#dick!batman

steph: what? but im batgirl you cant just give away my title

dick: actually i can, its called pulling a bruce, he did it to me as robin, and you as robin

steph: fuck this im leaving im gonna go find a better guy to team up with

*steph storms out*

dick: so whaddya say batgirl

tim: *rolls eyes and silently walks out"

dick: well kid looks like its just you and me

later when dick and damian are fighting red hood dick gets drop kicked by spoiler

dick: owwww, wait, steph what the fuck

steph: told you id find a better guy, i told jason what happened and he Imediately asked me to team up

jason: i sympathised with her pain, you cant just drop someone dick

dick: tim didnt even want to be batgirl so you can come back

steph: no no, you and damian are batman and robin you dont need me

damian: hey idiots, you just said all of our names, in the middle of the street

This would be set during the Batman & Robin Reborn time period (Bruce Quest, RedRobin, After Battle for the Cowl)

Before he was with Bruce, Dick grew up speaking English and Romani. Damian grew up with Arabic, Chinese, and English as the dominantly spoken languages around him. One night, while on the field together, Robin accidentally slips into speaking Arabic.

It's a simple mistake, but Damian is guarded. He knows better, living under the watch of Grayson doesn’t change who he is and how he was raided. Dick understands this, Damian is still new to living with him and while some traits are just who he is others are trauma. Dick opens up on his own past as a multilingual child, a way to hopefully let Damian learn to break the ice freezing him off from Dick.

Dick lost more than just his parents that night at the circus, not just this home but a part of his culture he could never get back. Dick still uses Romani where he can but it's not the same, and when he was a kid there were even less ways to do so.

Not wanting Damian to lose another pices of the culture he grew up with while living in America Dick offers to learn if Damian's willing to teach.

Over their time together, Damian starts to teach Dick giving them to another way to communicate together.

When Bruce eventually comes back from his travel threw time, he already knows Arabic and is able to talk to Damian in the language. But it isn't the same dialect Damian though Dick. Bruce is his farther, but Dick is more than just his brother.

Note:

This does have a short story titled Languages - HERE -

And then everyone is gone.

Damian’s not there/doesn’t exist/wasn’t sent by his mother in the first place, Tim’s gone, Jason’s fricking crazy, maybe Steph doesn’t do batgirl and stays spoiler so she’s not involved with him. Maybe even Alfred isn’t there (be it retirement, death, whatever)

People don’t like Dick becoming Batman. Some think it’s weird, like he’s wearing his father’s skin (as if Dick doesn’t already feel that way), some think it’s disrespectful, maybe some of his friends are mad and consider him a hypocrite cause he said he didn’t want to be Batman. I think his closest friends would have to be unaware/away cause I don’t think realistically they’d be awful about it. So he’s just kind of alone.

He does his best, does a lot of investigative work and maybe even ends up leaning towards how Bruce was in the early days - less of the vengeance thing but more of the “Batman is a shadow/urban legend” type thing (although I’d find it funny and fitting that he’d show himself to children and therefore kids think it’a a secret only for them, cause they can see Batman and adults don’t really).

But Dick is losing himself in this. Not exactly into the anger but some self loathing and loneliness. He doesn’t know what to do and he doesn’t know how to move on from this. He’s scared to try and change the Batman mantle to fit himself more which just makes him end up hiding more and more.

And then Bruce comes back.

Ha, okay. Just little characterization/fun fact things. 

Dick isn’t a fan of Alfred’s cucumber sandwiches. 

...like consistently, not a fan lol. 

Dick also doesn’t like cranberry muffins! 

But one of his favorite Alfred dishes is crab stuffed mushrooms (weirdo). 

Dick likes to watch nature documentaries to relax...and as a result he knows a lot of random animal fun facts. 

He really overthinks mystery tv lol...even Scooby-doo (which he apparently has watched with the Titans/Wally before lol? cute).

Dick uses fancy English Dunhill aftershave, which might be why he has that reputation for smelling good haha? Thank Alfred for that peeps. 

Dick tends to have trouble making his home feel like home. He keeps very busy and doesn’t usually care about stuff, so that translates into very minimal decoration...or not even removing his stuff from storage/boxes without some cajoling. 

though once he does finally decorate lol, it does tend to be very sentimental, meaningful items pretty much exclusively (ie family photos, flying grayson poster, etc.)

And he likes mint chocolate chip ice cream according to @hood-ex! I have no idea where that is from but I love it.