#but then 18/19 dick!robin he was part of the teen titans and eventually became nightwing at 19? idk ages?

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Everyone says Dick!Robin is angsty and Jason!Robin is pure but after reading all of the Silver Age comics. Bruh. Dick!Robin is very very very much like that Adam West movie and series, like if you don't like comics, watch that and it's uncanny. So much war propaganda too (at least in the comic) but I'm not going to get into that. But Jason!Robin was... he was something else. Pre!Crisis, he was Dick 2.0, but post!Crisis, he became something of himself. He was a more horny, hot-tempered Dick.

Not horny-horny, but he acted very much like an adolescent boy.

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For me I do think Dick should be a preteen but his age in his origins was inconsistent enough even before Tim was ever introduced—it already ranged from 8-13 without Tim involved. So to me it makes more sense to move along that range if I want the timeline to work with more realism. (Obviously I’m biased to post-Crisis as much as I love pre-Crisis for actually containing Dick’s Robin years.)

If I don’t want the timeline to be realistic then 8 year old Dick is extremely fun so long as they still meet at the circus and Tim still remembers it (you can pry Dick promising to do a quadruple flip for his toddler eventual-brother from my cold dead fingers) and so long as Tim is still 13 when he’s introduced (because that’s just important for me to calculate everyone else’s age later on when his age becomes the most consistently referenced). So yeah I think it’s better to utilize the surreal-comic-logic in that case.

Also I consulted my timeline doc and found some more of the post-Crisis references to Dick’s age in his origins, so here’s some more just so they can all be in one place here:

Another time Dick was said to be 8 is in Gotham Knights #21 (surprise! The writer was Devin Grayson).

10 years old was used near the beginning of post-Crisis in Secret Origins #13, used again in New Titans #57. For Batman Year Three, he’d be 10 doing math from the many ��11 years ago” refs in BY3 (with me being extremely confident Dick was 21 at the time, so many comics indicate he’s 21 that I’d need another post), but the first issue contradicts itself and the rest of the issues in that arc by also saying it was 12 years ago and almost 10 years ago. After that, Secret Origins #50 says he’d just turned 10 (<- according to this comic it might be Dick’s birthday today).

(10 seems to be the most common age around the time A Lonely Place of Dying was published, which would make Dick Robin for 9 years and Tim almost/barely 2 at the circus, which is a bit too young developmentally IMO, the writing makes him seem closer to 3…but Marv Wolfman not being exact in child development does not surprise me at all lol.)

Batman #710, Batman #713, and Batman and Robin (2009) #13 all have Dick younger than 12 or exactly 12 when he was Robin, because he says he was 12 when doing Robin-y things like his first time jumping through a particular window and when he understood the Joker. In Batman Confidential #13, Alfred says Dick was 13 a year after he became Robin, making him 12 at the time.

Batman #416 says Dick was Robin for 6 years before being fired at 19, making him 13. This matches up with later Robin: Year One #1 saying Dick was in middle school and Nightwing Vol. 2 #151 saying Two Face beating him up (a few months after he became Robin, as told in Robin Year One) happened when he was 13.

Teen Titans Vol. 3 #1/2 places Dick’s parents dying 10 years before Tim Drake (who’d almost or just turned 16) joins the Teen Titans. Dick was probably 24 at the time so he’d be 14—however, this timeline also says the New Teen Titans formed 5 years before this group of Teen Titans (so 5 years after Dick’s parents died). That part of the #1/2 timeline is off from my age references by like 0.5–1 year, they should’ve formed about 5.5–6 years before Tim turned 16, in which case since they formed when Dick was 18 he’d be 13 when his parents died 5 years earlier.

In Batman #615 and some other comics, Bruce says he and Dick were around the same age when their parents died, but this doesn’t actually help much because Bruce’s age also varies all the way from 6-12, though I think 8 is common, followed by maybe 10.

As for the gap between Dick’s parents dying and him becoming Robin—which would technically affect all of this—that gap is 6 months in Batman #441 and Robin Annual 4 on page 39 (but in Annual 4 they only confirm Robin is a long-term role a year after his parents died when he’d already been Robin for 6 months), and it’s just under a year from right after his 10th birthday to right before his 11th birthday in Secret Origins #13. I know there are also some comics where Dick seems to become Robin pretty much immediately. I don’t think Batman: Legend of the Dark Knight #100 clarifies a specific length of time but it feels quick.

I think those are all the ones I can find/remember.

Nightwing Vol. 2 #54

Nightwing Vol. 2 #73

Gibsontown, Florida, aka “Gibtown”

Ahhh, okay. Huh.

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Dick Grayson is a character from DC comics, animated series and games. He is associated with Batman as robin and then went on to be in multiple groups and solo as Nightwing over many universes and timelines. Below is the story I am following with my incarnation of Dick Grayson/Nightwing.

Dicks parents (John and Mary) were aerial acrobat performers. With their son Dick Grayson they performed under the name The Flying Grayson’s and were a part of a traveling circus called The Haly International Traveling Circus.

The Flying Grayson’s were famed for performing without a net making them a headline act. When the circus came to Gotham City crime boss Tony Zucco ordered the circus to pay him protection money. When the circus couldn’t pay Tony Zucco sabotages the trapeze ropes causing Dick Grayson’s parents to fall to their death.

Dick was 9 years old when his parents died so tragically. Bruce Wayne, billionaire industrialist and notorious playboy was at the show that night as a special guest and watched it all happen. He decided to take Dick Grayson in and then eventually adopted him. Dick was lonely, angry and grieving. Bruce trained him to fight and used what Dick knew from the circus to his advantage. Dick at the age of 12 became Batmans sidekick Robin. Robin was a nickname his mother gave to him as his costume had a red chest and he flew through the air. Dicks first robin suit was inspired by Robin hood.

over the years Batman and Robin went on many adventures, solving crimes and catching bad guys. As Dick Grayson he had to keep Batman and Robin and their identies a secret. As Dick Grayson he was billionaire Bruce Wayne’s son and had to play the part. He attended school and smiled at galas but alone he was very lonely and still grieved for his parents and the circus.

At 19 years old Dick was fired from his role as Robin and fell out with Batman and Bruce Wayne. He decided to create his own persona Nightwing.

Nightwing has had many changes over the years and been in many groups such as, teen titans, outsiders and Titans as well as working with other vigilantes.  In his private life Dick is a hopeless romantic, he is very caring. Dick is pansexual.

Dick’s first love was Barbra Gordon, they had a troubled but intense relationship and Dick will always have feelings for her even if they cant be together.

Nightwing stands for justice, he always wanted to be the open hand to Batman’s closed fist. He respects Batman and appreciates Bruce’s effort to take him in bit still sees that B has not got all the answer’s. B’s tactics on bringing up children are certainly unconventional and lacking warmth and understanding a child and teenager needs. Dick put aside his disagreement with B to come back and help train the new members to B’s family while also being the person he never had growing up under Bruce Waynes roof and under the direction of Batman.

Dick wants to be the best at everyone of of his roles, friend, brother, hero, mentor while trying to scrape together whatever private life he has left for himself. He may come across as having everything together but the truth is that its hard to live with the world on your shoulders, living with regrets and being his own worst critic.

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