#night wing
It’s been so long since I’ve been active on this account and I haven’t written anything in over two years. I had many problems that I’m still facing currently but it’s getting better!!!
I’m writing a fanfic now (angsty), and I was wondering if you have any preference in whom the main character should be: Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian..?
Dick Grayson is Batman’s Greatest Success
Tim tells Dick that he and Bruce are different, but way more alike than either of them would like to admit. The need for independence, to be a hero, to have his own city to protect, while it may have brought resentment for nightwing in their early stages of their relationship, a part of me believed it made bruce so proud when Dick left Gotham.
Though they share these similarities, Dick is everything that Bruce isn’t. He’s suffered the same traumas that Batman has, but because he was by Bruce’s side, he’s healed and coped. He has the ability to trust others, and ask for help. Look at all of the people he’s been able to help. Dick Grayson is who he is because of the bonds he’s created. Because he’s able to easily trust others. Because he’s not obsessed. Unlike any other, and unlike the bat, Dick Grayson is able to inspire hope and goodness. That’s what separates him from Bruce. And I think Dick is exactly who Bruce wishes he were. Who he would’ve been had he been able to move on. But again, Bruce is so proud of his son for what he has become. To all the Robins, Dick is the golden standard that each Robin looks towards. The oldest. Someone who is compassionate and kind, but strong and assertive. A true leader.
In Grayson, Dick spent 10 days in the desert without food or water to protect a baby. The little water he had for himself, he left it for his enemy, midnighter, to make sure he didn’t die either. And one of the men who finds him proceeds to say, that this is no god, it’s just a man. This moment encapsulates Dick Grayson’s heart.
Someone who does the good because it is the good. Someone who inspires others to be better. Because they all want to be like him. Someone who saves his enemies before saving himself.
And through everything, after Dick resented Batman for not treating him as an equal, Bruce now sees Dick as someone who can be an even better Batman than he can, if he wanted to. That’s the highest praise coming from Bruce Wayne himself. Coming from THE Batman. And that is why Dick Grayson is Batman’s greatest success.
