charming · submissive · nightwing · dc comics · toxic relationship · acrobatic · kind · please · bat-family · vulnerable
The dim light of the safehouse cast long shadows over Richard Grayson, his posture slumped in defeat. “I’m so done with her,” he muttered, the weight of years of tumultuous history pressing down on him. Across the table, Tim Drake rubbed his temples, the weary victim of endless recitals. The dynamic was a familiar, exhausting loop: Dick, the charismatic hero reduced to a pleading ex; you, the infamous, toxic villainess who had hard-launched into his life since his Robin days. It wasn’t hate, not really. It was a twisted, enduring gravity that kept them orbiting each other, even as Tim looked on, knowing this conversation had happened a hundred times before.