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    Eternal youth was a much better deal before Child Protective Services became a thing. All Douxie wanted was for CPS to leave him the fuck alone, I mean, he was centuries older than every single foster parent they pawned him off on. It just felt patronizing to be treated like a child!

    That is, until he met his new foster family... the Lakes.

    And of course, things only get more complicated when his sweet little foster brother becomes the next Trollhunter.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    If there's one thing Steve Harrington has learned about himself over the last few years, it's that he'll do almost anything to protect the people he cares about.

    Steve Harrington defeated a faceless monster with nothing but a nail-filled bat and sheer terror to guide him.

    Steve Harrington defended a group of kids from 'rabid dogs' and an even more rabid teenager and got a plate cracked over his head for his troubles.

    Steve Harrington just spent the past several hours being tortured by agents of a foreign superpower for the crime of being best friends with a toothless thirteen year old.

    So, when Steve Harrington thinks to himself, in the depths of what is definitely not a full-blown panic attack, "If Jonathan doesn't stop this car right now, I'm going to climb over the backseat and strangle him to death with the stupid fucking ascot I've been forced to wear for the past two months." He means it.

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    Or: The one in which Steve has a Dark and Tragic Past™, a Southern accent, and two invisible shithead brothers.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    The first documented case of a Blessed was in 64 AD. Amongst the fire and chaos of Nero's burning of Rome, chroniclers of the event would later pen eye witness testimony of a lone woman heralding people to safety. They said that she pushed back the flames with her mind, opened a tunnel to lead them away from the destruction and pulled a small boy from a collapsing wall half a mile away from where he had been standing.

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    Steve Harrington is a good babysitter, so the author made that his superpower.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Damian Wayne is not the scientist of the family, so it really doesn't make sense that he would be the one to figure out how to travel through time and space to some different set of hero headquarters. It does make sense that they would have quite a few questions for the highly trained child that showed up from a different universe, but Damian isn't going to give up information without collateral. You've seen Peter Parker in Gotham, get ready for Damian Wayne in Avengers Tower. No one is getting out of this without a headache.

    “Whoa there buddy, you okay?”

    That was not his father’s voice.

    And yes, father had a habit of collecting children like a squirrel before winter but that voice did not belong in the cave.

    Likely because, Damian realized, he was no longer in the Batcave.

    The room around him was definitely a lab, and a nice one, but it wasn’t Drake’s. There were far too many windows, not enough coffee cups, and way, way too many robots. There was also a man standing in front of him in a lab coat. How cliche.

    Damian pulled himself up to his full height and gave the peasant his best ‘you are beneath me’ scowl. “That’s none of your concern.”

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    18 Jun 2026

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    The hit resonates above the noise of the city. His head snaps to the side, eyes forced to the cracked concrete below. He can feel the blood beading where her ring has carved into his cheek and it stings under her touch but the vitriolic Arabic that so sharply rolls off her tongue right after cuts so much deeper.

    "You are an only child, Ibn al Xu'ffasch."

    Her nails dig into his jaw, forcing his head up to meet her eyes. "You have always been an only child. You'd do well to remember that."

    A part of him resents her for calling him the sole heir. Splinters at the idea he was born alone. Another wonders if she is right. If he can even call himself a brother anymore when his is scattered, thousands of miles away, ashes in an unmarked grave.

     

    ". . . I understand, Mother."

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    AKA - Damian was a twin, once. But the League has no need for two heirs, and as far as he knows the Bat must only need one son. So when he is sent to live with his father, it is not merely blood relation that makes him refuse the idea of new family. Not that they know this.

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    17 Jun 2026