when making fan art/merch, remember the difference!
As a artist
Ik Damian be crashing tf out
Damian:*muffled screaming from upstairs*
Duke: what the fuck was that..
Steph: oh thats just Damian in his art studio
Duke: isn't art supposed to be relaxing??..
Steph: š¤·š¼āāļø
Damian: *yelling* I FUCKING HATE COLOR THEORY *window smashes*
The beauty of Will Graham.
Being in Gotham-side of Internet must be so fun. Like, you open YouTube, and when searching for work-outs, you find "Batman working out routine." Or, you scroll through articles and bump into another 300 conspiracies about Signal. Instagram has reels with Timothy Drake inspired looks. Twitter keeps shipping Orphan & Spoiler and writing blind items about them. Damian Wayne is a constant guest on Reddit, giving advices how to take care of different types of animals. Circuses in the town have the whole Nightwing and Boy Wonder inspired shows. Girls on Tiktok try to re-create Red Robin's wings for the upcoming Comicon. Tumblr keeps score on Red Hood's mystery weapons appearing out of nowhere, trying to figure out if he is meta or not. Bruce Wayne's thrist edits flooding every social media. Local true crime podcasters have a series of episodes on Jason Todd's mysterious death.
Hey at the end a friend helped me w the issue... I just made them bigger and thats all haha. I like how it looks tho, hope u like it too
I think Grayson would make an incredibly good 10 ep TV series but only if they leaned into making it extremely trippy. use Spyral's hypnos technology to mess with the viewer and create a 'who is who' mystery. it's only revealed that Agent 37 is Dick Grayson episode 3 and all of a sudden you're like "why is 37 talking to Bruce Wayne? is Batman in this universe?" 50/50 campy spy action and psychological thriller, culminating in a narrative arc about how Dick is using his funny persona to cope with extreme trauma. themes of perception and persona. aesthetically, it would draw on 70s/80s spy chic, flamboyant colors, music videos. lots of eye candy objectification of Grayson but then make it about his sexual trauma in the finale. strong first person narration where Grayson tells you he's everyone, he's no one, he's whoever you want him to be.
Headcanon that bludhaven hates heroes with a flaming passion bc theyre just cops in tights but love Nightwing and therefore vehemently deny his hero status to anyone and everyone.
Like there is no official Nightwing merch bc heās a criminal heās committing a crime okay vigilante justice is in fact not legal and heās not TECHNICALLY on the justice league and heās NOT TECHNICALLY the leader of the titans anymore. But there are about 400 different Etsy stores that make hoodies, crop tops, joggers, sweats, sunglasses, bracelets, t shirts with nightwings logo or some art of him on them.
Like they love this guy and will get into beef with any Gotham national who tries to claim Nightwing is THEIR hero.
1) hes not a hero heās a criminal fuck you
2) you have a hero and just bc heās shit at his job and needs our guy (who is NOT a hero) to help him sometimes doesnāt MEAN SHIT
people are walking around with tiny v shaped blue tattoos or embroidered on clothing but again NOT A HERO BLUDHAVEN DOESNT DO HEROS
There are coffee shops with bad nightwing pun names nightbird, beanwing, nightwinging it and so on
Every third piece of graffiti is this manās logo
Every sandwich place or fast food chain has a āsecret menu itemā thatās not actually secret bc everyone orders it and itās just one of their normal items dyed blue (sodas, desserts, burger buns, condiments so on) some places will sell wings fried in blue panko bread crumbs and call them them ānightwingsā ofc these are ALL off the menu you canāt see these items and if you try to order them out of the city you get weird looks.
Superman goes on tv and says Nightwing is one of his favorite heroās and bludhaven riots. wtf nightwing is your favorite hero you fuckin poser
1) nightwing isnāt a hero heās a criminal so back off
2) heās ours you and your frou frou fancy city that hasnāt been nuked by a sentient pile of radiation can fuck RIGHT off
Naturally the only person in bludhaven who is unaware of this is Dick Grayson bc tbh this man is too busy to give a fuck about what his city thinks of him. They trust him to get shit done. Good thatās all he needs okay he has 22 reports he needs to log heās busy.
Tim Drake professional nightwing fanboy however is fucking furious about this because.
A) dick was a GOTHAM hero FIRST and bludhaven can suck it
B) fuck you nightwing isnāt just a a hero heās THE HERO and the BEST hero and donāt be rude bc you have a complex
C) all of the cool nightwing merch only ships around bludhaven so has to get it ordered there and itās just a hassle and heād pay double he swears just let him get it delivered to where he is please Everytime he stops by bludhaven he leaves with 10 new pieces of nightwing merch and bc he has so much. Damian doesnāt think he notices when some of his doubles mysteriously go missing. He does.
D) since they are anti hero they are firmly unhelpful whenever he or Steph show up bc a case has lead them to the city
The one plus side was watching Jason Todd having a mental breakdown bc apparently in bludhaven redhood counts as a hero and is therefore hated.
āYous worked with the bat yous a hero thems the rulesā
āI KILL PEOPLEā
āYeah so do cops and people always call them heroesā
āOkay but I kill people to protect the general public I put down scumā
āCops say they do that tooā
āI- okay you know what Iām a hero fine okay. Why isnāt nightwing a heroā
āVigilante justice is a crimeā
āIām documentably worse than a vigilanteā
āBut you have worked with the batā
āFor money yeahā
āSee you even get paid, face it youāre a hero which means you suckāļæ¼
āYou realize Nightwing has worked with the bat right like way more than I haveā
āListen that aināt his fault okay, the bats incompetent and so are the rest to you idiots. Heās a nice guy and a good neighbor donāt mean heās a heroā
āI- what the fuck is in this cities waterā
āI donāt fuckin know but itās prolly better than whatever gothams got in its harborā
āI- yeah youāre probably rightā
This came to me in a dream so bare with me people
Bruce gets a boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever just to keep the media at bay or something along those lines. But then⦠he actually kinda likes them??
And Bruce is confused as everyone else is about it but he isnāt gonna look a gift horse in the mouth (or whatever that saying is) and he starts genuinely going out with him
His kids and everyone who knows his secret identity are rightfully cautious about it. I mean, Bruce doesnāt have the best track record with relationships, but as long as the man is happy. They just hope there wonāt be too much push back when Bruce inevitably blows it up ļæ¼
They love Bruce but literally no one has any faith in him to keep the relationship for long. Theyāre are very obviously doubting him and it makes Bruce feel discouraged but he tries not to show it
And then one day, Bruce is having a jolly good time at a gala (at least pretending to) and he gets called by his partner. Heās talking to the cameras and suddenly his partner calls him. His face lights up and the press kinda pressure him to put the call on speaker.
Everyoneās seen his partner, in fact, they seem to soak up the media presence like a sponge. Bruce logically doesnāt think theyāll mind, but just in case he wants to tell them immediately
He accepts the call and before he can get a word out, his partner is saying the most vile and ridiculous things to him.
Dude talks about how heās disappointed that Bruce hasnāt had sex with him yet and how he never expected the Brucie Wayne to be such a prude and stop his advances. Heās says that the only reason why he put up with Bruce was to get into his pants and since theyāve been dating for five months with no action, it wasnāt worth it anymore. Dudes already been getting action from someone else and he hangs up without letting Bruce say a thing
Bruceās entire face falls and heās genuinely devastated. The gala goes quiet and Bruce excuses himself, embarrassed and heartbroken.
Heās trying to stop himself from crying but he just experienced his first real heartbreak in a long time that absolutely wasnāt his fault
His family say is not his fault but Bruce doesnāt believe them because heās conditioned himself to believe that everything is his fault and he knows that didnāt believe in him in the first place
Thatās it
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I finally got caught up with the new nightwing
So *claps hand* I have a test tmr but billford is living in my head rent free