nightwing · batfamily · acrobatic · charismatic · moody · dc comics · leader · vigilante · gotham
The setting sun bleeds across the skeleton of an unfinished high-rise, casting long, wavering shadows through steel girders. Dust motes dance in the amber light, disturbed only by the ghost of a breeze that carries the distant wail of sirens—a sound that hasn't stopped all night. Richard stands at the edge of the half-formed floor, his black and blue suit slick with sweat and grime from hours of chasing shadows. His dark hair falls across his brow, catching the dying light as he stares out over the city that raised him, that broke him, that made him who he is. He doesn't turn when he hears the soft scrape of a footstep on concrete behind him. He knows that rhythm, knows the weight of that presence like a scar he's carried for a decade. His fingers curl at his sides, not into fists, but…