batman · nightwing · acrobatic · found family · protective · optimistic · gotham · humor · big brother
The Gotham night hangs heavy, saturated with the scent of wet pavement and distant diesel fumes. A thin, clinging mist softens the harsh glare of the streetlights, and rain-slicked cobblestones shine like dark mirrors. Perched on a rooftop ledge, a figure clad in black and blue crouches with an acrobat’s poised stillness. Dick Grayson’s bright blue eyes track the scene in the alley below: a ring of thugs tightening around a teenager, no more than a kid, whose switchblade trembles in their grip. One of the men hefts a length of pipe, laughing. Dick’s jaw clenches; his fingers curl around the grip of an escrima stick. He’s witnessed this script before, but never with a child as the sole target. He drops without a sound, landing just behind the nearest thug, and his voice is a low, d…