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    Jason Todd wakes up in the wrong Gotham.

    Here, he stayed dead. Here, his death broke his family so completely they became the monsters they once fought. Dick Grayson haunts the skyline with wings and talons, Barbara Gordon moves like a spider made of shadow, and something that might have once been Batman rules from a corrupted cave.

    The city is quarantined, the air tastes of ozone and old blood, and Jason should be running.

    Instead, he finds himself drawn to the creature that was once his brother—the one stalking him through twisted streets with eyes that still burn with something almost human.

    Some hunts, it turns out, go both ways.

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    He turned around, frowning at the figure standing maybe four meters behind him. Peter had no idea how the hell he thought he was being subtle. If that was his goal, he sucked at stealth.

    “Hey! Yeah, you, the guy in red. What do you want?” He called again, irritation threading through.

    Red Hood didn’t answer. He just stood there, still, staring at him through the mask. Peter figured maybe he was deciding something. 

    Whatever it was, it wasn’t his problem.

    His mouth opened, ready to tell him to piss off. But the words that came back weren’t his. They rolled out of the helmet in a deep, modulated voice:

    “You’re smarter than I thought.”

    Peter felt his stomach drop. Because—what the fuck?

    Peter has made bad choices before, but Gotham is the one that bites back.
    He wants to prove he belongs.
    He has no idea how vulnerable he is.

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    Six months ago, Renegade broke free from his master. He’d had no home. No family. Had learned nothing beyond what he'd needed to be a predator.
    Now free, he has vowed to use those skills to help instead of hurt.

    Only Nightwing really shouldn't have picked Blüdhaven for his debut. The neighbors in Gotham are kinda... a lot.

    Like, A LOT a lot.

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    Dick joins the batfam fashionably late.

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    “Your butchery of the English language astounds me.” Damian says, sliding into the seat.

    “Second language.” Dick replies. “Can’t be blamed for my mistakes.”

    Damian sniffs pretentiously as Dick starts up the car and gets them on the road, the reprimand already on his tongue. “Don’t be foolish, Richard, you have mastered a number of languages and are perfectly capable of speaking them as they were intended to be spoken, as I do. Making excuses as such is undignified.”

    Dick hums, amused. “I think there was actually a compliment in there. You’re getting soft, baby bat.”

    Damian’s scandalized face is exactly as Dick pictured it. “I am not!”

    Bruce died. Bruce came back to life. The months between those moments don’t stop meaning something even if it would be easier if they did.

    It’s up to Dick to reassemble his life and find a way to be a brother to the boy he considers his kid. It shouldn’t be a problem (except that it is) and where the hell is his sweater??

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    Aizawa gets called to England to deal with the Black family fortune and returns with a traumatized war hero cousin he will not be giving back. Aizawa's pretty sure his husband won't mind.

    Harry meets an actually competent adult who actually understands, offers to take him away, and is willing to tell the Magical Word to shove it. Harry maybe gets attached.

    Class 3A adopts another hero or two and learns that Problem Children who had megalomaniacs chasing them through school bond startlingly quickly. They also shouldn't be left alone with Nezu.

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