#Dick Grayson deserves better

[asszawas]

THIS IS WHY CBR. COM is SHIT LMAOOO

They're truly delusional

[kazbrekkeriselite]

Tim: I haven’t slept in 72 hours…  Jason: I haven’t slept in 80. I’m the insomnia king!  Dick: Ha! I haven’t slept in 90 hours, I’m aiming for an even 100.  Damian: What the fuck is wrong with you people

[roma107]

saw this picture and couldn’t stop thinking about how this should have been how dick grayson’s funeral looked like

[snowcoming]

nah its insane to me that dick grayson has the most bad sibling tags of all the batfam. crazy shit right there.

[weirdheadcanons]

Seriously?!? They let Dan Didio write Nightwing again?!

And of course he decided it wasn't just enough to kill Nightwing, but make every freaking crisis his fault for surviving.

Not killed just once, but every time. Never ending loop. And apparently, it's killing one of the very few genuinely nice, genuinely sweet characters that can bring about the Golden Age, while his murderer gets a happily ever after.

Seriously, DC should stop letting those who hate certain characters write for them.

[lenoryt13]

If you're a Jason Todd and Dick Grayson fan go read the Brotherhood series!

Description:

When Nightwing beat the Joker to death, Dick didn't let Batman bring him back. That one choice would change everything.

When Jason Todd climbed out of the Lazarus Pit he discovered that although Bruce had not avenged his death, someone else had. So instead of going back to Gotham, Jason made his way to Blüdhaven.

Notes:

This series will mainly focus on the relationship between Jason and Dick, two brothers trying to reconnect, dealing with their traumas and all the choices that led them to where they are. Other characters will appear as well, but it may take a while

[geekishfangirl]

I can’t view Batman/Bruce as a real hero

So I’ve gotten into DC recently, or more specifically I’ve gotten into the Batfam, and the more I learn about Bruce Wayne the harder it is for me to look to him as a hero.

I’ll preface all this by saying I have consumed very little DC content, so if something I say is not actually canon pls let me know.

It started when I learned that this man seemingly has an absolute no kill rule. Not a “I try to avoid killing and only do it when absolutely necessary” rule, but a “I refuse to kill anyone no matter the circumstances” rule. I honestly hate this because it’s not effective in any way. Take the Joker for example, Batman has to fight him over and over again because they simply cannot seem to keep that man in prison and Batman won’t kill him or let anyone else do it. I think this is because he wants to believe that anyone can change, and they can, but just because they CAN doesn’t mean that they WILL. People have to choose to change and the Joker has had like 30 chances to do so, yet he continues to kill innocent people. How many innocents have to die before someone acknowledges that the Joker will never choose to be a better person and finally decide to do what’s necessary to protect everyone? They either need to find a way to keep him in jail or just take him out.

This got worse when I learned about Jason Todd. Here you have a poor boy taken in by Bruce, who idealizes him and views him as a father, and when he gets kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the Joker he dies alone. When he is brought back to life, he’s mad at Bruce, not because Bruce didn’t save him, but Bruce didn’t kill the Joker to avenge him. Because Bruce didn’t love him more than he loved Justice. Hell, even on his grave, “A good soldier”. I’ve seen ppl say that maybe he didn’t say son because he didn’t want to erase their family ties and the kids never took his last name and sure, I get that. But putting a good soldier instead? He didn’t have to do that. Jason wasn’t a soldier, he was a little boy. It seems like Bruce forgets that about the Robins sometimes. (None of this is even getting into my feelings about Bruce taking in multiple children and having them fight crime, literally risking their lives every night but then this rant would be even longer)

And apparently Bruce fucking decks Dick because Dick was asking him why he let him become Robin before he was ready? Bro cannot take any criticism for his actions I swear. I mean, even if he never officially adopts them (I’m very confused on that tbh) he does still view them as his kids. He still helped raise them. After all, they were all underage when he met them and took them in. So to straight up deck your eldest and tell him to get out literally right after your other kid was murdered solely because he questioned you is actually wild.

Then you have the whole batarang incident, which just makes me question his morals more because he’s got the whole “no killing whatsoever” thing going on but then decides, “I won’t kill the man who murdered my son and countless other innocents, but I can and will slit my son’s throat and leave him for dead.” Like, HUH??? Also, didn’t Dick accidentally kill the Joker once and Bruce went out of his way to REVIVE HIM? Honestly feels like Bruce has some weird relationship with the Joker cause he seems to care about him more than anything. LET THAT MONSTER DIE!

I saw someone say that they thought the “no killing” thing wasn’t effective but was accurate to Bruce’s character because his vigilanteism isn’t actually mainly about helping but about punishing himself for what happened to his parents. And if you kill the villains when you need to, you can’t keep punishing yourself through fighting them. Like a self-sabotage thing. I thought that was super interesting but it would also just go along with him not being a truly effective hero, cause he won’t make the hard calls that are sometimes needed.

In conclusion, while I am sure Bruce has done good for people, it’s hard to see him as a truly effective hero (or a good person/father for that matter) when he does stuff like this.

[elflynns-horde-of-stuff]

Gotham War frustrates me to no end. There is no emotional follow through for anything. If there was, it was in no way consistent. Bruce is once again bringing his shitty parenting skills to nightmare levels.

[raven-undergrove]

Adding onto this, Dick is the one who actually went through traumatic experiences in Arkham while he was trapped there during Batman R.I.P.

Can we acknowledge that, in canon, Jason's time in Arkham was not traumatic for him ?

Dick was actively working to make Arkham better at that time and there were no big supervillains there because they already escaped.

He was literally just bored. He specifically asked Bruce to put him in an actual prison so that he could kill more prisoners and escape.

[angstyentropy]

Can we all sit back for a second and really think about the fact that after Dick's parents die they don't send him to an orphanage, they send him to juvie "because the orphanages are too full".

Dick was an 8 year old who just watched his parents die infront of him. He has not committed a crime, he doesn't know anyone and he's not only in an unfamiliar building but he's in an unfamiliar city. His entire world got flipped upside down.

And let's be honest; half the people there (probably more) would be willing to kill, a good chunk of them probably have, It's Gotham. Most people there would also be in their teens, Dick is eight. That isn't a fair fight, especially if they team up against him like shown in the comics. On one occasion Dick says he think he would've died if the fight hadn't been broken up.

Worst part about all this? I seriously doubt Dick was the only one. Gotham is corrupt, the cops, the lawyers, the jurors, the judges, the child workers are all corrupt.

So many kids are probably wrongfully found guilty by a corrupt system. I can't even tell if it would be worse if the orphanages are actually full or for Dick to have been sent to juvie because of discrimination. Knowing Gotham? It's probably both.

Now I'm sad thinking about fictional kids in a fictional city getting wrongfully sent to juvie and getting beat and/or dying there.

[cardinalcheerio]

Half the time I'm like, "can we have jason todd media not all about his death"?

Then I realize. If I died I would never shut up about it.

"Can you get up and grab that for me?"- absolutely not. My legs are tired from death.

"Will you go to the store with me?"- leaving the house?!? What if I die AGAIN.

So yeah, anyone who thinks jason talks about his death too much. Be honest. We'd all do the exact same thing.

[kazbrekkeriselite]

Dick Grayson is my comfort character and I will not take any slander whatsoever

I enter a fanfic.

It’s beautiful, it has paragraph breaks, and emasculate writing.

It has dick Grayson slander…

I exit the fanfic

[geekonaleash]

Jason Todd deserved better.

April 27th, the day boomers and gen X killed this little baby.

Jaybin is too cute.

[snowcoming]

honestly, reading aus where dick has to become batman and one of his siblings becomes nightwing pisses me tf off bc dick grayson was never meant to stay in gotham forever. it's not who he is. he's not a gotham kid. he grew up there for 8-10 years, and yeah its his home because bruce-alfred-jason-tim-damian-steph-cass-duke but that's the manor.

in my eyes, dick grayson being forced to stay as batman, long term, stuck in gotham while one of his siblings just stays in bludhaven? doesn't have the oppressing shadow that dick just keeps getting dragged back to honestly feels disrespectful to who dick wanted to be. i'm sure dick would love for his siblings to be nightwing if he dies but making every position dick has ever had be a mantle to be passed on is just-

no.

dick grayson's meant to be nightwing, the free spirit that comes with him having his own city, because gotham isn't meant to be the end of dick grayson's story, and his siblings just taking his position in bludhaven like they'd be able to fill that role easily is laughable.

if they're free to be nightwing they should be able to be batman and for some reason they aren't, and dick grayson has to keep returning to the cowl he doesn't want.

i can't describe how i feel when i read fics like this, just some terrible sadness for dick, especially when people write it like dick is just fine with being batman and his siblings treating nightwing like a mantle, like something they can just take, like bludhaven wasn't his city, like he didn't do everything for it, and treating nightwing like something they can just take. like something they can easily fit into.

i dont think any of the batsiblings can be nightwing, and writing it like people dont notice the difference is honestly laughable.

i read a fic where jason todd is nightwing, and honestly, if bro has to go to bludhaven he can easily choose a different name. IT IS NOT THAT HARD GUYS? it is NOT that complicated to choose a new identity name like babes... nightwing is NOT A MANTLE, and i dont think it every will be.

dick grayson is nightwing. full stop. only him.

and besides, i feel like only two of the siblings really should be in bludhaven, and thats cass and dick. cass didnt get any time at all before chemo happened, which is depressing af but dick put his heart and soul into helping that city and just straight up giving it to one of his siblings like he hasn't worked to protect it for so long? i honestly dont believe any of the other batsiblings would care even a little bit about bludhaven.

[brucewaynehater101]

I can't. I start sobbing with laughter every single time I watch this. I can watch this three times in a row and still be crying with chuckles.

Tik Tok by osmiiv and NOT by me. I recommend checking out their page

[lenoryt13]

So, a few people have asked me about Flamebird's helmet and/or look in the Brotherhood series. I honestly got my inspiration from two different things, an art I saw on Pinterest and Red Hood's look in FUTURE STATE- GOTHAM 1 - Joshua Williamson and Dennis Culver - Variant by YASMINE PUTRI.

Below are the original version and how I imagine Flamebird's helmet would look. And the art I saw on Pinterest (credits to the creator)

Also, there is a link to an amazing art made by Zevrianval available in the story.