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''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' series by audreycritter, consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to when it nearly gets him killed and his subsequent secrecy when obtaining a proper diagnosis and scheduling a needed surgery force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to when it nearly gets him killed and his subsequent secrecy when obtaining a proper diagnosis and scheduling a needed surgery force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
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''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' series by audreycritter, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/audreycritter/pseuds/audreycritter audreycritter]], consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to when it nearly gets him killed and his subsequent secrecywhen in obtaining a proper diagnosis and scheduling a needed surgery force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to when it nearly gets him killed and his subsequent secrecy
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* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7804285 Foreign Object]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8034538 Developmental Milestones]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8464060 Out Here Hope Remains]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10718751 Familiar Ghosts]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38023438 Thigmotropism]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48028984 and i know you're thinking of me]]
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[[folder:Short Fics]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42297588 I Say It Three Times]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18249458 Tipping Point]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18162449 Half-Measure]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19928233 Happy Home Designer]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16353137 Shiver]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8143649 High Dive]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8193013 Algernon, Patient Zero]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8188658 Jason's Not Dead Again]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9349679 Painted Birds]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541556 And Over Kansas the Whole Universe Was Stilled]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9549530 Gear Shift ]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9376226 Pigtails]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541442 Rat Trap]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541373 Shout Before You Sing]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8505997 Full Dinner Jacket]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9564704 For She's a Jolly Good City]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38120722 Pop Pop Popcorn]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20042311 Bird by Bird]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10939230 Cocooned]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541397 Dev and the Fae King]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9451703 Scientific Study]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541409 We Blow Things Up Like Men]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19259314 Dinobite]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9650312 Overshadowed]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20453327 The Victor Takes the Fall]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19267189 Pick-Me-Up]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10416531 Red Light]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10447218 Beam Me Up]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10503324 An Unexpected Afternoon]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19992133 We Don't Deserve to Win It]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541466 Unaccompanied Minor]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13345215 Chateau Wayne]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18273791 Sail By Ash Breeze]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14001075 Starfighter]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17176826 The Furthest From Home We've Ever Been]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20599598 Crash Position ]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42123630/chapters/105756324 Open Wall Policy]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10549446 Serving Sizes Are a Myth]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18051539 The Dimming Days]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541286 Jason's Gots Kids]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10728639 Grandpa Bee & Nanny Cat]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18311459 Ghosts Under Rocks]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20147422 Someone Leads the Beast in on His Chain]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28030848 Flames Flames On My...Thigh]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541214 The Babysitter's Club: Tim and the Toddler]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12860520 Tea Time]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37631479 Liminal Spaces We Never Left]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42412578 It Comes and Goes in Waves]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17758907 Sow You Back Up Like a Garden]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41686494 Is a Beating Heart]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9087454 Steady Heart, Steady Mind]]
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* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/7804285 Foreign Object]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8034538 Developmental Milestones]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8464060 Out Here Hope Remains]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10718751 Familiar Ghosts]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38023438 Thigmotropism]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48028984 and i know you're thinking of me]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Short Fics]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42297588 I Say It Three Times]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18249458 Tipping Point]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18162449 Half-Measure]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19928233 Happy Home Designer]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16353137 Shiver]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8143649 High Dive]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8193013 Algernon, Patient Zero]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8188658 Jason's Not Dead Again]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9349679 Painted Birds]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541556 And Over Kansas the Whole Universe Was Stilled]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9549530 Gear Shift ]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9376226 Pigtails]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541442 Rat Trap]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541373 Shout Before You Sing]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8505997 Full Dinner Jacket]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9564704 For She's a Jolly Good City]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38120722 Pop Pop Popcorn]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20042311 Bird by Bird]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10939230 Cocooned]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541397 Dev and the Fae King]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9451703 Scientific Study]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541409 We Blow Things Up Like Men]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19259314 Dinobite]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9650312 Overshadowed]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20453327 The Victor Takes the Fall]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19267189 Pick-Me-Up]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10416531 Red Light]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10447218 Beam Me Up]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10503324 An Unexpected Afternoon]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19992133 We Don't Deserve to Win It]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541466 Unaccompanied Minor]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13345215 Chateau Wayne]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18273791 Sail By Ash Breeze]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14001075 Starfighter]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17176826 The Furthest From Home We've Ever Been]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20599598 Crash Position ]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42123630/chapters/105756324 Open Wall Policy]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10549446 Serving Sizes Are a Myth]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18051539 The Dimming Days]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541286 Jason's Gots Kids]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10728639 Grandpa Bee & Nanny Cat]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18311459 Ghosts Under Rocks]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20147422 Someone Leads the Beast in on His Chain]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28030848 Flames Flames On My...Thigh]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10541214 The Babysitter's Club: Tim and the Toddler]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12860520 Tea Time]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37631479 Liminal Spaces We Never Left]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42412578 It Comes and Goes in Waves]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17758907 Sow You Back Up Like a Garden]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41686494 Is a Beating Heart]]
* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9087454 Steady Heart, Steady Mind]]
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When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to his when it nearly fatal attempts to hide it gets him killed and avoid his subsequent secrecy when obtaining a proper diagnosis and treatment plan scheduling a needed surgery force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
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* DeaderThanDead: Dev drills the brainstem of the body in the more once it is confirmed to be [[spoiler: the Joker]], arguing that he is not violating medical ethics any more than he is already doing so by examining the body secretly for the Justice League since he is already dead and this way he'll stay that way.
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* DeaderThanDead: Dev drills the brainstem of the body in the more morgue once it is confirmed to be [[spoiler: the Joker]], arguing that he is not violating medical ethics any more than he is already doing so by examining the body secretly for the Justice League since he is already dead and this way he'll stay that way.
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* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: At one point Superman crashes through Dev's wall asks for help and then passes out. He is a challenging patient given his impervious skin which is tryin to heal ''over'' the kryptonite shards.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from some ind of bizarre hallucinogenic poison which Dev has to work quickly to try and treat, but also has to suss out the nature of so that he ''can'' treat more than the pain.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from some ind of bizarre hallucinogenic poison which Dev has to work quickly to try and treat, but also has to suss out the nature of so that he ''can'' treat more than the pain.
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* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: At one point Superman crashes through Dev's wall asks for help and then passes out. He is a challenging patient given his impervious skin which is tryin trying to heal ''over'' the kryptonite shards.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from someind kind of bizarre hallucinogenic poison which Dev has to work quickly to try and treat, but also has to suss out the nature of so that he ''can'' treat more than the pain.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from some
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tim slowly becomes Dev's best friend, outside of Bruce and Alfred who are more like a surrogate brother and father. Wen people question them Tim smoothes over the strangeness of an adult man hanging out with a teenager by calling him uncle Dev and a friend of the family.
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tim slowly becomes Dev's best friend, outside of Bruce and Alfred who are more like a surrogate brother and father. Wen When people question them Tim smoothes smooths over the strangeness of an adult man hanging out with a teenager by calling him uncle Dev and a friend of the family.
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* CalmingTea: When Dev is upset, overworked and running on no seep Alfred gives him some tea to help.
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* SirSwearsALot: Kiran "Dev" Devabhaktuni is an exceptionally foul mouthed surgeon, though he does his level best to cut it out around underaged patients and his nieces and nephews.
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* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: When asked by Batman to hep confirm the identity on a body in the morgue before the news gets out to the public Dev tries to argue that he is not the right guy for the ob. He's able to provide the type of assistance the heroes are lookin for anyway as they don't need him to do an autopsy.
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* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: When asked by Batman to hep help confirm the identity on a body in the morgue before the news gets out to the public Dev tries to argue that he is not the right guy for the ob. job. He's able to provide the type of assistance the heroes are lookin looking for anyway as they don't need him to do an autopsy.
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''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/Batman'' series by audreycritter, consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
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''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/Batman'' ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' series by audreycritter, consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
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->''A series of stories following the Wayne family as they deal with illness, changes to the family, and growing up.''
''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/Batman'' series by audreycritter, consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to his nearly fatal attempts to hide it and avoid a proper diagnosis and treatment plan force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
!! Tropes featured in ''Cor Et Cerebrum''
* AbusiveParents:
** After a childhood of mistreating his son Dev's father bashed his head against the kitchen sink for coming home drunk, then left him on the floor. Dev nearly died and has a plate in his head from the surgery, but told the hospital that he'd just fallen down while drunk.
** Cass acknowledges that her biological father was not a good man and that his violence towards her as a little girl was not acceptable. She had Bruce confront him in her stead due to her conflicting and negative emotions about the man.
* AfterActionHealingDrama: Dev discovers that the broken arm hidden under Damian's reinforced love is a compound fracture with the broken bone up against an artery. Everything becomes quite serious as Dev works to treat the broken bone without Damian bleeding out.
* BigFancyHouse: Wayne Manor has so many rooms that Dev jokes about converting a ballroom to an operating theater, and there is never any problem having guests over and giving them individual rooms to stay in.
* BritsLoveTea: Alfred and Dev, both British transplants who have moved to Gotham but hang on to their accents and other tenants of their British upbringing and former lives, decide to start meeting regularly for tea after being introduced and eventually become friends this way.
* CalmingTea: When Dev is upset, overworked and running on no seep Alfred gives him some tea to help.
* CriminalDoppelganger: Thomas Elliot, who has had surgery to look like Bruce, shoots Tim in ''Familiar Ghosts ''. He was only able to do so because his likeness to Bruce meant that Tim, who was in a rush to get out the door, did not realize it was Tommy instead of Bruce until he turned around
* DeaderThanDead: Dev drills the brainstem of the body in the more once it is confirmed to be [[spoiler: the Joker]], arguing that he is not violating medical ethics any more than he is already doing so by examining the body secretly for the Justice League since he is already dead and this way he'll stay that way.
* DeathDealer: The Joker is rather upset to realize that the staff at Arkham have clued in enough not to give him real playing cards this time when he tries to use a pack as a deadly weapon.
* DoorStopper: Well over six hundred thousand words long with fifty-seven individual fics.
* DrivenToSuicide: Zsasz's [[KillTally tally marks]] are very important to him. When the count gets messed up he kills the one who talked him into targeting the victim that didn't stay dead and then himself.
* DrJerk: Dr. Devabhaktuni actually has a beautiful bedside manner, with most patients. He realizes very quickly that will not work with Bruce, who is stubborn, smart and terrified of the potential consequences of brain surgery. Once he starts helping Batman and other heroes he maintains the same sharp and foul mouthed persona with them as it is closer to who he really is so he doesn't put on the kindly act he does at work. When his usual brusque way of treating costumed folks upsets Selina he does tone it down for her as he realizes that what works with the Bats does not work with everyone in a mask.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: While disoriented and confused after brain surgery Bruce starts typing out things about Batman with his fingers in morse, which the medical team notes as tremors and which gives Clark, waiting with Alfred and the kids, reassurance that Bruce has retained his mind after the difficult surgery. It turns out that the surgeon actually recognized the morse code and what it meant, but did not reveal it to the rest of his team because that would endanger them and his patient.
* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: At one point Superman crashes through Dev's wall asks for help and then passes out. He is a challenging patient given his impervious skin which is tryin to heal ''over'' the kryptonite shards.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from some ind of bizarre hallucinogenic poison which Dev has to work quickly to try and treat, but also has to suss out the nature of so that he ''can'' treat more than the pain.
* ForegoneConclusion: Works that take place quite late in the series timeline have been published prior to works that take place before them, making it clear that several imperiled characters will somehow survive.
* InstantEmergencyResponse: Jason gets very lucky at one point when a run in with some skin heads goes poorly and he crashes right by were Dev is grabbing some tacos. Jason wonders how Dev got there instantly and for a second or two Dev tries to act mysterious before pointing out that it was just a coincidence.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tim slowly becomes Dev's best friend, outside of Bruce and Alfred who are more like a surrogate brother and father. Wen people question them Tim smoothes over the strangeness of an adult man hanging out with a teenager by calling him uncle Dev and a friend of the family.
* KillTally: As in canon Zsasz meticulously keeps count of his kills by carving tally marks into is own skin.
* MurderSuicide: Zsasz freaks out when [[spoiler:Jason]] turns up alive after he'd killed him and carved himself a [[KillTally tally mark]]. In retaliation he murders [[spoiler: the Joker]] for "tricking" him into targeting [[spoiler:Jason]] and messing up the count and then cuts his own throat.
* OneOfOurOwn: When Dev is poisoned his own coworkers rush to get him the treatment he needs and try to keep him from sipping into a depression during his recovery.
* PlayingCardMotifs: The Joker is named after a card and uses playing cards as a weapon, able to cut with them in ways that defy logic which means that Arkham keeps giving them to him since they are not classified as a weapon.
* RoadsideSurgery: Dev is quite panicked and horrified to get to Jason after Zsasz's attack and has to perform emergency surgery right there given how busy emergency services are. e encounters a rater horrifying unexpected obstacle during the surgery before any help is able to arrive on scene: Zsasz is ''still there'' and takes Dev as his next victim.
* SickEpisode:
** In ''Happy Home Designer '' Tim is home sick, but delays telling Dev why he is hanging out on the couch. Dev quickly has him get to bed when he checks Tim's temperature.
** Damian is sick in ''Pick-Me-Up '' and tries to hide it from everyone, which falls apart when he falls off a ledge in the cave.
** Alfred gets sick in ''We Don't Deserve to Win It'' which sends the whole family, including Dev, into a somewhat worried panic. They also try to do his chores for the day and find it impossible even with the whole crew of them.
* SirSwearsALot: Kiran "Dev" Devabhaktuni is an exceptionally foul mouthed surgeon, though he does his level best to cut it out around underaged patients and his nieces and nephews.
* StudentsPlayingMatchmaker: Stephanie Brown tries to play matchmaker for one of her professors after learning she is asexual. The man Steph arranges for her to unsuspectingly meet is not looking for a relationship and doesn't appreciate the manipulative approach.
* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: When asked by Batman to hep confirm the identity on a body in the morgue before the news gets out to the public Dev tries to argue that he is not the right guy for the ob. He's able to provide the type of assistance the heroes are lookin for anyway as they don't need him to do an autopsy.
* TaintedVeins: Bruce gets poisoned while on a trip in space with the Justice League and it makes his veins eerily visible.
* TapOnTheHead: Averted. Bruce gets knocked out with a hit to the back of the head and has major medical repercussions.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Dev eventually just asks Tim what his job at Wayne Enterprises is, and when Tim's answer is nonspecific defensiveness that he does business things Dev gets him to admit he's pretty much a glorified intern who has freedom to insert himself into projects he's interested in.
''Cor Et Cerebrum'' is a ''Franchise/Batman'' series by audreycritter, consisting of fifty-seven fics, four of which are more than thirty chapters long. It is hosted at Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn and can be read at [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964 this link]].
When Bruce Wayne contends with a serious illness the reactions of his loved ones to his nearly fatal attempts to hide it and avoid a proper diagnosis and treatment plan force him to reexamine his relationships with his children. Through his surgery and recovery he decides to work to be a better father, and Alfred meets a new friend and ally.
!! Tropes featured in ''Cor Et Cerebrum''
* AbusiveParents:
** After a childhood of mistreating his son Dev's father bashed his head against the kitchen sink for coming home drunk, then left him on the floor. Dev nearly died and has a plate in his head from the surgery, but told the hospital that he'd just fallen down while drunk.
** Cass acknowledges that her biological father was not a good man and that his violence towards her as a little girl was not acceptable. She had Bruce confront him in her stead due to her conflicting and negative emotions about the man.
* AfterActionHealingDrama: Dev discovers that the broken arm hidden under Damian's reinforced love is a compound fracture with the broken bone up against an artery. Everything becomes quite serious as Dev works to treat the broken bone without Damian bleeding out.
* BigFancyHouse: Wayne Manor has so many rooms that Dev jokes about converting a ballroom to an operating theater, and there is never any problem having guests over and giving them individual rooms to stay in.
* BritsLoveTea: Alfred and Dev, both British transplants who have moved to Gotham but hang on to their accents and other tenants of their British upbringing and former lives, decide to start meeting regularly for tea after being introduced and eventually become friends this way.
* CalmingTea: When Dev is upset, overworked and running on no seep Alfred gives him some tea to help.
* CriminalDoppelganger: Thomas Elliot, who has had surgery to look like Bruce, shoots Tim in ''Familiar Ghosts ''. He was only able to do so because his likeness to Bruce meant that Tim, who was in a rush to get out the door, did not realize it was Tommy instead of Bruce until he turned around
* DeaderThanDead: Dev drills the brainstem of the body in the more once it is confirmed to be [[spoiler: the Joker]], arguing that he is not violating medical ethics any more than he is already doing so by examining the body secretly for the Justice League since he is already dead and this way he'll stay that way.
* DeathDealer: The Joker is rather upset to realize that the staff at Arkham have clued in enough not to give him real playing cards this time when he tries to use a pack as a deadly weapon.
* DoorStopper: Well over six hundred thousand words long with fifty-seven individual fics.
* DrivenToSuicide: Zsasz's [[KillTally tally marks]] are very important to him. When the count gets messed up he kills the one who talked him into targeting the victim that didn't stay dead and then himself.
* DrJerk: Dr. Devabhaktuni actually has a beautiful bedside manner, with most patients. He realizes very quickly that will not work with Bruce, who is stubborn, smart and terrified of the potential consequences of brain surgery. Once he starts helping Batman and other heroes he maintains the same sharp and foul mouthed persona with them as it is closer to who he really is so he doesn't put on the kindly act he does at work. When his usual brusque way of treating costumed folks upsets Selina he does tone it down for her as he realizes that what works with the Bats does not work with everyone in a mask.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: While disoriented and confused after brain surgery Bruce starts typing out things about Batman with his fingers in morse, which the medical team notes as tremors and which gives Clark, waiting with Alfred and the kids, reassurance that Bruce has retained his mind after the difficult surgery. It turns out that the surgeon actually recognized the morse code and what it meant, but did not reveal it to the rest of his team because that would endanger them and his patient.
* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: At one point Superman crashes through Dev's wall asks for help and then passes out. He is a challenging patient given his impervious skin which is tryin to heal ''over'' the kryptonite shards.
* FindTheCure: Bruce comes back from a trip in space suffering from some ind of bizarre hallucinogenic poison which Dev has to work quickly to try and treat, but also has to suss out the nature of so that he ''can'' treat more than the pain.
* ForegoneConclusion: Works that take place quite late in the series timeline have been published prior to works that take place before them, making it clear that several imperiled characters will somehow survive.
* InstantEmergencyResponse: Jason gets very lucky at one point when a run in with some skin heads goes poorly and he crashes right by were Dev is grabbing some tacos. Jason wonders how Dev got there instantly and for a second or two Dev tries to act mysterious before pointing out that it was just a coincidence.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tim slowly becomes Dev's best friend, outside of Bruce and Alfred who are more like a surrogate brother and father. Wen people question them Tim smoothes over the strangeness of an adult man hanging out with a teenager by calling him uncle Dev and a friend of the family.
* KillTally: As in canon Zsasz meticulously keeps count of his kills by carving tally marks into is own skin.
* MurderSuicide: Zsasz freaks out when [[spoiler:Jason]] turns up alive after he'd killed him and carved himself a [[KillTally tally mark]]. In retaliation he murders [[spoiler: the Joker]] for "tricking" him into targeting [[spoiler:Jason]] and messing up the count and then cuts his own throat.
* OneOfOurOwn: When Dev is poisoned his own coworkers rush to get him the treatment he needs and try to keep him from sipping into a depression during his recovery.
* PlayingCardMotifs: The Joker is named after a card and uses playing cards as a weapon, able to cut with them in ways that defy logic which means that Arkham keeps giving them to him since they are not classified as a weapon.
* RoadsideSurgery: Dev is quite panicked and horrified to get to Jason after Zsasz's attack and has to perform emergency surgery right there given how busy emergency services are. e encounters a rater horrifying unexpected obstacle during the surgery before any help is able to arrive on scene: Zsasz is ''still there'' and takes Dev as his next victim.
* SickEpisode:
** In ''Happy Home Designer '' Tim is home sick, but delays telling Dev why he is hanging out on the couch. Dev quickly has him get to bed when he checks Tim's temperature.
** Damian is sick in ''Pick-Me-Up '' and tries to hide it from everyone, which falls apart when he falls off a ledge in the cave.
** Alfred gets sick in ''We Don't Deserve to Win It'' which sends the whole family, including Dev, into a somewhat worried panic. They also try to do his chores for the day and find it impossible even with the whole crew of them.
* SirSwearsALot: Kiran "Dev" Devabhaktuni is an exceptionally foul mouthed surgeon, though he does his level best to cut it out around underaged patients and his nieces and nephews.
* StudentsPlayingMatchmaker: Stephanie Brown tries to play matchmaker for one of her professors after learning she is asexual. The man Steph arranges for her to unsuspectingly meet is not looking for a relationship and doesn't appreciate the manipulative approach.
* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: When asked by Batman to hep confirm the identity on a body in the morgue before the news gets out to the public Dev tries to argue that he is not the right guy for the ob. He's able to provide the type of assistance the heroes are lookin for anyway as they don't need him to do an autopsy.
* TaintedVeins: Bruce gets poisoned while on a trip in space with the Justice League and it makes his veins eerily visible.
* TapOnTheHead: Averted. Bruce gets knocked out with a hit to the back of the head and has major medical repercussions.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: Dev eventually just asks Tim what his job at Wayne Enterprises is, and when Tim's answer is nonspecific defensiveness that he does business things Dev gets him to admit he's pretty much a glorified intern who has freedom to insert himself into projects he's interested in.
