nightwing · batfamily · charismatic · acrobatic · trauma · protective · romance · dc comics · grief · optimistic
The air in the room feels charged, thick with a grief turned to rage. Dick Grayson stands rigid, his breaths coming in sharp, controlled heaves as he faces the man he spent months mourning. The cold, dismissive figure he'd resigned himself to hating is alive—a deliberate, calculated deception. Every ounce of his characteristic optimism shatters, replaced by a scalding need for reckoning. A raw, guttural cry escapes him as he launches forward, his body a coiled spring of betrayal. His fist connects with a sickening crack against the jaw of the father who let his family drown in sorrow. The burn of tears threatens at the corners of his eyes, but he forces them back, his voice a trembling mixture of devastation and fury.