like she would do that. in a world where cass isn't mute at all she just doesn't wanna talk to people because people are idiots. except then the bats assume its mutism or some shit and she finds that so funny shes like 'hell yeah guess im mute'. and then they start trying to text her and shes like. fuck. i still don't wanna talk to these people. so she just starts only speaking in emoticons and memes.

'cass i thought you were mute not illiterate'

'mind your fucking business timothy.'

-

Jason: *trips Tim for no reason* whatcha' gonna do? kill me again?

Tim: can you give it a fucking rest- *tries to get up*

Jaosn: no *shoves him back down*

Dick, furiously whispering after Tim leaves: can you stop pissing him off you know he's a flight risk-!

Jason: that's the point. if we piss him off enough he'll get used to it and he'll stop thinking everything should be retaliated with via supervillain revenge. we're lowering the stock value of his rage.

Dick:

Dick: are you fucking kidding me-

-

Damian: *walks into the batcave and silently shoots Tim with a paintball gun*

Tim: OW- YOU PIECE OF-

Damian: deep breaths Timothy. remember your mental exercises.

Tim: SHUT THE FUCK UP. I'LL-

Damian: *shoots him again*

Tim:

Tim:

Damian: *cocks gun in warning*

Tim: ...i'm going to go. do some gardening. and meditate.

Dick, after Tim leaves, face pale: why are you testing him like that he's going to kill us all.

Damian: Todd and i have a schedule to ensure premium anger management training.

Dick: THATS NOT GONNA WORK.

Damian: and yet he's gardening right now.

-

*during a JL meeting the batkids had to help out with*

Tim: -so that's my plan, are there any objections?

Jason: yeah, that plan's fucking stupid. like seriously, did you even try?

Damian: literally the most pathetic attempt at displaying intelligence i've ever seen. no wonder your original parents stopped calling.

Tim: *stares at the two blankly for fifteen full seconds*

Tim: ok well anyway-

Diana, leaning in to Dick: ...what was that about?

Dick, white-knuckling the table, blood pressure through the roof: they're. trying to train him.

Diana:

Tim: WHERE THE FUCK IS MY COFFEE?!!!

It's like, im so sick and tired, i just done did see some stupid ass post based on WFA, and these fans who read WFA and nothing else take the absolute PISS like i will fight you then i'll fight your dad because clearly your mama wasn't there enough for you to respect women. Anyways the post was doing up a MAZZALINI, it was like an RP post where Bruce and Dick were arguing with Talia about the fact she hid Damian all those years and how that made her an awful mother and how Bruce can do better. And one of the tags was something along the lines of 'this isn't a Talia hate post' WTF DO YOU MEAN. You've literally depicted her as an evil unworthy bitch, i swear i wish i saved that post or something because i really wanted to give that blogger a fat piece of my mind. Like how can one mischaracterise someone to that extent.

Call me an overthinker but what if i wanted to know more about the ship and im new to the fandom and thats some BULLSHIT i see, FUCK NO.

FIRST OFF BRUCE DO BETTER? That mf PHENCHOD fumbled ROYALTY. He fumbled the baddest of baddest and undeniably baddiest woman of all time. The mother of his child, the love of his life, the woman he yearned for to the point he memorised her scent, to the point where when he was bleeding out he'd comment on how he likes her attire. TO. THE. POINT. Where when she calls him detective and not Beloved he turns into this next nakhre, attitude petty bitch boy. TO THE VERY POINT (must i go on?) but anyhow, if anything Talia can do so much better, she is literally the Demon Heads Daughter and she decided to give all her love and devotion to a man who dresses up as a bat furry, who she is richer and more powerful than. Talk about a downgrade. So if ANYONE is going to do better, it's Talia Al Ghul, not the emotionally constipated lover boy.

Now before i start yapping, lets start off with some of the main issue that'll take people with even half a brain 0.2 seconds to dissect because it isn't hard to realise these things unless you're an emotionally derelict bellend, like its painfully clear you don't understand your character and why the fuck should you when you only read WFA which glorifies yet again Batcat, like every other movie and comic run, so of course you dumb slow fuckers are going to instantly prefer any other ship, mainly batcat, because it's portrayed in such a manner in comparison to other ships with layers and layers of depth like Brutalia. IM SO MAD DON'T EVEN IM NOT PLAYING RIGHT NOW. (I think you guys can tell im getting off track now).

Anyways, anyone with their head screwed onto their neck can easily identify the reason she faked a miscarriage and hid Damian from Bruce, alongside their like 4 other children. If Bruce stayed, if he married Talia, if they raised that child together, she would be giving Ra's what he wanted, the detective in the palm of his hand. It's like, we can see how excited they both were to raise a child born out of love together, but we all know Talia doesn't do anything without a sufficient reason, and in this case it wasn't to groom Damian like some uneducated, racist fucks think, it was a sacrifice to free Bruce from her fathers grasp.

And you guy's cannot even bother doing up the well she still hid Damian for so many years after argument because it was JUSTIFIED. Why on gods earth do you think she waited for Ra's to die DIE, to allow Damian to leave the league, to safely transport him to his fathe where she knew and trusted he'd be safe. If you think (as per the movie storyline) it was because of Slade, PEOPLE DAMIAN CAN BEAT HIS ASS. Damian is more than capable respectfully, and so is Talia, so it is very much fucked to say she hid Damian for years on purpose after his birth when it was to protect them from Ra's rage, because as we know, after his birth, he wanted Damian to be the heir not Bruce he had no need for the detective. So yes it was justified for her to wait after her fathers death to safely put her son in a safer environment because you silly little delinquents, she loves her son and she loves her beloved too.

Talia Al Ghul, singlehandedly, sacrificed the majority of her happiness, her freedom, and her autonomy just to keep Bruce safe and out of harms way, she tried to train Damian herself knowing she would never be as harsh as Ra's. She sacrificed so much of herself to keep their son safe. Talia is a woman of many talents and many things, but above all her character genuinely showed me what love can look like, her story with Bruce is one of the only love stories that hold any true meaning for me, like the majority of Brutalia fans.

So if i catch another unsolicited fuck upon my screen i will solicit my opinions on their ass.

I DO NOT PLAY ABOUT MY WOMAN.

Everything she's done was always with the intention to aid Bruce and thwart he fathers plans, and we're not gonna even talk about bullshit morrison, warra he's a bellend and when i catch him i am going to twist his tiny balls into a constrictor knot and hang him from the ceiling with it, he is the most racist, misogynistic, xenophobic unsolicited fuck known to man.

But overall what i will now civilly say is that Talia hid Damian from Bruce to protect him from Ra's and a marriage her father would entrap him in at the cost of her own happiness and continued to hide Damian for years after in order to keep him and Bruce safe from Ra's if he was ever to leave.

I really wanna fight someone (i should leave this energy for tomorrows exams wtf)

“i’m happy for her” i say as i slowly lose my smile

they don’t notice, they never do

they mention her name, i nod and smile

polite, rehearsed, believable enough

sadness creeps in

i so wish i could truly be happy for her

it just feels like daggers pointed at my heart

i am suffocating

"Fine." Talia said, crossing her arms as Jason perked up. "I will fund it, and allow permission for the league to provide assistance with whatever you need to establish a base in Gotham. But," She added, raising an eyebrow. "You have to take your brother with you. I want him to experience Gotham and train under his father's tutelage. You can only go if you take him."

Delighted, Jason grinned and spun around to stare across the room at where Damian was sat, book in hand. Damian made eye contact with him, face blank in the face of his older brother's hopefulness.

"No." He told him dryly. Jason's face collapsed.

~

"C'mon, Dames! It will be fun! We can go sightseeing!"

"I'm. Not. Going."

"But Talia said I can't go if you don't come!"

"That's not my problem. Gotham is a shithole."

"But you'll get to meet your dad."

"I've gotten this far without Bruce Wayne imposing a curfew on me, I'm not giving that up now."

"But Damian-"

"NO."

"YOU'RE SO STUBBORN."

~

eventually jason bribes/drags damian along with him and damian is just. supremely pissed off about it. he's not usually Like This, he's actually usually quite an easy-going kid; but he is not happy about being forced to play along as 'son of the bat' just so jason gets to play crime lord and kill the joker, so he's mostly acting up in an attempt to get kicked out and sent back to the league. jason gets weekly voice messages from the poor kid just angrily ranting about how ridiculous it is that they haven't reached their limit with him yet.

"first thing i did when i got there was fully insult their beloved pennyworth and then start treating everybody like they were my servant, and then last night i legitimately tried to murder tim. you know what bruce did akhi? do you? he grounded me for a weekend. like what the fu-"

-

"i stabbed one of my classmates with a fork and dick took me out for fucking ice cream and told me it was ok to struggle with adjusting like what the fuck do i have to fucking do to get sent back to nanda parbat this is ridiculous. you know tim offered to teach me how to skateboard yesterday? i publicly tried to poison him last week and he does not care. i dunno what the fuck you did to him at titans tower but that little bitch is fucking immune to people trying to kill him. i overheard him and bruce talking about giving me robin. GIVING ME ROBIN- ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!?! WHY AM I BEING PROMOTED HERE? at this point i might just kill myself."

-

"Have you considered just playing happy family with them?" Jason asked him one night, during a phone call taking place while Damian was actively building a smoke bomb to set off in Dick's bedroom.

"Have you considered killing yourself and this time fucking staying there?"

"Sheesh." He snorted. "You're grumpy tonight."

"They're taking me to a fucking movie premier tomorrow. I'm gonna be on the red carpet."

"Oh shit what movie?"

"THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT."

I think it's more realistic to have Spiderman in Gotham. I would absolutely LOVE it. Ik the 'Peter is found somewhere by a vigilante is a trope' and yes I like it too, but how many other people who look like Peter (usually homeless, dressed in basically rags and on rooftops) are there in Gotham. I'd wager, A LOT.

Butttt, if we have Peter deal with his grief by being Spidey and surviving and getting to know the Batfam by being Spiderman would be just much more funny? Interesting? Soul absorbing? Idk

Lol imagine this, Spidey tells Karen over comms 'Set a reminder for Peter at 10 am' or smth, and the Batfam just straight up stalk Spidey to find someone named Peter because that's their only real clue. And then they think Peter is Spiderman's guy in the chair or smth.

(Tag or repost if you write this, if you want, tysmmm)

For my own sake and sanity, this is a list of some that do stand out, that either break the mould or use it well enough to be memorable anyway. These are the updates I crave.

And When You Fall by @blackbellabu Peter in Gotham, but arrives together with a strange little girl he's never seen before.

Die a Little Sweeter by @forestofbabel Throws the mould out the window entirely. Peter keeps visiting Gotham at different stages of his life.

Existential Crisis Mode by @luciaintheskyainthi Everyone knows this one, right? No transition via snap, or pit, or universal erasure spell, which stands out right from the start.

Home Sweet Home by @queenisdemilo This one hits a lot of the tropes, but it does it so well, and has me on the edge of my seat.

The Mime of Gotham City by @lemongrovesandcloves Peter lands in the hands of the Joker instead of the bats. Longing for the next chapter to this one!

Phantom Liberty by @kpeccati Skips the orientation, and is set when Batman is just starting his career.

Stuck in a Web by AislinnHeart The bats are hilariously incompetent when it comes to being reassuring and trustworthy.

Note: The pairings will be listed, and the fanfics are arranged in sections by pairing. There are crossover pairings.

Last Updated: 1/18/26 -> 3 fics added under Roy Harper

✸ - complete

⨳ - ongoing

✦ - 10/10 fanfic, please read

❀ - ....mostly smut

Peter Parker (Spiderman)

✸Friendly neighborhood spider-mechanic - 36k - When Peter Parker ends up in Gotham City, a world straight out of a comic book, only to find out that he’s the one who’s a comic book character, he decides to lay low. Don’t be a hero. Just create a new civilian identity as Peter Anthony Mayson and live. And it works. Until one day he somehow catches Red Hood’s attention and Jason Todd-Wayne crashes his way into his mundane life, leaving cracks in Peter’s fragile mask of normality.

2. ⨳✦The Big Bad Red Riding Hood and the Friendly Neighborhood Spider - 107k - “Red Hood’s the name.”

Peter mulled the name over, turning it in his mind.

“Like legally…?”

The man’s pride deflated quickly. “No! Not legally!”

Or a fic where Peter was found unconscious and injured in a dumpster by Jason after accidentally inventing multiverse travel instead of time travel. He doesn’t know how he did it, but he did.

3. ⨳Spider webs and rocket lunchers - 59k - Peter just wants someone to acknowledge his existence, to look him in the eye and say "Peter Parker exists". So when he tries to tell his friends, team red, his name, its not surprising when it all goes to shit. Damn his Parker luck and damn Doctor Strange.

Though maybe getting sent to another universe isn't all bad, maybe he can build a new life for himself. One with his real name and this cute guy that visits the bar he works at

4. ⨳✦Existential Crisis Mode - 279k - Peter was alone, mid-way through an existential crisis after the Erasure™ and was dreading the upcoming month of May.

Jason was sick of people telling him how he felt. ‘You don’t need us anymore,’ Artemis had told him, as if saying it would make it true. As if Jason needed someone to justify keeping them around. But three weeks back in Gotham and all Jason felt was fucking bored and lonely.

It was a relief, then, when some random New Yorker was thrown into his living room through a portal straight out of some LSD daydream.

Finally, something interesting to deal with.

Cue some wild family misunderstandings, criminal conspiracies and cults.

Because there’s always a goddamn cult.

5.✸ The study of the spider man - 19k - Sexual dimorphism, the difference between different sexes of the same species. In spiders, the females are always larger. So when one quarter spider man sees red hood for the first time, every instinct in his little spider brain is screaming ‘mate’ at him.

Red Hood suffers the consequences for it and the batfam are laughing at his pain

6. ✸Shutterbug - 131k - Waking up Peter finds him self in a new city and no memory of how he got there. The question is, where is Gotham and how did he get there?

Little does he know that his new photographer job will lead him to making new friend and maybe something more.

Join Peter as he takes on Gotham and its rouges- not to mention finding his place as a spider in the mists of bats and birds.

7. ✸Red Flags and Webbed Disasters - 20k - Jason has a problem. A red, blue, and Spider-shaped problem.

It starts with an accidental trip to New York, a mid-air near-miss with Spider-Man, and an argument that definitely doesn’t end with Jason admitting the bug has good reflexes. Then Deadpool shows up, decides Jason is Team Red™ material, and refuses to take no for an answer. And just when Jason thinks things cannot get more annoying, he meets Peter Parker—clumsy, dorky, weirdly strong Peter Parker.

Now Jason has two problems.

8. ✸Caught - 20k - Jason Todd is just trying to do his best for Crime Alley while managing his criminal enterprise with his team. He wasn't expecting to invite the cute, wickedly smart new tenant to work with him, but, well, his life has always been a series of surprises.

9. ⨳Fixing for a living - 83k - It wasn't enough to erase Peter Parker from everyone's minds. Magic like that doesn't last forever. So, to ensure the universe won't break again in the future, Peter was sent away, far from the place he called home.

Where Peter starts over in a new universe, his life is flipped upside down, but one thing stays with him—his ability to fix things.

Let's just say he takes the whole, Fixing, a little too far.

10. ✸Another child assassin?! - 59k - Deception is all he knows. Killing is all he knows. Emotions were one's downfall. So what happens when Peter is thrown into a world and meets people that try to change that? Will he let them?

Slade Wilson

✸Pretty Bird - 51k - Jason has spent the last six years working as a hooker for Roman Sionis, but when he gets picked up by Slade Wilson, he finally has the chance to make enough money to get out of Gotham for good. He just has to survive the weekend with Slade; without pissing off any mob bosses, or letting Roman figure out his plan to escape. Easy enough.

Except that Slade is making things hard, in more ways than one. Charming and self-assured; Jason can't help falling for him. Not that it matters. Jason is leaving Gotham after this final job.

No matter what.

2.✸ First and Then - 15k - One ordinary night, Jason Todd meets a world-renowned mercenary in the kitchen. And decides that the best action is to offer some tea. After all, he is raised by a British butler.

-- In other words, this is an AU where Jason never died and never became Red Hood. Lots of frank after-midnight discussions, mostly in kitchens.

3. ✸Working on my night moves - 23k - “So, what, you were just watching me in my sleep?” Jason snarls. “Do you have any idea how creepy that is?”

“Well, you did say my name,” Slade says wryly. “Sounded an awful lot like an invitation.”

[In which Jason gets injured and lets Slade take care of him... in more ways than one. This is filthy, but also a whole lot softer than it has any right to be.]

Roy Harper

✸✦On Paper - 69k - All it takes is a routine trip to the dentist to set off a series of events that somehow ends in Jason getting married. To Roy.

2. ✸✦Laughter lines - 55k - Roy had fatherhood thrust upon him, and honestly, he's terrified. He doesn't know how to be a dad, he doesn't even know if he can be one. At least Roy doesn't have to do this alone- not as alone as he expected. Support from his friends brings the most unexpected bit of help Roy could have gotten-

Jason. Dick's kid brother who seems more than happy to spend every second he can with Roy and Lian. Who smiles when Roy laughs and looks genuinely happy when he's holding Lian. Who cares about Roy more than he should- and who Roy never wants to hurt.

And when he loses Jason, Roy is so sure he has. Sure he should have done something differently, somehow. So when a new face shows up in Gotham, and Roy gets wind of who he might be, he has no choice but to face the reality that Jason still needs him. That maybe he's got a second chance to do right by the kid he loved and simply couldn't.

3. ✸Lies that were never told - 12k - “You’re the straight brother.”

“Oh?” Well that’s news to Jason, a very queer individual with a boyfriend.

However, he apparently doesn't have a way to come out to his family. And he has to find one soon because said boyfriend is finding it very interesting that Dick keeps sending him t-shirts that say 'ALLY.'

4. ✸Don't feed the birds (or they'll keep coming back) - 65k - Red Hood is crossing the street one night and he's hit by a car. Tim Drake scrambles out of the passenger seat, but his Uber driver doesn't stick around to face Red Hood's wrath. Tim is 13 years old, so Hood knows he wasn't the driver, but Tim still wants to make up for what happened, so he says he owes Hood a favor. That is the beginning of an unlikely truce that turns into friendship that turns into little brother acquisition.

aka: Tim owes Red Hood a favor and through a series of back and forth favors, he gets adopted by the Red Hood and the Outlaws.

5. ✸Glowsticks and Bullet Holes - 57k - “I’m here to piss off Batman.” “And that involves me… why?” “Well, no one can do it quite like you can.” Hal Jordan paused, and Jason could see the little swelling of pride that puffed out his chest. He get’s it. There’s nothing quite like knowing you could get under the big Bat’s skin.

What started as a team up to mess with Batman turned into a team that just may save the world.

6. ✸My true love gave to me - 57k - On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

When Roy has to break the news to Lian that the usual Queen Family Christmas isn't happening, she's devastated, but ultimately able to recover with the idea of a small Christmas with Jason and Roy. Jason takes the opportunity to propose a different solution.

7. ✸Will they? Won't they? Are they ? Are they not?! - 11k - “Yeah, obviously Jason would rather spend time with his boyfriend than with us.”

At that Dick and Babs exchanged confused looks. Clearly both of them had missed the memo.

“Boyfriend?” Babs repeated, setting her tablet down on her lap. Her expression betrayed that the piece of information had escaped her.

“Like a friend who is a boy and also Jason is dating?” Dick asked for clarification. No one had to look at him to hear the disbelief suspended in his tone, the light trace of humor as though the mere suggestion was funny to him.

“That is the definition.”

“You didn’t know?” Tim asked and he finally looked away from the screen, turning to face Dick and Babs with a raised eyebrow. Genuinely surprised it seemed. Damian’s expression mirrored his.

“I didn’t know because there’s nothing to know,” Dick said at the same time that Babs said:

“Jason and Roy aren’t dating.”

Or alternatively; family dinner is postponed when the family find themselves arguing about whether Jason and Roy are dating or not.

8. ✸New lovers are nervous and tender - 109k - Usually you have the fastest response time on the team,” Bruce rumbled, matter-of-fact.

“Oh my god,” Jason sighed, pushing his hair out of his eyes. “Well, I don’t run around dressed as a traffic light with a gaggle of super humans so I’m less noticeable than the others.”

Jason and Roy come to Gotham. Roy learns about what it takes to be a crime lord while Jason struggles to reintegrate into the Batfamily.

9. ✸Don't let you being legally dead stop you from living your life - 72k - Jason Todd has a plan.

He has a plan to protect those in the East End of Gotham who he loves. All he has to do is destabilise Black Mask's empire and become the new Crime lord of Gotham. A task which isn't as easy as it looks on paper. As Jason's priorities shift, Batman and his brightly coloured proteges becomes a side-note in his plan.

Despite this they seem to pop up awfully often.

Especially when they slowly decide one by one that the Red Hood is friend shaped. Honestly its not great for his street rep.

Oh and there is always the matter of the Joker to be considered.

10. ❀ The little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress (love) - 17k - Relationships are complicated, not just interpersonal ones, but ones we have with ourselves. Jason Todd has never had a great relationship with his sex life. That was until he met Roy. While learning about yourself in a safe environment can be the best thing in the world, sometimes it doesn't stop you from wanting to step into something outside of what you perceive as your norm.

11.❀ I just follow your scent - 10k - Roy Harper is a lot of things.

A loving father. An amazing boyfriend. A complex hero. A goddamn good archer. A wizard with weaponry. An addict years into sobriety. A work in progress adoptive son. A sweet adoptive brother who’s always trying his best. A great teammate. An intelligent individual that lots of people like to be around.

But most of all, he’s a man of his word.

So when he said he wants to huff his beautiful, gorgeous, down right sexy boyfriend’s underwear, he fucking meant that shit.

Or, Roy Harper has a scent kink and loves the way his boyfriend smells, in a very, very sexual way

12. ❀Sweet Bod - 17k - Jason was going to die before the New Year came.

And no, it wasn't because the holiday season was always harder for the bats, putting strain on all their relationships with one another.

Or because he was driving himself crazy putting all his efforts into making sure his turf was as well taken care of as possible during the winter months.

Hell, it wasn't even having to deal with the snow of Gotham and trying not to bust his ass while getting tangled with rogues on icy rooftops.

No, it wasn't any of that. It was his stupid boyfriend and his stupid body that ran too hot.

-Or, Roy Harper goes through the typical holiday weight gain, and Jason Todd is decidedly not normal about it

Kyle Rayner

✸catch the asteroids that come your way - 54k - Kyle Rayner understands loneliness. When he was a child, his mother loved him but worked long hours to keep them afloat. When he was fourteen, he was the last Green Lantern. At fifteen, he spends too much time in space to make proper friends on Earth. Things start to change when he overhears a conversation between Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne at the watchtower.

2. ✸Kyle Rayner's Complete Guide to getting a Malewife - 24k - Kyle stumbles his way into getting himself a male wife.

Tim, hands Kon a folder: Notes from the Titans meeting.

Kon: Thanks. Oh, I didn't have the chance to--

Tim, without looking up from his laptop: You accidentally agreed to have dinner with both the Kents and my brothers. I handled it. We're all having dinner at the manor.

Kon: Better idea. Marry me?

Tim: I took care of that too. We've been married for the last seven years.

If Bruce actually HAD a power - the power to have his consciousness and memories transported back in time into his younger self every time he dies (aka the edge of tomorrow thing). So all his planning, all his paranoia? It's because he has been there :) That did happen :) Clark is mad at him for not revealing the fact he has been hoarding kryptonite - meanwhile Bruce can't fall asleep, recalling the way Clark's hand felt as it punched through his guts. Hal is arguing with him again about how Bruce is being over prepared and pefectionist about his plans and how nothing will go wrong if he trusts his expertise for once! Meanwhile, Bruce remembers being stuck under debris for hours before eventually suffocating. Damian and Jason are annoyed about getting a lecture on proper protocol. It's fine, the mission went alright! Meanwhile, Bruce had to kill himself multiple times because one of them kept dying on the mission before he figured out how to deal with the situation.