one day Iāll finally write that ridiculously elaborate fanfiction that Iāve been carefully constructing in my daydreams for months and then youāll be sorry. youāll all be sorry.
messy sketch on the phone because it was the only thing I could draw onš I haven't drawn on my phone for a long time, so you can see a lot of mistakes here BUT I DON'T CARE guys I enjoyed the process.
be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then itās not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.
I find the whole topic of Dickās emotional competence really fascinating because itās clear that has an understanding of emotions in a way that Bruce has completely suppressed and cannot because he straight up doesnāt talk about emotions but while Dick recognises and understands it -
He never really uses it for ethical reasons ( exceptions like E.G having that call with Tim after he talked the jumper of the roof because if that was Bruce well .. I donāt think it would of helped much )
He mostly uses it for tactical reasons and manipulation.
And despite being able to use it on others and have emotional intelligence with them when it actually comes to him ā¦. Well it goes less well because he holds himself up to this insane standard BECAUSE of Bruce .
Its especially interesting because Dick has wished before that unlike Bruce he could bottle up his emotions and shut it out .
Idk correct me if wrong but itās nice food for thought!
dick grayson is sooooo normal i want to study his brain under a microscope. yeah id say thatās a pretty fair interpretation of his rich inner world ā i do think that like bruce he tends to force himself through emotional trauma by brute force (we see this in the 96 run, for example) ā but heās also really cognisant of other people and specifically how heās viewed by other people.
thereās this panel out of titans 99 where vic is like āi canāt believe dick lied to me!!ā and the other characters say yeah. thatās normal for him. heās a manipulative person when he wants people to do what he says, yknow? i mean i do think he does it for good a tonne, he just uses shortcuts to cut to where people are hurting. likeā¦.. he will explain to u ur emotional intricacies to get u to open up. heās similar to bruce in the sense that they both care ā possibly way too much ā but while bruce struggles to express that dick is a lot more outwardly open, but also u never know how much of it is a facade.
it also makes it more impactful when he is profoundly known by others ā specifically the fab5 and kory and babs and bruce. he has (imho) some degree of depersonalisation about his identity and his body and his autonomy, so people seeing through the performance and wanting to protect the core is truly. chefs kiss
itās so interesting!! i cannot emphasise how much more of an interesting character he is when writers actually incorporate his intelligence into his stories. like people will follow him to ends of the earth because despite how bitchy he gets u know heās going to do the right thing, even if dick himself doesnāt necessarily believe it
Older sibling response is weird like i want to make sure you've eaten, i DO want to bully you, i want to protect you, i want to fireman carry and body slam u on the couch and tell u to go to bed, i want to make up bullshit lies about how things work and see how long u believe it, i would kill for you, ur gross, u will forever be an infant to me, stop touching my stuff, chill out ur like 10, im proud of you, etc etc im sorry that even tho i was the test run the adults found New and Interesting ways to fuck up with you