The idea of Dick getting a piercing just to annoy Bruce—and failing miserably—lives in my head rent-free.
So it all started during one of the last missions of the original Teen Titans. Roy was showing off his piercings, one on his left ear and another on his lip.
Roy looked ridiculously proud, bragging about the lecture he got from Oliver, and how much fun it was to watch Ollie lose it like a grumpy old man.
That made Dick start thinking.
And when Wally joked that his Uncle Barry would probably have a heart attack if he ever saw him with an earring… well, that only made Dick think about it more. Roy noticed immediately.
“You wanna piss off the Bat, don’t you?” Roy asked.
“When this mission’s over, I’ll take you to the place where I got mine.”
Dick returned to Gotham with a shiny earring on his left ear and a piercing on his right eyebrow.
This was perfect. Bruce would see him and absolutely lose his mind at his former Robin’s pierced face.
He went to dinner, but first stopped by the library where Bruce was reading—with Jason sitting next to him.
“Hey, B. Check this out.”
He proudly showed off his rebellious teenage act of defiance.
Bruce looked at him. Fell into a long silence.
Then Bruce stood up, Jason watching in silence. And Bruce walked out of the library. …Okay, Dick wasn’t expecting that.
“I think you broke him,” Jason said.
Almost two minutes later, Bruce came back—holding a stack of photographs.
And holy piercings, Batman.
Every photo was Bruce during his brief time at a fancy prep school.
And Bruce had piercings. A lot of piercings.
Teenage angsty Bruce had at least five in each ear. He had a septum. Snake bites. Both eyebrows done. One photo showed him in a black crop top with a belly button piercing. The next picture made Dick’s soul leave his body: Bruce and Oliver Queen, both sticking their tongues out to reveal matching tongue piercings.
“I had to convince Ollie for that one. He never really liked piercings,” Bruce joked.
Another photo showed Bruce with a cheek piercing, getting a tattoo on his thigh.
“You really do look like him,” Jason said, laughing as Dick turned pale staring at the evidence.
“I’m glad you’re exploring your identity, Dick. It looks good on you,” Bruce commented, and Dick nearly face-planted into the floor.
“Oh! Can I get one too?” Jason asked, excited.
“Maybe when you turn fifteen, Jaybird,” Bruce replied, and Jason lit up.
“Did you hear that, Dick!?” Jason said gleefully.
“By the way, you better take good care of those piercings when you're here,” Bruce added suddenly. “Alfred hates them.”
That snapped Dick out of his spiral—but not in a good way.
And then Alfred entered the library.
“Ah, Master Richard, I see you’ll be joining us for dinner this evening—” Alfred froze mid-step when his eyes landed on Dick. “What, pray tell, is that on your ear and eyebrow, young man?”
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