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frogaroundandfindout · 4 months ago

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As a child, Dick liked to tease Bruce by dropping his voice as low as it would go and mimicking the Batman voice.

As an adult, Dick stares at the tattered cowl clutched tight in hands crusted with his fathers blood and thinks of how much it used to hurt his throat.

Why does it always have to hurt with Bruce?

#implied context now made explicit: Bruce bleeds out in front of dick and dicks hands are bloody from trying to stop it with no supplies #in his last moments Bruce gives dick his cowl in an act dick interprets as Bruce passing on Batman to him #he doesn’t want it and hates that he feels like this #views it as Bruce’s final act of love and cruelty in their relationship #he does it anyway because no matter what has happened between them he’s always loved and been loyal to Bruce #Bruce meant it as a symbol of Batman being laid to rest with the one person he trusts to do it: his first Robin #the one person who truly knows its weight getting rid of it for good #a tattered mask taken away and given to dick in the same way dick gave his Nightwing suit to Bruce in Nightwing vol one #for safekeeping and out of love and remembrance #not a desire for it to be carried on #dick grayson #dc #nightwing #Batman #bruce Wayne #I make myself sick actually #angst #I’d be mad but I was the one that thought of it #dc comics

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