Torture(d) Boys: Echoing Pain
Fics in which characters experience &/or deal with the long-term repercussions of abuse, neglect, torture or imprisonment (&/or self harm). Generally more focused on the mental side of things, but nearly always also deal with physical aspects/consequences, too.
Common Scenarios:
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AtLA/K / B(M)HA / DP / RR(PJ):
- Zuko’s Scar (& Training, etc)
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- Neglectful Midoriya Inko
- Quirk Discrimination
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- Bad Fenton Parents
- Ghost Hunting Scars
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- (Scars from) Monster Attacks &/or Quests
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DC / Marvel:
(- Bad Parent/ Mentor) Bruce Wayne
- Neglectful Drakes
(- Hood's attacks on Tim)
- Jason's Past
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- Bad Parent Howard Stark
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NCIS/Criminal Minds/Numb3rs/H-50/911:
- Senior
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- Spencer's Dad
- Morgan's History
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- Maddie's Husband
- The Buckleys
- Bad Diaz Parenting
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(The) Sentinel / Stargate / TM7:
- Bad Parent William Ellison
(- Bad Parent Naomi Sandburg)
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- Runner Ronon
- Mission Scars
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Other:
(Closed, Moderated)
Random bookmarks
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Shutterbug by goldkirk
Fandom Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics)
14 Sep 2025
Summary
This series is meant to feel like a warm hug after a long hard cry.
- Words:
- 421,324
- Works:
- 10
- Bookmarks:
- 3,244
Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
01 Nov 2023
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Tim Drake is thirteen, runs the famous BatWatch blog that has spiraled hilariously out of control, has absentee parents that suit his purposes just fine, is training himself to run the streets at night, and is doing absolutely peachy, thank you.
Alfred and Jason disagree, and get Dick and Bruce involved in figuring out their weird nextdoor neighbor kid’s life. Everything goes uphill from there.
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A New Bird in the Nest by red_jaebyrd
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Apr 2024
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Jason has many insecurities about the new addition to Wayne Manor and it doesn’t help that Bruce has been avoiding Jason since he came back from the hospital.
The fear of being replaced and pushed out looms over Jason and it all starts when a kid named Tim Drake moves in.
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What if Jason survived Ethiopia and Bruce adopted Tim early?
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Jason has put his life back together just in time to see the whole world fall apart. As the pandemic spreads across Gotham, he's struggling to maintain his new and fragile equilibrium in the face of two separate pressure points:
One, he's back working in Bruce's restaurant while his own joint's launch seems to be dying before it can even get off the ground, frustrated and beset by relationships still fraught with trauma. And two, he's walked back into a Gotham he can barely recognize, with people locked down in their homes, the streets paved with fear of a choking, ugly, infectious death, and an attack on Alfred that he can't avenge.
With the high stress, high stakes world of haute cuisine combined with the Wayne family drama in daylight and pounding empty streets feeling like an idiot in armor watching people die at night, it's only a matter of time before he cracks for good.
Then, suddenly, he gets a reprieve.
One night a vigilante food truck rolls up to his corner of the world, offering Red Hood a shot at redemption.
And during the day, there's the Table's new pot scrubber, Tim Drake, who might need some redemption of his own...
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Jason Todd has a plan. Get into the Charitable Education Associations Annual Masquerade, complete his mission, and leave. He didn't expect to get stymied before he even got in the doors by an unexpected layer of security. Already planning just how many security guys he's going to have to go through to make his escape, he's just as surprised as everyone else when the gorgeous young man sent out to confirm his invite let's him through... as his date!
Suddenly Jason has just a single night to convincingly fake a relationship, complete his mission, reconnect with someone from his past whom he was never able to leave behind, uncover the sinister goings-on behind the scenes of a charity school, dodge both Batman and Nightwing as they stalk him through the ballroom, try to save a bunch of kids from a horrible fate, make up for a mistake he'd never even known he'd made and somehow, someway, try to rescue the last good bit of his childhood that he remembers from the forces trying to control him and maybe also from himself as well.
No pressure.
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Red Is Also A Color by morimaitar
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman (Comics)
20 Aug 2020
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Jason Todd is NOT gay. With a drug-addicted mother and an empty bank account, he has enough problems as it is. He just needs to focus on keeping himself alive until graduation, and then he can forget the boy with the blue eyes and perfect smile. It was a bad idea to begin with, anyway.
AKA nobody is straight and everybody has a problem.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,800
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Comments:
- 1,064
- Kudos:
- 1,904
- Bookmarks:
- 341
- Hits:
- 38,819
Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
02 May 2024
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Two Nickels: Jason isn't Gay (High School AU)