#catalina flores

[chepib3]

if jason found out about what catalina did to dick he would probably kill her lmao he has 0 tolerance for rapists and he would be even more mad if it was about his brother.. but that isn't exactly a good thing because dick would feel incredibly guilty that a life was ended because of him and that would get on top of the guilt he already felt for letting catalina kill blockbuster + letting himself be assaulted (yeah this is distorted thinking because sa is never the victim's fault but dick hasn't ever talked about it with anyone and i don't know if we should atribute that to shitty writing or him feeling incredibly guilty and ashamed) anyways it would all come crashing down in the form of a shitstorm on jason's head because dick would be so fucking mad at him and don't you think it's so fun when a character displays their love and care for someone but it only causes more harm

#i know catalina is dead already!! this is a scenario where she isn't dead yet #jason would probably know that dick would be mad if he chose to kill her #but he would be too blinded by rage As Usual #i love them #tw sa mention #dick grayson #jason todd #catalina flores #dc comics

[duckytree]

it’s been a while since i drew “dear jason” dick and i miss him

#dear jason #dick grayson #nightwing #tarantula #catalina flores #art #fanart #dc #batman #duckytree #do NOT tag as a ship #that’s messed up

[deadsetobsessions]

Okay, so maybe Tim has no business being in Bludhaven. Tim maintains that since his parents fail at parenting, he can do whatever he wants.

Besides, it's for a good cause. Like, not letting Tarantula get her dirty hands on his big brother in another time line. Tarantula had popped up in the Bludhaven servers - by that, Tim means the endless amounts of threads and underground fronts for criminal activity that he stalks on a regular basis- by being seen with Nightwing. Tim had immediately booked a ride to Bludhaven and bought another burner. He'd try to take care of her himself, but if worse comes to worse, he'd call Deathstroke. He's totally aware of the weird tension Deathstroke has with Nightwing and Tim's kind of banking on that.

Dick's been back in Blud for two months now, Jason having assuaged his mother hen tendencies enough for Dick to get sick of the Manor. Tim hadn't meant to follow since he had plenty of projects to work on now that "SAVE JASON" wasn't blaring at the top of his head.

But then Tarantula appeared and Tim saw red, remembering the way Dick spoke about her and what she did to him.

He bids the driver goodbye. The driver doesn't question his being on his lonesome mainly because 1) Gothamites mind their own busines, 2) Tim gave him a $500 tip to make sure he remains a "good" Gothamite cabbie, and 3) Tim made sure he was dropped off in the swankiest, most ostentatious hotel Bludhaven had to offer.

"Rich people," the cab driver had muttered as Tim closed the door. Perfect.

Tim got his keycard, having checked in under Alvin Draper over the phone. Normally, they'd require an in person visit, but money talks. And people listened when Tim had a lot of things to say.

Tim even feels like he's trained enough to go out! Lady Shiva's training was ingrained into his memory, and Tim's built enough muscle to make use of some of it. He is still nine, after all. He's so much stealthier this time around. Plus, he's got almost his full tool set back. Sure, some of the tech is ancient, but he managed to finagle it to make grappling guns and smoke pellets more along the quality that he's used to.

Tim waits until nightfall, looping the surveillance around his window to mask his exit. Tim adjusts his domino, eyes scanning the city skyline as his handheld computer (god, he can't believe he has to invent wrist computers) tracked reports of Nightwing through Tweetings.

Ah. He's around Seventh. Tim grimaces as his untested joints adjusts to the grappling guns. His dark clothes make him hard to spot, to his advantage as he tracks down Nightwing.

Tim watches, perched on an adjacent roof as Nightwing takes down a crowd of goons with the flips Tim remembered watching from afar and up close in another timeline.

"Blockbuster'll kill everyone you love, Nightwing!"

Tim winces at the rather brutal crunch that followed, Nightwing having punched the guy and knocked him out in one move. He watches Dick sigh, tugging at his hair in stress.

Tim could... no, no. He shouldn't think of murder as a first option. Well, no, he shouldn't think of Deathstroke as a first option. But he'll need to take Blockbuster out before anything happens. And he needs to threaten the new Tarantula before anything happens. He won't allow her to even get close to Dick.

Maybe it's unfair to punish her for a crime she hasn't done, but unlike murder, rape can never be defended. Catalina Flores is a dead woman walking.

Tim stalks his big brother back home and then broke off to begin his short reign of terror over Bludhaven's underground. If he can't get Dick to take a break (and Tim's tried, a lot, over the years) then he'll make sure that the next month is as gentle as possible on his older brother.

Step 1. Murder Take care of Blockbuster

Step 2. Threaten Catalina Flores and her brother.

No. Wait. Tim has a better idea. He's got dirt on them, on top of the murder thing. He'll fabricate Catalina's tax returns, embezzle a shit ton of money from the IRS, and get her and her corrupt brother (because getting your sister out from murder charges is considered corrupt) arrested and locked away. And he'll make sure they stay locked away with some good old blackmail on Amanda Waller.

Tim grins, tranquilizing the building with an ungodly amount of knock out gas pellets, to riffle through the police precinct's files.

Step 2. Threaten Catalina Flores and her brother.

Step 2. Cripple Catalina Flores and her brother with blackmail and the IRS.

In three hours, Tim has everything he needs to begin a temporary hostile takeover. He's got the names of local mob bosses, the big players, and the names of practically every police officer that takes bribes and their... sponsors.

He'll have to cut off Blockbuster's lines of supplies first. Then, blacklist him from local suppliers, mobilize the police precinct against him (by imitating his M.O. perfectly- Tim's not a fucking amateur- and pretending to rob the precinct blind), and then break his knees.

Step 3. Profit

Tim takes out his shiny new burner phone, enjoying the loud sounds of the police squawking through his planted bugs. He lounges on the building next to it, keeping an eye out for Nightwing just in case the man decides to respond to the crisis.

[Unknown: It's RR.]

[Deathstroke: New phone?]

[RR: Who dis?]

[Deathstroke: What?]

[RR: Nevermind. I'll give you forty thousand to shoot someone's knees out.]

[Deathstroke:... That's it? Who?]

[RR: Blockbuster. Bludhaven. Extra twenty thousand if you tell him he's got the spine of a sea slug, kick him in the balls, and post it on Tweeting.]

[Deathstroke: What did he do to you? Deal.]

Tim ignored Deathstroke's question.

[RR: Half sent. Confirm?]

[Deathstroke: Confirmed. Timeline?]

[RR: Three weeks. 21 days.]

[Deathstroke: Confirmed.]

----

Tim grins ferally, all teeth as Catalina Flores looked on in horror at her computer screen.

"Get out of Bludhaven, and don't come back. If you even think of going near Nightwing, I will rip what's left of your pathetic, sniveling swine of a brother apart. You will not enjoy the consequences."

Tim clicks off, watching Catalina and her brother launch themselves into mad packing. He tapped out a short message to Amanda Waller for her and her team to intercept them at the state lines. They'll never get away from Tim's fury. Never.

[Waller: It's done.]

[Waller: I will find you.]

[RR: You can definitely try, Waller. Good doing business with you.]

Tim can see the blood vessel the woman popped after he sent that last message. He laughs.

He saves Deathstroke's video from Tweeting onto his actual, spoofed phone. He destroys the burner phone, less shiny now that he's dragged it through two and a half weeks of breaking heads and terrorizing the Bludhaven Underground. Nightwing hadn't even gotten a whiff of his activities, this Dick being far less experienced and known in this version of Blud.

One more week and Tim can continue his other projects.

----

Nightwing, going about his vigilante business: wow it sure is peaceful

Feral Tim Drake, Nightwing's scary dog privilege: try me, bitch

#tim's kind of intense #tim drake #genius tim drake #tim drake taking out catalina flores #catalina flores #tarantula #dc #batman #amanda waller #amanda waller getting blackmailed by a nine year old #deathstroke #slade wilson #nightwing #dick grayson #blockbuster #i know nothing about blockbuster as a villain #but I have beef with him on principle #and so does Tim #feral Tim drake #Tim's first thought is “how can capitalism work for me?” #and he calls deathstroke about it

[yuwigqi]

BTW: this is a subjective poll. I am not asking about which of these is written most offensively, which causes the most real world harm, which of these is never fixed in canon, which of these you yourself don't find problematic.

Subjectively, which one of these hurts you the most

#Bruce Wayne #Harley Quinn #Duke Thomas #Dick Grayson #Catalina Flores #Damian Wayne #Ra's al Ghul #Talia al Ghul #Barbara Gordon #Cassandra Cain #Lady Shiva #Batman #Batfam #Robin #yupolls

[oldmannapping]

Trigger warning: Discussion of past sexual assualt and mention of domestic violence (fictional).

HC: Dick donates one of his Nightwing suits to a What Were You Wearing exhibit to destigmatise male rape.

He does a single interview with a carefully-vetted reporter in response to the media explosion.

Exerpt below.

Reporter: Despite your flashy and talkative superhero persona, you've actually been quite good at keeping details of your personal life close to the vest for all these years.

Nightwing: (chuckle) Yeah, that's a pretty big part of having a secret identity. Talk lots, say nothing. When in doubt, throw in a pun or two.

Reporter: So after, what is it, ten, fifteen years of being a public figure-

Nightwing: More than twenty, now.

Reporter: Twenty! Gosh you're making me feel old.

Nightwing: Me too.

Reporter: So after more than two decades of being in the public eye as Nightwing, you've chosen to reveal a part of your life, some would say arguably one of the most vulnerable and private parts of your life. Why now?

Nightwing: It definitely wasn't a quick decision. I think that for any survivor of crime, it's important that they take time to heal and process things. Particularly for something like rape or domestic assualt, so much agency is taken away from you and I think for me, owning my story was a really important part of feeling like I could take control back.

Reporter: And you wanted to take control in a way that helped other people.

Nightwing: Not at first. I wasn't- It wasn't something I immediately thought like, "Oh, now I can relate to victims better on the job, how can I use this for good" kind of thing. I was really- For a long time, like years, I just wanted to pretend it didn't happen. Like it was the same as any other injury I'd get being Nightwing, or Robin, or whatever, like it wasn't any different.

Reporter: But it was different.

Nightwing: Yeah. I mean for one thing, it wasn't really an injury. I mean, there's no such thing as luck here, or being more raped or less raped, but in my case, I didn't have physical injuries. I wasn't- it wasn't like I was overpowered and beaten or anything like that. So I didn't feel like there was anything to "recover" from, if that makes sense. And I think there's also a lot of shame that went along with that, as a man, as a superhero, as someone who's used to being the strong one and the one who protects people, there was a lot of shame I felt. Like, if this was really rape then it would have been more violent, and I'd have been able to fight her off, and my body wouldn't have responded... All of that.

Reporter: All things that I'm sure you've heard from other victims, over the years.

Nightwing: Yeah. And that's something, I didn't want to be a victim. That wasn't- Nobody wants to be a victim, but I've spent most of my life helping people and being the hero, so it was impossible for me, for a long time, to do that cognitive shift and think of myself as both. Like, yes I'm a hero, yes I'm strong, and yes I was also assaulted and yes I need help to deal with this.

Reporter: So it was a long time before you told anyone.

Nightwing: Yeah. It was actually my broth- It was someone in my family, who noticed some things I said and some ways that I acted, and confronted me about it.

Reporter: Confronted?

Nightwing: Yeah. That's how it felt, anyway. I was really defensive at first. I was still in denial and wasn't really in a place to talk about it.

Reporter: But you did.

Nightwing: Well, he didn't really give me a choice, ha. It was- and you can cut this out later, if he doesn't want me to say it- but it was Red Hood. He's got a lot of experience with survivors and he's stubborn as shit so I didn't stand a chance. I think part of me also, I think I was ready to tell someone. I think I needed to accept what had happened.

Reporter: So it was the right time for some tough love.

Nightwing: Some tough brotherly love, yeah.

#red hood #jason todd #batman #dick grayson #headcanon #nightwing #batfamily #batfamily headcanons #trigger warning #superhero interview #if i didn't tag the triggers properly please tell me #mirage dc #catalina flores #tarantula dc

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Nightwing: The Animated Series

By David Jamison

#this looks really cool #nightwing #dick grayson #oracle #barbara gordon #deathstroke #slade wilson #blockbuster #roland desmond #two face #harvey dent #copperhead #tiger shark #vigilante #adrian chase #tarantula #catalina flores #dc animated series #fanart #twitter art

[kermit-coded]

so nightwing 1996 huh.

#reading the blockbuster arc for fic purposes and man. i knew what was coming but man. #dc #my art tag #dc comics #nightwing #nightwing 1996 #tarantula #catalina flores #tw implied sa #dick grayson #dc fanart #batfam

[audhd-nightwing]

thinking about dick grayson going mute after everything with blockbuster and tarantula in blüdhaven

first, haly’s circus is burned down by blockbuster who found out dick’s identity. then he targets dick’s apartment and blows it up, killing a bunch of innocent people

then, well. catalina kills blockbuster in front of dick and then r*pes him. and then, later on, the entire city is destroyed, killing thousands of people

so, yeah, i think it’d make sense if that traumatized him enough to become mute. that kind of trauma would definitely have a heavy psychological impact on him

anyway, this all just to say: let dick’s trauma have actual impacts on him psychologically thx

(i am writing smth based on this btw if anyone cares)

(also yes technically the same could be said for every batfamily member but im focusing on dick rn because he’s my favorite. i might do something for the others later on tho)

#let dick grayson be traumatized challenge #pls lmk if this is insensitive in some way #i don’t wanna hurt or offend anyone i’m just thinking a lot abt him as a character #tw fictional rape mention #cw rape mention #it’s about catalina flores #dick grayson #blüdhaven #bludhaven #nightwing #richard grayson #blockbuster #nightwing comics #dc comics #catalina flores #tarantula #i’m only tagging her in case ppl have her specifically filtered out #ngl i have no idea what the timeline between blockbusters death and the destruction of bludhaven is #but for the sake of convenience i’m gonna say they’re relatively close on the timeline #basically i’m saying bludhaven is destroyed soon after blockbuster dies #idk if that is true or not in canon but *shrug* #also pretty sure this happens relatively soon after jason’s death so #not a great time for our boy overall

[thecruellestmonth]

Want to make a post about Batfandom obsessively latching on to depictions of brown and Asian female characters as Wicked Rapists Preying On Pure Innocent White Men.

#Like some people are even like yeah I heard Talia n Cass suddenly turned into heartless bloodthirsty monsters and I learned that's racist #but then they're still like THAT EVIL BROWN CATALINA FLORES AND MIRIAM DELGADO. I HATE THEIR FULL LIPS AND LATINA ACCENTS. #Catalina Flores #Miriam Delgado #Talia al Ghul #Cassandra Cain #Liu (full name apparently irrelevant) #Ra's al Ghul's naked nameless sister who shuddenly showed up to be naked and harvest white boy sperm and nothing else #Dick Grayson #Tim Drake #Bruce Wayne #Jason Todd #Damian Wayne #fandom misogyny #fandom discourse #fandom racism

[themundanemudperson]

petition for dc to let jason todd kill catalina flores.

or like. damian. he can have a little murder. as a treat

pls i just need tarantula dead

#batfam #dc universe #batfamily #jason todd #red hood #nightwing #dick grayson #damian wayne #robin #catalina flores #tarantula #dc #dc comics #batman

[dctable]

Patrick Zircher drew That Nightwing Scene, here's his response on a comic dudebro accusing Gail Simone of emasculating Nightwing with that story

#Devin Grayson #Nightwing #Dick Grayson #Patrick Zircher #Tarantula #Gail Simone #Catalina Flores

[duckytree]

don’t worry he just killed catalina flores

#nightwing #dick grayson #red hood #robin #jason todd #tarantula #catalina flores #art #fanart #comic #batfam #duckytree

[ky-landfill]

#dick grayson #catalina flores #fic rec #second generation by lowflyingfruit #this is NOT a ship fic #batfam taking care of robin01

[comicgayjaye]

I understand the wish fulfillment people get of having Tarantula being murdered by Jason or Damian or whoever, but Dick would have a mental breakdown if someone did that for him. He'd one hundred present view that as him causing someone else's death. Which isn't how these fics usually go, which is fine. I get it, but it's an angle I don't see often.

#catalina flores #dick grayson

[allovesthings]

Me, reading the first issue of the Devin Grayson's Nightwing run:

Yep I managed to still be surprised even though I knew she was coming...Maybe I was hoping I had a little more time before meeting her.

#nightwing #dick grayson #catalina flores #tarantula #dc comics

[theforgottendaydreamer]

i was listening to some sad music about half an hour ago - and a song uprooted me from where i was instantly. i found myself writing something that's been making me feel actively sick ever since i started writing it a few minutes ago. so, dick grayson fans, in case you're in the mood for some heavy angst (no death though, promise), maybe keep an eye on my tumblr and ao3.

#dick grayson #wally west #bruce wayne #catalina flores #you already know where this is going #nightwing #batman #tarantula #dc comics #ao3 #writers on ao3