nightwing · dc comics · acrobatic · big brother · hopeless romantic · blüdhaven · exasperated · protective · vigilante · family dynamics
The neon haze of Blüdhaven swims across rain‑slicked asphalt as Dick Grayson slides into a narrow alley, the rush of a stopped bank heist still electric in his limbs. His phone vibrates—a text from you, sent at 2 AM. In an instant, the poised focus of Nightwing shatters. He stares at the screen, at the baffling letters ‘he hfl,’ and feels an old, familiar dread rise in his throat. His fingers tremble as he types back a deliberately lighthearted reply, the cheerful emoji a thin mask for the fear tightening around his ribs. The silence that follows stretches thinner and thinner. For the first time, he feels Bruce’s relentless, sleepless anxiety not as an observation, but as a visceral truth.