#but theyre still just so consistently desperate for approval from their mentors

[fightwing]

he doesn't look when the door opens. something he's been trying to train out of, actually, with the titans. while (some) of them haven't blatantly said it . . . dick knows he can be . . . HIGH STRUNG. sometimes. that he can make mountains out of mole hills or any of the twenty other sayings alfred sometimes says. BUT HE RECOGNIZES THAT. files it away like he would any other training feedback. tries, fails, and then tries again to be better with every stuttering step. it's @roysenal. speedy. roy harper. he knows because he can't (and won't) ever be the kind of person who can just turn on and off that bat vigilance, but he'd like to think it's a testament to his willpower that he's not obsessing over it like usual. dick doesn't turn from the screen when he says " wonder girl, aqualad and bumblebee are in the training center. " dick ( ROBIN, here. only robin.) trained earlier this morning, and he was . . . expecting a call from his mentor any minute now after their most recent mission. robin's masked eyes move to roy then. assessing a bit at the trailing thought of mentor's. " and uh, flash picked up kf a little earlier. " so it was just them. something about that scratched at dick. poked him like there was some deeper meaning he was meant to understand. analyze, like his mentor might. and instead, dick feels a bit childish when all he can focus on is W H Y kf left. something about the combination causes dick to continue, with a carefully neutral tone. " flash said he wanted to take wally out for 'victory snacks'. said he deserved it after a job well done. "