#bruce and dick

[melorivers]

The Original Dynamic Duo

[ravenlilyrose]

Yet another JL learns about Batfam post

Featuring: everybody loves Nightwing

So, Nightwing isn’t technically a member of the JL, but everyone knows him and adores him. Even Batman seems to tolerate him fine.

They’re on a mission. Let’s say alien invasion. Or killer robots. Something large scale and dramatic.

Everyone’s fighting in the same general vicinity. Nightwing and Batman just happen (read: either very carefully planned, unconscious habit, or a combination of the two) to be fairly close together.

Suddenly, an explosion happens. Everyone is knocked down. Including the aliens/robots. Conveniently, they stop being an issue now, so we can focus on The Reveal.

Anyway, everyone knocked down. They start to get up and look around, checking to see that everyone is fine. And it looks like everyone is well and accounted for, except…

Nightwing!

Where’s Nightwing? They all start to panic (except Batman). Is Nightwing okay? Where did he go? Is he hurt?

And then Nightwing ducks out from under Batman’s cape, with a grin on his face, sunny and cheerful as ever.

“Well it looks like that instinct is fully intact. Explosion? Duck under the cape.”

He laughs at himself and Batman’s face twitches in what his family would read as a smile and most of the JL thinks they’re hallucinating.

“Do you two know each other?” They want to ask. And it’s been long enough that it would probably be awkward to ask. But they’re confused/curious enough that they might ask anyway.

[sodamnbored]

New parent Bruce at two in the morning: Why aren’t you in bed?

9-year-old Dick, sitting at the table eating ice cream: Because I’m in the kitchen.

Bruce tiredly, digging out some coffee: And why are you in the kitchen?

Dick: Because it’s where the ice cream is.

[livsoulsecrets]

Dick: Go big or go home!

Bruce: Please, for once in your life just go home. I'm begging you. Go. Home.

Dick: I'm going big!

[inkrats]

>:(

[farshootergotme]

Dick 'my mental stability is hanging by the rope that snapped and killed my parents' Grayson met Bruce 'emotions aren't real if you don't acknowledge them' Wayne when he was 8 years old and he never recovered.

[thatcutenerdygirl]

I swear Dick making fun of Bruce is actually the monologue going on in his head.

[v00do-d0ll]

I think it’s lazy writing that Bruce can’t be happy and Batman at the same time.

Like I honestly think it’s stupid as fuck.

I get it at the beginning when he’s becoming Batman and he’s still angry. That makes sense.

But why later in life when he’s had multiple children by this point and other things come into his life like Clark and the Justice League does he need to be miserable to continue to be Batman?

That genuinely makes no fucking sense

Because the ideology is still the same. He became Batman so nobody else has to go through what he has gone through. To protect the people of Gotham.

He can do that while being happy, his character doesn’t need to change he can still be the paranoid weirdo that we all know in love. But he does not have to be angry and miserable to continue being Batman that’s just shitty writing.

And it kind of feels like nobody wants to fix that, it feels like they’re just like “well it’s gone on for this long no reason to fix it now.” And that’s stupid as fuck.

Let Bruce Wayne be happy

Let Bruce Wayne be at peace

Let Bruce Wayne be Batman without being miserable.

[lexxieannie]

i like the idea of bruce taking in dick, planning it all out before officially making him his ward, getting all these silly parenting books and being like heck yeah i am so prepared for anything and then he meets this kid and he knows like three words of english and one of them is ‘Richard’

[kstarlitchaotics]

Only HE can do that 🤣🎄🦇🐦

[heylosers06]

Bruce and Dick arguing over patrol while Dick is injured.

My first art commission done for @nezumichan16

Thank you so much! This has been so much from to do and I’m so happy to have worked with you. A piece on Bruce and young adult Dick arguing over patrol is so much fun to draw and I’m glad you liked it! 💕💕💕

Art commissions are still open for anyone else interested. ☺️

[ravenlilyrose]

Bruce, pouting: It’s not fair, Alfred! If I tell Dick anything, Tim knows it by the next week. And if I tell Tim anything, Dick knows it by the next day. But if I ask Dick anything about Tim, he scoffs at me. And if I ask Tim anything about Dick, he just stares at me until I go away!

Alfred, got tired of this weeks ago: From what I understand, that is what brothers are like.

[sodamnbored]

Damian: And you would be Richard, I presume?

Dick, preening: I suppose Bruce and Alfred must talk about me all the time. What gave me away? The hair? My gymnast’s build? My rugged good looks? :D

Damian: Not really. I just know a Dick when I see one.

[livsoulsecrets]

Detective Comics #1062

When you try to convince your dad to retire and he gives no fucks

[inkrats]

I bring a certain “Bruce and Dick should be allowed to be and always have been a non-standard dynamic. That’s the point—that in everyone who’s ever lived they, in a one-in-a-billion chance, found eachother and found home in the other. Not through blood or nuclear (family) labels, but in the recognition that “you’re just like me” and all that that encapsulates in it’s ambiguity” vibe to the function that a lot of batfamers don’t love

[spocks-husband]

I knowww I'm a day late, but if you're looking for a good Christmas read I would highly recommend One Bad Day: Mr. Freeze. It's a one shot about an encounter with Mr. Freeze that Dick and Bruce have in his early days as Robin and I just need to show you guys some panels because I'm beyond obsessed.

First of all, baby Dick has this adorable little Winter version of his uniform and it's so precious (he's also just generally adorable).

AND we get Dilf dadbod Bruce ft. Matches Malone