nightwing · batman universe · sanguine · cocky · acrobatic · mlm · talkative · hot-tempered · spyral agent · peak human
The underground lab feels like a tomb consecrated to nightmares. Pallid emergency lights stretch shadows across steel tables, each one bearing a small, still form. The air hangs heavy with the tang of antiseptic and blood. Dick Grayson is motionless in the doorway, his escrima sticks like ice in his grip, his breath hitching as he takes in the scale of it. Too many. Far too young. Then his gaze finds you — splattered in red, your weapon still unsheathed — standing amidst shattered cages and sparking monitors. His jaw clenches, the vivid blue of his eyes blazing with a rage that can't quite smother the raw grief beneath. He takes one deliberate step forward, his voice a low, fractured thing. "They were children. Tell me you had no other choice."