Going Home
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Dick Grayson is eight years old when his parents die in a "tragic accident." He is sent to live with his mysterious godfather, in a sprawling mansion in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey outside of Gotham.
He's pretty sure the house is haunted.
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Some of the inspirations behind this include Edgar Allen Poe, the entire Gothic Horror genre, and The Addams Family. This fic will focus more on the found family aspect of Batman, but there will still be Batman stuff happening (leaning heavily into the supernatural elements tag.) Expect mostly Dick's POV (chapters from another character's POV will have it mentioned before the chapter.) Tags will be updated as needed.Series
- Part 1 of Going Home
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When You Love Somebody and Bite Your Tongue by batcauldron
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
25 May 2026
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All you get is a mouthful of blood
Bruce Wayne wasn't trying to pick up the "playboy" part of his persona. If he traced back his steps, he'd have to blame the shareholders of Wayne Enterprises. They're the ones who insisted he go to Lex Luthor's stupid party in the first place. And now he's waking up in a shitty motel room with someone he should have avoided like Death Itself.
But that's fine. Everything's fine. Don't worry about it. It's not like this just made everything more complicated.
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Alt: Bruce steps on the wrong balcony at a party, and a lot of the everything he's been pretending to ignore for the past five years comes back to hit him like train (including the crush he had on the princess of the ecoterrorist murder cult he joined as a teenager.)This is canon to my 'Going Home' AU. It's not necessary to read 'Going Home' first (or at all), but there might be a few minor spoilers for future plot points.
Title comes from "When U Love Somebody" by Fruit Bats.Series
- Part 2 of Going Home
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Kate Kane was honorably discharged from the army's top secret "paranormal" division and immediately landed an even more dangerous, monumentally more asinine unpaid gig with her cousin, Bruce— same paranormal bullshit and then some, only this time there's not a trained team of trauma-bonded soldiers watching her back.
Instead she's got a perky teenage sidekick who just showed up out of nowhere, a cat burglar who likes to play mind games, an alcoholic magician who won't stop trying to recruit her to Justice League Dark, and apparently a city so full of supernatural energy it might just have gained sentience.
Canon to the 'Going Home' AU. This is what Kate is up to outside of the main plotline of Going Home. There will be spoilers for the main plotline. You don't have to read 'Going Home' to read this, but it might help.
Inspirations for this fic: Giallo films and the Gothic Horror genre.
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- Part 3 of Going Home
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Thomas Wayne’s life ended the day his second son died, but he's still here. Still waking up and going through the motions: work, dinner with Martha, pretending like he can hold everything together. It was only a matter of time before he broke.
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Alt: a splinter from my 'Going Home' AU, featuring Dr. Thomas Wayne's spiral into becoming Batman, Martha Wayne nee Kane accepting the inevitable call of fate, and Alfred Pennyworth's mask as a perfect butler chipping away to expose the hardened British spy beneath it in the aftermath of Bruce's death.Series
- Part 6 of Going Home
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Elaine Thomas, social worker by day and superhero by night, is also a secret third thing (apparently)... the reincarnated love of immortal warlord and possible godling Gnomon. She's starting to get flashes of past lives, but it's not helping her sort through the confusing and conflicting feelings she's having about the situation. There's also the dilemma of the Immortal Men's offer to join their ranks, not to mention the mysterious government agent tailing her superhero persona.
Something's got to give, and it's looking like her patience.
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Alt: unintentionally Dracula-inspired story for Elaine Thomas (Duke Thomas's mom.) You're getting doomed soulmates, lovers to enemies, hard decisions with no clearcut "correct" answer, and a whole lot of heartbreak funneling into righteous anger. This is part of my "Going Home" AU.Series
- Part 7 of Going Home
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My Heart, My Liege by batcauldron
Fandoms: Azrael: Agent of the Bat (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
18 Apr 2026
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Usually when the hallucinations start getting bad again, Jean-Paul goes to his doctor and asks for a stronger dose of antipsychotics. The hallucinations go away, and he can continue life about as normally as a man pretending he's not a former assassin can.
Except they're not going away this time.
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Alt: turns out there are consequences to playing God with a person's DNA, and Jean-Paul is the one having to foot the bill for the sins of the Order of St. Dumas.Canon to my "Going Home" AU.
(Title from "Mi Capitán" by Kiltro)
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- Part 8 of Going Home