#Influencer dick grayson

[msfcatlover]

Actually, I think the funniest take on Dick Grayson’s fashion sense would be that it is, in fact, utterly chaotic, outdated, and random… but somehow, he’s just so charismatic & good looking, he makes it work anyway.

Like. Man could go out in a neon pink & green vertically striped jogging suit. It should be the most horrible thing you’ve ever laid eyes on. It’s perfectly tailored, he’s built exactly right for vertical stripes to be flattering, the pink highlights the flush in his cheeks when he smiles, and the green actually really brings out his eyes. He looks like he is currently, actively starring in an energy drink ad. Dozens of people recommit themselves to getting more exercise after seeing him in it.

[cedarshade]

Think about it you’ve never seen nightwing and dick grayson in the same room before

[farshootergotme]

"Dick Grayson has anger issues-" okay, but does he actually? When I thought that was true I come to find that most of the evidence to make that claim come from a time in which Dick was being mentally controlled by Brother Blood or right after the death of his parents which obviously would cause anger after finding out they didn't even die naturally but were murdered on top of that.

[sreppub]

nightwing damian and robin dick! costume notes 👇

I was going towards a knight direction with damian’s nightwing… I’m not happy it looks like batman 2.0 but it’s still kinda cool I think! nightwing has to be a little sexy i think. went back and forth on whether i should give him a sword but i think not… nightwings gotta have the little drumsticks like red hoods gotta have the gun. it is driving me mad he doesnt have a utility belt tho but it just looks cooler without it… :’)

I can’t stop laughing at how completely Not Discreet robin is, but I had to go with the OG colours, as practical as damian’s gray robin look is. where damian went armoured (because i think it’s fuckin cool) i think classic leotard without any floppy tunic pieces. except cape of course. gotta have yellow cape.

[soulless-bex]

hot take: Jason is actually one of the most emotionally intelligent members of the Batfam because, contrary to most of them, he actually expresses his actual emotions. and while those feelings are mostly negative, he still expresses them, which is more than can be say about Bruce (who will bottle it up till it blows up in his face), Damian and Cass (who were trained out of expressing their feelings during childhood by literal assassins), Tim and Dick (who are chronic liars and will bullshit their way through life unless there’s no other way).

[ramusn]

Jason introduces his brothers to the Outlaws.

Jason: Okay guys, look just be cool, okay ?

Dick: Don’t be like that Little Wing, we are all very cool, well...Damian and I are very cool.

Damian: True.

Tim: I miss being an only child.

Jason: The funny thing you are the one who wanted to be part of this mess, I was just hungry.

*Entering the hide out*

Artemis: Oh, hey Nightwing and smaller versions of Hood.

Damian: We are not related by blood to Todd, I hope you know that.

Artemis: Uh, weird because the 4 of you could pass for the same person, you even walk the same.

Jason: Artemis, I don’t have room in my brain for these new and creative traumas you’re trying to impart into me.

[mysterycitrus]

so i was reading wolf king and you mention jason having a jersey accent and i wanted to ask.......what accent does dick have? he's french and was raised travelling around europe (thank u for french dick btw i'm obsessed), and then was raised by bruce and alfred, and then lived with the titans a lot as a teenager (some of whom i guess sound american and some of whom don't). where does this leave his accent. i deeply need to hear your opinion about this

this is such a great q so im gonna hijack it a lil and talk about how the bats hide their identities in different ways — like with the voice modulators, i don’t believe they’d be walking around with their real voices fighting crime

so kevin conroy kickstarted the trend of bruce having a voice and then batman having a voice. which is a good cinematic take, tbc, but i think he had it backwards. bruce as batman has a naturally deep, rumbling timbre, and bruce as socialite brucie wayne is higher pitched and more energetic — think a cross between pauly d and zach braff. bruce normally talks with distinct british influences. super clear vowel pronunciation.

by that same token, i think dick deffo still has an accent, but obviously puts on a generic “american” accent while in costume. his normal cadence would be an interesting combination of stuff. like u mentioned, he spent a lot of time around alfred and donna and kory so that definitely affected the way that he speaks. i think baseline…. he sounds a bit like marion cotillard? very subtle inflection, with some british intonation mixed in. kind of indistinct, like you’d clock him as vaguely european. he might make it more pronounced to distinguish himself from nightwing.

jason, tim, steph, and duke would all have distinct gotham accents, but deciding whether u want them to sound more philly or more ny is kinda up to interpretation ig. im not an expert. jason’s accent has probably changed over time — profound brain damage and extended period abroad will do that, but i imagine he leans into it heavily around his allies to emphasise his identity as a gothamite. depending on canon, babs would have an ohio accent and because she was a very influential figure to cass, cass would probably have that same weird collection of intonations — british, variations of east coast, etc.

if we’re going off on-screen depictions of the al-ghuls, damian would have an rp accent that would probably soften a little after his time in gotham. tim and duke probably sound similar, and steph might fall between them and jason. in my heart, the joker sounds like snooki.

[tarucore]

I’m going to hold your hand when I say this but some of you need to realize that if Devin Grayson used racist stereotypes in Nightwing 1996 writing Dick and Yoska then she was also using racist stereotypes writing Catalina Flores

the concept of an aggressive, sexually predatory Latina is not new, it’s not original, and frankly it’s tiring to see be repeated

acting like the way Catalina was/is portrayed in canon/fanworks is totally divorced from her ethnicity is how we get fics where Dick is triggered by hearing someone speak spanish (not even the specific pet names that Cat used, just spanish in general??!)

and I like Catalina as an antagonist, at least a secondary one, I think the Blockbuster arc has held up well compared to some other runs, I think that Devin is a decent writer with pretty good pacing for comic books which I can appreciate, and shockingly, I’m fine with the rape taking place in canon and the aftermath, as I know that the run was cut short (I’m a dead-dove fan and I’ve always liked any kind of whump, I can see why others don’t though and I understand that)

I also think that fanwriters need to be aware of bigoted source material, and that they don’t need to exacerbate these problems by flattening Catalina into a hypersexual, “crazy Latina” caricature which Devin even didn’t fully do in her run

I promise guys, there is a way to write her that doesn’t lean into stereotypes but still has her doing a terrible thing, I pinky swear

[ravenpureforever]

Timeline wise it wouldn’t work out but I’m like still thinking about the Young Justice Parent Teacher Conference and like I think be deeply funny in a dumpster fire trainwreck kind of way if Jack Drake had been there too. Nightwing is still there and they barely tolerate one another

He’s forced to wear sunglasses and a baseball cap and referred to solely as Robin’s dad and he keeps making bitter and passive aggressive comments about Batman.

By all accounts he and Helena Sandsmark should get along as archeological associates whose kids became vigilantes and refuse to give it up but they absolutely hate each other. He & Bonnie also loathe each other. The fighting is a 1000 times worse and the entire snack table is destroyed.

Jack makes a very pointed comment about how Nightwing isn’t Robin’s father and everyone thinks Robin’s home life is a messy gay divorce soap opera between Batman, his civilian ex-husband, and his new partner Nightwing.

I think he has the power to turn this already chaotic event into a complete and utter disaster that makes Red Tornado manage to get a full on migraine despite not being human. It would be hilarious.

[panakina]

Seeing as the bats are all rounders by design, every time a new member joins they get to help school everyone else in their specialty, no matter how mundane it may be. It’s partly to instill in the young newcomers the importance of sharing information instead of hoarding it for personal glory, and to remind the rest of them to never stop learning.

But it all started with ten year old Dick Grayson telling Batman he flew like a brick tied to a rubber band the very first time he saw him use the grappling gun.

[junespriince]

Yandere au

Dick, holds wally's face with bloody hands, him covered in blood: I would kill for you, I want you to know that.

Wally, used to this: I know, but I wished you wouldn't, you ain't got any rivals baby. I mean it's sexy, you covered in blood and all, but I'm tired of having to back in time to stop you.

Dick, cheerfully: nope! You're too cute, to precious... And all mine <3

Wally, sigh: back to the damn treadmill I go, again.

Donna: no, don't, please, he was so annoying though.

Wally: girl, stop enabling him! This is a bad! A terrible!

Donna: but it so funny.

Wally: ugh, I'm leaving to fix this.

[mysteriousbeetle]

thinking about how helena and dick kind of mirror each other. they're a similar age, their families were killed tragically before their eyes–spurring on their life long quests for justice, they both can be very determined. the key difference between them is that dick operated as a vigilante with a pretty extensive support system from a young age while helena's is more limited requiring her more so to forge her own path.

i think the nightwing/huntress comic discusses this pretty well in regards to their respective relationships with the bat family. there's a sort of bat family in-group that dick is a part of and helena is not. that's probably because helena has had to find her way as a vigilante without the guidance of batman. so the conclusions she comes to about what must be done can be pretty different in a way that can create a rift between her and them.

the affects of the disparity in the level of support each of them has can also be seen with their respective relationships with teams. dick has the opportunity to create a team with his peers and so together they form the teen titans. meanwhile, helena ends up being manipulated multiple times into joining teams. the community dick has allows him to help create a team on his own, while helena's isolation leaves her more susceptible to being manipulated. helena is able to build more of a support system later on in her vigilante career with the birds of prey but ultimately their paths deeply shaped them both.

[dickheadcanons]

the secret key to writing in character dick grayson is that dick does not get enjoyment out of relaxing or doing fun things. its a hard mindset to understand because it's the opposite of what you or i as fandom people experience, but Dick is never shown to do things for fun. if he's watching a movie or playing a game, it's almost always to spend time with other people, not because that's his impulse (and lowkey he sometimes ruins it for other people by never being able to turn off his brain)

now, this is not to say that he's unhappy, or that he doesn't experience happiness in his day to day. but he doesnt get that from the things that we, as comic book readers and fanfiction writers, get enjoyment from.

Dick is the definition of a workaholic. His only enjoyment comes from a job well done, helping people, and sometimes adrenaline (as his only real canon hobby is...skydiving)

Further reading: Flash Plus Nightwing (1997) (hating on the Hardy Boys)

Nightwing (2016) #43 (being unable to take a night off)

Nightwing (1996) #140 (skydiving)

The Titans (1999) #3 (being a terrible film watcher)

[bauliya]

nepo baby model is the literal perfect day-job for dick grayson because he can be as unemployed as he wants to have time for nightwing, only do a couple of fashion weeks every other year, maintain an extremely cut physique, be constantly gallivanting the globe and even hang out with superheroes while being a total ditz without raising any suspicion. a police officer? why the fuck. he’s kendall jenner.

[donnatroyyyy]

Jason Todd would look good in a buzz cut (and even better in a bleached buzz cut).

Dick Grayson would not (and did not when he did have it)

Tim Drake is the kind of hair ambiguous that you don’t know what would suit him until he has it on.

Damian Wayne will never attempt a buzz cut unless he is 280% sure that it would look good on him.

Duke already has a buzz cut. Duke would look better in a bleached buzz cut.

[apopcornkernel]

tbh I'll never get why people get mad at bruce for resuscitating the joker. like, okay, in terms of reader reaction i also wish the joker would just die. but isn't it pretty clear IN-TEXT that reviving the joker was partly also done out of love for dick...? babs herself asks batman to stop dick from killing the joker. and didn't dick express relief that bruce reviving the joker means he didn't take a life?????

i just think it's a shame that people make it all about bruce when the focus should be on dick. heck, babs had to call in ted and tim to patrol bludhaven bc dick was so caught up in his own anguish after the incident—she even called in wally to come give him a talk!! like!! idk.