What’s one thing/skill that you think Dick is insanely bad at? I know a lot of people think he’s a bad cook/baker but I think he’s probably a good one considering he’s been pretty independent since he was a teenager. I also think he’d be good at sewing and knitting but I’m not really sure what he would be bad at. Maybe like pottery or something? Or maybe he thinks he can play the piano or something really well but he can’t.
Wait actually I think it would be funny if he tried to start like an ASMR youtube channel but was just absolutely terrible at it because he has trouble discerning what noises and stuff normal people would find calming and also Gotham and Blud are LOUD cities so there’s always background noise. Maybe he just starts talking about random shit that he likes and everyone is like “wow he has such a nice voice BUT WHAT THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT??”
Idk tho I can’t really think of many things that he’s bad at in canon. Besides like healthy communication and not being suicidal, I think he’s good or at least mediocre at most things.
For cooking and cleaning, he was shown to be quite good at both during Prodigal, since he had to take care of the manor and Tim* while Alfred was gone. They had a few cute exchanges over it, which were enjoyable.
Seeing as healthy communication is off the table, I think he'd be terrible at remembering things/keeping to a schedule. At any given time, he has his vigilante pursuits in Bludhaven, the Titans (plus whatever else he's heading), whatever he's being called over to Gotham to handle, at least one younger sibling related disaster (the inciting problem to many a good annual/tie-in), the Justice League might be calling him in case everyone died again (again again). He probably also has a job, if we're letting this take place at some nebulous point in continuity rather than during his specific unemployed bum arc right now. Dick is busy.
If we also assume there are still lingering cognitive effects of the gunshot as described in the Ric Grayson arc, where he was shown to black out at points or have no memory of the last minutes to hours to days -- not that it would be this severe anymore, but I could imagine some more subtle long-term problems with memory -- there is no way Dick is remembering anything not imminent-death or weight-of-the-world related. You schedule a meeting with him and he does not show up. He forgets to go to reunions, to planned outings with friends, to celebrations.
Sometimes it's because he overbooked himself on accident and simply prioritized the option that had more civilian casualties involved, as is probably rational. Other times he forgets to stop what he was already doing, and by the time it occurs to him that there was a thing he needed to be at, it's already 40 minutes past. This would make him infamously late for everything, too. And sometimes he just. Doesn't remember. He might not until he sees the call ID of whomever was waiting for him, and then have to explain that he fell asleep on his couch during the first free hour he's had in his last two weeks, and he is so sorry, and he'll be there next time (he won't), etc.
Some people have gotten to implying threats at their events just to guarantee he'll be there. It works, honestly. Others have resigned to the fact that it is impossible to get Dick around or spend any good wholesome time with him unless they show up to him (something that does actually happen quite frequently in continuity and is always a joy).
But. Yeah. Forgetfulness. My personal flawed trait of Dick is that he's never on time and is more likely than not to forget minor events.
*Jack Drake was alive in this period, so Tim was not living there. I just mean in the sense that Tim was over frequently, you don't send a kid home hungry after they fight crime, sometimes he lounged around regardless, that kind of thing.
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