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bigskydreaming · 5 years

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Obviously I don’t consider Dick Grayson judging or turning his back on Jason for killing to be in character or Valid Writing.

Here are some more realistic or in character reactions Dick might have:

Dick, the exasperated oldest child, eternally frustrated at how difficult his family makes his role as Designated Family Mediator: Look, I know you have your Principles and Bruce has his Principles and and Tim and Damian’s Principles are fluid depending on who they decide they most want to Ally with in our latest family squabbles, but just once could SOMEBODY’S Principle be Not Making My Life So Damn Difficult?

Dick, the bearer of No, Murder Does Not Make You An Exemption To The Rules tidings: Jason, you’re not slick, everyone knows you only killed that guy to piss Bruce off enough that you could get out of coming to that event we’re all supposed to attend, you’ve pulled that stunt three times in a row and if we have to go, you have to go. Also, that edict came straight from Alfred, so you can kill as many people as you want before Saturday, the response’s still gonna be the same.

Dick, frankly unimpressed and not even sure why they’re having this conversation: Literally everybody who came to my birthday party last year has a higher body count than you. Somebody even gave me the hand of one of my enemies, and I’m not even sure who? There’s like, five different people it might have been. Also, don’t think I didn’t notice that you didn’t get me anything for my birthday last year, you ASS.

Dick, rolling his eyes at Jason’s insistence that he’s So Misunderstood and Dick Judges Him and thinks less of him for his actions: Yesterday you claimed that Damian is my favorite, and Dami’s killed more people than you, so which is the truth?

Dick, Historically Canon-Accurate: DAMMIT JASON, STOP TRYING TO KILL OUR BROTHERS, DON’T MAKE ME SAY IT AGAIN.

Dick, the annoyed older brother, not in the mood to listen to his kid brother tell him what to do, he’s not the boss of him: Jason, shut UP about how I’m not doing vigilantism right because I won’t kill people. No, I do not need to execute the bad guys in order to for me having literally just saved somebody’s life from them to have been worthwhile. Ugh, I have gotten this Murder is So Awesome, You Should Totally Try It, All The Cool Kids Are Doing It spiel from Slade Wilson, the Court of Owls, Helena, Tiger, Midnighter AND Raptor, just this past week alone. That creepy Owlman has even been calling me from Earth-3 somehow to do it too! I do NOT need to hear this same old crap from my little brother too, get some new material. Jesus, its like a broken record with you people. Why is everyone so obsessed with trying to get me to kill people?

Dick, fed up with hearing from Jason the bad-ass rebel about how he’s such a kiss-ass and Bruce’s loyal little foot soldier who always does what he’s told: I mean, when I was your age and I didn’t feel like doing what Bruce told me to, I only went off and restarted the Titans with a bunch of strangers and we all saved the world from an interdimensional Satan together, before Bruce literally stopped talking to me for years, but I mean sure, your cute little murder shtick works too. OMG Jase, you’re such a rebel, teach me your ways.

Dick, who honestly worries about his little brother and just wants him to be happy, but being extremely fucked up himself, has less than orthodox ways of going about that: I will let you kill this guy and not even say a word about it, but then you have to suck it up and actually ask Kyle Rayner out, that’s the Rule. No this is not open to negotiation, those are my terms, take them or leave them.

Dick, embarrassed his little brother just saved his ass by killing that guy he didn’t see sneaking up on him: Dammit Jason, that was totally unnecessary! I knew he was there the whole time, I had a PLAN, ugh.

Dick, yelling at a simultaneously yelling Jason in the middle of a supervillain’s base, surrounded by bodies, with alarms blaring and a self-destruct sequence activated while Starfire and Arsenal facepalm and roll their eyes, remembering oh yeah, this is why they never work with both Jason and Dick at the same time: We agreed, YOU take the twenty on the left, the twenty on the right were mine! You’re always taking my stuff!

Dick, sulkily being carried by Starfire with one arm with Jason carried by her other arm, as she flies them away from the exploding base to meet up with Arsenal who got fed up and left ten minutes ago to go get their ship: ‘Look at me, I’m Jason, I’m so cool, I shoot people and tell my Dad he’s not the boss of me and never call my brothers on their birthdays. You can’t play with me and my friends, you don’t even kill people, what a NERD.’

Dick, standing over a dead body across from Jason in the middle of a secret government facility neither of them are supposed to know about and definitely aren’t supposed to be in, as the Justice League is in the middle of long-term diplomatic efforts to get said secret facility shut down, with said efforts being way too slow and inefficient by both brothers’ standards: Neither of us was ever here, and nobody ever has to know about this. Deal?

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