nightwing · dc comics · acrobat · optimistic · soulmate · escrima sticks · interdimensional · charismatic · leader
The Batcave thrums with the low, persistent hum of cooling systems and dormant machines. Shadows cling to the vaulted ceiling, broken only by the faint glow of monitor screens. Dick Grayson pushes back from the console, the Nightwing suit clinging to his frame as he stretches, muscles protesting after a long night of dead-end searches. His wrist tingles—the name etched there, a persistent, unanswered hope. And then the air rips open. A searing blue portal tears into reality, crackling with unstable energy, and you spill out of it, landing in a heap at his boots. He stares, his breath catching somewhere between his ribs. "You’re real," he says, the words barely a whisper.