#maybe im acting a bit like the folks that voted jason to death idk

[notrightgrayson]

I gotta say, I don't love the idea of nightwing becoming a legacy hero. Yeah it's fun as hell to imagine what if other people in the batfamily were nightwing (I love the costumes that have been designed) but I personally wouldn't like the mantle being passed on.

Dick has already had a hero identity he created and that was very personal become a legacy hero. Robin was very much a way to honor his parents, the costume being a reworking of one of their show outfits, the name being his mother's nickname for him, etc. So to do it to him again.... doesn't sit right with me.

Now don't get it twisted I absolutely do not even dislike that Robin became a legacy hero. Dick grew up and needed independence and to be his own man without Bruce. Nightwing is that independence. Dick became nightwing to step away from Bruce and away from Gotham. " forged [it] on his own, his way" as Bruce once said.

So unlike symbols like batman or wonder woman or -hell- Spiderman, Nightwing is so inherently tied to Dicks growth as a person to me.

Now all this being said I'm not saying it's impossible to write a bangin story where someone else takes up the mantle. I'm just saying that the writer would have to come up with a really good reason as to why they have to be nightwing and not something new to convince me.

#maybe im acting a bit like the folks that voted jason to death idk #like resistant to change for my favorite character #i honestly don't know #i could be proven completely wrong so #just my thoughts #my opinion #very biased #dick grayson #nightwing #gayson.txt