part 1 of DC Fics
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soft animal bodies by deadchannelradio
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
09 Feb 2023
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02 Apr 2024
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The Robins Are Olympic Level Athletes, Obviously by blueyeti
Fandom Batman - All Media Types
16 Feb 2022
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This is a Yes Robins Olympics AU.
It’s an AU where Alfred convinced Bruce that the best way to cover for an extremely athletic child being covered in bruises from crime fighting was to enter said child into competitive gymnastics. Then Dick could be as flexible and injured as he liked without raising any red flags.
Everyone followed in Dick’s shoes, and so the cover for being Batfam is to be internationally-competitive level athletes, because of course they are.
(No one knows why Duke got adopted. Metas aren’t allowed to compete.)
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20 Aug 2025
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Off The Fucking Rails by AceOfDivineChlorophyll
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
02 Sep 2024
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His plan had been effective, elegent, maybe a bit theatrical and dramatic but in a good way! That was... until he got doused with cuddle pollen, had his brother unwittingly thrown at him by some well meaning goons, and well...
Now he had a new plan with admittedly much simpler goals that his siblings and maybe some extended family get to come along for, willingly or otherwise.
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05 Jan 2024
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