I don't kill

Title: Neither Fate Nor Fortune [on the AO3]
Characters: Barbara (Jason, Bruce, Jim; Bruce/Jason)
Rating: PG-13
Series: Bring on the Night
Warnings: character death, ableism, violence, depression, offscreen underage, and all the content warning that comes with only mildly sanitized vampirism.
Summary: Barbara becomes Oracle, and Gotham's dead Robin is a vampire.

Canon timeline: I'm going with the idea that The Killing Joke takes place some months before Death in the Family. I'm playing loose with the chronology of some of the post-Death in the Family pre-No Man's Land storylines because of reasons.
Inspiration: I made canon soup from sources as diverse as Gotham Knights #43-44-45, Batman: Turning Points #3, Batman Chronicles #5 (Oracle Year One: Born of Hope), the DCAU, the Elseworlds Thrillkiller and Supergirl & Batgirl (spoilers for the latter two), Batman #424, and Gotham Central. I may be forgetting some.

Thank you to Discowing for betaing and cheerleading, to salinea for bearing my regular whining, and to moetushie whose remix of the first fic made me want to go on.

written for the dcu_bang 2012, this fic is accompanied by a fanmix made by ecto_gammat whose link is pending due to the hurricane.


( In Greek mythology, the bearer of bad news has no name. )

Title: disaster in the making
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Everyone can see it.
Notes: Takes place when Jason is Robin. self indulgent outsider pov + identity porn.

( The girls let the kid hang out. He's not there very often, and they don't target the same customers. )

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Title: in the business of misery
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: underage. I think.
Summary: this is thinking it through.
Notes: a softer world: There should be a word for a threat that is also a promise. Because that is what I want you to hold me down and do. There’s this one line I don’t promise I won’t use again, because I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to put it somewhere for two years, and I’m not sure this is the best possible place.

( In the kingdom of bad ideas this one is probably heir to the throne. )

Title: Tomorrow For Today
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: blood, underage, descriptions of violence, character death, possible dub-con, disturbing content? (that's a very wholesome story I just wrote right there.)
Summary: emotionally crippled billionaire seeks dead sidekick to make him whole again, and succeeds. (Basically, Bruce had a convenient vial of vampire blood to inject into Jason's veins when Jason died of crowbar. It failed, until three days after the funeral Jason crawls out of the grave and stumbled to Wayne Manor.) (italics in the sentence also a quote from Zeen.)

Notes: moetushie requested VAMPIRES at the porn battle. I pillaged your scenario, dear. Hope you like?
Canon notes: Garzonas was the son of a diplomat who walked after raping and abusing his girlfriend, who killed herself when she learned he wasn't convicted. In a fury, Jason went to confront Garzonas, and-- the confrontation ended with Garzonas falling to his death. The question's never been answered whether Jason pushed him or, like Jason told Batman when he arrived, “I guess I spooked him. He fell.” And after that, Jason wasn't benched as Robin.

( “Bruce. Bruce, what did you *do*?” )

Title: Committing Fornication
Ship: Dick/Tim/Steph
Rating: NC-17
Summary: I wrote tentacle fic. Shame is a thing of the past. (porn battle, prompts: tentacles, identity, Robin, smooth)
Notes: this is very much for minoanmiss, because the fic she wrote in DC fandom made (makes) me happy.

Post-OYL setting of a War Games AU where Steph really did die. (alternatively: a never-written fixit fic from when Steph hadn’t been retconned yet to be alive.) The title comes from The Jew of Malta: "Thou hast committed/ Fornication: but that was in another country,/ And besides, the wench is dead.". The more things change.


( “Does—does this happen very often?” )

Title: Thanks in parentheses
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: R
Warning: underage prostitution
Summary: the system called reciprocity. hookerfic and identity porn.

( Id is good for the soul. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. )

I think that given all the layers and layers of idendity in canon, it can be done about a gazillion ways and all be interesting. I kind of really really want this to be a thing that happens and I have no idea where to start, so.

The setting: Gotham. (or, well, the DCU.)
The fusion: His Dark Materials's daemons.

Give me one (or two) characters, and a prompt if you're so inclined, or a canon event/moment, or tell me what form you think a character's daemon would take, and I'll write you something short about it. Give me several prompts if you'd like! Go wild! No promises but I want to write it so very badly.

Title: Time is the dealer in second chances
Pairing: Bruce/Steph
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Tell me something only Robin would know. Time travel.
Notes: *shuffles feet* huh, yeah. (:DDDDD) time period: after Dick stopped being Robin, before Bruce met Jason.

( She doesn’t stop wrestling even after he has her in a lock on the ground. )

Dear friends, fellow fans. I present you the Big Damn Bruce/Jason rec list.

It’s earnest, it reflects my tastes, and so it’s not intended as a one-stop resource for Bruce/Jason. For one, we probably don’t have quite the same tastes and I wouldn’t want you to miss on fic you’d like: you may want to stalk oximore’s memories and those of dcfic_index (the latter for older stuff) for more options, including my own. /self-pimp There are amazing fics, classics, that I’ve left out.

Warning: every fic on this list should be viewed with the understanding that it comes with a blanket warning for underage and potentially disturbing content. Not all these fics are explicit; not all feature Batman/Robin. But given the characters and the dynamics, I’d rather not accidentally trigger someone. (Most of these fics, of course, come with their own header on the other end of the link.) If the absence of specific warning/ratings on this page make this list useless to you, tell me so and I’ll amend this soon as possible.

( rec list of doom for the OTP of DOOM )