Aspiring Equal Oppertunity Feminist Granola girl.

This is Dick Grayson right here. You can't separate his rage from him, you can't separate the chaos gremlin from him, but at his core, he is kindness and caring and compassion. He tells Iko the truth, that it never really stops hurting, but that you'll have other people who love you just as much. He tells Iko's uncle how to start dealing with this--comfort and routine, reassurance. Read him stories. This is Dick Grayson sharing the things that made him feel comforted and allowed him to come out the other side of his loss still intact. This is Dick Grayson saying that Bruce (who read him stories as a kid) and Alfred (who gave Bruce the book to read to him) never replaced his parents but he loves them just as much. And this is Dick Grayson sharing himself with the world, this is who he is at his core--kindness and care. Because that's what Bruce Wayne allowed for him, that Bruce still struggles with sharing himself with others, but he helped this boy become someone who didn't fall as deeply into the same pit as he fell into. This is Bruce's true legacy--not the avoidance of loss, but the willingness to let more people in and helping others to overcome that desire to close themselves off. To offer connection to help others, just as Alfred offered him connection, just as he offered Dick connection, now Dick offers so many others that same connection. This is who Dick Grayson has always been, but it's also who Bruce gave him the security and love to continue being.

tom taylor actually bringing justice to dick’s character and not just portraying him as the oldest sunshine fuckboy character

Nightwing #115 vs Nightwing #92 has me absolutely UNWELL thinking about how much John Grayson and Bruce Wayne might look alike and how a young Dick Grayson would have grappled with that. How desperately determined he was once upon a time not to see this man as his father, because he had a father already, how Dick gets so much of his looks from John Grayson, how he honors what it means to be a Flying Grayson, how he never gave up his parents' name, but also.... Sometimes Dick feels like he and Bruce are reflections of each other, like there's a great cosmic joke happening, that they lost their parents in a way no one else understands like they do, no one else really knows what it's like to see your parents murdered in front of you when you're not even 10 years old yet and you're there and you can't stop it, how Bruce can look like John Grayson in the right light, how their lives seem to be pushing them towards a father and son relationship. That in some ways it might have been easier if John Grayson or Bruce Wayne looked different. It might have been easier to accept if Dick didn't look at Bruce and see someone who looked like he was perfectly designed to take John Grayson's place. That it didn't feel like the universe was saying, here's a replacement for your dad, like they were interchangeable and the loss wouldn't matter anymore because you have a new one exactly like the old one. Looking at it this way, I absolutely can believe someone as stubborn as Dick would dig his feels in and refuse to see Bruce as a father for a long time, that he wouldn't just say, okay, I guess I have two dads--because sometimes it didn't feel like growing to love someone new, when he looked at Bruce's dark hair and blue eyes and sharp jawline, when he saw those things in himself, sometimes it didn't feel like a different relationship, it felt like trying to regrow the first one--and Bruce Wayne was not John Grayson. Eventually, they get there, Dick has had two fathers in his life and he loves both of them, with time and maturity and growing into a very different dynamic with Bruce than he had with John, Dick no longer sees it as the universe trying to replace what was lost. Even if sometimes he still sees the light slant across Bruce's face just right and he can't help seeing John Grayson's ghost.

I’m not crying, you are

Dick's tacky Christmas sweater + giving a toast to Alfred instantly added three years to my life.

Merry Christmas in July

This is Dick Grayson right here. You can't separate his rage from him, you can't separate the chaos gremlin from him, but at his core, he is kindness and caring and compassion. He tells Iko the truth, that it never really stops hurting, but that you'll have other people who love you just as much. He tells Iko's uncle how to start dealing with this--comfort and routine, reassurance. Read him stories. This is Dick Grayson sharing the things that made him feel comforted and allowed him to come out the other side of his loss still intact. This is Dick Grayson saying that Bruce (who read him stories as a kid) and Alfred (who gave Bruce the book to read to him) never replaced his parents but he loves them just as much. And this is Dick Grayson sharing himself with the world, this is who he is at his core--kindness and care. Because that's what Bruce Wayne allowed for him, that Bruce still struggles with sharing himself with others, but he helped this boy become someone who didn't fall as deeply into the same pit as he fell into. This is Bruce's true legacy--not the avoidance of loss, but the willingness to let more people in and helping others to overcome that desire to close themselves off. To offer connection to help others, just as Alfred offered him connection, just as he offered Dick connection, now Dick offers so many others that same connection. This is who Dick Grayson has always been, but it's also who Bruce gave him the security and love to continue being.

tom taylor actually bringing justice to dick’s character and not just portraying him as the oldest sunshine fuckboy character

ALFRED GETTING BRUCE TO READ THE MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK TO DICK WHEN HE WAS A KID, BECAUSE HE DOESN'T REGRET A MOMENT HE SPENT AT BRUCE'S SIDE WHEN HE WAS A GRIEVING KID, HIT ME RIGHT IN THE FEELS

TOLKIEN CONFIRMED

THE MONSTER AT THE END OF THIS BOOK CONFIRMED

also I neeeeeeed to know if Alfred and Bruce did the voice while reading

Currently chewing drywall over Nightwing #109 because of the explicit parallel of Dick Grayson's fears--the fear of heights, of falling after someone he loves, someone he feels he let down, people who did die and someone who will die if he doesn't fall that impossible height, paralleled to the fear that Bruce's life will depend on him if he doesn't know how to sew up stitches, that if he doesn't keep his focus, if he doesn't move through the fear, people he loves will die. The things that his parents and Alfred taught him, the things that his dead parents taught him, John, Mary, and Alfred are all gone from the world now, but what they taught him allows him to save other people that he loves, if he can get past the terrifying fear gnawing at the edges of his mind that they might die, and I'm going to lose it a little. That Dick Grayson keeps being asked to overcome not just regular frightening things, but the kind that slice you to the bone--jump off a ledge that was high enough to kill your parents or she dies, learn to sew up stitches while someone is dying or your second father will possibly die, all the traumas that hammered into Dick's bones when he was still just a child, he's being asked to leap over them because people he loves will die if he doesn't. He can one day save Bruce's life, save Bea's life, if he gets over the fear of learning how to sew up dying loved ones. It's about how little room there is for self-doubt and questioning his own worth, despite that those fears are still there, they just get compressed and compressed until one day they're going to explode, because Dick Grayson cares so deeply for others, he loves so deeply that he can move mountains, and people trust him because he made of so much love and life and light, but eventually he's still mortal and there won't be enough of him left to buffer out the fear and he'll crack.

"Alfred said that Dick Grayson was my greatest success. But Alfred was always too generous." And you expect a moment of, oh, well, sure all of their other Bats are successes as well and it's-- AND THEN NOPE. HE WAS OUR GREATEST SUCCESS. ALFRED WAS TOO GENEROUS IN NOT TAKING MORE CREDIT FOR THEIR BOY. Because yeah Bruce absolutely does see Dick as his greatest success, like Bruce loves all of the members of his family but sorry yeah Dick also absolutely is his favorite, even if he'd never admit it outside of his own head, sorry I don't make the rules, I just live here.

As a Nightwing/Dick Grayson fangirl, I love this, so, so much, I love my boy being love by his father figure, just like he deserves. But as a Batfamily stan, it hurts so much how they make Bruce favoritism bigger each time, like, dude, you have A LOT more children that deserve more love too.

Feeling completely normal about the new Nightwing issue.

No spoilers, but this issue really reminds us (again) why everyone loves Dick Grayson, what his motivation is, and how his backstory makes him him.

Batman is also being a good dad in this one. more rant in tages uhh

i love that everyone’s having this heartfelt conversation like “dick we’re so glad you’re back etc etc” and tim bursts in with “IT WAS THE PURPLE WIRE” bc he’s (rightfully) proud that the entire hospital did not blow up

Everyone: We love you Dick and we're so proud.

Tim: Good news the hospital won't blow up!

Everyone: Quiet Tim can't you see we're praising your brother.

LMAO someone give Dick Grayson a medal for understanding that when Bruce stalks you and asks to take your blood, it's his way of showing he loves his kid.

Bless Dick fr

so i see tim was the one to give the dog a vigilante name, not another one of dick’s wonderful bat-related nicknames, then

Nightwing: the Official Dad of the Titans

Proof that Dick Grayson is a Disney Princess (ft Goober)