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when i finish my deaged!dick grayson fic that engages with the traumatic legacy of the robin mantle…… and the ghost of mary grayson….. and bruce waynes violent relationship with loss…… then my vision shall be realised

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why does jason use the elephant to represent himself? i assumed it was to represent dick until i think you mentioned somewhere that it was him as robin, which i was kind of confused about. is it because he was fulfilling dick's old role as robin? or a callback to his original origin? i reread wolf king and got really curious

the elephant is for dick — jason constructed the altar in remembrance of himself as robin by honouring those he thinks grieved his passing. u are remembered by the people who knew u, and all that, so the reasons for the altar are less linear and more nebulous;

although jason can’t quite vocalise the significance of the elephant, even in his own head —

i thought how everyone subconsciously associating dick with elephants to the point of emotionally spiralling was fun. then in turn, jason gives the elephant to a freshly seventeen year old dick grayson, a sign of mourning for a boy who no longer exists. etc etc.

the altar was originally gonna stick to just the people at the funeral (babs and jim, particularly) but then it broadened a little to include more people jason knew in his first life. there were some people i cut for simplicities sake (nocturna and rena as examples) but yeah. bruce is excluded for obvious reasons. it also means that when dick gives jason a bluejay figurine in return, it’s literal a call and answer.

like, a small token representing dick’s own grief. and jason, in return, cannot bare to look at it for long

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Dick and Clark parallels

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Genuinely curious about your take on Dick’s relationship with being both a natural performer and a private person at heart.

bruce wayne and dick grayson are very similar in many ways, but i'd say one of the most profound is their shared grief - experiencing immense personal loss at eight years old, in a spotlight on a stage that they can never truly leave. in the same way that the waynes murder cast bruce as a tragic figure in gotham, who can never escape the shadow of his parents passing. he was alone in the alley, but he will never stand alone without that weight of an audience again.

but the graysons literally died onstage, during a performance, before a horrified crowd. there is no part of dick's loss that is private. there is no part of this loss that is his alone. he is a born performer who loses everything, then transforms that grief into a literal symbol of light, which is taken from him again. how would u not want to fiercely protect what u have left? why would u ever want to share urself with a world that has already seen everything u are, and still wants more?

someone like that would bury themselves so deep that it becomes a non-story. nothing escapes the tight grip he holds over himself, the trickle of personal information he lets escape at a time. he wants eyes to pass over him, utterly disinterested. the less remarkable he is, the better. the easier he is to ignore, the more he can breathe.

brucie wayne is a performance for a goal, to hide in plain sight, but the art of pretending to be dick grayson is an act of self preservation. his body is not his own, nor were his parents. his name has created a legacy he has no control over. every kind smile is an effort to detract further questions. every barb, every cruel word means people might refuse to dig deeper. if he is nice, he is trusted. if he is mean, he is reviled. there is nothing more terrifying than being truly seen and still found wanting. people only get to witness what he wants them to. he controls the light, and the stage. the art of the performance is only showing the audience what u want them to see. never reveal ur hand. never show the other side of the box. and always keep the curtains drawn.

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tim drake trying to explain something complex but he keeps changing the subject mid sentence and taking ages to circle back to his original point and the only ones who can follow the conversation are kon (used to bart), dick (used to wally), bart (used to tim), steph (also yaps), and babs (autism)

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I will say that, as someone who takes care of an 8 year old, it is pretty hilarious to think about Dick fighting crime so young. Like there's just packs of animal crackers in the batmobile because Dick will get hungry during the middle of a case. And god forbid Bruce forgets to pack a water bottle for Dick because then he'll just hear a litany of, "I'm thirsty, I need water." I mean, I know Dick is usually depicted as more mature/responsible than your average kid, but it's so funny to think about Bruce and Alfred having to deal with some of those typical kid needs and behaviors.

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I was quickly reading up on the Talon comic, in particular Issue #5 where we got a prologue/recap of the past few with Bruce and Dick and I came across ….this

Does….Dick actually know who Calvin Rose Is????

Cause if that’s what this implies….. I FREAKING KNEW IT XD

I KNEW THEY MIGHT’VE KNOWN ABOUT EACH OTHER AT THE LEAST DURING THEIR DAYS AT HALY’S

Where the Hell is that Crossover Between these Two, DC? I Wants It

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HE CREATED A ROUTINE THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED HIS PARENTS' LIVES IM DONE

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8y Dick: ugh, can't believe B thought this was a good idea.

10yo Wally, sad, depressed, scared of his dad, and has no friends because he's the weird kid, looking at Dick like he hung the moon: y-yeah, adults can be so weird like that.

Dick: yeah, I bet you rather be back home hanging out with your friends.

Wally: I don't have any friends, plus I try to be out as late as possible before going home.

Dick, looks at him: why don't you have any friends... And staying out late?

Wally: welp I love chemistry so much I'm labeled the weird kid people tend to stay away, and I don't want to see my dad.

Dick:

Wally, nervous:

Dick: tell me about your chemistry knowledge.

Wally, happy, if had ears and tail of a dog would be perked up and wagging, telling him everything he knows and gifted him some acid to be his friend.

*end of flashback*

Bart: so how do you make friends?

Wally: the fuck should I know.

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A collection of Dick being baby in Batman/Scarecrow:

(She gets it)

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⚡Today's Miku figure is:⚡

Design COCO JAPAN TOUR 2023 ~THUNDERBOLT~ ver. 1/7 (2025)

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pov patrol is boring so you just make stupid jokes and references with your brother

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here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”

if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo

ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (; 

ft John:

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Nightwing #113 - "00:01" (2024)

written by Michael W. Conrad art by Howard Porter & Hi-Fi

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did tom taylor just make jujutsu kaisen and dc comics exist in the same universe

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the trees witness everything, victoria chang // batman: dark victory (1999) #13 // robin: year one (2000) #1 // light, sleeping at last // jla (1997) #69 // batman (2016) #130 // light, sleeping at last // batman (2016) #54 // moony moonless sky, fatima aamer bilal // jla (1997) #73 // batman (1940) #416 // robin (1993) #13 // checkmate (2006) #14 // the two times i loved you the most in a car, dorothea grossman // batman: gotham knights (2000) #21 // outsiders (2003) #49 // robin 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular (2020) // robin in a cage, george ralston wyllie // poetry, richard siken

bruce & dick + (mis)communication