18 Works by polybatcest
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Jason shifts a little so that he’s half-straddling Dick’s leg. He repeats, more pained and more desperate, “Hurts.”
“I know.” Dick hesitates. Before Jason presented, Dick had been prepared to help him out if the kid presented omega. As the only—previously only—omega in the pack, it was a duty he knew would fall to him and that he would’ve been happy to fulfill. But this is—this is different. This is Dick’s little brother, broken and crying, desperate for any kind of relief from the agony his body is in. It’s not just agony from his wounds, either, or from the transformation that was forced upon him.
Bitching always triggers a heat.
Jason survives the warehouse. He doesn't survive it unscathed.
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“Harm killed my brother,” Damian had said to Tim. “I hated him for it. So I killed him.”
Her brother.
She’d rarely acknowledged Tim as such before. She had, in fact, made it a point to tell him on more than one occasion that he was not and never would be Bruce’s son; was not and never would be her brother.
Tim loved her.
Tim hated her.
He also—unfortunately, tragically, soul-crushingly—needed her help.
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- Part 4 of Hills will fly, my turtle dove
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(Revised version! Reverse Robins + transfem Damian AU)
2008: Tim Drake—second Robin, superhero prodigy, and Damian Wayne's fifteen-year-old little brother—is murdered on a mission with Young Justice.
2016: Damian is woken from sleep by the fourth Robin, fifteen-year-old Jason Todd, screaming for help. When she bursts into his room, she's greeted by an assassin from the League with glowing green eyes and a grudge against Damian—a grudge that he intends to take out on Jason.
Damian has to contend with Tim's anger over Damian's old cruelty, his loyalty to Ra's, and his hatred of Jason. And if she's unable to put the ghost of her greatest mistake to rest, Jason will pay with his life.
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- Part 1 of Hills will fly, my turtle dove
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Nightwing and Robin sit on a rooftop during the Crisis by polybatcest
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
28 Feb 2026
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There’s a moment of perfect clarity
as the world explodes around them
where Robin looks up at Nightwing and says,
“You’re gonna hate me one day, aren’t you?”
He’s not angry. He knows that neither of them
have a choice here, neither of them have ever
been able to write their own fate,
and that’s even more true now, isn’t it?
The sky is red above them.Or: musings on the Crisis, on comics continuity, and on what happens when you know something is about to fundamentally change you but you also know you can't stop it.
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- Part 2 of DC Poetry
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And I may yet fall apart by polybatcest for Mell0_Mell0
Fandoms: Gotham Knights (Video Game 2022)
16 Feb 2026
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Five days.
Tim spent five days in the Court’s maze.
Five days of starvation. Five days of sleep deprivation. Five days of being drugged and taken and touched by dozens of hands he could barely remember.
And then, only a few weeks after Tim escaped the Court, Jason gets attacked by a Talon—and Tim snaps.
(Takes place after The devil's after both of us, but can be read on its own.)
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- Part 2 of Gotham Knights
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A contrapuntal poem—four poems in one—about Robin, Red Hood, and Jason's feelings about Bruce.
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- Part 1 of DC Poetry
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don't you want me like i want you, baby? by polybatcest for Excerpto
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
19 Jan 2026
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Damian is frustrated by his short height compared to the rest of his family. A training session with Jason gives him the perfect chance to work out some of his frustrations.
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- Part 5 of BatFam Drabbles
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kiss me in the doorway, always on your way out by polybatcest for noctstate
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
19 Jan 2026
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Damian is focused on writing his thesis. Jon wants a kiss before he leaves on a mission.
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- Part 4 of BatFam Drabbles
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she's holdin' on my heart like a hand grenade by polybatcest for tofupofu
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
17 Jan 2026
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When a gala gets robbed, Steph takes a bullet for her boyfriend. Jason is less than pleased.
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- Part 3 of BatFam Drabbles
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talking face-to-face (this, here, is love) by polybatcest for tofupofu
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
16 Jan 2026
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When an oil industrialist recently charged with animal abuse is found murdered with a League weapon, Bruce jumps to conclusions. Damian is hurt.
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- Part 2 of BatFam Drabbles
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well beyond the reach of nightmares by polybatcest for tofupofu
Fandoms: Batman (Comics)
17 Jan 2026
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Jason has a nightmare. Dick is there to help.
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- Part 1 of BatFam Drabbles
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Two twin clicks of the case snaps opening. Tim pulls out an Mk13—American, and slightly outdated, but both of these facts are positives, really. The bullets are American-made too. When they… when they find the bodies… they’ll think.
They’ll think it was some random American anti-meta zealot. This is worth the downgrade from the far superior League guns he trained with—Dami would recognize those in a heartbeat. The rifle stand snaps into place. The suppressor screws on at the muzzle. Tim checks the chamber, the trigger, the sights.
He sees, through the scope, a little boy’s bedroom.
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Tim Drake, assassin, genius, and recovered dead boy, tries to finish a job.
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- Part 3 of Hills will fly, my turtle dove
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When Bruce and Jay finally find the disturbance that the Batcomputer had detected—a big, swirling mass of light on the ground—Jay is even the first one to realize it’s some kind of portal somewhere. Bruce gives him a proud smile and squeezes his shoulder in a way just intimate enough to be wrong. Jay tries to pretend he doesn’t lean into it. Bruce’s hand slips down to the small of his back, and Jay presses closer against Bruce’s side, and that gets him another pleased smile.
So, overall, the night is going great, until Jay trips and falls into the stupid portal.
Jason Todd-Wayne lives with his beloved dad, a kind and caring Bruce Wayne. In an adjacent dimension, Jay Todd lives with a Bruce Wayne who's been sexually abusing him since shortly after his adoption. When the two Jasons swap places, Jay finds himself experiencing a peace he never thought was possible while Jason is plunged into a hell he never could have imagined.
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"Crazy idea," Jason said, "Maybe you could get some fucking sleep?”
“I can’t,” Tim said—and Jason would’ve rolled his eyes and kept pressing, but the way Tim’s voice just barely cracked gave him pause.
Jason looked at him. The kid looked tired, obviously—but there was something more to it, too. A twitchiness, a fear, a panic even more profound than what the Knights all experienced as their default. Jason clapped his hand on Tim’s shoulder. “Fine. Sleep or don’t; frankly, I don’t give enough of a shit about your sleep habits to force a bedtime on you. I’m gonna sleep soon, though, and I wanna go up on the roof before I do. Care to join me?”
This approach seemed to disarm Tim. After a moment, he replied with a quiet, “Fine.”
Tim escaped from the Court's maze. He's doing... fine. Totally, totally fine.
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- Part 1 of Gotham Knights
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When Tim embarked on a mission that necessitated sneaking into a fancy party as Caroline Hill, he thought he’d been prepared for anything. Man-Bats. Two-Face. Poison Ivy. He’d even been prepared to get hit on by a dozen rich, older men who were willing to shell out for as much top-shelf vodka as necessary to feel like they had a beautiful young woman’s attention.
He just hadn’t expected one of those men to be Bruce.
And then a familiar voice purrs in his ear, “Well, aren’t you just gorgeous. What do you say to a drink? On me.”
Tim’s—or, rather, Caroline’s—first thought is, He must know it’s me.
His—or, rather, her—second thought is, This lead isn’t panning out anyway, so fuck it.
A fic that started with the thought "What if Caroline Hill mommy dommed Bruce Wayne?" and somehow spiralled into an exploration of Bruce and Tim having DID (and also Caroline Hill mommy domming Bruce Wayne).
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Young Justice was founded by a group of kids who thought they were invulnerable.
The deaths of Robin, Secret, and Wonder Girl proved just how vulnerable they really were.
Eight years after they lost half their team, the three surviving members of Young Justice are called to Wayne Manor where Damian and Jon inform them that Tim is alive—and working as an assassin for Ra's al Ghul. Damian gives them strict orders to not engage with Tim and leave this for their family to resolve.
But they wouldn't be Young Justice if they listened to orders.
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- Part 2 of Hills will fly, my turtle dove
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Dick is too far away to make out any real details about the boy across the club, but his hair catches Dick’s eye—rusty red, with a streak of white right up front. He wonders if the kid bleached it or something.
Dick moves closer. No reaction from the kid. Even when Dick sits down right next to him, he doesn’t look at Dick, just stares off at nothing with a transfixed yet unfocused gaze. Dick’s not sure what he’s on, but judging by how wide his pupils are blown open, he’s on something. His entire demeanor is nervous, skittish, on constant alert for danger. Dick recognizes the look on his face: his instinct for constant alertness is at war with the drugs dulling his senses, and it’s freaking him out.
Dick leans in close to be heard over the music and says, “Hey, you alright, kid?”
One year before Red Hood will make his first appearance in Gotham City, Jason Todd gets a little too high at a rave.
Dick is too high himself to realize that the boy he's comforting is his supposed-to-be-dead little brother—which becomes very apparent when he invites Jason back to his hotel room.
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Dick let out a soft, choked laugh. “You’re alive. Good god, Jason—” His voice caught in his throat. He wordlessly slid his hand up Jason’s shoulder. A shiver ran up Jason’s spine as his brother’s hand found rest on the back of his neck.
“Dick,” Jason said, voice heavy and quiet. “What are you doing?”
Dick pushed Jason’s head a few inches closer to his and quietly said, “Tell me right now if you want me to stop.”
Jason falls first (twice). Dick falls harder. Then Jason shows up at the manor while Dick is injured, and they both fall together.