#he grew up in the circus

[jewishmiku]

people who are like "why didn't anyone do anything about the abuse at hullabaloo" clearly don't understand how abusive dynamics work and should not be allowed to have opinions anymore

[stars-fall]

Ok, I think I have an Idea, it's a unitard.

It's like a one peice but Y'know low cut and short sleeve so he can wear it under his day clothes. When it's Nightwing time ™ he slips on his over layer- the turtleneck, with the gloves and logo and probably Kevlar.

love that i’ve opened up the discussion of the nightwing suit

notes so far include:

-canonically a two piece but it doesn’t make sense because how does it stay together seamlessly???

-is also sometimes a one piece in canon???

-maybe it’s a super special fabric made to stick to him or smth idk 🤷

in conclusion:

i’m going to say two piece and just pretend it’s not completely impractical

[leoleolovesdc]

Am i the only one who really dislikes the talon grayson shit? I genuinely don’t think the court of owls is very interesting in general, but their relationship to dick and hally circus specifically really rubs me the wrong way. It’s like writers took a story about normal, well intentioned people (that in some versions have mary and john being poc, which only furthers the racist stereotype that romani folks are “sketchy”) who were struck by tragedy, and made it into a whole ass conspiracy theory that ruins the point of multiple minor characters who already didn’t get much attention from the comics, but especially, it ruins the point of nightwing and his origin.

Do we really need another character who was raised to be a super secret and important weapon that is tied to random stuff across the whole universe? Don’t we already have two of those? Don’t you think it’s better when batman characters are just normal people??

Just. what was even the point of that??

[the-talon-ted-meem]

Don't care if its midnight posting this, I just wanna think that he's ok and got teleported someplace else (Totally not an excuse to draw my two favorite Aussies no)

[showtoonzfan]

I know some people think Rocky is annoying but I love him. The silly crazy musical violinist and poetry loving maniac. I also love how it was confirmed that he can’t even use a gun, he’s been in a lot of rocky (no pun intended) situations and yet he’s managed to survive this long lol.

[dreadeves]

yknow. vanitas’ mark from luna is in a rather weird position for drinking blood. it’s almost as if he had his arms raised in self defense, for the star mark to be on the outside of his forearm.

and also, the two books of the blue moon just lean even further into vnc’s twins aspect

[ficyorick]

having five thousand hell explosions at work currently and i didnt have much time to write :(( but i managed to edit for a little bit today and im happy about that !!! we're still at 6.8k words but im ALMOST done with the logistic intro to the chapter (its around 2k words i think) and then i can bridge it with it the finale-finale OUGHHHH

sharing a moment i rly like from the first part

[myebix]

consider! what if jax wound up in the digital circus when he was 14, and his avatar reflected that? there's so much potential here...

[ailithnight]

Does Dick Grayson know the Clown Code?

[scrawnyghstts]

sharing my bg3tav because I haven't done so yet and I feel like I might explode if I don't

here's Colwyn ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)つ ⚡︎ ٠ ࣪⭑ˎˊ˗

Cleric of Talos because thunder powers sounded so fun (they are.) and "half-tiefling" (one parent tiefling n one parent human, hence the pale skin, at least that's my story)

[honey-dont]

silly little worldbuilding thing but i write magic as smelling like something you like/something that’s nostalgic to you in my btb fic and i think that’s fun :)

[poyopaan]

some of you long time friends of mine might recognize this funny little lad from ages ago! I’m in a new dr rp group and i decided to revamp my old boy who’s now known as Knickknack :)

[atombonniebaby]

This might be my favourite bit of Nate Lore... I'm just gonna leave this here.

[aiiaiiiyo]

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[dramatisperscnae]

Uhm... Dick? There's a cockroach on your shoulder...

"..."

The roach gets flicked off quickly, while Dick grumbles something about pest control and finding non-toxic options; especially with Cisco around he doesn't want to use poison unless there's no other alternative.