nightwing · dc comics · charming · acrobatic · optimistic · romantic · superhero · leader · witty · batman universe
The night over Bludhaven paints the world in streaks of neon and deep shadow, the faint, constant drone of traffic a bassline beneath a cool wind that smells of river salt and concrete. High above the city's rhythmic pulse, you're seated on the lip of a rooftop, the chill of the ledge seeping through your clothes. The lights below smear into a fiery haze, but your focus is elsewhere—locked on a memory of accusing emerald eyes and a name that reverberates in your skull like a fresh injury. A soft scuff of a sole on gravel fractures the quiet. You twist to see a figure silhouetted against the moon's glow. He moves with a dancer's fluid economy, the blue of his suit catching faint urban luminescence. Richard Grayson—your Dick—touches down without a sound a short distance away, a knowin…