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timeline of life

please read the below for a timeline of the events in dick’s life! it can also be found here, in the hidden links on the blog!

This is a timeline of events which reflect the life of the Dick Grayson that have been roleplaying since 2010.

The roleplays that I have had over the years have not affected the timeline.

After the Zero Hour event in 1994, Dick's birthday was established as the first day of spring. For me, I personally believe it to be 20th March. Please bare that in mind when reading my timeline.

1981

1. Richard John Grayson is born

1989

1. John and Mary Grayson are murdered

2. Dick celebrates his 8th birthday

3. Dick is placed in the juvenile services system, gets beaten

4. Dick is sent to a catholic orphanage

5. Bruce Wayne becomes Dick’s guardian, Dick becomes his ward

6. Dick moves into Wayne Manor

7. Dick tries to solve his parent’s murder, fails and is rescued by The Batman

8. Dick becomes Batman’s crime-fighting sidekick and names himself Robin

9. Dick swears an oath to never swerve from the path of righteousness

1990

1. After 6 months of gruelling training, Robin becomes a fully-fledged superhero and joins Batman’s side on the streets of Gotham and dons the title of The Boy Wonder

2. At the end of the year, Robin is fired and is put on the side lines for a further 3 months

3. Dick celebrates his 9th birthday

1991

1. Dick celebrates his 10th birthday

2. Robin teams up with Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl and Speedy

3. The sidekicks cure the Justice League of their mind control which results in the JLA supporting the kid-hero team

4. The Teen Titans are born, Robin is appointed the leader

1992

1. Dick celebrates his 11th birthday

1993

1. Dick celebrates his 12th birthday

2. Dick starts puberty

1994

1. Dick celebrates his 13th birthday

2. Dick convinces Bruce to get a dog, Ace the Bathound becomes a part of the family

3. Dick starts to believe he could be falling in love with Bruce

4. Dick develops a crush on Barbara Gordon

5. Dick develops a crush on Roy Harper and learns Roy has one on him too

1995

1. Dick celebrates his 14th birthday

2. Dick and Roy have an affair, Roy is in a relationship with Donna

3. Dick learns of Roy’s drug habits

4. Roy ends his affair with Dick after six months

1996

1. Dick celebrates his 15th birthday

2. Dick enters a relationship with Barbara Gordon

1997

1. Dick celebrates his 16th birthday

2. Dick and Roy have several secret one night stands

3. Dick quits the Teen Titans and the kid-hero team disbands

4. Dick continues to work solo and with the Batman as Robin

5. Dick develops in the shadow of Batman and finds himself lost

1998

1. Dick celebrates his 17th birthday

2. Barbara ends their relationship but they remain friends

3. Raven summons the old Teen Titans and three new kid superheroes

4. The Teen Titans reform and are known as the second Teen Titans

5. Dick enters a relationship with Kori, Starfire

6. Dick finds his self-worth again

7. Dick and Roy continue to have secret one night stands

1999

1. Dick celebrates his 18th birthday

2. Dick is shot in the shoulder by Joker and Bruce Wayne fires him again for his own safety

3. Dick quits the Teen Titans again and gives leadership to Donna, Wonder Girl

4. Dick decides he is not in love with Bruce Wayne and moves out of Wayne Manor and attends Hudson University

5. Dick turns to Superman for help with his identity

6. Roy ends their secret affairs

2000

1. Dick quits college

2. Bruce and Dick continue to argue about his future as Bruce does not support him quitting

3. Dick moves to New York City

4. Dick becomes Nightwing after hearing the story of a Kryptonian hero

5. Dick celebrates his 19th birthday

6. Dick rescues the Teen Titans with Jericho who have been captured by Deathstroke

7. Dick becomes the leader of the Teen Titans again with the new members included

8. Dick discovers that Bruce has a new ward and is training a new Robin, this leads to arguments and unresolved tension

9. Dick learns that the new Robin has died, leads to further unresolved tension between him and Bruce

2001

1. Tim Drake begs Dick to become Robin again

2. Dick suggests Tim become the new Robin and puts the case to Bruce

3. Tim Drake becomes the Robin

4. Dick celebrates his 20th birthday

5. Dick quits the Teen Titans and hands leadership to Arsenal

· He agreed that the Titans would work for the United States Government in exchange for having their pending lawsuits thrown out. While they retained a satellite base, they also took up residence in the Titans Liberty Island Base in New Jersey with a roster of Changeling, Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner, Damage, Impulse, Mirage, Terra, Supergirl, and Minion. The team disbanded when Sarge Steel cut their government funding

6. Dick fights solo as Nightwing in New York

2002

1. Dick celebrates his 21st birthday

2. The Teen Titans hit troubled times

3. With members dying, Dick remains at the core as Nightwing and is a rock for many superheroes in the world

4. Dick and Kori’s relationship is strained by the tragic events the Titans face

5. Dick and Roy almost have another affair when Roy exclaims his love for him

6. Dick rejects him on the grounds that the time is just not right for them and their relationship has been rocky from the start when in reality Dick is simply scared of falling in love with him

2003

1. Dick celebrates his 22nd birthday

2. Dick is needed in Gotham and this strains his relationship with Kori even more

3. Dick proposes to Kori and she says yes

4. They almost get married but Raven, reborn evil, brutally attacks Starfire

5. Starfire learns she has a demon seed inside her

6. Starfire ends the relationship with Dick and fleas Earth to return to her home planet after going on a solo spiritual journey

7. Dick has many one night stands for the remainder of the year with people not in the superhero community

8. Dick and Roy begin a proper relationship

2004

1. Dick learns that Bruce in out of action after Bane broke his back in half

2. Dick learns that Bruce has chosen a man to be the new Batman until Bruce can take his mantle back and he disagrees with the decision but trusts his judgement

3. Dick celebrates his 23rd birthday

4. Dick regrets his judgement call as the new Batman goes rogue

5. Bruce asks Dick to be Batman until they take out this imposter rogue Batman

6. Dick becomes Batman and teams up with Tim

7. Dick and Tim develop a wonderful relationship as brothers and Dick realises he should’ve made the same effort with the previous Robin

8. Dick becomes Nightwing again when Bruce makes his comeback after fully healing

9. Dick and Bruce begin to heal their conflicts and broken relationship

2005

1. Dick learns that Alfred has left the family and returned to London

2. Dick travels to London to convince Alfred to return and they successfully take down a militia group

3. Dick retires as a superhero believing he will turn into Bruce eventually

4. Dick tries to end his relationship with Roy as he believes he will hold Roy back now he isn’t a superhero but they stay together when Roy tells him he’s worth it

5. Dick learns who could’ve been responsible for his parents murder

6. Dick becomes Nightwing with a new and improved suit and learns he wasn’t the killer

7. Dick decides that being Nightwing is the right thing to do and realises why he can never quit being a superhero, he swears to be a superhero permenantly

8. Dick and Bruce reconcile and Alfred comes home.

9. Bruce adopts Dick as his son

10. Dick celebrates his 24th birthday

2006

1. Dick decides to be Bludhaven’s protector and Bruce is supportive of the idea

2. Dick moves to Bludhaven

3. Dick improves Bludhaven’s security but becomes a grimmer person for it and his outlook on superhero life changes

4. Dick celebrates his 25th birthday

5. Roy ends their relationship, not liking the new person Dick has become but will they remain close friends, occasionally friends with benfits

6. An android called Indigo hospitalises a third of the Teen Titans and Young Justice teams

7. Indigo accidentally releases a broken Superman robot from S.T.A.R. Labs

8. Nightwing co-ordinates the team to defeat the robot with Indigo on their side

9. The superman robot murders Donna Troy

10. Nightwing and the team defeat the robot

11. Nightwing fights with Roy and argues they can’t lose any more friends

12. Nightwing disbands the Teen Titans

13. Roy approaches Dick and they begin a new Team with people who they aren’t emotionally connected to

14. Dick and Roy start the Outsiders

15. Dick and Roy end their relationship of friends with benefits

16. After fighting in reaction to certain events, Dick changes the core of Outsiders and they become proactive hunters of crime and injustice rather than a reactionary team

17. Dick starts a relationship with Barbara Gordon

2007

1. Dick celebrates his 26th birthday

2. Dick has his first experience of killer guilt after contributing to Blockbuster’s death

3. Batman and Nightwing fight a new villain on the scene, Red Hood

4. Nightwing fights Red Hood but was unsuccessful in capturing him

5. Resurrected Donna Troy asks Dick to come with her to New Cronus with other superheroes but he rejects her

6. Dick dons a villainous persona and costume as Renegade and joins Deathstroke’s side

7. Dick infiltrates the Secret Society of Super Villains from the inside and attempts to take them down

8. Dick trains Deathstroke’s daughter, Rose Wilson and she becomes Ravager

2008

1. Dick celebrates his 27th birthday

2. Deathstroke betrays Dick by destroying Bludhaven with a super villain called Chemo who kills 100,000 people

3. Dick gets radiation poisoning whilst trying to rescue survivors and is rescued by Batman

4. Dick explains to Bruce his guilt over having a part in Blockbuster’s death. Bruce helps him get over this

5. Dick becomes inspired and realises how dark he has become since moving to Bludhaven

6. Instead of returning to his relationship with Roy like everyone thought he would, Dick proposes to Barbara and she accepts

7. They move in together in Gotham City

8. Dick teams up with Conner Kent to stop the Infinite Crisis

9. Superboy dies from preventing the destruction of the universe by blowing up Luthor’s Tower which contained both Superboy-Prime and Nightwing

10. Nightwing recovers and goes on a journey to find himself with Bruce and Tim

11. Barbara ends their relationship and gives the ring back on the basis that it’s not herself who Dick really loves. She tells him to go on the journey and come back a better man

12. Dick leaves the Outsiders and hands leadership solely to Arsenal

2009

1. After a year of fighting crime with Batman and Robin in Europe, they return to America

2. Dick returns to Gotham to find out who is masquerading as Nightwing

3. Dick learns that the fake-Nightwing is Jason Todd who is also Red Hood

4. Dick celebrates his 28th birthday

5. Dick takes back leadership of the Outsiders, they become a global crime fighting team and operate undercover

6. Dick and Roy re-start their friends with benefits relationship

7. In a solo mission, Dick follows a thief called Raptor.

8. Raptor is killed by an unknown contract killer and Nightwing is buried alive

9. Nightwing frees himself but can’t help wonder about a mysterious voice who told him he shouldn’t be alive and how it is connected to his experience

10. Dick is in a cast after breaking his arm when freeing himself

11. Dick attends a party with Bruce and their relationship flourishes

12. Dick continues to work on the Raptor case whilst also keeping a close bond with his brother Tim

2010

1. Dick distances himself from the Outsiders and hands the leadership to Batman

2. Dick reunites with the second Teen Titans formation to defeat the spawn of Trigon

3. Dick celebrates his 29th birthday

4. Dick and Roy start dating again

2011

1. Dick and Roy continue their relationship

2. Dick celebrates his 30th birthday

3. Dick helps Tim get over his grief of losing so many people over the last few years

4. Dick tries to help Jason Todd by explaining life is short but his help is rejected

5. Dick and Barbara discuss their relationship and are happy being friends

2012

1. Bruce takes his family to see the Olympics in London

2. Roy and Dick have a serious conversation about where they expect to be in the future

3. They continue their relationship and move in together

4. Dick celebrates his 31st birthday

5. Dick learns that Bruce Wayne has a ten year old son, Damian Wayne

2013

1. Nightwing discovers Batman is missing by finding his cape and cowl on the rooftop of Arkham Asylum

2. Dick unleashes frustrations on petty criminals when he discovers no one can find Bruce

3. Dick learns that Batgirl has a plan in place to create a team that can replace Batman

4. Dick doesn’t like the idea and tells her that he won’t let her put the plan in place

5. After a series of events based on Two-Face’s plots and ploys, Nightwing is injured

6. Nightwing heals and stops Two-Face from destroying half of Manhatten and Two-Face is sent to Arkham

7. Deborah Poulos, a friend Dick met whilst doing some bar work, convinces him to take up sky-diving as a way to release stress and tension

8. Dick sky-dives from the stratosphere and breaks several world records

9. Dick celebrates his 32nd birthday

10. Bruce Wayne’s apparent death causes a strain on Dick and Roy’s relationship

2014

1. Ra’s al Ghul contacted Nightwing from across and world

2. Nightwing travelled the distance and told him of Bruce Wayne death

3. Nightwing had a sword fight with Ra’s and won

4. Dick moves back to Gotham definitively which puts even more of a strain on his relationship with Roy who disagrees with his move

5. Nightwing resumes crimefighting in Gotham in memory of Bruce and rebuilds the Batcave

6. Dick celebrates his 33rd birthday

7. Dick starts to distance himself from Roy

8. Nightwing tries his best to keep crime at bay in Gotham

9. Azrael breaks into the Batcave to try and claim his rights to the mantle of the Bat

10. Nightwing defeats Azrael, returns him to his apartment and tells him he can keep fighting crime in Gotham

11. Nightwing battled Red Hood who was wearing his own version of the Batsuit with Damian who had donned his own contorted version of the Robin costume but Damian was shot in the chest

12. Nightwing returned to Wayne Manor with Damian but learned that Tim had left to Red Hood wearing his own version of the Batsuit

13. With Alfred’s help, Dick realised he was the only suitable candidate for the mantle of the Bat

14. Nightwing defeated Red Hood and took away the Batsuit.

15. Dick puts away his Nightwing suit and takes his place as Batman

16. Lucius Fox creates Dick a Batman suit of his own

17. Dick is approached by Talia who wants to leave Damian in his care

18. Dick moves into the Wayne Manor without Roy

19. Dick takes Damian in and becomes his guardian

20. Dick fights as Batman with Damian who becomes his Robin

2015

1. Dick tries to leave Roy again but is once more convinced by Roy that they can make it

2. Dick teaches Damian the fundamentals of caring and their relationship soon flourishes

3. Dick doesn’t support Tim’s obsession with believing Bruce is still alive and lets him leave for Europe

4. Dick celebrates his 34th birthday

5. Dick asks Stephanie Brown to become the new Batgirl and she does

6. Dick fights his resurrected parents during the Blackest Night crisis

7. Still in the crisis, Dick thinks he is resurrecting Bruce Wayne’s corpse but it turns out to be clone which he defeats before it kills Alfred

8. Dick realises Bruce must still be alive and aids Tim in finding him

9. In the aftermath of the crisis, Dick accepts the invitation to join the Justice League as Batman

10. Bruce Wayne makes his comeback and tells the world he has funded Batman since the very beginning

11. Dick says goodbye to Damian as Batman then becomes Nightwing once more

12. Dick moves back in with Roy in New York

2016

1. Haly’s Circus returns to Gotham

2. Dick leaves Roy for his own safety when an assassin called Saiko attacks him several times and claims Nightwing is the worst killer of all

3. Dick moves into his own apartment

4. Dick inherits the deed to Haly’s circus when C.C. Haly dies in his arms after revealing the circus has a dark secret

5. Dick starts a friends with benefits relationship with his childhood friend Raya Vestri

6. Dick attends a memorial show in honour of his parents death but the main tent was blown up by Saiko

7. Dick learns Saiko’s identity and also learns that Raya is his accomplice

8. Saiko plummets to his death during his battle with Nightwing and Raya turns herself into the police

9. Dick celebrates his 35th birthday

10. Dick decides to keep the Circus in Gotham and fund it with his own money

11. Instead of asking Bruce, Dick gets a loan from Sonia Branch who is the daughter of his parents murderer, Tony Zucco

12. The Court of Owls release Talon’s onto Gotham in a brutal attack

13. Nightwing confronts Talon in battle

14. Nightwing learns that Talon is his revived great-grandfather

15. Nightwing fights Talon again and defeats him by freezing him in liquid nitrogen

16. Joker resurfaces in Gotham and infects the circus’ residents with his Joker gasses

17. Joker destroys the circus but Dick manages to change into the Nightwing suit in time

18. Nightwing is overrun by the residents and is dragged down into the sewers

19. Nightwing is beaten and gagged by the Joker and forced to partake in a fake feast whilst watching the Joker wreck Batman’s mind

20. Batman frees himself and the Joker falls to his apparent death

21. Nightwing’s wounds are tended to

22. All except Jason Todd refused to meet back at Wayne Manor after feeling a change in their relationship with Bruce

23. Damian Wayne dies

24. In grief and looking for a fresh start, Dick moves to Chicago to find Tony Zucco

25. Dick teams up with a villain called The Prankster to try and find a lead

26. Dick was forced to battle Prankster and was strung up like a crucifixion on live TV

27. Dick escaped his fate by teaming up with Zucco and taking down Prankster

28. Dick decided to move back home to Gotham

2017

1. After returning to Gotham, the Crime Syndicate comes to Earth looking to murder the Justice League

2. Nightwing teams up with them to stop it but is captured

3. Nightwing is again forced onto live TV where he is strung up to a bomb called the murder machine. The bomb can only be stopped if Dick’s heart stops beating.

4. Nighwings identity as Richard Grayson is revealed on world-wide live TV

5. Lex Luthor stops Dick’s heart for a few seconds and disarms the bomb

6. The Crime Syndicate is defeated and collapsed

7. Dick Grayson is believed to be dead by all who know and love him except for Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne

8. Bruce Wayne asks Dick to become a double agent and infiltrate a an organisation called Spyral

9. Dick rejects him at first, not wanting to carry on the façade that he is dead but in the end accepts the mission

10. Dick celebrates his 36th birthday

11. Grayson ends his time with Spyral after defeating Paragon and Mr. Minos

12. Dick returns to Gotham and Batman reveals to the superhero community that he has been alive this whole time

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