#batfamweek2023

[not-another-robin]

When your apparently magical grandpa can't die so you have an apparently magical baby brother for a couple days. Anyway I'm predictably obsessed with @emilyarmadillo 's Raising Alfie.

[incorrectbatfam]

Twelve and a Half

Batfamily Week 2023 day 1: Accidental Baby Acquisition | Parenthood | “I wanted to be like you…”

Summary

“You’re not old enough.”

As if.

He’s Damian Wayne. Forged by assassins, honed by the finest heroes in Gotham—in the world. Survivor of Death herself.

But no, he couldn’t take a simple trafficking case because twelve (and a half!) wasn’t “old enough.”

He’ll show them old enough.

Starting with the nameless baby from an all-too-familiar place.

Damian crossed his arms. “Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous.”

“I know. They forgot the orange in my mango-orange smoothie.” Jon took a long slurp and smacked his lips. “Never mind, I taste it now.”

“Not that. What our fathers said.”

“That we’re not old enough to help on the case?”

“Precisely!” he exclaimed. “Think about it, Superboy. Unregistered LexCorp weapons are being trafficked and no one has any idea where they are or the damage they could do if they fall into the wrong hands. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have reinforcements spread out to increase the likelihood of intercepting them?”

Jon nodded, legs swinging over the billboard. “So… what are the weapons?”

“I don’t know. My father wouldn’t tell me, as if I can’t handle it.” Damian balled up his sandwich wrapper and chucked it onto the Metropolis streets. 

Jon zipped down, came back, and dropped the wrapper in Damian’s hand. “No littering.”

Damian unfolded the wrapper. “What should we do?”

“You’re asking me?” Jon asked incredulously, sitting down on the ledge. 

“Is that not what friends do?” He began refolding the wrapper. “At least, that’s what I read.”

Jon grinned. “Well, we can go to the new cheese shop that opened. They have free samples of everything, including vegan ones like cashew cheese. Kon told me to start in the back and work through the aisles in a zigzag—HEY!”

Damian snickered as the paper plane bounced off the side of Jon’s head. 

“What was that for?”

“Your Midwest was showing.”

Jon threw it back. Damian dodged. “No littering.”

While Jon went to get it, Damian stole a sip of the smoothie (the orange was barely there) and gazed at where the LexCorp Tower loomed over the smaller buildings. Typical Luthor. Though, if he wasn’t in his office… 

Jon returned. “I threw it away.”

“You surrendered our most valuable asset, just like that?”

He laughed. “We should get back to patrols. Your sarcasm is getting better, by the way.”

Damian shot his grapple. “Blame it on my brothers.”

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Read the rest on Ao3

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Gen, Complete, 1k words

“Do- do you guys hear that?” Clark interrupted, possessed by the need to understand where that noise was coming from.

His two companions went silent, listening intently for anything unusual in the night around them.

After a moment, Diana replied, “Are you talking about that music?”

“Yeah,” Clark answered. “What is that?”

“Oh,” Batman said in that rasp of his.

Then he peeled back his cape, parting the black curtain of it to reveal a child curled up at his feet.

[writerlovestropes]

Batfamily Week Day 6

Link to story: What you should NOT do when you have a missing spleen

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What you should NOT do when you have a missing spleen

Tim Drake is missing a spleen. When he gets sick it's a thing. It's totally a thing. The best way for him to prevent getting sick is taking his vitamins, drinking lots of water (not just coffee), and getting plenty of rest. Well, at least he does one of the three.

aka, That one time Tim met Calendar King instead of taking a sick day.

Batfamily week Day 6: Freaky Friday: Body Swap | Hugs | "You owe me big time."

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Prompts:

Hello participants! Prompt suggestions will be closing on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25! If there's a certain prompt you want to see, drop an ask in our inbox, or bring it up in the Discord Server!

After the 25th, there will be a vote on which prompts to keep, and an official prompts list will be created no later than March 1, so stay tuned!

[insert-cleverurl]

batfam week day 5 fill

King’s Guard fantasy au | friendship/team bonding | “there’s more of you?!”

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i woke up so worried that the angels let go (ao3)

There’s a murmur and a stammer, then the tent flaps sweep aside. A young man in a green kefta, gold-accented like the Darkling, steps in, eyes sharp as flint as they take Duke in.

“Get up, sun summoner,” he says. “We have places to be.”

This is how he meets Damian al Ghul.

or; reverse robins, ft. sun summoner!Duke and older brother!Damian, in the Grishaverse

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characters: Duke Thomas, Damian Wayne, Tim Drake 

i don’t have anything to add besides what’s on the tin tbh. content warning for the use of merzost that happened in grishaverse canon against nikolai (or, for those who have not read any grishaverse books, transmutation). enjoy !

[bamboozled-and-alone]

Bruce Wayne and His Child Collection

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46045606

This is my fic for Batfam Week 2023! 

[darknesswillfall]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46034908

Beware of the tags!

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Last night I dreamt I still knew you

by lordwisteria

Bruce and Dick’s relationship has not been good for a very long time. It’s been months since Bruce last saw his former ward, sidekick, and son partner, and Bruce has started to wonder if it was ever as good as he remembered.

Then a glowing rock gives him a few moments in the past. ____

Written for Batfam Week 2023 Family 101 Accidental baby acquisition | Parenthood | ”I wanted to be like you”

Words: 1732, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Prompt weeks

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Brief mention of Jason Todd - Character

Relationships: Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne

Additional Tags: Time Travel, Magic, missing moment, Sort Of, Mostly just trying to give Bruce some character development between Dick leaving and Jason arriving, Young Dick Grayson, crime alley, Bruce Wayne's parent death anniversary, The prologue for Jason and Bruce's first meeting, batfamweek2023, No beta because I can't work on any prompt except at the last minute

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46042099

[incorrectbatfam]

Castaway

Batfamily Week 2023 day 4: Deaging | Miscommunication | “I just crashed the Batmobile!”

Summary

When you leave a kid in charge of other kids, you still have a group of unsupervised kids.

In unrelated news, Alfred gets turned into an 8-year-old boy.

“Alfred, have you seen my jacket?”

“It’s in the dryer, Master Jason.”

“Alfred, I need you to fetch the Riddler case file.”

“On it, Master Bruce.”

“Alfred, can we have cookies after patrol?”

“As long as no one gets injured, Miss Cassandra.”

“Alfred, tell Damian to stop biting me!”

“Tell Timothy I claimed the shower first!”

“Leaving your towel in the sink isn’t claiming it.”

“Is too!”

“Alfred, where is my super suit?” Duke giggled. “Just kidding, I’ve always wanted to do that.”

Alfred groaned and rubbed the pulsing vein in his temple. He slapped the case file on Bruce’s desk, receiving half a grunt in return, before going to the kitchen to start those cookies. 

As he mixed the dough, he felt someone crouch under the sink, breathing against his leg.

“I’m sorry, Miss Stephanie, but you’ll have to wait until I’m done to lick the bowl.”

Stephanie silently pouted and sulked off. 

He stopped to wipe a bead of sweat off his brow. And as timing would have it, Dick flipped over the island and flung an arm over Alfred’s shoulder.

“Heya Alfie! Ooh, you’re making cookies. Can you make me a really big one that I can call dibs on? As the oldest and awesomest, I think I should have that privilege. And if Babs asks, I can say I technically only had one cookie.”

“First, Master Dick, I told you no more kitchen gymnastics,” Alfred said. “Second, like the other dozen times you asked, my answer is no. You have to share.”

“Come on, just this once? Pretty please?” 

“If I give you a spoonful of dough will you stop asking?”

“Sure.”

Alfred scooped a spoonful of the chocolate chip dough and was just about to plop it in Dick’s cupped hands when he stopped.

“Did you wash your hands?”

“Whoops! One sec.” 

While Dick did that, Alfred turned and nearly had a heart attack.

“Miss Stephanie! Get off the refrigerator this instant!” 

Stephanie licked her lips, eyeing the dough.

“Oh, fine, you can both have one.” 

He gave Dick one dough ball. Stephanie opened her mouth and he reluctantly flung the other at her. She caught it and crawled back down like a spider. He didn’t even have a second to process that, however, as the phone rang.

“Wayne residence, may I ask who is calling?” He squeezed the phone between his ear and his shoulder as he rolled the dough onto the floured countertop. “I’m sorry, Mr. Drake is not available right now. Please call back during his office hours.”

He hung up. It rang again.

“I already told you—oh, sorry, Mr. Fox. I mistook you for someone else there.” He resumed his awkward phone-holding position as he rummaged around for the cookie cutters. “Yes, I can pass the message. We can place a rush order for those parts by tomorrow. Does that work?” Alfred stamped out the shapes. “Excellent, I’ll have Master Bruce follow up with you.”

He slammed the phone down and made a mental note to get a new one with caller ID. He arranged the cookies on the platter… 

Only to realize he forgot to preheat the oven. 

Sighing, he switched it on. While it slowly warmed up, he passed Lucius’s message along to Bruce, broke up a fight between Tim and Damian over a shampoo bottle, and scrubbed down all the mixing bowls. Then he put the trays in the oven, set the Robin Laid An Egg timer, and finally let out the breath he’d been holding. 

“Alfred!” someone called. 

He sighed softly. “I will be right there.” 

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Read the rest on Ao3

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Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

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Gen, Complete, 1.2k words

Summary:

“You- you-” Timothy sputtered, “You little asshole!” He shook Damian by the shoulders and he resisted the urge to stab him for it. “I thought you were dead! Do you have any idea how scared I was?”

And Damian-

Well, Damian didn’t really know what to make of that.

For BatFam Week 2023 Day 3: Presumed Dead

[writerlovestropes]

Batfamily Week Day 4

Link to story: I Need A Hero

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I Need A Hero

Tim is biking home from school and it's later than usual because he stayed for an afterschool program. In the darkness, he notices a pair of headlights following. When they take the same random turns that Tim adds to his trip he knows he's being followed. His house is empty so his only option is to head to Wayne Manor and hope he gets there before the car catches up. He needs a hero, but his hero isn't who he expects.

Tim meets Alfred for the first time and gains an instant grandpa.

Batfamily week Day 4: Oh, To Be Young Again Deaging | Miscommunication | "I just crashed the Batmobile!"

[batfamilyweek]

AO3 Collection!

We officially have an AO3 collection up! We’re all so excited to see everyone’s amazing work! This Sunday will mark the first official day of Batfam Week 2023, and as such it is high time to present you all with the link to the collection:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/BATFAMWEEK2023

If posting to Tumblr, remember to either tag us or use #batfamweek2023 so we know to reblog your work!

[bamboozled-and-alone]

Watch "Please Don't Go - Batman AMV" on YouTube

I made an AMV for Batfam Week 2023 Day 2: "Please... Stay. Don't go."

[darknesswillfall]

Batfam week has started, so he're my fic!