12 Works in best fics i’ve ever read
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Tim's parents faked their deaths and fled the country years ago, but neglected to take him with them. He spent some time on the streets, and now at 16, he makes a living as a fortune teller, stalking and hustling the shit out of Gotham's elite by telling them eerily accurate fortunes based on the information he gathers about them.
His life is peculiar but he wouldn't change a thing. When he gets booked for the big Wayne Halloween party, however, he finds himself getting all tangled up with the Waynes, and the more fortunes he tells, the tighter the snare becomes.or: Tim just wanted to scam Gotham's elite, not end up on the Batfamily's watchlist. But it seems they just won't leave him alone..
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Regulus Black lives a very simple life in his middle age: it involves gardening, beekeeping, and keeping to his own devices. He has left the wizarding world behind, for good.
Which is why the letter comes as such a surprise. Worse, it's followed by a boy who seems to have stepped straight out of his long-gone memories.
Regulus has been on his own a long, long time, and in all honesty he's not sure how to cope with having another person in the house. But Harry will only be here temporarily, and a helping hand isn't so bad, really. Maybe he could get used to this.
OR: Harry shows up on Regulus' doorstep unannounced, to the shock and horror of them both. Learning how to change is not easy, but it's always easier with somebody else.
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No one, it turns out, really knows one another.
(OR: all it takes is a summer-long holiday in Italy, James Potter's teetering mental stability, a secret relationship, friends with benefits, Marlene’s secret, and enough stupidity and insecurity to go around for everything to come crashing down around them.)
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Suddenly, something tugged at the arm of his robe and he startled, nearly dropping the bread he was holding. He turned around, ready to defend himself but he froze when saw the young girl staring down at him where he was kneeling by the pond.
”Can you help me find my mom?” She said, her fingers gripping the fabric of his sleeve tightly, eyes big and bright.
Zuko blinked.
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Annabeth and the Nine Step Career Plan by feeling_the_aster_9145
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
25 Jul 2023
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Annabeth Chase does not accept limitations. Everyone knows that. If she wants something, no matter how impossible, she will find a way to make it happen. Though, perhaps she will allow Bruce Wayne and his ridiculous paranoia-induced company restrictions a small portion of the credit.
Actually… now that she thinks about it, the man may have had a point in his worries.
Wayne Technologies does not accept college interns. Annabeth always has a plan B.
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- Part 1 of The Art of Mortal Quests
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Regulus Black dies on a Tuesday.
Somewhere in the countryside of Italy, another man lives.
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- Part 1 of anti-hero(and anti-hero adjacent)verse
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Banshee In A Well by liverobinreaction (bugbee)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics)
03 Apr 2023
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Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
When he wakes up and claws his way out of the water, the sun has set, and the lights of his house are on. He is cold and wet and his lungs burn.
But most of all, Tim is alone.
(If you die and no-one is there to see it, were you ever alive in the first place?)
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- Part 1 of bury the dead where they're found
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Four-year-old Luna has been able to see lights her whole life- and when both of her parents die in an explosive magical accident, she decides to grab on to one of the lights and follow it.
Meanwhile, Regulus Black has never really thought of himself as the parental sort- he's hardly interacted with a child in his life, much less raised one. But when two magically inexplicable orphans show up and somehow resurrect him- well, what else was he supposed to do? Not immediately adopt them? Yeah, right.
(Features little Luna and Harry adopting each other as siblings and Regulus being in way, way over his head)
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Petals for Armor by SilverSkiesAtMidnight for Scarlet_Ribbons
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
03 Feb 2022
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There’s a small half-moon of blood under the white of Tim’s nail where he bent it. He studies the red of it, feeling foggy and dreamlike. “Can I ask you a question?”
His brother’s eyes flick to him and away again, surprised and wary. “What?”
His nail doesn’t hurt much, just the dullest of aches when he presses down against it. “When you were homeless, you slept with people for money, didn’t you?”
Jason jerks like he’s been slapped. His knuckles are so pale where they grip the steering wheel they suddenly look more bone than flesh. “Did I -”
“Was it worth it?” Tim asks, drifting like a cloud over whatever furious reaction Jason was about to give him. “The money, I mean.”
His sternum slams into the seatbelt with bruising force. Unbraced for it, his head whips forward and back against his seat as they swerve off the road again and skid to a halt with a screech of rubber.
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familiar (but this time i've had some practice) by aloneintherain
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)
22 Mar 2019
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Every decade, three teenagers are dragged from the future and placed in their younger bodies to give predictions that will set the tone for the next ten years on Berk.
But how are three dragon riders supposed to give prophecy to a village full of dragon-hating vikings?
(Time travel AU)
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Harry writes the first draft of his will when he’s fourteen.
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It has been suggested that after his eighth regeneration, the Doctor begins lying about his age. The official story is that he has simply lost track. This is a third possible explanation for the discrepancy between his ages in the new and old series.