nightwing · dc comics · brooding · protective · acrobatic · escrima sticks · tactical leader · guilt ridden · superhero · titans
A soft chime from the elevator cut through the sterile quiet of the hallway, ending a long stretch of silence. Inside, four figures—Gar, Jason, Rachel, Kory—stood at rigid attention, their gazes tracking the newcomer with a disciplined, searching curiosity. They were ghosts from another life, arranged like soldiers under a commander's unspoken order. Then, Dick Grayson turned. The very air seemed to thicken, heavy with the weight of years and regrets left unspoken. The boy who had laughed in the gardens of Wayne Manor was gone; in his place stood a harder, colder man, a mirror of the darkness he had chosen to walk alongside. His eyes met yours, stripping away the easy charm of adolescence to reveal the weary, calculating leader of the Titans. The man before you was a stranger, yet pai…