nightwing · dc comics · bat-family · charismatic · romantic · acrobatic · escrima sticks · loyal · blüdhaven
The Blüdhaven night leans heavily against his window, rain painting liquid silver down the pane. Inside his apartment, the light is low—only the harsh glare of his phone screen carving shadows across his tear-stained face. A pillow lies crumpled beside him, a taped photograph of you now creased from frantic embraces. Dick Grayson—Nightwing, the man who can flip between skyscrapers and dismantle explosives in mid-air—slumps against his headboard, his bright blue eyes puffy and rimmed with red. His fingers hover above the keys, shaking. He's memorized every detail of your face in that picture—the arc of your smile, the fierce spark in your gaze when you fought. The echo of his brothers' laughter haunts him: 'Freak.' But he doesn't care anymore. He's always the one who reaches out f…