Daddy, Not Bats

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Series Begun:
2021-07-19
Series Updated:
2026-06-15
Description:

In April 2012, I wrote a one-shot on Fanfiction.net called 'A Father's Request', thinking it would just be a fun one-off. Then the comments came in encouraging me to go further.
So I did.
Majority was written before 2018, then I took a hiatus spanning nearly ten years from writing in it, but I was always working on it in the back of my mind. Hiatus is done! Enjoy the new fics, the old fics, and the rewritten ones.
So everyone, old and new readers, please enjoy the life of the Bat Clan without running off every five minutes to save Gotham. It doesn't mean Gotham or the criminal world will leave them alone, though. In fact, it just gives them completely new problems and the same old problems with a new twist.

The idea is simple: What if Batman retired the cowl shortly after closing the Grayson case to raise their son?
Required: All the other batkids coming in naturally without destroying their origin stories, favorite story arcs, no one dies, nothing off the wall insane, light-hearted fun. Mostly pre-52 inspired.

HALF COTTON CANDY FLUFF
OTHER HALF WORLDBUILDING INSANITY

Notes:

If there are any comic book, animated, tv, or movie arcs you want in this series, you need to give me a free link to those arcs online or I can't make a call on it. I've already written some of the important ones and even how to bring in certain characters. Origin stories are also in the works for the kids, so not everything is a mystery. I wrote a lot of it out of order so some of the notes will simply be their ages in the fic as it makes the childhood development humor easier to understand. I'll try to post things in timeline order here as much as I can, but I get an itch for a new babyDami fic while he's 6 and torturing his teachers in the main story, I'm posting a babyDami fic!
Also up for suggestions are things you've seen kids do or common scenarios in normal life. Personalities are fun to play with and honestly, the smallest thing will inspire a comedically adorable goldmine. Wrote one about balloons because of something in RL and I almost died laughing.

SO YES, SUGGEST AWAY!

Also, for those who still go on FF, anything new I put here will also be put there. It's not required to go back and forth, but this is not an AO3 or FF exclusive story. This site will just have better grammar (for now) and no personal drama.

As for a posting schedule... every two to three days? I'll try to be better, but I need comments to keep me going. Suggested tags would be awesome too.

THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO FROM THE CANON:
Apprentice Arc
Ace
HIVE and Brother Blood
Terra
Brotherhood of Evil
A crisis or two
Superman's death and revival
World Without Grownups
Son of the Demon
Court of Owls

And eventually: DNB Beyond ;)

Some of these are fully written, most just an idea. Help me get the creative juices going again. ^^V

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225,543
Works:
70
Complete:
No
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