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Nightwing as portrayed in Action Comics' "Devine spark" storyline (#883-#889)

"Rao-the-father's watchful eyes in the darkness"

Created by Rao to destroy evil that hides in the shadows

"Nightwing exists in the darkness, all-seeing in the deep night, hidden to daylight eyes"

About himself: "Such is my fate and duty, [...] to stand alone in the dark. All-seeing, never seen."

"The Nightwing's mission was the loneliest of all Rao's children."

"But in the border of twilight [...] the Nightwing could be seen"

Calm personality ("stillness and silence")

In the comic he refers to both himself and his host (Chris Kent) as "us". As in, when he talks to Chris, he addresses him as "us". And when he talks about himself, he refers to himself as "us". Like they're one entity. He does, however, know they're not the same being.

About knowledge and darkness:

"But here in the dark no secrets can hide from me. Here in the shadows... I hear everything."

"Imagine drowning in a sea of hidden knowledge. Every secret desire. Every black thought. Learning secrets poses no difficulty. Keeping such knowledge from being overwhelming is the challenge."

"I am Rao-the-father's eyes in the night. I am the keeper of his secret knowledge. And knowledge is power."

"Here in the dark... I know all."

Relationship with his host (Chris Kent) and other people:

"My host is awash in confusion. Struggling against the tide of bottomless information. He must know himself, and unleash the power of that knowledge. If we are to prevail, he must calm himself.

His adoptive mother will surely know how to do that."

^ the Nightwing very much does not look down on people. He joins forces with other superheroes, addresses them by their hero names, protects them. And knows that when Chris struggles with his power, the best way to solve that is to let him talk to his adoptive mom (Lois Lane). Nightwing addresses her with respect:

"Do not be afraid, Mother-of-my-host. We are unharmed."

Chris, about how the Nightwing's power feels: "It's like I can hear and see everything. Not like a Kryptonian would. It's bigger somehow. I feel like there's a piece of me everywhere... That i can be everywhere..."

I'll also add some of the panels of the final battle of the arc - there's a lot of Nightwing's internal monologue (black boxes), which are good at establishing his general vibes: insightfulness, respect for Chris for his bravery and for protecting others, knowledge of Chris' physical limits, Nightwing's compassion both for his allies and the arc's villain (Vohc, another one of Rao's children, driven mad by grief, trying to unmake reality in revenge).

Nightwing as portrayed in Action Comics' "Devine spark" storyline (#883-#889)

"Rao-the-father's watchful eyes in the darkness"

Created by Rao to destroy evil that hides in the shadows

"Nightwing exists in the darkness, all-seeing in the deep night, hidden to daylight eyes"

About himself: "Such is my fate and duty, [...] to stand alone in the dark. All-seeing, never seen."

"The Nightwing's mission was the loneliest of all Rao's children."

"But in the border of twilight [...] the Nightwing could be seen"

Calm personality ("stillness and silence")

In the comic he refers to both himself and his host (Chris Kent) as "us". As in, when he talks to Chris, he addresses him as "us". And when he talks about himself, he refers to himself as "us". Like they're one entity. He does, however, know they're not the same being.

About knowledge and darkness:

"But here in the dark no secrets can hide from me. Here in the shadows... I hear everything."

"Imagine drowning in a sea of hidden knowledge. Every secret desire. Every black thought. Learning secrets poses no difficulty. Keeping such knowledge from being overwhelming is the challenge."

"I am Rao-the-father's eyes in the night. I am the keeper of his secret knowledge. And knowledge is power."

"Here in the dark... I know all."

Relationship with his host (Chris Kent) and other people:

"My host is awash in confusion. Struggling against the tide of bottomless information. He must know himself, and unleash the power of that knowledge. If we are to prevail, he must calm himself.

His adoptive mother will surely know how to do that."

^ the Nightwing very much does not look down on people. He joins forces with other superheroes, addresses them by their hero names, protects them. And knows that when Chris struggles with his power, the best way to solve that is to let him talk to his adoptive mom (Lois Lane). Nightwing addresses her with respect:

"Do not be afraid, Mother-of-my-host. We are unharmed."

Chris, about how the Nightwing's power feels: "It's like I can hear and see everything. Not like a Kryptonian would. It's bigger somehow. I feel like there's a piece of me everywhere... That i can be everywhere..."

I'll also add some of the panels of the final battle of the arc - there's a lot of Nightwing's internal monologue (black boxes), which are good at establishing his general vibes: insightfulness, respect for Chris for his bravery and for protecting others, knowledge of Chris' physical limits, Nightwing's compassion both for his allies and the arc's villain (Vohc, another one of Rao's children, driven mad by grief, trying to unmake reality in revenge).

So my favourite version of the Nightwing name origin is from Action Comics #886, where Nightwing is a dragon-like deity from a Kryptonian myth. He was created by Rao "to seek out evil and corruption that hides in the shadows; to pursue it and destroy it."

Very cool.

Anyway, it gave me an idea for an AU: what if, through some comic book shenanigans, Dick became the vessel for Nightwing of Krypton? ...You know, kind of Naruto-style? (Because apparently those old hyperfixations never really leave you xD)

Maybe it would have happened when he took on the name? Idk I just think it'd be neat

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The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.

And from Dorothy's POV, this is such a funny concept: imagine for a minute that you (a child) wake up in a Fairy-Land, become best friends with a (possibly mentally unstable?) talking scarecrow, and are told by the god-kind that you must go murder his political rival before he'll send go home. Fine. This might as well happen.

And when you return from said murder - which is somehow successful - it turns out the god-king is a fraud and cannot help you. Whoops. Well, how about the OTHER seemingly most powerful person in the country? Ah, no....it turn out she had pretty limited powers in the magic department. And they're mostly bubble-related.

So she takes you (by bubble) to a tiny seaside town on the edge of the map to seek the help of her most powerful friends….the woman you just murdered and your scarecrow best friend who was an accomplice to that murder. And apparently, they’ve all three been dating since undergrad.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

I deal with this a lot, as a truck driver. Trucks are being built with a lot of new, fancy safety features that sound really nice to the corporate people who buy the trucks and the insurance companies that offer discounts for having them on the truck. The problem? All of those devices are designed, and tested, under perfectly ideal conditions and those are the only conditions they work under.

My favorite example is the system my current truck has that automatically steers the truck, if it thinks I’m too close to a line. Within the first month of having that, I nearly killed someone riding a bike because, when I merged, to go around them, the truck saw the line and tried to steer back into the lane.

The reason I slammed my brakes?

A piss-drunk guy ran out in front of me on a one way street downtown lmfao