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%% * PinkIsFeminine: Bridget's onesies are pink to differentiate her from her sister.
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This is nine months after the "Blockbuster Incident" and Dick Grayson desperately tries to get a grip on his life until a call from Lockhaven Penitentiary regarding Catalina Flores derails all of his plans for the future. Now he must adjust to parenthood while trying to hide how he came to become a father from his well-intentioned and decidedly noisy family.

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This is takes place nine months after the "Blockbuster Incident" and Dick Grayson desperately tries to get a grip on his life until a call from Lockhaven Penitentiary regarding Catalina Flores derails all of his plans for the future. Now he must adjust to parenthood while trying to hide how he came to become a father from his well-intentioned and decidedly noisy nosy family.



* TheBadGuyWins: A disgusted Bruce considers Catalina a successful stalker -- by bearing Dick's children, she ensured he would be forever linked to her.

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* TheBadGuyWins: A disgusted Bruce considers Catalina a successful stalker -- by bearing Dick's children, she she's ensured that he would be forever linked to her.



* BrokenPedestal: Jason loses any vestige of trust he felt towards Bruce after realizing Dick - who's supposed to be the favourite - was raped and Batman apparently never helped with it.

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* BrokenPedestal: Jason loses any vestige of trust he felt towards Bruce after realizing Dick - who's supposed to be the favourite - was raped and Batman apparently never helped him with it.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Learning Dick's sexual encounter with Tarentula wasn't consensual doesn't fly well with some.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Learning Dick's sexual encounter with Tarentula Tarantula wasn't consensual doesn't fly well with some.



* RuleOfSymbolism: When antagonizing the Batclan, [[MalevolentMaskedMan Red Hood always wears his helmet]]. When Dick blurts he was raped, Jason ''immediately'' ditches the headgear to expose his domino, becoming Robin again because there's a victim to help.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Jason spied on the Batclan for several weeks and is a bit miffed that he never was confronted about it, even when he ''tried'' to be spotted.

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* RuleOfSymbolism: When antagonizing the Batclan, [[MalevolentMaskedMan Red Hood always wears his helmet]]. When Dick blurts out that he was raped, Jason ''immediately'' ditches the headgear to expose his domino, becoming Robin again because there's a victim to help.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Jason spied on the Batclan for several weeks and is a bit miffed that he was never was confronted about it, even when he ''tried'' to be spotted.

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* DeadGuyJunior: Dick's twins are named after his FriendOnTheForce and his landlady. When Tim later interrogates Amy Rorhbach, he implicitly trusts her because of this.



* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: It's acknowledged InUniverse that the standard is unfortunately real (Batman once arrested a female sexual offender who swore she never raped anyone since all of her victims were male) and Barbara thinks she would have guessed the truth earlier if Dick had been a woman, but absolutely ''no one'' ridicules or tries to diminish Dick's trauma over the fact he was forced to have sex.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: It's acknowledged InUniverse that the standard is unfortunately real (Batman once arrested a female sexual offender who swore she never raped anyone since all of her victims were male) male), and Barbara thinks she would have guessed the truth earlier if Dick had been a woman, but absolutely ''no one'' ridicules or tries to diminish Dick's trauma over the fact he was forced to have sex.


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* NearAndDearBabyNaming: Dick's twins are named after his FriendOnTheForce and his landlady. When Tim later interrogates Amy Rohrbach, he implicitly trusts her because of this.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: CuddleBug, social butterfly Dick Grayson being unable to handle touching his daughters and keeping his newfound fatherhood under wraps instead of telling everyone in the superhero community is enough to freak the Batclan and make them realize something is not okay at all.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: CuddleBug, social butterfly Dick Grayson being unable to handle touching his daughters and keeping his newfound fatherhood under wraps instead of telling everyone in the superhero community is enough to freak the Batclan and make them realize something is not okay at all.seriously wrong.



** Bruce is very much awkward about showing love. He still does his best to ensure his son and granddaughters' happiness and well-being.

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** Bruce is very much awkward about showing love.love, and his miscommunication issues with Dick make it difficult for the latter to tell him the truth about the babies' mother. He still does his best to ensure his son and granddaughters' happiness and well-being.



** A traumatized Dick had to attend a Christmas party and let people flirt with and trying to grope him.

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** A traumatized Dick had to attend a Christmas party and let people flirt with and trying try to grope him.
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* AwfulTruth:
** The circumstances surrounding Blockbuster's death and the twins' conception.
** To Jack Drake, Tim's vigilante actvities.

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%% ** The circumstances surrounding Blockbuster's death and the twins' conception.
%% ** To Jack Drake, Tim's vigilante actvities.activities.



* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: It's acknowledged InUniverse that the standard is unfortunately real (Batman once arrested a female sexual offender who swore she never raped anyone since all of her victims were male) and Barbara thinks she would have guessed the truth earlier if Dick had been a woman, but absolutely ''no one'' ridiculizes or tries to diminish Dick's trauma over the fact he was forced to have sex.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: It's acknowledged InUniverse that the standard is unfortunately real (Batman once arrested a female sexual offender who swore she never raped anyone since all of her victims were male) and Barbara thinks she would have guessed the truth earlier if Dick had been a woman, but absolutely ''no one'' ridiculizes ridicules or tries to diminish Dick's trauma over the fact he was forced to have sex.



* PinkIsFeminine: Bridget's onesies are pink to differentiate her from her sister.

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* AdultFear:
** Guess what, Dick? Your rapist got pregnant, and now you have to live with ''two'' living reminders of what she did to you!
** Mr Drake's very understandable FreakOut when Tim finally confesses he's a teenage vigilante, something that gave him bruises, scrapes and even a slit throat.
** After seeing Bruce buying baby products, Jason breaks into Wayne Manor with a gun. When Dick finds him, he's examinating the twins' cribs.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Dick's twins are named after his FriendOnTheForce and his landlady. When Tim later interrogates Amy Rorhbach, he implicitly trusts her because of this.


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* ThePowerOfLove: The Pit madness noticeably loses grounds when Jason worries about his newfound nieces. Throwing the possibility of revenge away to help his traumatized brother finally does the trick of silencing it.
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* LoveRedeems: In spite of [[CameBackWrong his dip into the Lazarus Pit]] and bitterness towards Batman's failing, Jason ultimately rejected the opportunity to avenge himself from Joker by prioritizing Dick's trauma and need to move on.


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* RuleOfSymbolism: When antagonizing the Batclan, [[MalevolentMaskedMan Red Hood always wears his helmet]]. When Dick blurts he was raped, Jason ''immediately'' ditches the headgear to expose his domino, becoming Robin again because there's a victim to help.
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*** Which is kind of ruined by her acting as a WomanScorned when she thinks that Bruce might have a baby and then goes into GreenEyedMonster mode once she is made aware that the babies Bruce is doting on are Dick's. She refers to Dick as circus trash in front of Jason, who has all to often been called street trash.
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* UpperClassTwit: Talia of all people. While talking to Jason she expresses disgust that Bruce is doting on Dick's daughters and calls Dick circus trash. Jason privately lampshades if she thinks that he himself, who grew up in the streets of Gotham has a better pedigree.
* WomanScorned: Talia is furious when Bruce is photographed buying baby items. She is not much happier that the babies are Dick's and resents that Bruce is spending money and affection on his granddaughters.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: For all the bad blood and morality disagreements between them, Jason offers his help and support to Dick right after learning his adopted sibling was raped.


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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Dick flat-out refuses to put his babies for adoption because of that -- his social worker threw him into juvie for being half-Romani and as such, he ''would'' end up a criminal.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Red Hood is extremely violent and threatening towards Batman and his associates, but when he understands how ''bad'' Dick was victimized, he immediately does his best to help him move on.


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* PapaWolf: In which circumstances would Dick be pushed to assault the baby brother he believed to be dead? Why, finding said brother lurking in his newborn daughters' bedroom while packing a gun.


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* StepfordSmiler:
** Tim chafes under the obligation to pretend he's nothing but a mundane teenage boy when interacting with his dad and stepmother.
** A traumatized Dick had to attend a Christmas party and let people flirt with and trying to grope him.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Zigzagged. Nightwing's unplanned and sudden paternity unleashes a crapload of issues in the short term, but confronting these issues actually help the Batclan in the long term.


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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: It's acknowledged InUniverse that the standard is unfortunately real (Batman once arrested a female sexual offender who swore she never raped anyone since all of her victims were male) and Barbara thinks she would have guessed the truth earlier if Dick had been a woman, but absolutely ''no one'' ridiculizes or tries to diminish Dick's trauma over the fact he was forced to have sex.


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* OneSceneWonder:
** Talia is her gloriously ManipulativeBitch self when she deigns to interact with Red Hood.
** Superman playing the HonouraryUncle happy to meet and babysit the newest members of the Batclan.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: CuddleBug, social butterfly Dick Grayson being unable to handle touching his daughters and keeping his newfound fatherhood under wraps instead of telling everyone in the superhero community is enough to freak the Batclan and make them realize something is not okay at all.


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** After hearing Dick became a dad, he decides he ''will'' meet his nieces, no matter what.

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* AwfulTruth:
** The circumstances surrounding Blockbuster's death and the twins' conception.
** To Jack Drake, Tim's vigilante actvities.
* TheBadGuyWins: A disgusted Bruce considers Catalina a successful stalker -- by bearing Dick's children, she ensured he would be forever linked to her.



* FamilyThemeNaming: When he learns that Dick named his daughters '''A'''my and '''B'''ridget, Jason snarks the third Grayson baby will have a name beginning by '''C'''.
* GreaterScopeVillain:
** Catalina Flores appears only twice yet her decision to give birth to Nightwing's children drives the entire plot.
** Talia al Ghul did resurrect Jason before unleashing him in Gotham's streets.
* {{Hypocrite}}: When Red Hood claims he's not a threat to Nightwing's infant daughters because he WouldntHurtAChild, Spoiler calls him out on his assaulting the thirteen-year-old Robin. Red Hood justifies himself by pointing Robin is old enough to put a cape and defend his person.
* MissingMom: Enforced with Catalina since she's currently serving a life sentence without parole. And the Batclan is more than okay with it.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jason started to suspect foul play when he saw Bruce buying baby products, leading him to discover Dick was now a father.



* ThemeFamilyNaming: When he learns that Dick named his daughters '''A'''my and '''B'''ridget, Jason snarks the third Grayson baby will have a name beginning by '''C'''.

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* ThemeFamilyNaming: When he learns that Dick named his daughters '''A'''my and '''B'''ridget, StalkerWithoutACrush: Jason snarks spied on the third Grayson baby will have Batclan for several weeks and is a name beginning by '''C'''.bit miffed that he never was confronted about it, even when he ''tried'' to be spotted.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Even when [[CameBackWrong suffering from Lazarus Syndrome]], Red Hood vehemently refuses to raise a hand against Dick's children. He goes so far as hesitating over killing Nightwing, since it would leave the babies fatherless.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Dick is on the higher end of TeenPregnancy since he's barely eighteen when the twins are born, but Bruce finds extremely weird to become a grandpa at thirty-seven.



* BrokenPedestal: Jason loses any vestige of trust he felt towards Bruce after realizing Dick - who's supposed to be the favourite - was raped and Batman apparently never helped with it.



* ColorCodedCharacters: Amy is dressed in yellow and Bridget in pink since they're otherwise identical.



* PinkIsFeminine: Bridget's onesies are pink to differentiate her from her sister.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Learning Dick's sexual encounter with Tarentula wasn't consensual doesn't fly well with some.
** Barbara calls herself a really bad friend and tearfully apologizes to Dick for thinking he would willingly sleep with the woman who almost killed her.
** Jason is disgusted by himself for taunting his brother about sleeping with a cop-killer.
* ParentsAsPeople:
** Dick cannot help but feel resentful about being a father. It mingles with guilt since he knows his babies are innocent and deserve to be loved.
** Bruce is very much awkward about showing love. He still does his best to ensure his son and granddaughters' happiness and well-being.
** Jack Drake worries about Tim and wants to become a better dad to him, but only manages to alienate his son by trying to protect him.
* PinkIsFeminine: Bridget's onesies are pink to differentiate her from her sister.sister.
* ThemeFamilyNaming: When he learns that Dick named his daughters '''A'''my and '''B'''ridget, Jason snarks the third Grayson baby will have a name beginning by '''C'''.
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8332036/chapters/19084837 Second Generation]]'' is a Franchise/{{Batman}} fanfic written by lowflyingfruit and posted on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn.

This is nine months after the "Blockbuster Incident" and Dick Grayson desperately tries to get a grip on his life until a call from Lockhaven Penitentiary regarding Catalina Flores derails all of his plans for the future. Now he must adjust to parenthood while trying to hide how he came to become a father from his well-intentioned and decidedly noisy family.

Unfortunately, working things out peacefully never were easy for the Bats. And this new crime lord called Red Hood really isn't helping.

!Contains the following tropes

* AdultFear:
** Guess what, Dick? Your rapist got pregnant, and now you have to live with ''two'' living reminders of what she did to you!
** Mr Drake's very understandable FreakOut when Tim finally confesses he's a teenage vigilante, something that gave him bruises, scrapes and even a slit throat.
** After seeing Bruce buying baby products, Jason breaks into Wayne Manor with a gun. When Dick finds him, he's examinating the twins' cribs.
* ChildByRape: Dick's twin daughters. He struggles to properly love them as a consequence.
* DotingGrandparent:
** Bruce is hilariously awkward when he meets Dick's babies but has no problems buying half a baby store for them.
** Alfred is totally okay with the fact he's now a great-grandpa, in his dignified, British way.
* PinkIsFeminine: Bridget's onesies are pink to differentiate her from her sister.

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