#and dick is 19

[diamond-rozie]

Nightwing's car guy

Dick was doing well to establish himself in Bludhaven. He had an apartment, it was shitty but it was his. He had a day job as police officer, half the people there were in the cartels Nightwing was trying to crack down on, and the other half were in the cartels Nightwing was still trying to trace. He had his suit, still bat-grade, blue instead of the red, yellow, and green Jason got to wear now.

He did't have a cave. Or maybe it should be a nest because the whole bird thing. Burrow? What was the thing owls lived in called? The point is he made due without it. He had his apartment, and he had his supplies stashed away. It wasn't as much as in the Cave, but he didn't have Cave-funding. He could make due.

He didn't have an Oracle in his ear. But that came with the added bonus of not having a Bat either. He could do his own research, find his own information. And it wasn't like he and Babs were totally cut off. It was just only a little weird, because she was technically his ex. Sure she would be in his corner, but she was still his ex. He needed to save some face. Especially since he knew that Bruce and Babs liked to... talk. He could make due.

The only thing Dick was maybe, sorta, just maybe having a little trouble was with his bike. Well it wasn't his bike, it was Nightwing's. Which was precisely the trouble. He'd found a place to stash it, but Dick had never been a car guy... or in this case a bike guy. He would chase his rouges, speeding through the streets, and sure the bike was made for the tight corners and quick turns and the high speeds, and sure it could take a hit or two. But what about three or four? Or five?

Point was Dick needed a car- a bike guy. One that was cheap (he was only a cop), and knew how to not ask questions and keep his mouth shut (again- Nightwing's bike). All that on top of knowing enough on how to fix his bike. (it wasn't exactly the type you could find in store).

But the solution seemed to find him. Which Dick was aware was not generally how it worked, but he would count his blessings. He had been out on patrol, the type that had involved his bike and high speeds. Unfortunately it did not involve the perp in handcuffs and on his way to jail. Dick had been on his tail, could've had him too, if the bike hadn't started sputtering. Dick had done as much as he could for it, but she really needed a pair of eyes that actually knew what they were looking at.

Mumbling curses to himself, Nightwing had been ready to head off to at least catch a dust trail of what operation he'd find himself in next. He could feel the eyes watching him. His hair stood in edge, and when Nightwing turned to look around he couldn't see anyone. Maybe he was being haunted. Trying to arrange his bearings, Nightwing turned back around to get on his bike. When there was suddenly a mop of choppy black hair couched down next to it.

Nightwing blinked at him. How had he managed to get there? "Uh, something you need, man?" Nightwing asked the boy, totally not freaked out.

The boy- teen, he was only a year or two younger than Dick- looked up, large blue eyes staring. As if it was odd for Nightwing to have addressed him. It took him a moment longer to realize that the bike was, in fact, Nightwing's. "You need to change your [important engine part]." He pointed lamely, standing up to his height of only a hair shorter than Dick.

"How do you know that?" Nightwing asked before he could think of the danger the unknown person might pose.

"That's why it was making that sound. It'll put too much pressure on the engine so it won't be able to go as fast it would be otherwise. Which, I take it, would cause you problems." he tipped his head in the direction the rouge had run off in.

Nightwing considered it for just a moment, not wanting the perfect opportunity to get away from him. "Do you know how to fix it?"

The guy looked almost offended, "Yeah."

"I'll pay you." Nightwing jumped at the opportunity, "If you fix it."

Any normal person would've said no to a guy dressed in bullet-proof spandex with a blue bird on his chest and a weird mask. "Sure." He shrugged easily, a glimmer of excitement in his eyes as he eyed the vehicle. After a moment, "Name's Danny, by the way. You'd probably need to know that." Danny eyes his suit, "Who are you, like, blue-jay?"

"Nightwing." He corrected easily, his name hadn't made the streets yet.

"The Robin reject?" Was Danny immediate response, eyebrow arched up in amusement.

"The what?"

Danny grimaced, the laugh never leaving his face, "Ooh, sorry. Touchy subject?"

"I am not a Robin reject." Dick couldn't tell this civilian that he was Robin. Had been.

Nightwing's bike ran better than it had since he had moved to Bludhaven after Danny had gotten his hands on it. And Danny's payment of ("i don't trust ur money, just buy me food") lunch had been a steal in return. Maybe next time they should go somewhere a little nicer.

Because the bike was doing so well, after Danny fixed it.

Not for any other reason.

[batfam-belfry]

Damian and Dick being brothers 🥰

[littlefankingdom]

How the fandom portrays Bruce and Dick learning Red Hood (not knowing it's Jason) is 19-ish:

Bruce: Don't care, didn't ask.

Dick: OMG, he's just a BABY.

How Bruce and Dick would canonically react:

Bruce: He's still a teen. He's just a kid. OMG, I probably hit him too hard, shame on me. Maybe if I play my cards right, he will accept to be mentored.

Dick: Ok, so he is not a child. I can and will beat his ass.

[erinwantstowrite]

uhhhhhhh chapter... chapter 19...

hey so. so. hey. hey so. anyways. yeah um. drew this a couple weeks ago,,,, when i was writing chapter 19,,,, for no particular reason i enjoyed that scene. so hey. anyways. cowboy grayson unrelated

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

yeah no duh dick's a perfectionist. the first image of him for readers to ever see included the tagline "The Boy Wonder" with Batman proudly presenting him like a shiny new car. this man literally can not exist as a character without expectations placed on his shoulders.

[superbat-lmao]

Dick, Tim, Damian: *being annoying*

Jason: *leaves*

Roy: *being annoying*

Jason: *leaves*

Roy: *follows him*

Jason: *tolerates it*

Dick:

Tim:

Damian:

Dick: We can do that?!

There’s a post I can’t find that’s about Kirk and Spock in the Into Darkness movie where Spock is compared to a tank and Kirk a gnat flitting around him as he walks that I think would suit Jason and Roy perfectly.

I’m attaching some shitty screenshots from the scene I’m talking about, which was referenced in the post. But I love the idea of Jason just walking away from peoples bullshit and Roy not having it. Following him, flitting around him, and Jason just tolerating it with an eye roll. His brothers are shocked pikachus.

(If you find the Kirk and Spock post please tag me.)

[batsandbirdbrains]

The one where Dick goes undercover as a Talon

This one is really just me spitballing but imagine like in season 2 of young justice, Artemis decides not to go undercover or come back. And so Dick is left in a pickle, but he decides to exploit his connection to the court of owls. He’d been kidnapped once when he was a couple years into being Robin, spent a few months being trained by his great-grandfather to be a Talon, until he escaped and Batman found him and brought him home.

He becomes a double agent, but the court thinks he’s their double agent. The others don’t realize that he’s even undercover, because his face is always covered when he’s a Talon. Kaldur is the only one who knows.

William Cobb is just smug that his great-grandson has joined him. Dick tries not to feel slimy and scuzzy whenever Cobb lays a hand on his shoulder or praises him.

It’s a very long few months of Dick running himself ragged. He’s got a million things going on, he’s responsible for so much, and now he has to navigate the court joining up with the light and being in the middle of all of it. He has to do missions as a Talon to prove his worth. He tells himself it’s worth it.

When Cobb practically brags to their colleagues in the light about his Gray Son, Dick wants to tear his skin off and run back home, but Bruce isn’t there to protect him. He got himself into this mess. He has to keep playing the game so he can get himself out.

When Deathstroke recognizes him and starts laughing, Dick feels dirty. When Slade slips behind him, laying a heavy hand on Dick’s shoulder and whispers in his ear, “Always knew you had it in you, kid,” Dick wants to run and hide. He wants to rip his ears off. He wants to be lit on fire until he turns to ash and scatters away in the wind.

Instead, Cobb brings him back to the court and pins him down on a medical table, giving him an IV with modified electrum. It won’t give him immortality, but it will speed up his healing, enhance his senses.

“You’ll get the full cocktail once you’re older,” Cobb practically coos at him as Dick shivers on the exam table, his muscles twitching as the electrum moves through his veins. “But for now, this will do.”

Dick wants to die.

He starts to feel like he’s seizing, like he can’t breathe, like there’s fire and ice fighting in his veins.

He wants Bruce. But Bruce is in Rimbor. He isn’t coming to save him.

Dick is in a haze the next few days, but he manages to get everything done. He manages to act normally around the team. No one notices anything out of the ordinary.

He really is an excellent actor when he wants to be.

A few months later, he even manages to put a stop to the whole invasion while he’s still getting the shakes at the most inopportune times.

His status as a Talon gets exposed in the end. He explains that he was a double agent, that he and Kaldur both were, that he’d done it to give Kaldur backup, but no one seems to care. They just care about what they saw the Talons do, what they saw Dick do.

Dick eventually just sits there while they all shout at him, and that’s when the shakes come back. Cobb had just given him another dose of modified electrum the day before. He’s shivering, and his right arm keeps twitching, his fingers flexing and unflexing. He hides it under the table, gripping it with his left hand to try and still the trembling.

It’s Bruce who finally shouts for everyone else to be quiet. It’s Bruce who notices that something is wrong. It’s Bruce who rushes to his side, blocking Dick from view so no one else can see him. It’s Bruce who asks him what’s wrong.

Dick moves his eyes to stare at Bruce. His eyes are moving rapidly, looking all over Bruce’s cowled face. Bruce can tell even when Dick is still wearing the mask, so he removes it to see more of what’s wrong, to get a better idea.

The veins around Dick’s eyes and temples are dark. Bruce immediately pushes his cowl down and holds Dick’s face in his hands, wanting a clear look. His breathing is just slightly more labored, more panicked.

“What did he do to you?” Bruce asks. His voice is strained, terrified. It makes everyone else finally push aside their anger to see how run down Dick looks, and they notice the dark veins and the yellow specks in Dick’s eyes.

“It’s not permanent,” Dick chokes out. “It will go away in a couple days.”

“How many times?” Bruce sounds furious. It’s making Dick want to run away and hide. “Dick, how many times has this happened?”

Dick just shakes his head. He’s not sure. He’s lost count. The days have all sort of blended together.

“Dick-“

“Can we go home?” Dick interrupts, his voice cracking.

Bruce is quiet for a long time. He keeps Dick’s hands held tightly in his, running his thumbs over Dick’s knuckles. His eyes keep scanning Dick’s face, taking everything in.

No one else speaks. No one interrupts. No one hardly moves a muscle.

“Yeah,” Bruce says gently. “We can go home now. Let’s go.”

Dick is detoxed for the next week. He sticks to Bruce like the glue for the next few months.

[awzominator]

What if…. Cassandra Cain in Gerard Ways Batman series…. What if???

anyway she is just as much a weirdo as Bruce. Doesn’t have his future sight but does have the sixth sense while retaining her ability to read ppls body language. Idk she finds him wild and adopts some of his bat like mannerisms Bc I find it funny if Dick is still the only “normal” person. They eat rats together and sleep upside down like god intended

since the inside of Batman’s cape is supposed to have drawings and such inside along w symbolisms, I wanted to play with that for her. I personally view class’s story to be one of breaking free of predetermined destiny I included the broken chains to represent that stage. The stitching to show she is mending herself from her previous life and mistakes. She is making herself into something she wants now that she’s no longer under constraints. It’s messy and haggard but it’s hers and she’s building it with her own hands. I figured the details within her cape would become more elaborate the longer she wears the suit has the time to experience the world. For now she has two eyes as she’s always watching and learning. Nothing can be hidden from her gaze

[catgrandpa]

I'm listening to ABBA again and that never means anything good for anyone

Imagine the Batfam all doing their own Bat Things in the cave, just existing in the same space. The kids convinced Bruce to play music over the speakers, he agreed only because he's doing work on the bat computer and therefore has ultimate control over the music.

Chiquitita comes on and Bruce swiftly moves his hand to change the song.

Dick: Ah, actually B, could we keep this song on? ABBA always makes me feel closer to my mom, and this in particular was one of her favorite songs.

Jason: Weird Dickie, ABBA was my mom's favorite band too.

Bruce: Hn. They were my mothers favorite too, that's why I was changing it.

Jason: Of course, Old Man, cant expect you to let yourself feel an emotion, after all, can you?

Tim: Not to interrupt your regularly scheduled make-fun-of-Batman enrichment time Jay, but ABBA was my mom's favorite too. She would play Money, Money, Money every time she got ready for any big business deal.

Duke: Okay, that's really weird? My parents danced to I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do at their wedding. 5 of our moms having the same favorite band is a wild ass coincidence.

Steph: 6 actually.... *narrows her eyes and looks around the room* Well, at least we don't have to worry about The Daughter of the Demon liking ABBA.

Damian: And to no one's surprise, Brown is confidently wrong once again. *dodges a thrown book* Mother never found ABBA as frivolous as other western music, for whatever reason.

Cass: I don't believe Lady Shiva has ever listened to music before so I think I'm out of this one.

Tim: Ahh, sorry Cass but Shiva did actually play music during our training at times, and ABBA was on heavy rotation.

Cass: :(

Bruce: Hnnnn

*music cuts out*

Barbara, over the speakers: Before any of you pull out some ridiculous conspiracy theory revolving around 80's Swedish Pop sensation ABBA, let me remind you that they are literally peak Mom Music. Moms love ABBA, it's not weird. It's hardly even a coincidence. I would be more surprised if your mothers DIDN'T listen to ABBA when you were growing up.

(Bruce is still compiling a file of possible ways ABBA could be used for evil.)

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

-

They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

-

Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

-

Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[dickgraysonfr]

*plops Bruce down beside Dick* have fun with your dad he's 21 right now

@brucewayne-offic

(I wasn't exactly sure how to start it so just bare with me on this lol)

*judgmental stare towards Bruce*

[batfam-belfry]

I love it when they refer to themselves as brothers <3

[star--bird]

Dick: Hey Jay, since you died before you turned 16, you don't have any form of legal ID do you? How did you go about that after you came back to life?

Jason: Oh so I actually had a fake ID from before I died that I still use. Wanna see it?

Dick: Sure.

Jason: *hands Dick a Hawaiian driver's license*

Dick: ...seriously?

Jason: What! It's a pretty convincing fake!

Dick: Your name is McLovin?

Jason: Yeah I was between that or Mohammed.

Dick: You based your fake id off of a goddam movie?

Jason: I was 13 okay!

Dick: You look like you're 7 in this photo.

Jason: Hey. It worked. And it still does.

Dick: I can't believe this. You are a literal crime lord. You deal fake IDs! They are pretty convincing ones too, good enough to trick both the Gotham PD and Batcave systems.

Jason: It's the principle, okay.

Dick: What fucking principle!

[erinwantstowrite]

Chapter 19 of LoF is out!!!! Happy early Valentines!

[dicktim]

jealous

[flyingdidii]

Day 19 - Stranded Together

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