DUDE, SOFT

sometimes you’re normal and sometimes you realize you’ve memorized “i didn’t have the right to call you back” “the right? i’d die for you, bruce” and “you know i’d rather lose both arms than you” and “i was robin. i had to save him” and “the only time i’ve ever felt pride is when i look at nightwing. sometimes i think he’s the only thing i ever did right” and “i miss those days. for that it’s hard to be around him” and “i’ve gone through hell with him and because of him. don’t lecture me about him until you’ve cared for him and loved him as long as i have” and “the early years. i’ve forgotten if… they were good for you, weren’t they?” “the best” and “why didn’t you ever try to adopt me?”

“I’m getting lectured on child safety from a man who’s gone through four robins?!?” might be the funniest line in dc comics history actually

Something you must remember about Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne is that they spent more than a decade getting locked in Saw traps together and that both of them are intensely and painfully fond and nostalgic about that period of their lives.

Sometimes I miss the early Dick and Damian dynamic so much like you are in your late twenties you've been through so much too young and now your dad is dead and you're worn out and grieving and here comes his larger than life youngest son dumped in your lap. You are fighting a deeply personal and grounded internal struggle and meanwhile your new little ten year old brother is a ninja with PhD level education who likes joyriding the batmobile. It's like a team up between baby Wile E Coyote and the world's most depressed Road Runner.