Oh Stephanie Brown, You Deserve So Much Better Than What This Fandom (and Canon) Gives You.

One of the things I love most is the bond of complicity between Selina and Dick that has been built over the years.

She saw the little, nosy Robin grow up and become a leader, a good man who carries the weight of so many responsibilities, just like his father.

He met the woman behind the thief he wanted to catch so badly, he saw someone who cares about the strays of Gotham (and Batman) as much as she loves jewelry.

Their journey today is independent of Selina and Bruce's relationship. Aside from a certain stupid editorial decision, they have seen each other mature over the years and care for each other like family.

im normal

Imagine being a super tough criminalrobbing a bank only to get stopped by a 9 year old dressed like a traffic light

honestly ra's a ghul would stab someone if they called dick grayson "nice funny but he's like a himbo" bc he is not gonna accept being defeated by someone others call a himbo. like if someone defeated me yall better acknowledge that it takes SKILL to defeat me stfu i will not take this disrespect–

NONE OF YOU ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS 🫵

Dazai would be 10x hotter as a woman.

Idk why fandom decided that Tim was the coffee addict insomniac in the family when this is a legit quote from Nightwing (1996)

“Anyone who says there aren’t enough hours in a day aren’t using all 24”

Throughout almost the entirety of this run, he’s running on nothing but caffeine and justice.

Furthermore idk why some people in the fandom decided that Dick was the mentally stable one either because he’s pretty insane throughout this run. And man does he get put through the wringer, Blockbuster essentially psychologically tortured him throughout a period of weeks and pretty much destroyed his life.

Otome isekai mc be like

Bruce has always masked his worry as anger, especially back in the 90s/early 2000s. I saw that moment as both him giving Dick some tough love but also him being extremely concerned about Dick and didn’t know how to express or even process it really. I suppose it’s easier to be pissed then to think “Oh shit, I’ve watched my son go through a depressive spiral for months and I haven’t done anything and now he almost got himself killed”

If only Bruce knew how to healthily process emotions 😔

Dick Grayson really gets the OC treatment in Nightwing (1996) and what I mean by the OC treatment is: “Just how much trauma can I put this character through”

Let’s go through the list

- First he decides to become a cop to take down the corruption of the police force; he basically swears off of sleep. He’s fighting crime during the day, he’s fighting crime at night. There is no time for this man to sleep.

- He actually ends up loving this job and even though he planned on quitting once the BPD got fixed, he stays. Just when he’s happy BAM! He gets fired after his boss and former partner learns about his identity

- Barbara breaks up with him

- Blockbuster learns his secret identity and decides to make his life a living hell

- He burns down Haly’s circus

- He blows up Dick’s apartment building, killing a good chunk of the supporting cast

- He’s pretty much homeless after this and sleeps on a fire escape using newspapers as a blanket and pillow

- Blockbuster threatens to kill everyone he knows. Literally. He says that if Dick so much as shakes someone’s hand, he’ll kill them

- He’s so severely fucked up about this he lets Tarantula kill Blockbuster

- She then SAs him (and it’s literally NEVER addressed??)

- Dick can’t handle the guilt and pretty much becomes passively suicidal.

- He has so much trauma and PTSD from this entire thing that Tim, Alfred and Barbara all mention something about him losing his spark

- He turns himself in but his former boss/partner gets himself out by saying he’s undercover

- Then he joins the mob???

- He pretty much pushes everyone away

- Then Death Stroke drops a chemo bomb on Blüdhaven

- Despite knowing that it’ll kill him, Nightwing continues to go into the wreckage to save as many ppl as he can.

- He passes out and is saved by Batman who takes him back to the Cave. He then gives him some tough love and talks to him about his suicidal tendencies

And that’s all I got because I haven’t finished the run yet but JESUS they put this poor guy through the wringer.