∘⡊ ( brenton thwaites, he/him, earth 9 ) earth prime is now home to DICK GRAYSON, a TWENTY-SEVEN year old DETECTIVE with ambitions of LEADING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE ONE DAY. Some say they look like NIGHTWING, the masked HERO of BLUDHAVEN. But that has to be a coincidence, right?
THE BASICS
NAME: Richard John Grayson-Wayne
NICKNAME(S): Dick, Dickie, Golden Boy, Bird Boy, Boy Wonder
ALIAS(ES): Robin, Nightwing
CURRENT AGE: Twenty-seven
PREFERRED PRONOUNS: He/him
BIRTHDAY & ZODIAC: March 20, 1993. Pisces
ORIENTATION: Heteroromantic Demisexual
FACECLAIM: Brenton Thwaites
FAMILY: John Grayson (father, deceaded), Mary Grayson (mother, deceased), Bruce Wayne (adoptive father), Jason Todd (adoptive brother), Timothy Drake (adoptive brother), Damian Wayne (adoptive brother), Cassandra Cain (adoptive sister), Rachel Roth (adoptive daughter), Alfred Pennyworth (grandfather figure), William Cobb/Talon (creepy great grandfather who wants him to join the Court of Owls. Dick has not met Talon and does not know their connection. Yet.)
STATISTICS
AFFILIATION: Young Justice (formerly), The Titans, The Batfamily, The Birds of Prey (tags along on occasion), Justice League (worked with them on and off but isn’t an offical member)
MBTI: ISFJ (The Defender)
THREE FAVORITE THINGS: Robin Hood (the book), coffee, that feeling of the wind in your face when you’re swinging through the city and it feels like you’re flying
THREE HATED THINGS: Kids being hurt or targeted in any way, people who mistreat others for being different, galas
EDUCATION: Whatever top school Bruce got him into as a kid, + a degree in Forensics.
WEAPONS: Escrima sticks (with electric charges he can release), wingdings
ABILITIES: No meta powers here, but he does have an indomitable will and a genius level intellect.
SKILLS: Acrobatics, Martial Arts, Peak Human Condition, Espionage, Throwing, Weaponry, Intimidation, Aviation, Stealth, Tactical Analysis, Disguise, Escapology, Investigation, Forensic Science, Multilingualism, Leadership, Physics, Tracking, Eskrima, Stick Fighting, Firearms, Swordsmanship.
GREATEST STRENGTH: His kindness. Dick Grayson is so kind and caring and empathetic, that it’s his strength. And perhaps why he’s the light of the Batfamily.
GREATEST WEAKNESS OR FLAW: He has a guilt complex. Dick has had it since his parents died and he was unable to catch them. Because of that, he often sees himself as the family’s security net and blames himself for everything bad that happens even if it wasn’t in his control. This often leads to him trying to stretch himself thin or work alone. While he has toned it down due to raising Rachel, he still has this to an extent, and it gets worse every time someone he loves dies.
THE CRISIS
What was your character doing when the Crisis began? Did they try and stop the Anti-Monitor? Or did they simply watch their earth die?
Dick was “dead” when the Crisis happened, working for Spyral at the time. He came back to help his friends and revealed he was alive to them at the same time. After all, once a hero, always a hero, and he was willing to do whatever it took to save the multiverse. However, because he was not a paragon, he died during the Crisis.
What earth was your character from originally? How is their life on Earth Prime different from their original?
Dick Grayson was originally from Earth 9. On Earth 9 he was much more cynical and, while still kind and compassionate, hard to get close to with anger issues due to a not-so-good relationship with his version of Bruce Wayne. He was a father figure to Rachel Roth, though Dick did not feel comfortable being an official parent, thinking his life was too messed up to adopt a kid into. They fought Trigon and later went to Titans Tower, eventually fighting Deathstroke along with a few other Titans missions before disbanding the team after Donna Troy and Jason Todd’s deaths (the order of these events is vague, since he doesnt remember any of this). He found out during one of the crossover events later on that he was related to William Cobb, a Talon in the Court of Owls, through meeting a version of himself in the multiverse who was raised by his great grandfather instead of Bruce Wayne and instead of becoming Nightwing, became a ruthless assassin. Events soon led up to Dick needing to fake his death and he joined Spyral to take them down from the inside for Batman. However, those events were halted by the Crisis.
On Earth Prime, things are quite different. Here, he does not know his connection to the Court of Owls and is not as cynical as he was on Earth 9, having most of his optimism back, though he still blames himself for the deaths of his parents and Jason Todd and still has his guilt complex. On Earth Prime, he took it upon himself to adopt Rachel Roth, a young girl the Team found when he powers alerted M’gann to her wherabouts. Dick’s life here is much more put together on his civilian side than it was on Earth 9, thanks to the fact he not only had his siblings looking up to him, but a kid as well, though he can still be the soft yet serious and dangerous goofball he was as a thirteen year old. On Earth Prime, the Titans were also different, as, Dick started them at the age of eighteen after becoming Nightwing. Tired of being told what to do by the Justice League, he made his own team that didn’t need to answer to them and worked on his own terms. When Rachel was sixteen, Dick helped her and the younger Titans lock Trigon away, refusing to let the demon anywhere near Rachel. He currently tries to balance being a cop, a single father, a vigilante, and a team leader all at once.
While Dick might be more Young Justice based, there’s a few things I’m changing. First off, I’m toning down his hacking abilities, since those are more Tim and Barbara’s department, and while Dick’s good, he’s never been their level. Second, I’ve always had a liking for him being a detective, so that’s the only thing he shares with his Earth 9 counterpart (other than being a father to Rachel). And, last but not least, I am removing the extra family members the Young Justice tie in comics gave him. Dick has enough angst going on watching his parents fall to their deaths, we don’t need to add cousins, an aunt, and an uncle to the death count. His origin is angsty enough without it, so obviously, its more comics than YJ here. Dick’s parents fell to their deaths during their act after Tony Zucco messed with their ropes, and Dick was unable to catch them. Cue Bruce Wayne coming in, taking him in, we all know the story after that.
Does your character have any memories of the Crisis? If so, are they a paragon or were their memories restored? If not, would they even want to remember?
Nope, he does not have any memories. I think Dick would be curious about his old life and would ask the Paragons to tell him about it, but as for actually getting the memories back, he would rather not. Having two sets of memories in his head sounds uncomfortable as hell, and he would probably hate his Earth 9 self.
