#not when Nightwing is living off the feedback loop of Dick’s guilt and sorrow and boundless love for Jason

[ghost-bxrd]

In the Dragon AU I kinda want a fight between Jason-Red Hood and Dick-Nightwing.

Outmatched in size and ferocity, but NW is both faster and more agile, with a steadier bond with his Rider?

Maybe Dick trying to protect Tim and his baby dragon?

Hoping he will have a chance to talk Jason down, or maybe, depending on how guilty he is or feels over Jason's death, hoping Jason will be content to take revenge on him and spare the baby bird?

Along with Jay and RH's traumatized dragon and rider in a feedback loop, Tim and Red Robin's inexperienced and not yet battle ready bond Dick and Nightwing could act as the third side of the dragon-human bonds.

Both young, but experienced and trained, with a healthy relationship?

Honestly I think if Dick were to attack Jason with Nightwing, Red would go in for the kill. She’d feel Jason’s sense of betrayal over the attack and absolutely lose it. Haven’t they taken enough from her sweet rider?

The bond between Tim and Jason would be there by virtue of Jason caring for the egg in its early stages, so there’s no psychic link between Jason and Dick. Only the tattered remains of a regular relationship from before Jay’s “death”.

If Jason manages to push his feelings of betrayal aside fast enough to dissuade Red from mauling the smaller Nightwing, he would probably still consider the attack a worse form of treachery than even Tim’s “theft” of his dragon and place in the family.

Dragons fighting dragons is a declaration of war, and the intent to kill. 👁️

Though I wouldn’t put it past Dick to deliberately draw Jason (and Red’s) ire away from Tim, with Nightwing and him both realizing that they’re signing their death certificates with that decision, but content with it as long as Tim and the little dragon get to live.