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Do you ever interact with someone and you realize “this person has never had to consider or think about what their place in the world is, and why they believe certain things or act certain ways, this person has never considered society at length” and it’s just terrifying

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DC has intermittently rolled with either hope or trust as Dick’s core theme over the past several years but I really think it ought to be mercy or charity. Hope and trust are part of it, don’t get me wrong, but when you’re talking about stuff like the work he’s put into shepherding Bruce back into the light since he was a child, his in-earnest attempts at getting Jason help throughout his time as Batman, and general willingness to empathize with people he knows have done wrong (and especially those who have hurt him), the unifying thread isn’t trust so much as mercy.

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Dick Grayson and Donna Troy: Platonic Soulmates

"Were you ever in love with him?" "Romantically? No. But I love him as one of my dearest friends." -New Teen Titans (1980) #28

"Donna's face quavered as I remembered when we first teamed up. I could have fallen easily in love with her then. Now, years later, I knew I did love her, more than I ever could if I were only her lover." -New Teen Titans (1980) #38

"Donna, we've gone through so much together, and in not all that many years. Yet I feel as if I've known and loved you all my life." -Tales of the Teen Titans (1984) #50

"Donna and I were thirteen when we became best friends. I remember after her first date she called me to gossip about it. Later she helped me get past my breakups with Carol and Joanie. And I sat up all night with her after David and Lee. Now she's having a baby." -New Titans (1988) #89

"So, do you remember? The first person who made your cheeks burn? It was Donna, wasn't it?" "Donna? Why does everyone think we were an item?" "Maybe because of the way you smile every time you say her name." "I love her. I've probably always loved her. But she's almost like a sister to me. Someone I somehow always knew rather than someone I discovered. She never made my breath catch so much as...well...she almost made it easier to breathe." -Nightwing Secret Files (1999)

"Dick...I love you for this." "Well, the feeling's mutual." -Wonder Woman (1987) #165

[Dick silently looks on as Bruce and Diana have a conversation about Donna's death] "I should have been there to protect her. I should've sensed that she needed me. She was my sister. She was a part of my soul..." [Dick starts crying] -Titans/Outsiders: Secret Files and Origins (2003)

"It's Nightwing whose soul shines the brightest. Raised in the shadow of the Bat, he overcame the death of his parents and the darkness of his mentor. Brave, unselfish, utterly kind--who wouldn't fall in love with that strength and that smile?" -The Return of Donna Troy (2005) #2

"Bottom line? No, the bottom line, Dick...is that you led us then and you lead us now. And I'd follow you into hell if I had to." -JLA (2006) #50

"It's going to be weird, though. Not having your best friends around you." "You'll have me, ya goof." -Titans (2016) Special #1

"He's so honorable, Dad. He's such a good man. A lot of our friends say we're like brother and sister. I think that's right. He knows more about me than almost anyone. I love him—but I've never been in love with him. He's my best friend. But he's something more, too. He's family." -Titans (2023) 2025 Annual

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I’m watching Titans. If I do not see Donna Troy onscreen in the next 10 minutes I’m going to start killing hostages

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to the tune of he would not use micro labels some of these fictional characters do not think statutory rape is bad and I don’t like that either but that doesn’t mean you can lie about them ok……this is about shameless .

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Every human touch

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Honestly why are you even in the DC fandom if you're not willing to take the ridiculous stuff with some amount of sincerity. "Robin's costume makes it impossible to take him seriously" Okay? You showed up to the stupid outfit club and acted weirded out when there were stupid outfits

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Teen titans: year one is so funny because it’s literally like:

Donna: I want a boyfriend! 💞🌸😘

Wally: Robin isn’t *that* great or whatever.

Roy: shit I totaled green arrow’s car!

Dick: the man I’ve thought of as a mentor-father is keeping me chained next to him while simultaneously pushing me away. He is my prison warden and my savior. He treats me like a child, but expects me to be a man. Despite struggling for more independence, I still desperately want his approval. The pressure he put on me as a child meant I grew up too fast. Now, I far outpace my peers and am isolated from them. Despite their company, I feel lonely. At the end of the day, I only have Bruce and his morals. If I’m not perfect at all costs, everything as I know it will fall apart. The responsibility of leading a team is too great for me to handle, not because it is hard, but because it’s puts me at odds with Batman. I don’t know who I am without him. All of this is leading me to the brink of a mental breakdown that will quite literally alter the DC timeline as we know it. Bruce is breaking my heart and, in turn, I’ll be forced to break his.

Garth: wut. the. FUCK is a squirrel!!?!?

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Batman/Superman: World's Finest #42 - "Bizarro World Tour II" (2025)

written by Mark Waid art by Adrian Gutierrez & Matt Herms

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DC whenever they wanna show that a white guy is going through a hard time or going down a dark path: and then he had sex with an Asian lady

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dick grayson did not have 30 billion comics for decades where his first instinctual response to any problem was like “okay so what im going to do is kill myself” for u guys to claim he’s the least suicidal guy in his family

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and for my next trick I shall extrapolate about the Titans keeping Dick sane in the same way Dick keeps Bruce sane and that if you were to cut off his relationships with the fab 5 at the root you would send Dick on a fundamentally different and definitely worse path. The miniseries Robin & Batman lives in my head

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in actuality the porn bans and the age-verification shit are all mechanisms by which the incidence of childhood sexual abuse will escalate because the whole point behind them is to further the absolute control over children by their guardians by restricting them from gaining access to information that will enable them to understand themselves and their abuse and make steps to break free of it. and it is guardians of children, members of the families, with total control over children, who are incontrovertibly the ones behind the overwhelmingly vast majority of CSA. this is unquestionably NOT to protect children; it is, by design, to harm them

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: DCU, Robin & Batman (2021 Comic) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson & Donna Troy, Dick Grayson & Various Titans, Dick Grayson/Liu (Nightwing Comics), Dick Grayson & Eddie Hwang Characters: Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Donna Troy, Liu (Nightwing Comics), Eddie Hwang Additional Tags: Bad Ending, Self-Esteem Issues, Implied Childhood Sexual Abuse, Dick Grayson is Robin, Dick Grayson Has Issues, I mean those last two are synonymous buttttt anyway, Trust Issues, Depression, Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Canonical Child Abuse, Teen Titans Era, Grooming Summary:

On Robin’s birthday, he receives two presents: he gets a suit, perfectly tailored, and a mission that feels less so.

He also gets friends, but he doesn’t know if he can call them that after everything he’s done.

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I've had this little idea in my head for a while now, so I decided to sit down and plot it out.

Disclaimer: This isn't meant to be some sort of One-Worksheet-Fits-All situation. This is meant to be a visual representation of some type of story planning you could be doing in order to develop a plot!

Lay down groundwork! (Backstory integral to the beginning of your story.) Build hinges. (Events that hinge on other events and fall down like dominoes) Suspend structures. (Withhold just enough information to make the reader curious, and keep them guessing.)

And hey, is this helps... maybe sit down and write a story! :)