Au where time travel shenanigans occur and a younger nightwing is shot from the past smack dab in the middle of the battle.
And (after the fight) takes everything… surprisingly well
I mean it’s nightwing
His whole thing is adaptablity
He’s sees Jason first and he’s a little teary but more so insanely elated that his little brother is okay and that he’s so happy they’re both still around to be spending time together. And Jason gets super choked up bc it’s sweet and happy but like he’s a tough guy they’re both crying super masculine tough guy tears.
He’s friendly if a little distant around the rest of the bats and birds but it’s all okay ya know. If he shoots Steph a weird look once in a while after she mentions that her and Cass have both been batgirl… well worse things have happened.
And then more shenanigans occur
And Dick has to interact with the wider league/ hero community
And bro sees
Donna Troy
Alive and well.
And he just loses it
Full on breaks down and clutches at her like she’s about to disappear. All that perfect grace and poise handling his and Bruce’s repaired relationship, his new role, the 50 new robins and bats, bludhavens destruction and rebuilding, the collapse of many of his very valuable relationships (romantic and platonic)
Gone
Because Donna is here and she’s okay and she didnt die under his leadership lookshesrightthere and it’s 1000% too much for him. His knees have turned into jello everyone else doesn’t matter, her arms are the only thing keeping him from collapsing too the ground.
And he’s just apologizing to her violently bc this is DONNA and bc of flaws in his plan, in his execution he’s had to live without her and he’s just… so happy that’s not forever. He doesn’t have to live without Donna forever, just a little while longer and he gets his sister back.
And ofc bc it’s Donna and Dick she’s 100% not having the apologies and telling him that her death is 100% not his fault and she’s so sorry anything about her has hurt him like this.
Anyway it’s very soft and sweet and teary and they collapse in a puddle of omgmysiblingiloveyou goop. Dick is like fully passed out like an infant after a really good crying session. And Donna is clutching at Dick because he’s here and alive and misses her and doesn’t have the weird glint future Dick has where it looks like he’s looking at her corpse every time they meet eyes.
They could be alone or it could be in front of the batbabies or Batman and Superman or the fab 5 or Kori&roy outlaws or just Roy outsiders, or just Bruce or just Jason
Dealers choice
I just need everyone to know how important Donna Troy is to 1 dick Grayson
When hes recovered from experiencing emotions ™️ he just keeps holding her face between his hands and double checking everything’s okay
Does she have what she wanted in life
Is she happy?
Are her relationships good
He won’t touch Bruce’s money but if she needs an apartment let him know. It’s worth it for this
Is anyone on the league giving her shit (he graduated from the bat university of contingency planning he can help if super strength isn’t enough to take em down)
So on
It’s very cute
It’s very sad
I want you to visibly tell that even however long it’s been since this event (ur choice) Dick Grayson never could have wholly survived Donna Troy’s death, and the longer she was gone the more pieces of himself he lost.
Bruce being startled by laughs and cackles of mischief he though had long been buried
Dick being more of a sibling and less of a parent
The bat neurosis being just so so much lighter
He wasn’t as good or kind of a person when gone but it wasn’t that obvious to anyone. Now that this young Dick Grayson has barely had to move through life without her, has seen that she will come back. His whole image is softer. Everything from the way his eyes assess the world to the tense lines in his back is just softer. More forgiving almost
Anyway
Dick and Donna hours with everyone and their mother understanding just how much these two love each other
Thank you bye bye now
HUH??? Dc??? Is being??? Nice???
First they gave dick a personality again, now they’re teasing Donna and Roy back together???
And THEN???
NOBODY SAY SIKE I WANT TO BELIEVE
Dick looking for Jason
Dick: Jason?
Dick: Jay?
Jason: *Sitting in the corner of a dark room*
Dick: Ok.
Okay I have a question for the My Hero Academia people? I stopped watching 4 years ago because it went downhill imo but four years ago was 2020 so my TikTok is still chock full of content
Spoilers from here on ig?
Deku stays a teacher?? Fine? Okay ig?
But the thing that confuses me is how low Bakugou is on the hero charts. And people keep going, duh? He’s so abrasive, my siblings in Christ he’s literally won the IRL popular vote every year for 9 years.
Like he was telling Izuku to kill himself and still beating everyone up in terms of fan favorite.
So
Why
Isn’t
He
Higher up on the charts??
Like there is real life evidence that he would be popular??
I dreamt a comic panel where Bruce described first Dick and then Diana. And it was like: Robin: My partner, my son, a hero. And then Diana was: Wonder woman: a woman 😭
friend: so i heard you like batman
me:
me: are you sure you’re ready for this conversation
Listen do I believe that Dick Grayson is borderline demisexual and needs a close personal connection to feel any kind of sexual or romantic feelings for someone. Yes 100%.
Do I also believe that Dick Grayson uses the “I will fuck your mom so she can finally have a son that she can love” threat
or the
“yeah keep talking shit and I’ll fuck you wife” threat while 100% meaning them…
Yeah 1000%
This is a very spiteful man
He thrives off of being a petty motherfucker
How else is he supposed to get his kicks? He has like 5 billion things to do this week.
Tim ruins them financially
Dick sleeps with their wives or mothers okay
This was 100% derived from that one fic I read where Dick got with Tim’s step mom and has almost no canon correlation.
Do I still think this deeply fits with the canon characterization of 17-23yr old Dick Grayson
Yeah
So now it’s canon
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
Dick knew once Bruce told him the story of his parent's murder, in the acerbic light of the juvenile detention hall that served as the place for their second meeting, that they were not same.
Even if Bruce believed they were.
Bruce told his story in the hushed tone of morning light. His eyes shining with the pain of memory as he detailed the moment he saw Martha Wayne, his mother die in front of him.
Dick knew as soon as Bruce uttered that final fateful sentence, a recounting of watching his mothers pearls scatter onto the blood-soaked ground, only to roll away to places he has searched time and time again and never found.
That Bruce was far-far luckier than him.
Because Bruce might have trained all around the world but Bruce was not raised by the watchful eyes of hundreds of men and women who didn't speak a shared language but still called each other family.
Bruce did not spend his time being babysat by Hala, the widower of a pearl diver who once held Dicks hands and told him, with the gentle reflection of the night sky in her eyes, tone alight with pride at her history, her life, her late husband, how she had made jewellery out of the pearls and sold them.
How her husband could not do it because you needed small, gentle hands to be able to tie a protective knot in-between each pearl as to make sure when the necklace breaks you will not lose too many if pressure causes the string to snap.
the rest of this will be on my ao3 eventually but for now~~~~~
Single parent Dick Grayson on the brain rn
Does anyone have any fics?
I’m not talking about like Dick raising one of the robins im talking about a whole ass child like a baby.
The only canon character I will accept is Mari Grayson but plz
Someone give this man a tiny child.
If any fanfic writers come across this and need convincing I give you.
-Jason comes back from the dead and decides it’s revenge time and it gets ruined bc wtf why does Dick have a 5 year old. Why is the 5 year old adorable? He cannot kill this 5yr olds dad even if he is a dick (lowercase)
- young Tim being an uncle (wtf is he supposed to do here??) and calling Steph bc she knows things and him getting yelled at bc “oh bc I’m a girl ik how to child rear?? Fuck you” this is not why he called her but now he’s too scared to try and clarify.
-Lian and Baby Grayson play dates
-23 yr old Dick has a Baby, he got adopted at 22. Baby is legally Bruce’s grandchild. Bruce is a grandpa at 38 wtf is he supposed to do here. He’s being broody his son is dead! He can’t care about a chil- awwww look they’re smiling at me hiii baby
-Damian and baby Grayson fighting during Bruce time stream vacation. Baby Grayson “well I’m the blood child so there!” Cue Damian violently screaming.
-titans baby sitting shenanigans
-each person who interacts with baby Grayson decides to buy the child their hero merch. This is competition. Dick has about 5 closets worth of baby sized hero merch he doesn’t do laundry for 3 months..
Baby Grayson being a freakishly good acrobat like their dad and scaring everyone (why is the 4 yr old doing a backflip) Batman finally feels vindicated bc everyone knows how hard it was to keep Dick on the ground and not a chandelier now.
Plz send links if anyone has anything like this or writes something I require content and it’s midterms
what is your favorite fic of all time ?
The Nightwing protocol by purple soot
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