I write bad Dick Grayson and TMA fanfiction on ao3 follow me @imtired_likerllytiredI literally keep creating and deleting accounts on this hellsite lurker since age 8
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I’ve seen a lot of people talk about jump b4 looking Grayson vs meticulously planning everything Grayson
And my final conclusion is
If dick is reeling from a loss (Donna, Bruce) he becomes callous and scarifies shit to the mission
If Dick is the main one in charge he is meticulously planning everything to make sure everyone is okay
If hes alone (not solo like alone, there is no one who gives enough of a fuck to catch him) he’s gonna rely on the spontaneity
.. Approved? Disapproved?
Discuss
Was I supposed to find out for myself that dazai and chuuya were just like that (tm)
Sorry to bother you, but I’m trying to get into comics and I was wondering if you had any comic recs? Your takes on the characters seem really interesting so I kinda wanted to know you’re favorite runs/ what you find interesting or important.
Thank you for your time, and have a nice day!
Hi dear! My advice is
Fuck everyone. If something sounds cool you can start there hell the first comic I finished was Grayson? Find your lil guy/girl and go for it!
If you wanna be more linear or if you wanna start reading about a character that you don’t know that much about then genuinely the best piece of advice I’d give you is literally go “Nightwing/arsenal/flash/batgirl/stephanie brown/cassandra Cain/literally pick a hero or civilian name it doesn’t even matter reading order Reddit” that’s literally how i got started
If you want my opinion, I’d avoid the new 52 for one of your first series. Despite all the shit I give the new 52 a lot of it is fun. But the best way I can put it! Is that a lot of the characters only exist in the new 52
Like dick and Jason are entirely different motherfuckers in the new 52. Dick specifically?? Wearing red?? Atrocious
My personally favorite runs right now are a mix of fun new stuff and older classics (and mostly Dick Grayson sue me if you have seen my lil account you know by now I am a dick Grayson Stan first human second call me Tim Drake)
This starts in a certain order and slowly devolves I’m sorry I tried! But… not that hard
-Batman year 1
- Batman and Robin year 1 (2024) - my son is adorable here
-batman the long Halloween
- absolute Batman (honestly all of the absolute verse the Wally stuff is looking really promising so far tho I won’t co-sign it yet)
- Robin year 1
-worlds finest! (Thank you Dan mora we all say in unison)
- Nightwing year 1
- teen titans (yes including Judas contract)
- new teen titans
- Nightwing 1996 (ik Dixon is a lil bitch but I like this run)
-outsiders (2003) - DickRoy divorce arc my beloved
- now technically you need to read rebirth but I fucking hated the himbofication of my son so read at your own risk
- Batman and Robin 2009 (villain Jay Jay my son)
-NIGHTWING ALL IN (the moment they de-lobotomized him I lost my marbles)
- supersons (cute, light hearted, adorable, if Damian doesn’t become a favorite of yours after this I’ll write you an apology note)
- Batman: under the red hood
- Grayson (this comic fucking sucks but I’m a sucker for this genre of super spy also the ART STYLE)
-Batman hush (also the new hush bc I like Jason’s suffering)
YOU DONT NEED TO READ ALL OF THIS!!!! If you want a lazy way to get all the background info! Fandom wikis exist! Literally pick and drop whatever you want. If anyone judges you! They suck!
Also some of these aren’t good!! (Grayson) the fandom doesn’t like em but I LIKE EM! They’re fun! My
My takes on characters changes depending on like the era I’m reading and even the comic I’m reading (for example Jason is currently my son my lil baby boy and a month ago I wanted them to blow him up again) but I might make a post detailing like my actual canon only opinion of certain characters (mainly titans and core batfamily)
Anyway HAVE FUN AND HAPPY READING :D
DICK GRAYSON and TALIA AL GHUL coparenting is such a cruel and unusual punishment for both of them but also for damian. I know they don’t do a good job of it either it’s a shitshow in the way typically only brought on by an acrimonious divorce. First time these behaviors have been seen outside of a walmart parking lot weekend custody swap
found this reverse robin au, where like dick not being adopted first changes everything like there was no robin, tim cass and jason were never adopted ( dw cass still has babs) and like birds of prey exist but they don’t work with batman idk if i am explaining myself right here but it is just so good and like i genuinely think it would go down like this in a reverse robin au
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63476209
This was the best reverse robin AU that doesn’t exist in my head
THE ACCURACY!!!
The way that the BATKIDS find ways to do/be good outside of the bat even in shit situations
(Ahhh Jason how you will eternally doomed to exist on the spectrum of gray)
AND DICK AND DAMIANS RELATIONSHIP AND HOW GREY EVERYTHING IS BC WELL??? The LIGHT IN BEUCE WYANES LIFE ISNT THERE YET???
Also dick having an instant connection with Batman vs ‘weird adult I hope he’s not a creep’ and it’s billionaire playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne. Like bro can just sense that something’s not right with that one??
Also this ties into my lil internal AU. That I will gladly share.
I like the idea that things just inexplicably lighten around dick Grayson. Bc I was looking for a reason in canon that would explain the silly goofy dick and Bruce Batman Robin adventures vs the current dark angsty shit. Bc in canon going ‘it’s been 80 years and media has changed’ doesn’t really work.
So I like the idea that even monsters take one look at Dixk Grayson and decide that yeah even they can’t fuck that up and good men who lose their way look at him and go ‘oh I was absolutely heading the wrong direction lemme just turn myself around and head back on track thank ya kindly’ ya know?
Also every wasn’t at the circus but they all met dick Grayson bro really said ‘multiversal constant’
Anyway this was phenomenal thank you my dear anon for the rec.
Everyone should read this? I will be following the author on all platforms 10/10 you should write the new Batman comics bc you get Bruce and dick better than the current ones do
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYMLKRh/
omg the symbolism like the first one and third walking like soldiers because they saw robin as a duty an obligation then the second one trying to walk like the first one cause he was a replacement and the first one ( dick) walking on a tightrope but someone pointed out how it looked like a noose so it could reference the time dick walked on those high electric cables as his city was exploding and also the way dick looks back at them like he feels guilty and his mother nickname for him slowly becoming the cause of children deaths and soldiers as it fades out in batman’s shadow ughhh
Stopppppppp
This is another thing the difference between those trained for duty, those not trained and those trained for showmanship.
Dick is gonna walk less seriously bc well! It ruins the magic doesn’t it? If he needs to concentrate on a tightrope?
If he can’t walk effortlessly it ruins the mystic of the whole performance? A child who can fly? Can only be impressive weightless so on and so on.
Also this was adorable!
Also MARY GRAYSON SEWING ON THAT LIL R FOR ROBIN ON DICKS UNIFORM???? The fact that that lil r has been made of metal since Tim vc the soft and careworn stitches Mary Grayson kept repairing over and over and over again?
Do you think that Dick stitched up the R on Jason’s costume when it ripped?
My feelings
:(
random fun fact, dick canonically smells good
See I feel like if LITERALLY any other character (save like deathstroke) said this I would be significantly less creeped out.
However I feel like the joker should DROP this info bc I need to know how bro smells good after 6 hours of sweating in spandex
I’d buy whatever the fuck it is lol
Also ofc Dick smells good it feels like in nightwing 1996 a new female character who was inexplicably in love with the man appeared ever other issue ( and the same thing happened in Grayson 2016 with male characters wha? Who said that) that doesn’t happen unless you smell like heaven
Post hush 2/ Batman 159
Bruce:
Dick:…
Bruce:
Dick:
Bruce:
Dick:
Bruce:
Dick: I’m not mad
Bruce: you punched a hole through the concrete support beam Dick I think your ly-
Dick: SHUT UP FOR ONE SECOND
Bruce:
Dick: I’m not mad
Dick: but can you explain to me, your son -if that MEANS anything anymore- why the fuck
Dick: you thought it was okay to SHOOT MY BROTHER IN THE FACE
Bruce: it was necessary to discover his id-
Dick: STOP TALKING.
Bruce: you asked me to explai-
Dick: THATS BEFORE I REALIZED YOU WERE BEING FUCKING STUPID
Dick pinching the bridge of his nose: okay let me phrase it this way. Let’s say it wasn’t Jason behind the mask
Bruce: it was tho
Dick: let’s imagine an alternate reality where Jason doesn’t raise my blood pressure
Dick: and let’s say you shot this secret third person in the face, and it went through the helmet
Dick: and you ended up killing them
Bruce: I wouldn’t have I analyzed the makeup of the mask and extrapolated the amount of force required to shatter it vs go clean through it
Dick: yeah except that wasn’t your gun
Bruce: I knew the make
Dick: and I can count 60 rogues, mercs and assassins who match jays build and customize their weaponry in ways we can’t notice until they fire
Bruce: … I don’t see the issue here
Dick: you don’t see the issue in shooting my brother in the face with a fucking gun? To protect I don’t even know who?
Bruce: …
Dick: …… Bruce
Bruce: yes dick
Dick: don’t lowercase my name asshole, but you… wouldn’t right?
Bruce: wouldn’t what
Dick: no?… no that’s crazy? I’m being crazy (crazy I was crazy once) you wouldn’t help the joker in our damn cave. You wouldn’t BRING THE JOKER to our damn cave and get pissy that Jason was angry about that
Bruce:…
Dick: you’re the world’s greatest detective you couldn’t figure out somewhere else to take care of the PSYCHO?? Or better yet??? LET THE BASTARD DIE
Bruce: my job is to save people
Dick: unless it’s Jason apparently. No it’s fine if HE gets blown up.
Dick: also SINCE WHEN IS JOKER PEOPLE??? JASON IS BARELY A PERSON IN YOUR EYES?
Bruce: Nightwing you’re being emotional-
Dick: don’t try to switch personas with me asshole this is Bruce and Dick fighting over the fact that you seriously need to stop doing this shit to Jason before you drive him off a ledge
Bruce: Jason is fine
Dick: dude.. fine i defended you when you slit his throat bc my city was a pile of radioactive waste. Sure okay? Penguin dead? And you beating him into the ground I minded my damn business
Dick: the FUCKINF demon bat possession or whatever the fuck happened during Gotham war Tim pulled me off your ass and made sure I didn’t add your death to my conscience
Dick: don’t even play that THIS WAS A REASONABLE AND NORMAL PERSON THING BRUCE
Dick looking for Jason
Dick: Jason?
Dick: Jay?
Jason: *Sitting in the corner of a dark room*
Dick: Ok.
they are eating all my brain cells
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23094079
idk if you like reverse robins but…red hood steph
PFFFFTTTTTTT
BRO I feel like so many times people de age my son and make him a saint or the devil.
No HE IS JUST CHAOS
Bro grew up weird and thinks the way he grew up was normal ofc he’s annoyed your worried for him
There are like 2 things bby Grayson doesn’t like
- insults to his parents
- insults to his showmanship/ skill
If you think a BRUISE is gonna knock him down obviously you’re insulting both and are obviously cringe fail losers lmao
Also I love how we all agree that in the deaged verse Damian is horrifically and cartoonishly protective of Dick Grayson
THANK YOU FOR THE FIC REC
just imagining tim sitting pretty at an anti cyber bullying rally knowing damn well he told someone to kill themselves cause they called nightwing’s flips “sloppy”
Tim: BULLYING IS WRONg
Tim on the Nightwing Snark Reddit page: What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little shit? Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Ive been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and Im the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. Youre fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and thats just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little clever comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldnt, you didnt, and now youre paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. Youre fucking dead, kiddo.
imagine that in order to know if someone is an hallucination or not, dick throws something at them if they catch it is really them if it goes through how ever it is an hallucination and everyone just thinks that that is how he just greet people
Oooh that’s fun! I will now ask that everyone reblog this with a weird way dick avoided dealing with the hallucinations
I’ll start
I like to imagine that dick has enough people on direct comm so if he says something in response that doesn’t turn out to be to a real person everyone’s just like. Oh! Dicks on comms.
Even like babs bc I love the non existent beef between the titans and the bats so they are 100% not on the same comm line and babs can’t break cyborgs security so she’s just like “oh look he’s talking to the fucking titans again” and minds her business
And the titans are like “oh he’s dealing with the bats” and leave him be bc they’d rather die than deal with the bats
And Donna from the grave is violently face palming at her idiot and his collection of idiots
saw someone said dick should apologize to jason in the comics for having putting him in arkham
i am sorry i think the f*ck not 😭 like i love jason as much as the next guy dmw but come on guys
“Jason was in Arkham”
“Dick wanted to put Tim in Arkham”
I sincerely apologize to my whump friends but I fear yall don’t know Jason Todd’s game
First let’s not talk about the fact the only person Dick put in Arkham who was miserable was himself. We aren’t gonna talk about it. Or the Arkham reform thing he was doing a the time or the other 600 things that were going on
Hell I won’t even talk about what Jason did in blackgate (WHWRE HE WAS INITIALLY) b4 he killed a hundred people to end up in Arkham we don’t need to talk about it
I won’t talk about the menace that is the hottest version of red head Jason Todd okay we have, as a society moved past that.
But genuinely for a second can you imagine that conversation
Dick guilt ridden: Jason, I- I owe and apology
Jason cleaning his crowbar: ….
Dick: I never should’ve put you in Arkham I’m so sorry being near the joker-
Jason: was literally part of the whole plan? Why the hell do you think I TRIED to get into it
Dick: exactly! I shouldn’t have indulged your worst impulses, fuck I should’ve brought you home or kept you with a league member
Jason: I would’ve killed Tim and kidnapped Damian to use as a barter tool with Ra’s Al Ghul. You know this. I need you to tell me that you know this
Dick: fuck Jay you were nineteen! That’s basically a fucking child
Jason: I’m so sorry weren’t you ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED AT 19? Didn’t you run the league for a couple months at 18? Do you think you could do more than I could at 19 dickface.
Dick: No Jason you don’t understand-
Jason: oh perfect Grayson just because I chose to become a crime lord and YOU decided to do the cringe fail hero gig. Which was really. Cringe and fail since it’s so obvious you either wanted to be dead or a supervillain
Dick: wha-that’s not true!
Jason: sure sure go say hi to Donna Troy’s grave for me
Dick:…..
Jason: ANYWAY just because I spent my teenage years outside of spandex building a criminal empire DOESNT MAKE IT LESS IMPRESSIVE THAN YOUR STUPID TITANS GROUP R I C H A R D
Dick quietly: I’mstillsorry
Jason: well im not sorry for the fact i strung you and damain up nude to reveal your identities, im also not sorry for stealing your suit and killing people in it, while we’re on that topic im also not sorry for STEALING BRUCES SUIT, im not sorry for beating tim up that shit was funny as fuck and I’m also not sorry for laughing when bludhaven blew up.
Dick: ….
Jason: so shut your fucking ass up talking about ‘oh I’m so sorry Jason’ like we didn’t spend the past decade trying to ruin each others lives
Dick: I NEVER TRIED TO RUIN YOUR LIFE
Jason: MY LIFES DREAM WAS MURDER ERGO YOU NOT LETTING ME DO THAT RUINED IT.
Jason: we WERE assholes to each other past tense and I will 100% be taking advantage of your raging guilt complex to pretend those things are equivalent to each other and now that we are all happy family bygones will be bygones whatever I can fully abuse you to get out of league level shit.
Jason: anyway what are you gonna do next? apologize to Tim for Red Robin
Dick guiltily: he’s the next stop
Jason: omg your actually doing an apology tour
Dick: I FEEL BAD OKAY
Jason: dude you know what I’ll indulge you, go try and apologize to Tim but when he LAUGHS you out of the room for being a fucking dumbass I’ll be there with popcorn
Dick grumbling: Steph accepted my apology to HER
Jason: yeah because everyone in this family was a dick to Steph and she deserved better.
Dick: yeah she was a phenomenal batgirl i wish we worked together more now that she’s spoiler
Jason: did she really hit Tim in the face with a brick
Dick: yep
Omg I love him
✨✨ DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE DANCE ✨✨
https://archiveofourown.org/works/27572416
hii here is another fic rec <333
I don’t think you have ever missed
Thank you for the kind donations . I am reading this on a 12 hour bus and trying not to be violently car sick….
Anyway big fan thank you
any thoughts on dick haunting the narrative despite being very much alive ?
See my favorite part about this is that Dick doesn’t haunt the entire narrative. Usually when he’s mentioned in other people’s comics (roy,Wally etc) it’s something like “thank god for dick Grayson” or “gee I sure liked working with nightwing” or even “damn I hate the fact I have to do this but nightwing asked and like he doesn’t do that” the same way all the titans reference each other.
You might get a bit more reverence out of like raven? Or Clark? Casually saying Dick Grayson is their favorite or something
But Dick Grayson specifically haunts things that are literally in anyway related to Bruce Wayne (including Bruce) and it’s entirely their fault.
Bc to haunt a narrative one must not be accessible in the narrative imo. And every single one of the bats is too chicken shit to have a normal human conversation.
Bc like Dick does show up in other characters comics, he helps out in the birds of prey, most of the fab 5 have mentioned that he stops by whenever they’re lucky enough to have a solo run -DC GIVE DONNA TROY A SOLO RUN- he helps a lot of the younger teams, he works with the league.
Now GOD FORBID BRUCE CALL HIS SON WHEN HES MENTAL BREAKDOWNING.
Bc yeah he does haunt the Batman narrative. If I had a nickel for every time I turned the page on a Batman solo comic to suddenly get 2 pages of “dick Grayson, my ward the first Robin. My greatest achievement” spat at me I would have enough nickels to buy the comic bookstore
Or in a Robin comic “dick Grayson, the first Robin, he was the blueprint” like if yall wanna act like this pick up the phone and call the man.
Like despite what I and the fandom will tell you. There has never been a time where Dick and the bats weren’t on speaking terms (Jason excluded for reasons of murder and general bitterness) but even when Dick and Bruce hated being near each other -post Jason death- they could still work together.
They just decide to go “ah yes nightwing he’s great and he could probably help wish he was here anyway I’m not gonna call him”
People will bring up Red Robin but him and Tim were solid for like 99% of that so be so fr
Anyway all I’m saying is that Batman and his Russian nesting doll collection of ever shrinking robins need therapy and maybe medication but it’s okay I love them anyway
hiii same anon who recommended that one fic ( i am really glad you liked it btw)
https://www.tumblr.com/theerurishipper/752161267004948480/twitter-au-masterpost
this one is not exactly a fic ( well it is on ao3 but there is not all the parts) it is a twitter au and i think you’d like dick’s characterization in this i really liked reading it ( it is a lot more lighthearted than the fic i sent obv 😭)
10/10 exactly the vibe I needed after the fuckfest today
I need about 40 more chapters
And yes I love My boy (also a big fan of the fact that he isn’t really on social media bc I love that for him)
Thank you so much anon it was lighthearted and funny and yeah a lil more on the batfamily fluff than I usually prefer but honestly I rlly enjoyed the character writing as well !!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/53718373
hiii here is a fic rec i think you would like the author also made another that was really good
I had already read Persephones in hell b4 this one BUT OMG I DID NOT EXPECT TO LOVE THIS AS MUCH AS I DID
Also
This IS MY DICK GRAYSON
Like THIS IS HIM
My son
Also 100% how I think the siblings should sibling
I love the manipulative asshole with a heart of gold Grayson. And him and Jayjay 20/10 I love it
THE FUCKING BLUEJAY STOPPPPP AT THE ALTER IM GOING HOME
(Also I read this at 3 am in a hostel in Prague and idk I need to give it bonus points for ambiance)
Anyway if anyone wants an idea of what I -a complete internet stranger- view Dick graysons character as. It’s this
And to end
I love this section so much
Anyway
100000/10 thank you so much for the rec
I want more but I will not be Icarus I am okay not flying too close to the sun (but if you have more plz do anon)
i've never perceived dick grayson as a sort of mini-bruce, but i think when dick first came around bruce did see dick as a sort of mini-him but only in the capacity of seeing all the qualities bruce deems as good and himself possessing (strength, will, passion, intelligence, drive) and none of the qualities bruce deems as bad and also himself possessing (harbinger of guilt and loathing and loss). dick was good, too good, and that was stunning to bruce because he himself was good but in a different way where bruce's goodness felt like goodness trying to make up for a badness he had inside of him, but dick's goodness was just complete and present and not trying to beg forgiveness for anything, and so when bruce is like "i see so much of myself in him" but is also like "he's nothing like me" he means them both
Hey do you know a canon summary of Jason’s plotline/ development? Or if you don’t at least what you think his development is? I saw your Damian and Jason being league bros rant and I really liked it. Idk shit about jack that’s canon I just see family vibes in fanfic and my trauma says awooga
Hi hi
Yes yes
Okay so my big issue with the league bros Jay and Dami brotherisms
Is that yes Jaybin was a sweetie (I wouldn’t say he wasn’t reckless or that he was the kindest or nicest Robin bc I think that’s a gross exaggeration but he was a sweetie)
But he just? Wasn’t that? When he came back? He was rightfully angry and violent. He gave into the violent tendencies he had as Robin (which unpopular opinion I think were COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED BTW)
but like? Jay had a bat habit of murdering all his teachers when they were done with him
He killed his goons and low level players in his race to take over the Gotham underbelly and like? Idk he just wasn’t? The current red hood or the past Robin.
Like since I am a dick Grayson stan account I’ll use them to demonstrate.
But Jay and Dicks relationship is awful when he first comes back
-he steals dicks nightwing suit and kills people in it ruining dicks standing and making him a target for more anti-hero ‘vigilantes should be killed’ stuff that was happening at the time
- he killed like 100 people in black gate bc he was like ‘well i wanna kill criminals and here i am surrounded by criminals whatever shall i do’
- then there’s all the WEIRD ASS STUFF he did to Dick and Damian when they were Batman and Robin (stripping them naked and trying to reveal them that way to the world??)
Anyway Jay was a fucking VILLAIN
And then after all this, the reboot happened, they gave Jason a collection of very fucked up and traumatized folks that he couldn’t just murder his way out of
And he like actually had to have dimension and he was moved from being imo one of the most interesting Batman/ batfam villains to being a pretty cool anti hero more in the line with batwoman or like the new Harley Quinn
But he didn’t start out that way
He was a murderer with sociopathic tendencies who remembered what it meant to give a fuck through a lot of shared trauma and experiences and now. His relationship with the bats (I’m talking specifically about the batlings rn like dick, Tim and Damian) is much better
Dick helps him clear his name when he’s accused of murder
Tim and him work together on cases
He’s trying to be there for Damian
And this whole dynamic gave me the ability to watch my precious baby boy beat the shit out of Bruce Wayne during Gotham war (I just love angry Grayson lemme live)
Right
But if you think for a SECOND THAT OG VILLAIN JAY TODD WOULD HAVE BEEN LET AROUND TALIAS BABY??
Not happening
Now a lot of people are gonna be like “oh you’re picking and choosing” or “oh you’re ignoring Talia’s characterization in morrisons and using jays” and yeah I think that Talia’s characterization in dicks Batman run was awful and while I think certain things Jason does in the comic he wouldn’t have done if written by someone else. It 100% is more fitting than the racist nonsense Talia Stan’s had to deal with. 
Anyway I think if you want sweet and fuck brotherisms/siblingisms/ other bat relationships (since you don’t read canon and some of these are lowkey ignored by the fanon i 100% you check out like any fanart/ fanfic of them)
Dick Grayson and any younger Robin is always adorable
Tim and Damian in Gotham war
Jay and Damian in the Robin run
Tim and Duke whenever they’re together
Tim, cass and Steph also have a very fun dynamic (the angst potential here goes crazy tho)
Jay and Dick as red hood and nightwing are very very fun
But also nightwing and Jaybin is fucking adorable (cue dick trying to take Jason Todd from Bruce like YOU FUCK UP IM ADOPTING HIM MYSELF)
Jay and babs (we ignore that one time they tried to make them date we IGNORE IT)
Outside of the Batfam batkid relationships are also so fluffy
Jay and bizzaro have a very cute relationship
Tim and the young justice team are fucking adorable esp him Cassie, Kon and Bart
Supersons can be read as platonic or romantic but they’re fucking adorable and I loved the supersons comic so so so much
Dick and the fab 5 trust me Dick and Donna sibling fluff hurts my teeth.
I personally hated the comic this happened in but if you’re not a big comic fan / you don’t care about pre crisis that Jay and Roy??? Adoptable
Anyway this is mainly based on my opinion I AM mainly a Nightwing reader so some of these things come from my Jay Todd Stan friends (cough cough cough you know who you are cough cough) so I’m sorry if I fucked up any details
i am tired of people acting like duke hates dick, he doesn’t did he feel betrayed ? yeah but honestly he got over it pretty quickly he actually admires him
NO YOURE SO FR!! For this
I agree 100%
Also listen I haven’t read much of Duke bc he was introduced in the new 52 and I tend to avoid literally everything to do with the new 52 after i picked up the outlaws (it took me 1 (one) LOOK at my precious meow meow Kori to lose interest)
But I have read bits and pieces and literally everything I have seen shows no dislike? Or hatred or anything really?
Like?? Idk
I made a post about Duke being Dicks favorite bc he deals with his own shit and has a parent! So that means Bruce doesn’t have to try and fail so dick doesn’t have to pick up the slack
And like 40% of the comments were like (Duke hates dick tho) and like correct me bc once again I think outside of like Harper? And Kate? Duke is prolly the character in the bats I have engaged with the least media of.
But like I have not seen anything that states like a solid hatred of Robin 1
imagine being so good at acting like everything is fine even the fandom thinks you are mentally stable ( dick grayson obviously)
You know that TikTok trend like POV: this is your emergency contact.
Imagine being part of a superhero team and your hyper competent team leaders emergency contact is one (1) very flippy acrobat who is 100% here and present in the moment and not being weighed down by the guilt of a thousand deaths. Nor is he seeing any of these shadowy corpses while assisting your team.
No he’s far far too stable for that?
Anyway here’s my list of my favorite unhinged Grayson moments (without panels tho if anyone asks I can prolly track em down)
-Dick licking a random substance of the ground and then going. Yup tastes like heroin
- pulling a gun on Roy Harper (outsiders divorced husbands arc)
- that fight between him and deathstroke
-that other fight between him and deathstroke
- teen titans robin nonsense
- secrets and masks hallucinajaybin being a shadowy amalgamation of ????
- Tim: please be Robin
Dick: how about uno fucking reverse
- literally like 80% of the Grayson Run (specifically any scene with tiger or midniter)
- the desert scene is rated separately bc it’s more insane on its own wdym you walked through a desert for like fuck knows how many days without food or water RICHARD
-bleeding himself to death near radioactive material bc your job is martyr
-bleeding himself to death for his not dad (it’s 100% his dad)
- is it mean to include that ooc time in Batman and Harley Quinn where she ties him up and it’s HEAVILY implied they fucked? Welp I’m including it anyway
- KEEPING THR DISCOWINY COSTUME AFTER MIRAGE??? RICHARD YOU HAVE MONEY USE IT
- young justice robins/nightwings laugh deserves its own mention
-threatening his dad with the promise of adopting his brother
There are more that I am forgetting I am sure. But in summary I love him he’s my son. The fact that he has this much responsibility bc he’s the best equipped worries me about the other characters mental stability
but its important
reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead
See the issue with being a multi shipper for ur fave is
Dick x Roy yes
Dick x Wally yes
Dick x Garth yes
Dick x Kori yes
Dick x Joey yes
Dick x Red X (TT reference but I fear? Sure)
Dick x Harley formerly no but someone recommended me a fic and you know what fuck it
Dick x Babs sure
Dick x midniter yes
Dick x tiger yes
Dick x huntress yes
Dick x Donna no
Dick x zatanna yes
Dick x Constantine yes
Dick x Slade for ship no for fucked up trauma inducing plot yes (I’m sorry that TT Apprentice arc was too good I will never get over it)
Dick x Kara sure
Dick x various other characters that I’m sure folks will leave in the reblogs. Honestly yeah why the fuck not
However at the same time, Dick doesn’t sleep around in my head like AT ALL. Like I firmly think this man is demisexual and has had like 3 important relationships in his life. But also he has dated every single one of these people?
These two things are canon and can exist at the same place and time without being a contradiction shut up.
bungus
Roy: It's so unfair
Wally: What's unfair?
Roy: How so damn pretty Dick is!
Kori: *Positively smug* Of course he is beautiful. I tell him every day. Sometimes twice. Sometimes all night
Gar: *annoyed* It's so unfair! The guy could literally commit a crime and just smile his way out of it!
Wally: On that note, sometimes it's a good thing.
Roy: What?
Wally: One time, we got pulled over for speeding, and the cop let him go because he "looked trustworthy".
Gar: So?
Wally: I was driving.
Bane holding Dick dressed as Batman: I promise I will break your back as well
Bane attempts to snap dicks spine
Dick: *bends*
Bane: *straightens Dick back and tries to snap dicks spine over his knee*
Dick ‘I wanted to be a contortionist in the circus’ Grayson: bends to accommodate shape of knee
Bane: wut
Dick: … I’m Batman?
Bane: …
Dick: idk man it seemed appropriate for the moment
Bane:….