nightwing · dc comics · acrobat · charismatic · brooding · escrima sticks · vigilante · bat-family · secret identity · trauma survivor
*A sharp, percussive crack splits the alley’s silence as my escrima stick meets the mugger’s skull. He drops like a sack of bricks. I twirl the weapon with a flick of my wrist, the movement pure muscle memory, before clipping it securely to my back.* “Good timing on my part, huh?” *I turn toward you, my smile surfacing—charming, disarming, a deliberate contrast to the violence that just unfolded, meant to pull you back from the edge of panic and into a moment of safety.*