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moghedien · 1 year ago

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lot of people online are arrow removing experts but apparently not arrow identifying experts because that’s wasn’t even an arrow

#she got shot with a crossbow #it was a bolt #I mean regardless I’m not sure the removal process was correct #but you gotta also take into account she was working with a much smaller and thicker shaft than an arrow #like given the length of the shaft she was working with and the fact that it didn’t seem to be in a vital area or hit an atery #I can at least see an argument for how it was dealt with #like you know the head probably didn’t go all the way through her leg and that’s why Nynaeve had to push the head through #not sure she could have broken the fletching off after that without something to actually cut it because its thicker than arrow #and harder to get a grip on and steady without putting pressure on the injury when snapping it #and ‘oh but she’ll bleed out’ its tv no she won’t #do you want Elayne to meet Rand with an arrow in her leg?#she has to look NICE when meeting her subjects #wot on prime #wot show spoilers #wheel of time

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freefallintothevoid · 3 months ago

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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.

#it takes Tim exactly two years to connect the dots #he bolts upwards in his bed with wide eyes and proceeds to swear so profusely he wakes up half the house #Dick also gets along really well with Cass when I think about it #i feel like the Grey Son implications need to be explored more #dick grayson #batman #dc comics #batfam #batfamily #dc #bruce wayne #dc robin #nightwing #alfred pennyworth #batbros #batkids

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humming-fly · 28 days ago

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I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever