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he came by ur dash with a gentle reminder

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Green Arrow / Black Canary #1

big fan of whatever this is

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Some more:

the fucking uhhhh. The Sinister Shape

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Doctor Mid-Nite (1999) #2

I love him ur honor

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I know we talk about Batblob a lot, but I’m personally a fan of when Dick is shaped like a cursor.

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Nevermind it actually makes perfect sense for me lmao

So I've been reading some Justice Society of America (2007) (I want to learn more about superheroes in New York) and uh. I'm really enjoying it so far. but. my brain just went:

"☝️him"

?????

💕Why??? No idea.💕

So I guess uh. New Blorbo Acquired ✅????

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So I've been reading some Justice Society of America (2007) (I want to learn more about superheroes in New York) and uh. I'm really enjoying it so far. but. my brain just went:

"☝️him"

?????

💕Why??? No idea.💕

So I guess uh. New Blorbo Acquired ✅????

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It's a bunch of things :D

It's a render of a 3D model (in Blender, with the figurines for reference and proper shadows that I set up in PoseIt):

that I did some compositing on to make it look like a painting (also in Blender):

(before:)

(after - less detail)

that I then painted the Blorbos on :) and a bunch of other details (in Krita)

Sooo mixed media I guess? xD

No thoughts, just Wonder Twins <3

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I know it would technically work both ways, but what ifff... thematic consistency with big bro?

Is this anything?

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I love your vessel AU do you have anything more about it than you already posted ? Like Dick and Nightwing’s relationship or how they function together with the powers and all 👀

!!!! :D

I've got some loose thoughts about how the Vessel of Nightwing AU could start:

- Dick becomes the Vessel basically right after taking on the name, but it doesn't really have any immediate effects, so he doesn't realize at the time.

- then one day patrol gets slightly messy, and he gets injured. Nothing serious, just some bruises. He puts on some salve or whatever, and goes to sleep.

- he wakes up, and the bruises are completely gone. "That's weird," he thinks. "I guess I wasn't injured as bad as I thought." But there's a lot of work to do so he just forgets about it.

- Next time he gets injured, it's a mild knife wound. Nothing much, but the skin is cut, so he puts on appropriate dressing on the wound. The next day, he takes off the bandages to clean and redress the wound, but... the cut is gone. That's. That's not supposed to happen. He remembers the last time he healed so fast on his own. He decides to investigate.

- He does a bunch of medical tests. Everything's normal. So he goes for help to his friends.

- (I'm not a 100% sure yet what powersets do each of the Titans have, but I'm pretty sure Raven would be a logical choice here? Since she is both a healer and has some degree of telepathy/mind powers? Comic Book Knowers pls let me know if that's right, I wannna know! (Especially in this timeline - very early Nightwing era.) In the meantime, let's say he goes to Raven.)

- And she's like: Yep, dude. There's something weird inside you. BUT!

- borrowing again from Action Comics #886, where deity!Nightwing says about himself: "such is my fate and my duty, [...] to stand alone in the dark. All-seeing, never seen." Basically the idea is that in the darkness he sees and knows everything, and he himself cannot be seen.

- so Raven's like, "yeah, there's something. But I have no idea what. Can't see a darn, it's like it's dark there. Almost like there's nothing to be seen."

- That's not reassuring.

- maybe she's even like "something is different, but it's almost like it's you, and nothing else" Because! Again, in that storyline in Action Comics, the Nightwing, when talking to his host (Chris Kent), always refers to himself and his host as "us". As in, when he talks to Chris, he adresses him as "us". And when he talks about himself, he refers to himself as "us". (And isn't that something to unpack :)) So it could be difficult for outside observers to differentiate Dick and Nightwing.

- So, after learning absolutely nothing except "something ain't right", he tries to find answers somewhere else, going around to anyone else who might know.

- He learns absolutely nothing.

- (I think it's fair, since the Nightwing is a deity-level being, whose one of the main things is Not Being Seen. And nobody is actually sure there even is something to be seen.)

- The Reveal in my mind goes in a classic Naruto-inspired fashion: during a Titans mission Dick takes a bad hit and gets knocked out, wakes up in his "mindscape", where there's this giant fricking dragon. What.

- To save Dick's life (and his teammates') Nightwing takes over Dick's body and promptly defeats the bad guys with Cool Powers.

That's all I got so far xD What's the fallout? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Some more general thoughts:

I think in the beginning Dick wouldn't be happy about the situation At All. Having a super powerful, unknown entity locked inside you, who has the ability to take control of your body at will? Yeah, no thanks.

I've been also wondering about how Dick would have ended up as a Vessel in the first place. And I actually like the idea that it wasn't up to the Nightwing. More like Rao's will or it Just Being How The World Works - if you take on the Nightwing's name and his mission, then you might end up with the rest of him as well. Somehow.

I also think that (unlike in the comics) the Nightwing can't really just leave the host at will. They're stuck with each other, whether they like it or not.

Now, since the Nightwing is supposed to fight evil, I think that it would influence how he "uses" Dick as a Vessel a lot. Because controlling someone's body against their will or harming them? By definition - Very Bad. (And I do like the idea of Dick being non-Kryptonian making him a somewhat less compatible host - mainly due to his body being less able to handle superpowers.) So I think that at the beginning the Nightwing would keep his actions more passive, aiding Dick when needed it and supplying him with Knowledge. After all, Dick is very dedicated to the Nightwing's mission (with or without him) and quite competent at it, and sometimes interference is just counterproductive.

In my head the main arc of the AU would be about them learning to be a team. As Dick trusts the Nightwing more, be learns to use his powers and grows more comfortable working together with him. And the better they get at working as one, the less harmful the Nightwing's powers become to him - they become his own in a way.

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Titans Annual #1 (2025)

PLEASE tell me this happens all the time. Donna calling Dick to talk about whatever, them talking like normal, except unbeknownst to her Dick is usually in the middle of some dangerous mission. (He's fine, he can multitask. He'd let her know if she caught him in a bad time.)

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LOOK AT THEM WITH THEIR LIL ARMS LINKED ASDFGHJKL

Titans Annual #1 (2025)

Absolutely obsessed with Dick and Donna's acquaintances-to-siblings speedrun. Immediately after realising there is exactly zero attraction between them they both become one of the most important people to each other anyway. 10/10, incredibly efficient. Zero time wasted. They immediately went to this level of being comfortable with each other:

"Someone I somehow always knew rather than someone I discovered" indeed.

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See, my brain always automatically pictured Joker's face being repeatedly squashed rubberhose animation-style, with squeaky toy sound effects.

Goes to show how common it is for readers to have multiple different interpretations, despite reading the same source material 😌

I know Dick beating the Joker to death is like a serious scene with repercussions across years of comics or whatever but I can never take this seriosuly bc it looks like a cartoon fist bouncing up and down with cartoon physcis not a man at wits end beating another man to death

like i look at this and i hear this

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I was going through the comics to find any specific superpowers that Chris Kent got while being the Nightwing's host, and I found this:

Superman: war of the supermen #2

He's talking about seeing someone who is locked up in a base hidden inside a mountain (they are looking at the mountain from the outside). He can see, smell, and detect pain, because there are shadows in the base he can "peer through". Pretty neat!

But as a sidenote, I just realized how different the Nightwing's whole thing is from what I usually associate with Kryptonian superpowers. Because for regular Kryptonians, the source of power is the sun. And it's reiterated several times in the myth that the Nightwing's powers work in the darkness. In fact, the myth made it sound like he can only exist in the darkness. (Though it's worth noting that at least while in a host he's still powerful during the day - the fight with Vohc lasted until the sun was high in the sky and that didn't affect him at all. But he still used shadows for his powers.)

And I gotta say, I also like that it's subverting the Dark=Evil trope - it may be easier for evil to hide in the dark, but that's specifically why Rao created the Nightwing to hunt it there. And the Nightwing is a giant, powerful dragon that looks like he's made of shadows that drain all light from around him, but he's also calm, understanding, and kind.

And I like how he parallels Dick, who is a mainly nocturnal superhero, who isn't there to make the night brighter, but to make it safer. To fill it with hope.

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Things I definitely would change from how they are in the comic:

- make the Nightwing bigger. Come on! He's tiny! He should be like the size of a skyscraper at least!

- give him cool blue glowy scales (important!). Would it make no sense since he's not supposed to be seen? Don't care. Too cool.

Some of my thoughts about how the version of the Nightwing of Krypton from the Devine Spark arc (whom I summarised in this post) could fit into the Vessel of Nightwing AU:

- I actually like that the Nightwing, despite being a powerful deity and child of Rao himself, is not written as someone that considers people to be beneath him. He sees them as individuals and respects them (this is very much in contrast to Vohc, the villain of the arc). Which makes a lot of sense, considering what his Rao-given purpose is.

He's not a guardian of natural order or an enemy of chaos or anything like that, he is specifically supposed to hunt and destroy evil. And evil is generally born out of the disregard for others. So it makes sense that the opposite would be to be compassionate and kind.

- I do, however, like my dragons way more terrifying and unsettling, but I think there's still a lot of space for that. The unknown is always scary. And this unknown is extremely powerful.

- Also, from the 'access to knowledge' angle (discussed in the summary) - it seems like a very scary experience for the host, judging from what Chris says. The sheer amount of information is just too much. Chris struggles with it, and he's got Kryptonian superpowers. This is way more stimuli that superhearing and x-ray vision give - so imagine what that would be like for Dick. And - we actually know how Dick specifically would handle a Kryptonian amount of stimuli! He got a very temporary Kryptonian power-up from Mxyzptlk in World's Finest:

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022) #26

And that's just(!) Kryptonian level! Imagine something a Kryptonian would struggle with!

- There's also the "not being in control of your body" thing. And sure, the Nightwing may be very benevolent and very considerate towards his host, so it's not like he'll harm him of any of his friends. He's not some chaotic force of nature. But. It would still be him taking control of Dick's body. And Dick would be absolutely at Nightwing's mercy. Which. Terrifying. Especially since he Did Not Sign Up For This At All.

- another angle to play with: we see Thara and Chris in their Nightwing and Flamebird forms:

Action Comics #889

They're like. Covered in flames. (Or at least some sort of energy - I'm not 100% sure if Nightwing's are shadows or black flames or what.) But they're fine - and it's not outright stated why, but it could be because they're Kryptonians. Now, Dick - completely human. He doesn't have to be fine.

And it reminded me of how (I think? It's been a while lol) it worked in Naruto, when the beast took control and the host was unwilling: the transformation basically burned their skin off. Which was fine, because of insane healing powers and genre-typical attitude towards injuries. Idk, could be something to play around with here. It would give a good reason not to overuse the power-up for plot purposes for sure. And plenty of whump potential :)

So there's a lot of opportunities for horror and conflict, without necessarily changing anything about how the Nightwing is portrayed in this comic. And, if that's the direction the story was to be taken, it all could be resolved by Dick and the Nightwing achieving some sort of understanding and harmony. (For my fellow power-of-friendship enjoyers ;))

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Tales of the New Teen Titans #3

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Some of my thoughts about how the version of the Nightwing of Krypton from the Devine Spark arc (whom I summarised in this post) could fit into the Vessel of Nightwing AU:

- I actually like that the Nightwing, despite being a powerful deity and child of Rao himself, is not written as someone that considers people to be beneath him. He sees them as individuals and respects them (this is very much in contrast to Vohc, the villain of the arc). Which makes a lot of sense, considering what his Rao-given purpose is.

He's not a guardian of natural order or an enemy of chaos or anything like that, he is specifically supposed to hunt and destroy evil. And evil is generally born out of the disregard for others. So it makes sense that the opposite would be to be compassionate and kind.

- I do, however, like my dragons way more terrifying and unsettling, but I think there's still a lot of space for that. The unknown is always scary. And this unknown is extremely powerful.

- Also, from the 'access to knowledge' angle (discussed in the summary) - it seems like a very scary experience for the host, judging from what Chris says. The sheer amount of information is just too much. Chris struggles with it, and he's got Kryptonian superpowers. This is way more stimuli that superhearing and x-ray vision give - so imagine what that would be like for Dick. And - we actually know how Dick specifically would handle a Kryptonian amount of stimuli! He got a very temporary Kryptonian power-up from Mxyzptlk in World's Finest:

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022) #26

And that's just(!) Kryptonian level! Imagine something a Kryptonian would struggle with!

- There's also the "not being in control of your body" thing. And sure, the Nightwing may be very benevolent and very considerate towards his host, so it's not like he'll harm him of any of his friends. He's not some chaotic force of nature. But. It would still be him taking control of Dick's body. And Dick would be absolutely at Nightwing's mercy. Which. Terrifying. Especially since he Did Not Sign Up For This At All.

- another angle to play with: we see Thara and Chris in their Nightwing and Flamebird forms:

Action Comics #889

They're like. Covered in flames. (Or at least some sort of energy - I'm not 100% sure if Nightwing's are shadows or black flames or what.) But they're fine - and it's not outright stated why, but it could be because they're Kryptonians. Now, Dick - completely human. He doesn't have to be fine.

And it reminded me of how (I think? It's been a while lol) it worked in Naruto, when the beast took control and the host was unwilling: the transformation basically burned their skin off. Which was fine, because of insane healing powers and genre-typical attitude towards injuries. Idk, could be something to play around with here. It would give a good reason not to overuse the power-up for plot purposes for sure. And plenty of whump potential :)

So there's a lot of opportunities for horror and conflict, without necessarily changing anything about how the Nightwing is portrayed in this comic. And, if that's the direction the story was to be taken, it all could be resolved by Dick and the Nightwing achieving some sort of understanding and harmony. (For my fellow power-of-friendship enjoyers ;))