#BruDick Moments

[batsies-little-monster]

I'm feeling the BruDick & Batjokes Solidarity in this Chili's tonight

You can't separate shipping from Cold War Era Moral Panic in America because it infested all of Pop-Culture at the time. Ignoring outside of comics context for these ships is doing yourself a disservice. Both ships are in essence fighting the same fight and have been since the '66 TV show. Bruce Wayne Gay since before Adam West graced us on screen. Nobody here is winning a moral crusade by reheating the homophobic sentiment that there's something wrong with people for shipping either of these ships.

[talxns]

omg just came across that post and pls pls share ur thoughts on 60s brudick

Don’t mind if I do!!!

Batman (1966-68) is such an odd little treasure-trove of content when you look at it with a particular lens. Of course there are meta aspects of the show that kind of support the subtle brudick reading– the addition of the Aunt Harriet character to create some kind of buffer between the two guys constantly being together, and the addition of Barbara Gordon in season 3 to try to add a (kind of?) consistent love interest for Bruce so he didn’t seem as bored with women as he kind of gave off since he barely spent any time with anyone who wasn’t Dick. And Dick’s actor Burt Ward supposedly stated in his autobiography that Bruce and Dick could be interpreted as lovers.

Compared to modern interpretations, the characters of Bruce and Dick themselves are lighter, which complements the “campy” humorous tone of the show. Reference to Bruce’s parents happens only once, and Dick’s backstory is never addressed. This Batman doesn’t prowl around every night, tormented by his demons and pushing his loved ones away. He only goes out as Batman when Commissioner Gordon rings for him, always brings along Robin, and a majority of Batman and Robin’s crime-fighting takes place during the day.

This Bruce Wayne is kind of a do-no-wrong character. He’s never rude, he’s insistently law-abiding, and he’s never shown doing anything truly debaucherous, and the implication is that he just… Never does anything debauched ever. He never smokes or drinks alcohol, but not as much as a virtue of control as it is upholding a strict moral code against it. (He will order juice or more commonly milk when any kind of drinking is expected). This Bruce is kind of insufferable in his insistence of upholding good moral standing, and will take precious time to teach a moral lesson to Dick whenever he can think of one. And basically Bruce Wayne and Brucie Wayne are one in the same in this universe. His demeanor in public is the same as his demeanor in private.

Dick is similarly one dimensional. He is a goody-two-shoes like his guardian, though he has his outbursts of frustration which Bruce immediately tamps down on with some good old fashioned moral instruction. Dick will never fight Bruce’s word, will instantly agree with everything Bruce tells him, and will stroke his ego afterwards (Gosh, Bruce, you’re right! x100). This Dick is an excellent student, has many different hobbies (some of which he is very much not good at but Bruce still insists that he practice them), but doesn’t seem to be very cool compared to his classmates. He’s actually rather awkward and embarrassing when he tries. It’s probably because he’s spending all his time with Bruce, like a vicious cycle of relying on Bruce because he can’t relate to the cool kids at school and not being a cool kid because he’s hanging out with Bruce all day lol.

In Bruce and Dick’s freetime, they are together. There are maybe 4 or 5 instances out of 120 episodes where Bruce and Dick are not spending their day together before Gordon calls. It’s delightfully absurd. It’s certainly for the reasons to ease the plot, so they can be in the same place to start the episode’s story, but it gives the impression that Bruce Wayne almost exclusively spends all his time with Dick Grayson.

The show does a good job illustrating just how incredibly loyal and devoted to one another these characters are.

In an episode taking place at Dick’s high school, the other students tease him for being the ward of a millionaire, and Dick gets pretty defensive over it. In one of the rare instances that Dick is not with Bruce (on a date with a classmate), he is called by him, and dumps a milkshake on his date so he can have an excuse to go to Bruce. (Instances of Dick not being afforded a normal dating life during his teens and young adulthood because Bruce needs him is kind of a long running theme with these characters, isn’t it.)

There are a couple episodes where Bruce refuses to fight against brainwashed Dick (though there is an episode where Dick doesn’t return the favor and punches a brainwashed Bruce after apologizing in advance for it lol)

Bruce is adamant about Dick’s place at his side. Two times, Catwoman feigns innocence and offers to work with Batman as a partner. Bruce always reminds her of Robin being his partner, to which she always offers to kill him, and it always unsurprisingly upsets Bruce.

Bruce states that he would give up his life for Dick and tries to swap places with him when he’s in danger.

Dick is willing to let a villian fall to her death if she doesn’t cure Bruce of a spell she put him under. He is willing to let her dangle on the ledge of a tall building if she doesn’t promise to make Bruce normal again. Savage.

In the series, Dick is around 15-16 years old, since at the start he doesn’t have his license and by the end he gets it, and Bruce gives him a shiny red convertible for passing his driving test. You can just tell that when this Dick goes off to college, Bruce is going to be a wreck without him. What is he going to do all day now!?

Basically, aside from the 1943 black and white Batman serial, this was the first time we see a live action Bruce and Dick. And they are shown in all their devoted glory. In my opinion, this is the best live action interpretation of Dick and Bruce together (Sorry Schumacher fans), even if it’s very silly and dated. Kinda sad that there aren’t many options to choose from.

And since this Batman works on kind of an on-call system and isn’t vehemently patrolling the streets every night, isn’t really tormented by guilt and grief and never-ending duty, it’s really easy to extrapolate lazy evenings where Bruce and Dick are just simply enjoying each other’s company. Drinking tea and milk, reading poetry, and not being able to stay away from each other. In this universe, Aunt Harriet would never catch on, but Alfred would know and give them his blessing. Dick would push for more physical affection, Bruce would chastise him and teach him some moral lesson about abstinence, Dick would immediately fold and they’d go back to their hand holding and closed mouth kisses. That’s just the way this Bruce and Dick are. And it’s kind of refreshing in a pure and soft way.

I urge anyone to give the 60s Batman series a shot. Yeah, it’s goofy, yeah, Bruce and Dick seem out of character compared to modern interpretations, but hey, they are still valid interpretations, and it’s easy to see just how transparently they care for each other.

[kiddoairaku]

Dick when he expects Dad to reprimand him but gets an acknowledgement instead.. 🫶

(Nightwing #15 (1997))

[ohhcherry]

Nightwing's pretty covers compilation is soo nice 💙

Chunky Batman is also there

[k4txlulzz]

i love the idea of bruce being worried for dick the first time he goes out on his own with the titans😭he is 100% an overprotective parent and dick has to convince him like: "dad. i'll be ok i promise i can handle myself now im old enough!! i'll be safe i knowww me and my team can handle stuff" and bruce would be like "ok son i love you. i love u and miss u i dont say this alot but i do..visit me and call when possible pls oh and did i mention i lov u" "i know dad i love you too"

i think i even saw a panel where dick asked smth like "do u not trust me?" and bruce said "i trust you! i dont trust them(titans team); i dont know them"

bruce wayne is an overprotective mama bear its CANON idc he would beat slade's ass for pulling whatever weird shit he did in the teen titans cartoon

actually since i headcannon them to be georgian (dick partially! from his dad's side only BUT with bruce its both parents), fun fact!! in georgia parents lovingly call their kids "მამას/დედას გული" , "მამას/დედას სული" etc which basically translates to "mom's/dad's heart" and "mom's/dad's soul" !!! some might use both and call their kid their "სული და გული"->"heart and soul" :3 bruce is the type of parent to do this he totally can be a very gentle affectionate parent😭

[kuromitos]

I have more shit to say about batcest shippers!

[ This is the last time I promise ( -д-) ]

This is more directed at brudick shippers but the thing i hate about the most is that they try to get on this metaphorical soapbox, and say how the their ship is better and valid due to the fact that's "queer history." When in reality, they're nothing more than a bunch of liars, and just saying, random stuff to support their weird gross ship.

Stuff like how dick was supposed to be closer in age to bruce, how their relationship was always romantic and stuff like that, which is false.

Since his debut, Dick grayson was always portrayed as a young boy, and his relationship with bruce was always familial, not romantic. Yes, they weren't father and son during that time, but they did have a familial relationship, which was more akin to brothers, so they still had a familiar relationship.

And yes, I will admit I'm not gonna pretend that there weren't certain moments within the comics that did raise some eyebrows in today's standards, but that was also a scenes just happening in comics in general. Did we all just forget about the comic where supergirl fell in love with her with her horse?

What about the storyline, where green lantern falls in love with a fourteen year old alien girl who had the ability to physically age up her body to an adult form but was still mentally a child?

That storyline is still infamous today to the point that people don't like how jordan because of it, even though they reckoned it years ago. It's still creepy, but I digress.

There are so many storylines and moments that happen in comics that are so weird, but we just chalk it up to it being a certain time period. And I feel that's also what's going on, with the batman comics back then.

Another thing these shippers have come to believe that batman and robin are the reason why the comic code authority came into existence. Which is not completely true.

There are many reasons why the comic code came into fruition during that time, but they act like batman and robin is the sole reason why.

One of the main reasons mainly deal with the fact of censorship within comics and of course the corruption of children, which brings in their major evidence as to why they believe this is the book called seduction of the innocent.

If you don't know what the book seduction of the innocent is it's mainly a book by a doctor who believe that comics was turning children into delinquents and how parents should keep it away from their children and one of the passage within the books talks about how batman and robin are turning children gay.

Keep in mind, This was the 1950s where a man can stand next to another man, and people will automatically give them the side eye so....

Also, just a small piece of information is the man who wrote the book. He lied about that. He interviewed some boys asking him about the comic that they had read, and few of them happen to be gay and claim that they like to read superman comics with another indie title But for some reason, he decided to lie and claim that they was reading batman comics , and they wanted to be robin so they can have sex with him. He also lied about Wonder Woman and how she makes young girls want to hate men, so there's also that.

I'm going to post a link to a post that goes into more detail about this it also plays another detail I particularly dislike these types of shippers, which is how they only care about queer history when it benefits them. It comes with evidence about this man lying.

Which brings me to my final point that i'm going to make on here is they like to contradict themselves a lot.

These people are the same people who state that fiction isn't real and These are fictional characters so they can do whatever they want with them, but at the same time they want to get mad at people call them homophobic For not liking this ship due to being queer history and have an impact on queerness in comics. When we know that's not true.

How does that work? 2 things can't be true i At the same time if it doesn't make sense. either fiction affects reality, or it doesn't. You don't actually care if this has any impact within queer comics. You just care that this validates your weird a** ship between family members.

And that's incredibly irritating.

Also I feel I shouldn't have to mention this, but I am not antiship, I generally do not care what ship you're into, unless it's like Pedo or incest.

Even then, I'm not gonna do anything to you. I'm just gonna read about how you are a weirdo and call it a day, probably even block you.

I personally believe no one should be harassed, doxs, or anything horrible happened to them due to them for liking a ship unless you're being an asshole to everyone.

That's why I don't personally like these shippers. Because they want to feel mentally superior to everyone else and act like that, they are better than everyone else here.

They wanna blame the most random stuff on why they're getting hate when, in reality, that has nothing to do with their hatred. Like they wanna blame purity culture on why they're getting hate.

Purity culture??

in this fandom??

the fandom that is known for sexualizing their female characters?? The fandom that has sexualized Dick grayson so much that he's reduced nothing more to his a**??

Purity Culture has nothing to do with why you've been hated.

You are hated because you are making shit up for a ship.

You are hated because you are shipping a father and son and turning every single moment they spend together as romantic and basically sexualizing a wholesome relationship between men.

you are hated because you say out of pocket stuff to defend yourself like "adopted family aren't real families"

You are hated because you try to act better than everyone when you are no better than the average person on the internet

It has nothing to do with purity culture or or homophobia, or whatever random excuse you're trying to come up with. you are hated Cause you are generally a weird person that has weird taste in ships. That is it

I'm officially done talking about these people. Because if I feel if I do I will start to hate the fandom in general, so i'm done and I will, I'll try my best not to talk about them anymore.

BYE(*^▽^)/★*☆♪

[tcffantfu276]

(UNDERCOVER AS A MARRIED COUPLE(brudick edition.))

Scene: "A Waltz of Thorns and Silk"

(The Grand Ballroom — Undercover as Newlyweds, But Are They Really?)

The chandeliers dimmed, casting the ballroom in warm amber. The polished marble glowed beneath the soft candlelight, the illusion of intimacy settling over the room like a well-spun lie. But Bruce had never been one for illusions.

He exhaled slowly as his hand slid from Dick’s waist to the small of his back, pulling him closer. His palm pressed firmly, fingers splaying just enough to possess rather than merely guide. Their thighs brushed with every step, the waltz smooth, effortless—dangerous.

Dick made a quiet sound—barely a hitch of breath, just audible enough for Bruce to catch. His fingers curled into the fabric of Bruce’s shoulder, grip tightening.

Bruce tilted his head slightly, voice low. “Nervous?”

Dick’s lips curled. “Please. You wish.”

The music swelled, strings trembling with the weight of something unspoken.

Dick leaned in, close enough that his breath ghosted against Bruce’s ear. “Eyes on me, husband.” His voice dipped on the last word, rich with amusement—except, was it?

Bruce’s grip tightened without thinking. “You’re enjoying this too much.”

Dick’s thumb traced the sharp line of Bruce’s jaw, a featherlight touch, utterly improper for Gotham’s ever-watchful eyes. “And you’re not?”

Bruce exhaled, rougher than he meant to. “We’re being watched.”

“I know.” Dick’s smirk was pure mischief. “Why do you think I’m making it convincing?”

Bruce fought the urge to huff. “Your definition of convincing is questionable.”

Dick hummed. “Admit it, you’d rather suffer through this mission with me than anyone else.”

Bruce’s response was immediate. “You’d be insufferable if I denied it.”

A laugh, quiet and warm, nearly lost beneath the hum of the orchestra. But then Bruce moved—sweeping Dick into a low dip, one hand spanning his spine, the other firm against the curve of his neck.

Dick didn’t falter, but something in his expression did—just for a split second. His head tilted back, exposing the vulnerable line of his throat. His lips parted, caught between a word and breath, though neither quite made it out.

The room watched.

Bruce’s gaze flickered downward, lingering—not at the crowd, not at the mission—just for a moment, just enough to blur the line. His fingers pressed just a fraction tighter at Dick’s waist.

Dick’s lashes lowered, a slow blink. His voice, when it came, was quiet, steady. “The target’s watching.”

Bruce inhaled sharply. “…I know.”

Dick smiled, slow and knowing. “Then sell it.”

And he leaned in—closing the gap—

Almost.

Bruce turned his head at the last second, the kiss landing on his cheek instead. But it wasn’t avoidance, not really—because Bruce held him there, let Dick linger, let the warmth of his breath linger.

Dick’s laugh, when it finally came, was honey and something sharper underneath. “Coward.”

Bruce didn’t argue.

They parted, applause breaking the moment before it could become something. But Bruce’s thumb lingered at Dick’s hip, a touch that neither of them let go of right away.

And for just a second—just the barest fraction of a moment—Dick’s smirk faltered.

Somewhere in the Batcave, Alfred quietly set down his tea and wondered just how long the two of them planned to keep up this ridiculous charade.

[potentiality-26]

💜 BruDick or Hartwin (dealer's choice)

For these kiss prompts.

Went with BruDick, though I'm still kind of finding my feet with it. Ambiguous setting/timeline.

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“What the hell did I just do?” Dick breathed, not sure who he was asking — himself, maybe, or some unnamed higher power. Or maybe he was asking Bruce, who — while admittedly useless in a lot of emotional situations — could sometimes be relied on to know Dick better than he knew himself.

He had thrown his arms around Bruce’s neck in a burst of joy and — without thinking — kissed him.

Bruce didn’t kiss him back, but he didn’t push him away either. His gauntleted hands merely settled around Dick’s waist and Dick — up on his toes a little to reach him — lingered a moment longer than he really should have. Bruce just… felt really good, and Dick had wanted to kiss him for such a long time.

But he’d been fine not doing it, was the thing. Completely fine. Sure, there had been a time when he wanted to kiss Bruce so badly it was like a third — wait, sorry Alfred, fourth — person in the Batcave with them. Of course, there had also been a time when he wanted to throttle Bruce — or try to, any way — almost as badly. But things these days were about as easy between them as they were ever likely to be, and Dick… still wanted to kiss Bruce, but he knew that he shouldn’t and what they had… it was enough for him.

It was.

Except tonight… tonight they’d had a really good patrol.

Dick loved the whole family, of course he did — but he still loved it best when it was just him and Bruce together, flying. They kicked mostly-minor criminal ass back to back. Bruce’s lip twitched, just a little, at a couple of his quips — not enough so anyone else would notice, but Dick noticed. And no kids got hurt and nobody died. It was perfect, like nothing had changed, but also like everything had in — for once — the best of ways.

Dick came bounding out of the Batmobile when they got back to the cave, laughing, and he turned to — well, do something more appropriate, like bump Bruce’s shoulder or maybe even go in for a hug — but instead he just… kissed him. Bruce hadn’t even gotten the cowl off yet and Dick just — did it. And then he didn’t want to stop, not least because he had a few hours of getting tested for sex pollen ahead of him once he let go of Bruce, and that was if he was lucky.

Dick said, “What the hell did I just do?” and surely sealed his fate.

But Bruce’s grip on his hips actually tightened, and he was watching Dick very intently — but not in that dangerous, probing way that meant there were a lot of blood tests in Dick’s future, no — this was… warmer. Brighter. Dick might even say hopeful, if he was in an optimistic frame of mind. Which of course he was, or he wouldn’t have kissed Bruce at all, no matter how impulsively. Bruce said, “Do it again.”

Dick laughed, startled, and then — this time a little more carefully — kissed him again. And this time Bruce kissed him back.

[mistress-of-vos]

For the "Im weak for you" prompt: "Aren't you at least a little bit ashamed of how blantaly you are exploiting my feelings for you?” As a continuation of yours A/B/O Tim as BruDick's biochild AU ficlet if it is ok?

// So happy to hear your ask, anon!!! 😍💚 //

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Ra's isn't even sure why he's doing this. It's dangerous for them both, and shameful in a way he hadn't considered before. Yet here he is.

"Well, well, old man, are you going to fuck me already?" Tim giggles as he stretches on the mattres. His Robin suit glued to his petite body, omega pheromones filling the air of the room second by second. The alpha hadn't paid much attention before, but it's now impossible to ignore how the Wayne heir smells wonderfully sweet.

It's - well, perhaps wrong isn't the correct word. Ra's and Tim have seen each other through the years ever since the pup was barely able to talk. As Tim himself had said in their last encounter, she had been trying to separate Bruce Wayne from Dick Grayson for years, meaning that Ra's had needed to stay next to the kidnapped omega child more often than not.

When had Timothy turned into a bratty teenage omega without any kind of shame or decorum, Ra's could not tell. Maybe it started that one time Ra's had to stop Tim from jumping off a balcony, as a prom red dress was hardly adequate to face a snow storm.

Anyhow; in the present Tim is enjoying their meeting. He looks amused, eyes shimmering lovely. Ra's himself had ripped off the mask from Tim's doll face minutes ago when the omega was still half asleep due to the drug, and now Ra's' fingers itch painfully, desiring to get rid of that obscene suit as well.

It is less than honorable. The Batman could think of this as revenge, or an offense. But it has been Timothy who flirted during their last encounter, offering word by word something that Ra's does desire deep in his heart.

Ra's wants an alpha son, and having an intelligent, beautiful omega mate would be a cherry on top. Timothy is everything his mate should be, and that's exactly why the omega is laying on Ra's' bed as the alpha sits on a corner, slowly undoing his cape and shirt.

"You offered to bear me a heir," Ra's points out, unable to hide the growl of lust that leaves his throat. Tim smirks, showing those adorable tiny omega fangs of his, spreading even more in the bed to show Ra's just how long his legs are and how thin his torso is.

Timothy is somehow petite and long at the same time, and it reminds Ra's' of beautiful goddesses painted and sculpted in Greece: Young, thin and pale; big eyes like jewels and full lips that murmur temptations. Timothy looks nothing like his parents, but Ra's keeps in mind that this is the child of the one omega who managed to wrap the Batman around his finger, and perhaps Ra's should be more careful with this kitten-like creature that is looking at him with hunger.

"You will need to come closer, then," the omega purrs, smirk widening when Ra's throws his cape away and does get closer indeed, crawling on the bed as a tiger, unbuttoned shirt showing his chest hair and allowing his own alpha pheromones to travel to Tim's nose.

"Oh," is what Tim breathes when Ra's pulls him against him, rough hands squeezing his ass over the spandex fabric, fangs sinking on the exposed are of his neck.

"This suit of yours," Ra's murmurs, eyes dark as he looks at the beautifully shaped pair of small tits glued to the red shirt, "I want it off."

Tim manages to push Ra's down this time, gloved thin hands using all their force to make Ra's lay down. Tim is now sitting on his lip, naughty smile on his lips. Soon, the belt is off, then the gloves, and then manicured fingers are pulling the upper part of the Robin suit up slowly.

"What a pervert old man," Tim laughs as he shows off his breasts, "Babies don't appear just by looking, oh glorious Demon's Head."

Ra's gets a tic on his eye for a moment, but quickly forgives the insult when his hands cup Timothy's exquisite breasts. And the sounds the omega makes later... It's worth every inconvenience this kidnapping involves.

Nights later, Timothy is posing at the mirror, an unsatisfied gesture on his face as he looks at his silk outfit with matching jewels. Ra's, trying to focuse on his work, fails to not notice Timothy's annoyance.

"Is the collar not to your liking?" Ra's finally asks, embarrassed at just how much of his time and mind goes to this small yet spoiled omega who seems to take more space on his life second by second.

"It needs a tiara," Tim argues, turning around to see Ra's and tilt his head, "Don't you agree? A queen needs a crown, after all."

"A queen," Ra's murmurs, "Is that what you are calling yourself now?"

"That's the least I could be considering I'm going to bear your children," Tim hums as he walks towards Ra's' desk, "I believed you were a gentleman, Ra's; are you going to tell me you will offend me and my family by treating me as a mere concubine?"

Ra's blinks.

"Aren't you ashamed of how you exploit my feelings about you, beloved?" he regrets out loud, a roll on his eyes as he takes Tim's hands and makes the omega sit on his lap, "You seem to find joy in torturing me and insulting me every chance you have despite my worship towards you."

"Don't tell me my words offend the great Ra's al Ghul!" Tim giggles, batting his thick eyelashes at Ra's and poutting with his kissable lips, "In that case, it would be inappropriate to allow a mere mistress to hold such power you, don't you think?"

"Indeed," Ra's agrees, a hand caressing Tim's covered stomach, wondering if the omega was already carrying their first pup. He should, considering all the times they have shared a bed during these days; "You might be right, if you are to be mother of my heir, a title as high as mine is needed."

"Now we're talking," Tim purrs, index finger giving a soft pinch to Ra's' nose.

Just when their mouths are about to crash, four familiar people interrupt the calm of the palace.

Ra's' daughter, offended to every last blood drop in her body.

Tim's parents, scandalized and angry.

And a fourth one, who happens to be certain blonde vigilante with a flaming sword who it seems wasn't merely a friend of Tim. A friend wouldn't be overwhelmed with violence at the view of Tim next to Ra's, would he?

"Look at the bright side!" Tim sings as they run from the fight, ninjas trying to keep their enemies behind and Ubu coming down on a helicopter, "We don't have to arrange a family meeting anymore!"

Ra's ends up picking Timothy up and jumping off a window, wondering why, after 800 years of life, this curious omega manages to ruin his life like this.

He used to be an alpha with dignity!

(A few months later, when Tim is pregnant and needy, constantly dragging Ra's to their nest and begging for more, Ra's can't complain anymore.

This is a great solution, even if Batman keeps trying to kill Ra's. It's a small price for such happiness and pleasure, anyway.

And if Tim has the demon's head wrapped around his finger... Well, let's say Gotham's princess isn't as naive as other might think).

[anawrites3]

5, brudick(if not batcest then sladick, sorry I'm not sure how you feel about it '-_-)

5. What are you waiting for?

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It was one of those rare nights that found Bruce and Dick alone. The rest of the family was out patrolling but both of them were forced to stay in the Manor, for the time being - Dick because of his injured leg and Bruce because of his broken arm.

The Manor was as quiet as it used to be back then when it was only them and Alfred, and Dick allowed himself to just stop for a moment and listen to the peace.

"Something wrong?" Bruce asked softly, stopping a few steps behind him.

Dick opened his eyes and looked over his shoulder to send Bruce a grin. "It's quiet." He said cheerfully.

Bruce clearly didn't expect that kind of an answer because the corner of his lips immediately ticked up in his own smile.

"It is." He agreed. His hand was warm and heavy when he placed it on Dick's shoulder and Dick moved almost unconsciously to press himself against him. "Is that bad?"

"It's weird." Dick laughed. "No one is yelling, no one is fighting or trying to kill anyone, no one is breaking anything. It feels as if we're in some alternate dimension."

Bruce hummed. He looked down the empty hall and Dick could see that he was thinking about it - about the world where it was always this quiet in the Manor. He grabbed Bruce's hand and squeezed his fingers.

"Let's go sit down." Bruce said, looking away from the hall and at Dick again. The corner of his lips was still curled up but this time it was strained. "You shouldn't be standing for so long."

"I'll be fine." Dick argued but he let Bruce help him walk.

They stopped in one of the sunrooms and Dick beamed at him, even if Bruce was purposely looking away. They didn't spend their time there often but Dick absolutely adored the sunrooms, how magical they felt with all the windows and sun filckering in through the glass.

At night they were even more amazing - the glassed walls allowed them to gaze at the stars from the warm home and the moonlight seemed to turn it into something secret, as if they were the only people in the world right now.

Bruce... Bruce prefered to avoid it, most of the time. It held too many memories, he always said and so Dick never pushed.

Maybe Bruce finally decided to write some new memories in there.

"Alright?" The man asked as he helped Dick sit down.

"Yes, thank you."

Dick hated being injured even more than Bruce was. With his leg hurt, he wasn't able to move the way he wanted to and sometimes he needed help with something as simple as walking or sitting down.

He tried to walk on his hands at first. No one really liked that.

Bruce sat down next to him, careful of his own injured arm, and for a moment they just rested like that, sides pressed closely together.

"I was thinking about taking you and Damian to zoo this weekend." Bruce broke the silence with a soft hum. "Before you got injured, I mean. We havent been spending a lot of time together lately so I thought it... would be nice. And that the both of you might like it."

Dick rested his head on Bruce's shoulder.

"I would love that." He said with a smile. "Let's go as soon as Leslie tells us we're good to go."

"Alright." Bruce just said again.

When Dick turned, just enough to see the man without moving his head, there was a smile on Bruce's lips as well.

Dick looked at him and saw the man who was too stubborn to admit he was wrong, too insecure to admit that he wanted to spend time with his family. A man that was scared and thought that pushing his loved ones away was better because even if it hurt everyone at least they will be safe, safer than they would be if he was close.

Most importantly, he saw the man who was trying, for him and for the rest of their family. A man who fought against his own fears.

"I really want to kiss you right now." Dick whispered fondly.

Bruce looked surprised for a whole of two seconds before a soft smile returned onto his lips. Pink dusted his cheeks as if he was embarrassed - maybe he still got a little shy with how casually Dick was able to ask for things like that.

Dick moved closer to press his lips against those blushed cheeks and they turned even more red under his touch.

"Can I?" He asked again.

Bruce's hand was still warm when it found Dick's and he interwined their fingers together.

"What are you waiting for?" He asked, just as quietly, which was his own way of saying 'You don't ever need to ask'.

Dick smiled. Bruce's stubble was sharp under his fingertips as he rested his other hand there to pull the man closer and it rubbed against his own chin and cheeks as he got closer. Their lips pressed together slowly, unhurriedly but firm in a way that showed Bruce that he wanted it and it was okay of Bruce to want it as well.

"You really need to shave." He murmured, making Bruce laugh into the kiss.

"Later." The man said and kissed him again and again.

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Thank you for reading!! 💕

[zeawesomebirdie]

Guidance of the Gray Son

Chapter 1: End of Beginning

written by ZeAwesomeBirdie; art by @lunarbeastsol

Now, Dick was splayed supine on the sticky floor behind the desk, his right foot at an impossible angle and caught underneath his left thigh, his breaths coming in congested gasps. The copper taste on his tongue told him that was his own blood trickling into his lungs. His vision blurred and his head swam when he tried to push himself upright; between his uncooperative arms and the fire in his ribs, he decided it would be wisest to lay still for another moment longer. Someone else was inhaling deeply—albeit shakily—in the quiet of the office, their breaths that of someone performing an exercise in an effort to prevent their body from going into shock after an intense bout of activity. They took one last full breath, then their pained moan gave away their identity: that was Bruce, somewhere on the far side of the room. There was a rustle of the carpeting, a soft thump of a large hand on the edge of the desk, and another groan that set Dick’s poor heart racing again. Bruce was injured, despite all of Dick’s efforts to protect him. Bruce was injured, and Dick couldn’t do a single damned thing about it.

Chapters: 1/? Pairing: Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne; Gotham City/Wayne Manor Rating: Explicit Archive Warnings: Graphic Violence Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Great Depression; Alternate Universe - 1930s; Horror; Gore; Sentient Gotham City; Sentient Wayne Manor; Court of Owls; Magical Elements; Medical Inaccuracies; Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

Up from the ashes, our lady will rise Clearing the rain from our cold foggy skies Tomorrow’s not given, but tonight she can’t die Tonight our dear lady walks with us Dick Grayson had a destiny. For eighteen long years, he trained under the guidance of his sponsors, pushing his mortal body to the limit and beyond in the hopes that one day, he, as well, could be among those who cared for the city that had raised him. Bruce Wayne had a dream. For eighteen long years, he followed the progress of the orphan boy he hadn’t been able to save, coining the plan to help the city that gave him all he had. And she... she dreamed, awaiting her incoming destiny. She had never been a damsel in a distress, no—she had been fighting tirelessly, with all she had—but still, she had grown weary… And so, she waited in the gentle embrace of dreams.

@brudick-week day 6: Gothic Horror

[zeroducks-2]

I’m coming back to the DC fandom after a break for a few years and it’s genuinely a baffling experience of like when the fuck did we start calling things batcest??? I don’t remember that ever being a term?? When did my popular basic staple ships that were everywhere (BruDick, JayDick, JayTim, etc) become like controversial?? When did this become a nuclear family??

I feel like I’m going a little crazy watching this wackass uptick in purity culture that feels especially palatable to me in the Batman/DC fandom. Like I was gone off to dabble in other fandoms and I came back and Tim Drake was canonically bi but everything else was on fire with a guy stabbed in the leg. Like people are banning me from my own house kind of situation.

You and many others anon, me included.

Not only they turned the bats and birds into a nuclear family and started harassing everyone who ships them, but they're also actively trying to do revisionism of fandom history by saying that the ships you mentioned have always been "controversial", and that it was a fringe community that used to ship them rather than the majority of people. Which couldn't be more false of course, but these people do not care about what's actually true or not and will keep coming up with more or less prettily worded bullshit to further their moral purity agenda.

We ARE talking about very basic ships which indeed were the foundation of the fandom (especially Brudick and Jaytim), and now shipping them earns you the "freak" badge, and the moment one of your ship posts goes above the 100 notes you're at risk of receiving mild to heavy harassment in the form of insults to suicide baiting to threats of doxxing. If it happens on Discord you might as well delete your account and start anew. This isn't in any way discouraged by tumblr itself - more and more anti harassment, "free shipping" blogs get termed while the censorship lovers thrive nearly as much as on twitter.

"Zero what are you saying twitter is way worse" Twitter is undeniably worse because its very format encourages misunderstanding and vitriol, but we can still post whatever we want on twitter. Whereas on tumblr showing one nipple is considered VM18, and if you even just mention your own history of childhood abuse you can get termed without previous warning, because a website in which CSA is even just brushed on is not safe enough for advertisers. I'm saying this because this culture of extreme censorship encourages anti-ship mentality and also encourages young queer people to police themselves, convinced that being perfectly pristine and sanitized is somehow the morally correct thing to do.

Oh and DC is at fault too. I talk about it at length here if you're interested in more of my yapping.

[ohhcherry]

I'm going back to this panel again because how am I supposed to be normal when Bruce's only thought at the moment close to death is Dick 😭😭??

[brudick-summerexchange]

Hi friends! Day 2 has arrived! We invite you to enjoy this feast of the most iconic ship: The Dynamic Duo 💙🖤

Please don't forget to show your love and appreciation for our BruDick creators! 💙

[Fanfic] A Few Short Steps for FleetSparrow [Explicit, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

When they're out here, it feels different. Like, perhaps, there's less of a barrier between them, less distance between Batman and Robin than there is between Bruce and Dick.

[Fanfic] Beyond Batman and Nightwing for MFLuder [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

There is a new Batman in Neo-Gotham City. Who does he call when he needs to save one very specific, very obstinate life? Nightwing, of course. A short Bruce and Dick romance in the Batman Beyond universe.

[Fanfic] this place is my home. for cadkitten [Mature, Major Character Death]

Summary:

Bruce looks at him with a blank stare. “Gotham doesn’t want you here, Dick,” he says matter-of-fact, like the words do not tear a hole into Dick’s own heart. As if it does not sound more like 'I do not want you here.' Bruce is the heart of Gotham, and Dick is the heart of Bludhaven.

[Fanfic] Love You to Let You Go, Heal Apart to Come Back Home for fogwise [Teen, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Dick Grayson has many gold medals, a not insignificant amount are Olympic ones. Bruce Wayne has his fair share from boxing. They were one of many Olympic couples from Rio 2016, everyone thought they'd come out of Tokyo with rings on their fingers. Instead, Dick spent months in physical therapy after a last ditch effort to save his ACL (and his career) failed, and they were broken up. Dick avoided anything sports related for two years. And then his former coach's kids, the coach responsible for the negligent training that ended his career early, come knocking with their youngest sibling in tow. They want to prove their father's coaching strategies were nothing but dangerous and the medals they all managed to win were in spite of his training, not because of it. Unfortunately the youngest Wilson is also Damian's half brother, Damian who Dick had helped raise for the four years he and Bruce had been together. But Dick Grayson needs to prove himself, complicated feelings about Bruce be damned. And if Bruce admits that he's been regularly attending therapy since they broke up well... It's not like he's changed enough to get back together after an open discussion about where they went wrong... Right?

[Fanfic] Then I Finally Rested In Your Bed for Themadwomanwhoisunfortunatelylackingabox [Explicit, Violence]

Summary:

For much of his life, Bruce felt no real compulsion to find his soulmate. Until one day he's drawn to The Circus, where he has the bad luck to lose his soulmate not once, but twice. Or: Bruce meets a boy from the circus and fate both decides yes, he's yours, but also no, you can't have him.

[Art] For Our Eyes Only for NyxKvistad [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Galas can be so boring, especially if you have to keep up pretenses. An out of the way nook offers a moment of privacy.

[Art] Rule of Thumb for flitterwing [Mature, No Warnings Added]

Summary:

Constantine hadn’t explained the magnitude of Dick’s fuck up until it happened.

[necrotic-nephilim]

For the ask game

au where brudick happens but they keep it VERY hidden to the point only cass knows but she thinks everyone does cause to her it's so obvious, so one day on their monthly family dinner that no one misses she ask's them why they have different rooms when they always go to eachother during the night. What do you think would happen? Would they deny deny deny? would they ask her what she's talking about? how does everyone else react to this revelation? do the other heroes find out? do they have opinions about it?

for the ask game!

I LOVE THIS SHIT. truly love Cass noticing things she shouldn't and assuming they're common knowledge, it's my fave flavor. this is such a fun idea-

so Cass knows from like, day one. and obviously she never says anything bc she assumes this is normal. in a way, the weird vibes between Bruce and Dick *are* normalized to the Batfam, everyone sort of. tiptoes around their weirdness (even if they don't know it's romantic) so Cass learns to do the same. she doesn't mention it bc no one mentions Bruce and Dick's bond, it's only ever acknowledged with shared looks. it takes years before she has the courage to ask and i think it's fun if she asks for an utterly mundane reason. like, Alfred makes a teasing remark about washing everyone's bedsheets and what a task that is, and Cass just drops it into conversation that Dick's bed is rarely used because he's always in Bruce's, so that must make it easier to handle.

Dick was try to play it off as a joke. just the mention would make Bruce go silent, for once finally not having a contingency plan on how to handle something. he and Dick were never supposed to happen in the first place, it was so accidental he's never considered the possibility of someone finding out bc they're so careful, though in hindsight, of course he should've known Cass would've figured it out. Dick would awkwardly laugh, try to say something to the effect of "very funny, but we're not *that* close haha" just to break the tension. Cass doesn't give in, though. she's not the best at social cues and doesn't understand the desperate look Dick is giving her, trying to get her to drop it. she pushes on and corrects Dick, insisting she doesn't judge them for it. Bruce would finally snap back into reality and give a more serious denial, quickly changing the conversation before anyone else can press.

the issue is, the minute Cass says it out loud, it becomes *so* obvious. especially to Tim, who has the biggest "oh my GOD" lightbulb moment of his life. there is no unseeing it. it takes him a while to process how he feels about it, the same with everyone else. for a week, there's an obvious tension. no one will say anything, but everyone knows and is trying to sit with it to decide how they feel. it's not a simple situation to feel one way or another about. that's when the questions start. Tim asks Dick questions, Alfred asks Bruce questions. how old was Dick, how did it happen, all the things Dick and Bruce have never wanted to have to answer. bc none of the questions have clean answers. it was a slow and gradual relationship. sure, they can say the first time they slept together, but that doesn't *really* count as the start of things. the start goes back to when Dick was still a teenager, probably underage. even if nothing happened, they both knew. and the way they dance around the questions makes that obvious.

most of the Batfamily i think, would begrudgingly accept it. it's too late to convince Bruce and Dick out of it now, and at the end of the day, Bruce and Dick will always choose each other over anyone else. fighting it just increases the chances of getting ostracized and pushed away by the two of them. feelings vary. i think Alfred would be the least happy about it because he was there when Dick was just a 10 yr old. everyone else only has memory of Dick as an adult, but Alfred watched Dick grow up, raised by Bruce, so he just can't shake that image. Tim sees it as one of those things you just have to accept about Batman, and carefully considers his role as Robin and makes sure he focuses on making sure Dick is happy/safe as well as Bruce. if nothing else, Tim will put his feelings aside to be the Emotional Support Child. Barbara would distance herself from the Batfam for a while just to sit on it, because she also saw Dick as a kid and it sits wrong with her. long talks with Dick convince her to let it go, but she does keep a *much* closer eye on Bruce to be sure this doesn't become a pattern. i think she'd enlist Cass to make sure Bruce never shows romantic/sexual attraction toward other Robins. Steph and Jason are equally apathetic toward it, being the ones who are most negative toward Bruce. they just shrug and go "yeah sounds like some shit Bruce would do". Damian's a bit of a toss-up. i think it'd really throw him for a loop and he'd be far more critical of Dick in the beginning, but once he approves of Dick, he'd *really* latch onto him.

i do think the rest of the hero community would find out. not on purpose, but the leak happens. Babs vents her feelings about it to Dinah, Helena, and Zinda. Tim mutters about it to the Titans. and Jason will tell anyone who asks because he doesn't have a rat's ass to give about Bruce's precious reputation. (if anything, he'd purposefully try to ruin Bruce with that info) the hero community... varies. i think Oliver would be the *most* pissed. Oliver is very similar to Bruce, in that he's taken in his share of strays, but he was objectively a lot better at it than Bruce. it causes a minor public scandal when Oliver drinks too much at some gala and just. publically beats the shit out of Bruce Wayne, incoherently talking about something to do with him being a creep. i could see Oliver rallying support from people like Barry and Arthur who also have young sidekicks and would agree it being fucked up. i don't think Bruce would be entirely ejected from the hero community, but he would be quietly removed as a chair member of the Justice League and have most of his power as a team leader stripped. no matter how much damage control Dick does, insisting he was an adult when anything real happened and he consented, no one can look at Bruce the same. sort of a bittersweet ending, Bruce and Dick are together and no one can take that from them, but there's still realistic reaction and blowback to it, which i personally think is a lot of fun.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

re bruce going off the deep end nd killing when dick dies; i don't know if you've read jla: the nail but it s soso insane. to me

(spoilers,, you should read it if you haven't it's rlly good and only three issues)

ok. so the joker kills robin and batgirl in some unspecified horrible way in front of bruce and forces him to keep his eyes open. and then bruce freaks out and kills him on live tv. then he grabs selina's unconscious body and goes back to the cave on autopilot. goes catatonic and just sits and stares into the distance

and then!!! selina dresses up in the robin uniform to snap him out of it (?? this feel implicative of something..) , she asks him why he's given up now and won't get justice for his partners and they go help out the jla.

in the end he turns himself in for killing the joker (he doesn’t end up going to jail though), leaves the jla and “…he continues to fight crime, his crusade has become a self-imposed penance”(. it was also that before.but now its for robin and batgirl’s deaths instead of his parents). technically they don't say which robin it is but it feels like it has to be dick w timelines and all..

but bruce's breakdown there is to me always what would happen if dick dies. like total shut down and abandonment of morality and then living the rest of his life trying to pay for it somehow.. soso insane

thank you for this rec this was such a good read!! T_T i'm surprised at how accessible this feels too, like i think someone with only passing knowledge of basic dcu info (there is a group called the justice league, batman is there, superman was raised by the kents) could still really enjoy this

the sequences in the cave are SO GOOD i love bruce's cataonia and his o_O o_o O_O eyes... selina dressing as dick to snap bruce out of it and inspire him to try again (and bruce FREAKING OUT AT IT <3) is a great moment and should go in the hall of "even dc knows brudick is There" fame. like ok your butlerdad can't help you... your gf can't help you... but believing your dead brothersonfriendhusband is alive again and speaking to you CAN finally shake you from your grief catatonia... hm!!!

i loved the ending w/ bruce returning to gotham to continue the mission but withdrawing from the world... dick being the ray of light that helped bruce open up to others and learn to work with a partner/teammates, and then dick's death being what causes him to retreat from his team for good and close off from the world again... bruce treating his mission now as penance for failing dick... AARGH!!

it's basically the best case scenario for the aftermath of dick dying that i can see happening... bruce kills but it's just the one time, then he goes back to gotham to be severely depressed (EVEN MORE THAN USUAL) forever 😭😭😭 they're never going to invent a dick grayson dying that isn't world-shattering for bruce!!!!!!