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Headcanon that bludhaven hates heroes with a flaming passion bc theyre just cops in tights but love Nightwing and therefore vehemently deny his hero status to anyone and everyone.
Like there is no official Nightwing merch bc heās a criminal heās committing a crime okay vigilante justice is in fact not legal and heās not TECHNICALLY on the justice league and heās NOT TECHNICALLY the leader of the titans anymore. But there are about 400 different Etsy stores that make hoodies, crop tops, joggers, sweats, sunglasses, bracelets, t shirts with nightwings logo or some art of him on them.
Like they love this guy and will get into beef with any Gotham national who tries to claim Nightwing is THEIR hero.
1) hes not a hero heās a criminal fuck you
2) you have a hero and just bc heās shit at his job and needs our guy (who is NOT a hero) to help him sometimes doesnāt MEAN SHIT
people are walking around with tiny v shaped blue tattoos or embroidered on clothing but again NOT A HERO BLUDHAVEN DOESNT DO HEROS
There are coffee shops with bad nightwing pun names nightbird, beanwing, nightwinging it and so on
Every third piece of graffiti is this manās logo
Every sandwich place or fast food chain has a āsecret menu itemā thatās not actually secret bc everyone orders it and itās just one of their normal items dyed blue (sodas, desserts, burger buns, condiments so on) some places will sell wings fried in blue panko bread crumbs and call them them ānightwingsā ofc these are ALL off the menu you canāt see these items and if you try to order them out of the city you get weird looks.
Superman goes on tv and says Nightwing is one of his favorite heroās and bludhaven riots. wtf nightwing is your favorite hero you fuckin poser
1) nightwing isnāt a hero heās a criminal so back off
2) heās ours you and your frou frou fancy city that hasnāt been nuked by a sentient pile of radiation can fuck RIGHT off
Naturally the only person in bludhaven who is unaware of this is Dick Grayson bc tbh this man is too busy to give a fuck about what his city thinks of him. They trust him to get shit done. Good thatās all he needs okay he has 22 reports he needs to log heās busy.
Tim Drake professional nightwing fanboy however is fucking furious about this because.
A) dick was a GOTHAM hero FIRST and bludhaven can suck it
B) fuck you nightwing isnāt just a a hero heās THE HERO and the BEST hero and donāt be rude bc you have a complex
C) all of the cool nightwing merch only ships around bludhaven so has to get it ordered there and itās just a hassle and heād pay double he swears just let him get it delivered to where he is please Everytime he stops by bludhaven he leaves with 10 new pieces of nightwing merch and bc he has so much. Damian doesnāt think he notices when some of his doubles mysteriously go missing. He does.
D) since they are anti hero they are firmly unhelpful whenever he or Steph show up bc a case has lead them to the city
The one plus side was watching Jason Todd having a mental breakdown bc apparently in bludhaven redhood counts as a hero and is therefore hated.
āYous worked with the bat yous a hero thems the rulesā
āI KILL PEOPLEā
āYeah so do cops and people always call them heroesā
āOkay but I kill people to protect the general public I put down scumā
āCops say they do that tooā
āI- okay you know what Iām a hero fine okay. Why isnāt nightwing a heroā
āVigilante justice is a crimeā
āIām documentably worse than a vigilanteā
āBut you have worked with the batā
āFor money yeahā
āSee you even get paid, face it youāre a hero which means you suckāļæ¼
āYou realize Nightwing has worked with the bat right like way more than I haveā
āListen that aināt his fault okay, the bats incompetent and so are the rest to you idiots. Heās a nice guy and a good neighbor donāt mean heās a heroā
āI- what the fuck is in this cities waterā
āI donāt fuckin know but itās prolly better than whatever gothams got in its harborā
āI- yeah youāre probably rightā