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1. Carrion Bird by Lizard_senpai

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Multi
   • Work in Progress

   19 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Bruce Wayne & Original Character(s)
   • Alfred Pennyworth & Original Character(s)
   • Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne
   • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
   • Original Non-Binary Character
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Alfred Pennyworth
   • Jim Gordon (DCU)
   • Leslie Thompkins
   • Silver St. Cloud
   • Harvey Dent
   • Other Character Tags to Be Added
   • Self-Insert
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • the inherent dysphoria of waking up as someone else
   • the inherent terror of waking up in a comic book universe
   • DC Stands for Disregard Canon (DCU)
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Eventual Relationships
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

   Summary

   It’s always the pearls, isn’t it? Such good imagery, for this nightmare. Suspended in midair as a mother and father die and a hero is born.

   But there are no heroes.

   There is Charlotte, with a knife at her throat.

   There is Bruce, standing still, stunned and shaking.

   There is Thomas and Martha Wayne, dead on the concrete.

   (The man, the one holding the knife to her throat, is shaking. Charlotte isn’t. She’s seen this before. He is shaking, his grip on the knife looser than it should be.

   I can get away if I’m fast, Charlotte Wayne thinks, and tense to make a break for it-

   The blade burns as it drags across her throat.

   It feels like dying.

   It feels familiar.)

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