Dark!Vampire!Dick Grayson fic outline
Vampire!Dick, who saw his parents die. who ran away from Haly's circus and roamed away in Eastern Europe, running from child protective services.
Vampire!Dick, who found himself struggling to make it for the next couple of years, until he found himself lost in the forests of Romania and hunted by the deep dark creatures that hid in the shadows.
Vampire!Dick, who wound up losing the fight. who woke up starving, but nothing satiated his hunger. not until he tasted the blood of the poor deer by the lake, and even that was not enough.
Vampire!Dick, who gets taken in by the same clan that turned him, when they realised he hadn't actually died. Who was taught what he became, and how to deal with the changes that happened to him.
Vampire!Dick, who then proceeds to annihilate that same clan and take over the city.
Vampire!Dick, who travels all over Europe in search of the people who killed his parents.
Vampire!Dick, whose leads take him to France, and after making sure his parents' murderers suffered a fate worse than they could ever imagine, he eventually finds himself at a small bakery in Paris.
Vampire!Dick, who, for the first time since his parents' death, finds himself actually enjoying someone else's presence. even when that someone else was the young baker's daughter, who seemed very happy to help him navigate the variety of baked items and how best to enjoy them.
Vampire!Dick, who offers to take the sweet baker's daughter out for a date, eventually gets her parents' permission to formally court her.
Vampire!Dick, who falls deeply in love with this young woman and doesn't even know how it began, but knows he's doomed if it were to ever end.
Vampire!Dick, who doesn't realise he no longer ages like normal humans.
Vampire!Dick, who watches as the love of his life slowly but surely wastes away due to the normal human aging process, and there's nothing he can do.
Vampire!Dick, who feels useless after losing his sweet love, a pain so overbearing he feels it overcoming what he felt at the death of his parents. Only that this time there’s no one he can take revenge against.
Vampire!Dick, who leaves France and promises never to return due to the pain he received from the city of love.
Vampire!Dick, who spends the next century and a half aimlessly strolling through Europe again, lands himself in a little Polish town.
Vampire!Dick, who finds there the lovely young daughter of a blacksmith who loved helping her father with making the blades’ sheath out of animal leather. A daughter whose face bore a striking resemblance to that of someone he thought he’d forever left behind in the city of love.
Vampire!Dick, who avoided her like the plague, but once again seemed to have attracted this girl to him like a moth to a flame. Who let himself be cared for by this energetic girl who seemed not to fear him. Even after finding him in a pool of blood in the middle of the forest.
Vampire!Dick, who promised he’d never let anyone close to him again. Who didn’t want to be hurt by losing someone he cared for again. But who slowly but very certainly found himself softening in her embrace, much like he did eons ago…
Vampire!Dick, who had a hard time accepting this for himself, after all, he’d never betray his love like that. right?
Vampire!Dick, who could no longer resist the sweet affection given to him by the blacksmith’s daughter, accepted her courting, even though it was unseemly for ladies to court gentlemen at the time. Besides, he couldn’t be betraying his love if she was right in front of him again, right? He was given another chance to love her. Yes, that's what it was.
Vampire!Dick, who struggles to accept his physiology when he once again outlives his lover.
Vampire!Dick, who runs from Europe and travels all over the world, living different lives, moving every couple of decades to maintain his identity, survives through countless different historical world events. Creating many relationships with people, be it business or friendship, but never, never love. Never again.
Vampire!Dick, who eventually returns to Romania in the early 18th century and lives in a castle acquired decades before. Tired of living life as multiple people, Dick forgets who he once was. The once happy and energetic child full of life had now become a dark shadow of who he once was. Through multiple experiences, he became a cunning and cynical person who has learned that if there’s ever anything he wanted, he had to take it himself, even if by force.
Vampire!Dick, who secludes himself in the castle for decades, unknowingly becomes part of the Transylvanian folklore about vampires.
Vampire!Dick, who one day finds his solace broken into by a young woman searching for protection from the villagers. She hid in the lobby area first, and when it seemed that the villagers would come into the castle, she ventured deeper in.
The villagers, however, know better than to enter Dracula’s doors. No one ever made it out alive after all.