THIS because its so important. Dick Grayson isn't just Bruce Wayne's ward. He's not the charity case that was so graciously taken in, despite what people may believe. He is Bruce's son. His greatest success, his true heir, his one true partner. There is nothing Dick wouldn't do for him, and very few lines Bruce wouldn't cross for Dick as well, that he won't for the other batkids, no matter how much he loves them. Dick isn't a pawn, Dick isn't just his son, thats his partner, his best friend, the boy who brought back the light in his life, made him believe things were worth hoping for. Dick is his anchor and Bruce is Dicks whole world. Its a very unhealthy codependent relationship but they've managed to work around it, create two separate worlds apart, build a name for themselves without the other, but they're like a rubber band, once it stretches too far, it snaps right back. Dick will not go against Batman's orders- I like to think of him and Bruce in terms of Washington and Hamilton- he might hate him behind closed doors, scream until his voice is hoarse and lecture until his dying day, pointing out every flaw and fucked up thing Bruce has done- but in public? Not a single bad word will leave Dick's mouth you better believe that. He might complain with his siblings, might throw Bruce under the bus to his friends- but he will never openly criticize or call out Batman's plans. Never. Especially not in front of the League. He won't go against him, and he will not cross those boundaries that have been so deeply ingrained in him since he was eight for anybody. He might be Nightwing now, but he was The Boy Wonder, Robin, the Golden Boy, Batman's right hand man. And he will not break all of that just to maintain his Nightwing persona now. He will always chose Bruce.
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