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yeah

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"I headcannon Dick as manipulative" you and the writers of Nightwing babe

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He's Bruce's son for real.

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Dick was orphaned. Bruce was/is - in some runs - not always the greatest guardian. This is not to suggest he’s a bad person or cannot be a good father, only to say that unhealed trauma is a core part of Bruce’s story and character , and others around him can be impacted by this.

Even if we take the scenarios where Bruce was the best he could be, that doesn’t take away the experience of loss or grief on a child. Nor, the loneliness and isolation that comes with it. Bruce was - in the beginning - a complete and utter stranger to Dick. And Dick not only had to cope with the loss of his parents, but also had to adjust to a lifestyle and environment so very different from everything he had ever known before. (Not to mention the runs where he was in care or Juvenile Hall first). I feel that to suggest Dick was never ‘orphaned ,’ is to minimise the role Dick’s parents played in his early life, and how that loss shows in his character even as an adult. When Dick lost his parents, absolutely everything about his life changed. As an example, by this metric, Bruce wouldn’t be an ‘orphan’, because he grew up in his own home and had someone he had known from early childhood (Alfred), to support, raise and guide him as a parental figure.

This is not to diminish the bond that Bruce and Dick grew to have, or the family they found in each other. Both of them have healed something in each other. I agree with all of that! Bruce is very, very important to Dick. I just think that to say the transition was almost painless, seamless and that Dick’s status as an orphan is technical, just because Bruce cared and understood, lacks the nuance of loss.

I don’t think you guys understand- dicks parents died when he was fucking eight and yet he was never orphaned because Bruce was right there and picked up the slack as much as he was able to and dick never had to feel unloved or like he didn’t have a reliable parental figure he could always trust and fall back on and it just gives so much more depth to their relationship and their stories because they’ve been in each others lives for so fucking long and have such a deep connection because they’re two sides of the same coin and that is why dick will always forgive Bruce and why Bruce will always see dick as his greatest success and his one true successor because they pulled each other from the darkness and gave each other the family they had both lost. 

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the way dick treats himself is something that i wish i saw people talk about more tbh... his body is a well oiled tool that he keeps in tip top shape to serve his ends the way he needs them served, but it's still just a tool to him. and the way that he expresses suicidal ideation is very passive- throwing himself into situations where others will do the harm for him (ex. him in all of Outsiders 2003 and the way he intentionally provokes people, the way he throws himself further into superheroing in times of distress) he is a performer and always performing for others

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when you show up to the biggest batman hater competition and your opponents are the titans

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I love Tim's " Supervillain pose" xD

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sometimes i'm like fuuuck bruce needs to get a hobby. but he does have a hobby. by god he does have a hobby

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i keep forgetting KGBeast is, in fact, the villain that shot Nightwing and not a Youtuber

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call him the joker the way hes always being a clown or something

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Look at them planning a date in Paris in the middle of a crash landing.

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Discowing, you’re always on my mind

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I like to think they thought about it for a second, took one look at Brucie and immediately said ‘no, there’s absolutely no way,’ and ‘I wonder if that guy even knows his ward is a vigilante that fights with Batman,’ simultaneously. I just love the idea that ex-circus kid and adopted son of zany billionaire, Dick Grayson, being a vigilante makes sense, but Bruce Wayne? That guy couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag.

Kind of obsessed with the way this card is phrased like the guy figured out Dick was Nightwing but somehow couldn't put Bruce and Batman together

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very tired of the ‘Dick Grayson is mostly a pretty boy with bad puns, golden retriever vibes’ trope. Give me German Shepherd Dick. Give me the ‘consummate performer’ Dick. The one all, brilliance, bloody smiles and showmanship, the one with razor sharp wit and charm made weapon. Dick who seamlessly switches between a million personas. The one who doesn’t know what to do when the show’s over. Give me the Dick no one wants to be on the wrong side of because Nightwing might not start battles, but he finishes them. The only one whose threats the entire Batfam (including Bruce) takes seriously. The one fear toxins can’t affect because he’s been to hell and back.

The Dick who unlike Jason doesn’t even mention how much he’s been fucked up and survived. The one the Joker knew he couldn’t break.

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Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #9

Dying at the way Dick just shoved Roy to the side 💀