#apprentice

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frostpaw sketch

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Instagram will probably crop this but here is a long awaited commission for @lunastarhawk on tumblr of their MC in the lovely infamous flower CG to match with Julian Devorak.

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Do you have a recs for fics based on the Apprentice arc?

Ooohohoho yesss, you've come to the right person. I have quite a lot of fics to rec (ive been obsessively consuming and hyperfixating like mad on the apprentice arc in particular):

(Also i consider haunted to be part of the overall apprentice arc so there are a few fics based on and set after that episode)

First you can look at the tag "dick grayson as slade wilson's apprentice" on ao3 and there are hundreds of fics, with every dynamic and characters you could want, these are just my favorites ive read (put very very vaguely in an order going down from my most favorites):

Never Alone

My favorite, its a masterpiece, its amazing! After haunted robin continues to have hallucinations and its a finished longfic that gives a really good look into robin's mental illness and how he is still only a human. I made a whole post about this fic and how its perfect in every way, i have not binged a longfic this long in forever but i did this one in a single reading session because i was completely and utterly gripped

More coherent and detailed but completely spoiler free rambles about what makes this fic so good here i cannot stress enough how this is a must read if you like the arc. I like, really really want you to read this one

The voice and gears of sunset

Oneshot set right after robin is rescued from slade in the apprentice arc. It hits so hard and hurts. Robin's recovery and him trying to connect again with the titans after what he had gone through, the titans being there to help every step of the way. The ending melts my heart

Emotional motion sickness

Oneshot set many years later when the batfam is fully formed and robin is nightwing. A good fic with dick and damian's brotherly relationship and discovering new ways to cope. There is an encounter with slade and that scene fills me with so much undescribable emotion

The fight and the war

Oneshot with the batfam. After an encounter with slade, dick is interogated with his family about the way he responded to slade's commands in the battle and how it could have gotten him killed. Dick is forced to admit what happened back when he was with the titans in the apprentice arc. Very good protective batsiblings in a different way to the other fics

Bedeviled

Oneshot set right after haunted. The spores have a lingering effect and robin presses an emergency distress signal to batman who is there for him

To pick at a scab

Years later with the batfam dick comes to the batcave and his younger brothers have some questions about a sound recording from his time with slade. Dick is thrown into a vivid flashback and the batfam break him out of it and help him talk through it. Oneshot

Just the same

Robin deals with stockholm syndrome and cant help but compare how similar or even better slade is than batman. The titans are there to help him figure things out. Oneshot.

Reforming Nightwing

Unfinished longfic. The titans never find iut about the nanobots and dick is forced to be slade's apprentice for 9 years. After Slade is killed and dick is able to excape, he goes to bludhaven where he picks up a new civillian name and the new identity nightwing. Meanwhile tim and steph want to figure out who this new "nightwing" and what his connection is to the villian "renegade"

Do you think batman will give me partial custody?

Oneshot. After the apprentice arc, robin returns to gotham. Unable to figure out how he feels about the situation he goes to his parents' graves where he encounters harely who helps him start a conversation with him about the abuse they both faced

The apprentice

Unfinished longfic where the titans dont discover the nanobots and robin has to continue being slade's apprentice. He spends his time figuring out how to get a message to the titans or to batman or to anyone without slade knowing

Next to my robin and some matchsticks

Oneshot set after apprentice part 2 where the titans patch up robin's wounds and talk about some scars he has, some from his time before the titans and some from slade

Update: since making tthis post, any good fic with the slade and dick dynamic that i read snd liked i have put in this collection

Update update: here are my thoughts on this fic i also found

[anich17]

The College assigned Ancano a stinky Colovian apprentice so the dude won't have too much free time to spy

[deepestfirepeace]

Started reading omen of the stars recently and I have decided to draw Ivypaw and Dovepaw.

[jayfrost-designs]

Up next is Sprucepaw! :D I love her name, and her description, and I had a ton of fun drawing her.

Sprucepaw has no physical description given other than her pattern, so I came up with my own for her. I made her lithe and spiky-furred like her dad and grandpa Nettle, and to sort of mimic the sort of spiky tuftiness of a spruce tree. She's got those big spiky ear tufts from that side of the family too.

For her pattern, Sprucepaw is described as a silver tabby-and-white she-cat. I decided to make her a lynx point tabby like her dad, I think it looks really good with her silver tabby colors. She has no canon eye color, so I gave her her mom's dark amber eyes.

Overall, I'm super happy with how she turned out, I think she looks great.

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Moonpaw

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lionblaze + lion cut = ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊

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Fresh Meat

"The resistance to women in butchery goes further: we associate butchery with blood and gore, and dealing with blood and gore is not a place for a woman.”

Regular #longreads food writer Olivia Potts is back! Explore how women are breaking into the male-dominated world of butchery in our new feature.

Blood, craft, and sexism. Read it here. 

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Swiftpaw

[candy8448]

Fic idea:

Apprentice arc stockholm syndromed dick is in distress and someone needs to knock some sense into him, tells him that a real mentor would actively want their apprentice to grow to their skill level, if not surpass them in skill

Slade wanted dick to get stronger with his training, yes, but he would never, ever have let dick ever get stronger than him (so he doesnt fight back/break out and such, but strong enough to be able to use him)