one-chaotic-bee

[one-chaotic-bee]

@ everyone who’s trying to tell me & make comments that Dick can’t be 8 when he becomes Robin and that he has to be at least 10-12 or whatever so Tim can be there/remember the Graysons falling, I would like you to take this into consideration:

Idgaf about Tim.

This is a Dick Grayson centric blog. The night the Graysons die is more important for Dick than it will ever be for Tim.

I would sooner change Tim’s age than make Dick any older than 8 when he becomes Robin. Tim needs to grow up anyway, at this rate Damian is going to end up older than him

[one-chaotic-bee]

BABS IS OFFICIALLY OLDER THAN DICK AGAIN, EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU MARK WAID

[one-chaotic-bee]

“Jason was Dick’s first little brother”

“No Tim was Dick first little brother”

Actually you’re all wrong, Dick’s first little brother was Beast Boy.

[one-chaotic-bee]

"oh, my god, it's nothing," dick said with a laugh. "i'm always getting my autonomy violated. third time this week!"

[one-chaotic-bee]

Give a 18 year old Dick Grayson with a mullet, is a bass player in a band w/ Wally, Roy & Kori, has three piercings Bruce doesn’t know about, dropped out of college, just realized he’s bi/pan and is full on Bi Panicking™️, is the king of one night stands, works in Burger King and lives in a shitty ass apartment.

A 18 year old Nightwing who is still definitely going out as Discowing, that still tells horrible puns while beating your ass, still rolls his eyes at Batman but does as he says, loves to go out as Nightwing with the titans to go get food, is still the biggest shit talker in every room he walked into, and somehow he knows everything about everyone.

Give me my cool rebel teen Dick Grayson and I’ll be happy

[one-chaotic-bee]

Dark Crisis #2

[one-chaotic-bee]

It's crazy that people say Dick Grayson is the polite or goofy one as if he's dumb, incapable of being serious, or like some kind of father-ish figure...baby that's Dick Grayson. He's not dumb or incapable of seriousness, he was the first Robin for Christ sake you fucking asshat. I am begging you people to read literally any Dick Grayson comic it doesn't even have to be specifically him just have him in there. The shit he's capable of, the shit he's done?? Shit he still out here doing??? So fucking insane. It's as if none of you know anything canon about this mf. Like yeah he IS the polite one. That's the problem.

[one-chaotic-bee]

NO ONE has a "Robin origin" story other than Dick Grayson. There is NO Robin without Dick. Full stop. 8 yr old Dick watched his beloved parents being murdered in front of his own eyes. 8 yr old Dick was severed from his circus family and sent away to orphanage/juvenile centre in distant murderous city Gotham. 8 yr old Dick grieving and alone, proposed a partnership to the goddamn Batman - at the time a confirmed loner - and got him to change his ways from vengeance to justice. 8 yr old Dick mellowed out a hard despairing nearly 30 yr old going on 8 billionaire and softened him up to snap up random lads.

So no. There is no "Robin origin" more hardcore than Dick's. Even if the greatest Robin Dick isn't your favourite, that's a hard L to insist there is any other origin story that goes as hard.

[one-chaotic-bee]

Ok how about this: let’s erase Bruce and Selina’s history together and make Selina look like she was just a fling to Bruce. And let’s turn the whole bat-family against her and make it look like they never liked Selina. Make it look like she was never a mother figure to them. Then let’s put Bruce and idk…Vicky Vale back together and push them as a couple for the next 30 years. No matter how much the readers/fans will hate it. Oh and let’s make 1000 Elseword stories of Bruce and Vicky Vale. OH AND THEN the group of BruceVale shippers will become the new version of the DickBabs Shippers.

BruceVale Shippers: Damn, BatCat shippers are so annoying and crazy! 😒 Your ship will not happen any time soon! BatCat is dead and buried! Bruce and Selina haven’t been together for 30 years! We don’t understand why you guys hate Bruce and Vicky together! DC made them THE it-couple for the last 30 years!

Yes, that’s exactly how stupid you DickBabs shippers sound/look like

☝️☝️☝️

Don't forget the part where they have to say over and over again how Vicki is his true love and it was her above everyone else!

[one-chaotic-bee]

Do you ever think that Dick feels like Jason died because he lived?

In that, if Dick had died while he was Robin, like he came so close to again and again - like he maybe should have - then there never would have been another? Jason as Robin was only allowed to exist because Dick was the blueprint for a Robin that worked, one that survived.

There was no reason that Jason should have been different. Unless Dick himself was the outlier. A false positive. A fluke.

Do you think that eats him up at night?

[one-chaotic-bee]

Look I don’t care how implausible it is, I don’t care how ridiculous it is. Dick is eight years old when he becomes Robin. It’s the funniest fuckin thing and I refuse to ever make him older than eight when he bullies a grown ass Bruce into letting him go out at night with him.

Does Bruce take him on kiddie runs until he’s a little older? Maybe. Does Batman stand menacingly behind a brightly colored little bird to threaten the goons while Robin can’t see him? You know he does.

But Robin is still actually terrifying when he first appears on the scene, because he’s a teeny tiny fluttery little thing that does cartwheels and handstands and makes puns then launches himself full force to kick a man in the nose and then cackles when he bleeds. His laughter makes goons shiver, they hear it bouncing around warehouses and half of them bolt, because they learn very quickly what happens when a feral Robin appears.

The Gotham rogues all immediately have beef with a literal third grader because he took the bats attention away and also because he’s roundhouse kicked them all in the shins at some point and that shit hurt like hell, and then he laughed in their faces while making a pun about their villain name.

Majority of the rogues everywhere hate Nightwing because they all know he used to be the feral child that they all thought Batman should have put on a leash, half of them have been straight up bitten by him before he lost all his baby teeth, and they’re all so bitter about the fact that they’ve been beaten by an actual elementary school student. And now he’s all grown up? He’s fucking terrifying.

[one-chaotic-bee]

My head cannon is that Tim was only a few months old at the time and doesn’t really remember what happened, but he does remember the feeling of Dick holding him. He remembers a beautiful gentle warmth in his chest as Dick giggles and smiles at him while holding him close. The Drakes had been recording the entire circus trip so they could watch it later when they have to be away from Tim for long periods of time.

Years later Tim finds the tape and watches it religiously. The video itself had ended seconds before Dick’s parents hit the ground. But he sees Dick promise to do a special trick just for he and rewatches the quadruple flip so many times that the image is literally burned into his screen. And then, he sees Robin do that exact move to perfection and everything clicks in his mind.

How does the story of Tim meeting Dick really young in the circus works if some comics have him (Dick) being 8 years old when the tragedy happens? That doesn't make sense right? Or maybe it does and i'm just confised but i do think it's the better for the proguess and even relationship with Bruce that Dick is eight when his parents die. Just scratches my brain that the picture of Tim with the Graysons is so cute and memorable...i wouldn't wan't to get rid of the meeting

You're right, it doesn't make sense age-wise. I'm a firm believer in Dick going to Bruce when he was 8, and because Dick came before Tim, I give priority to the details of his backstory instead of Tim's. So logically does it make sense for Tim to have seen 8-year-old Dick perform? No. But I just magically wave my hand, ignore the ages, and say Tim saw The Flying Graysons perform, and that's that.

[one-chaotic-bee]

What i’ve never been able to understand, and probably never will, is how people say dickkory isn’t healthy, and that dick always “ran back to Barbara” while still being with other women, like, how does that make dickbabs healthy? 😅 a lot of them bring up the “longevity and stability” thing they have now, but they’ve only been calm and steady in the last few years thanks to taylor’s run, which gave us some of the worst characterization of both Barbara and Dick. And honestly, a lot of people think they’re one of the most boring couples in the entire publisher. So I’m, not sure how that equals “healthy” either.

[one-chaotic-bee]

My thoughts: Barbara/Dickbabs fans love to accuse Starfire/Dickkory fans of misogyny and ableism yet here's Barbara mistreating other women.

Reading comments from dickbabs shippers is so scary. you're not allowed to simply dislike Barbara anymore without Barbara fans and Dickbabs shippers jumping on you and accusing you of ableism/misogyny..

So preferring another woman over a woman is misogyny?

So you hate disabled people now if you don't prefer Dick with Barbara?

or maybe some people just simply don't like Barbara and i think that's totally fine. Not everyone has to like what you like.

You can't ever say your opinion about their favorite character and ship without getting personally insulted and attacked by them and If you dare simply criticize some of barbara's bad actions and their ship's awful writings they'll talk about you in their private groupchats nonstop and convince the others to harass you too. It's not normal being scared and being threatened just for saying you don't like a certain character and prefer a character with someone else.

They treat Barbara like she's some sort of untouchable goddess who everyone has to like and worship even though she herself has done awful things to other people, she slutshames and degrades women when she gets jealous like she was so harsh and mean to Kory just because she has a romantic history with Dick.. She mocked Kory's looks and refused to help her on a mission where thousands of her people were dying and all she could ever think about was "is she going with Dick?" like girl wtf. be professional. 🤦‍♀️

She also slutshamed Helena and called her night with Dick "a cheap meaningless one night stand" despite the fact Dick told Helena he doesn't do casual sex, also it was not her place to reveal to anyone that Helena slept with Arsenal like how would you feel if one day you woke up and you found out that your coworker told everyone in your workplace that you were sleeping with a guy behind your back . She has no respect for a woman's privacy and mind you she did it out of spite cuz she was jealous again that she's not the only woman Dick loved.

and here's another thing, her fans love to accuse starfire fans of being ableist towards her but it's funny how Babs herself was ableist to Cass aka a female character who has dyslexia. She called her stupid just because she doesn't know how to read.

Also none of them spoke about women's rights when official comicbook writers slutshamed and mistreated the other women in Dick's life just to uplift Barbara and definitely none of them cared when their favorite dickbabs writer aka Tom Taylor liked a pro-barbara comment bashing Starfire but when someone says a single thing about Barbara it's World War 3 for them 🙄

They even created a picture where they said A real dickkory fan doesn't hate on Barbara I'm sorry but not everything depends on Barbara. A person can be a real dickkory fan while not liking Barbara at the same time. Let people dislike Barbara in peace! It's not anyone's fault that you Barbara fans are a bunch of triggered insecure buttthurt entitled brats who can't accept the fact not everyone likes Barbara Gordon! Also there's no need to be hypocritical. I've seen hundreds of you defacing and slutshaming Starfire too for years!!!

You guys act like a hypocritical totalitarian regime controlling people and censoring them left and right. It's really scary and also pathetic at the same time. You can't force people to like her and your ship. Sorry your feelings got hurt but there's nothing that you can do to change other people's minds about Barbara. They can dislike her and say why whenever they want. It's called freedom of speech and personal preference. They don't owe you anything for you to act like they should submit to your demands. If you can't accept that then that's more of a You problem. You guys need to work on your insecurity issues cuz it's higher than the Mount Everest at this point!!

[one-chaotic-bee]

I hope DickBabs gets retconned from comic history. Most DickBabs shippers are so annoying. They always creep on the DickKory subreddit and stalk every post. No, DickKory shippers aren’t the one starting shit, it’s always them. From what I’ve seen. As soon as someone rants about their frustration with the DickBabs shippers and their hypocrisy, all the other people will come to their defense and act like DickKory Fans are the crazy unhinged ones. From the bottom of my heart, dear God, please do something to remove this DickBabs relationship from the comics to make it enjoyable again to read Nightwing. I hate this ship so much and their annoying ass fans even more. Even the boring relationships Dick had with a few civilians are more enjoyable than this. I prefer boring civilian over having Barbara Gordon in my face every time. And I prefer it over the DickBabs shippers getting fed more content of their favorite ship. It may sound mean but somebody should keep them on a leash, so they stop whining under DickKory posts. I swear I NEVER comment on DickBabs posts and I never visited their subreddit but they are like the surprised pikachu face meme as soon as we DickKory shippers decide to be nasty back in response to their bullshit they started.

[one-chaotic-bee]

I'm kinda laughing….nobody expect the DickBabs shippers are enjoying DickBabs rights now meanwhile all the other Nightwing fans are waiting for Dick to be freed 💀 It’s not only the DickKory shippers, it’s also the people that read Nightwing that simply can’t stand the sight of DickBabs anymore, lol. There a bunch of people that don’t even ship Dick with anyone in particular but want DickBabs to end. I’m laughing because of how oblivious the DickBabs shippers are. When the Nightwing comics won the Eisner awards some of them had the nerve to say it was because of DickBabs. 💀 Uh, sure. If anything, it’s because of Dick himself. People read/buy Nightwing FOR Nightwing. And not for Babs. 💀 I hate DickBabs but still read Nightwing because I LOVE HIM. As a fan we will still read NW even if we have to put up with Babs almost appearing every damn issue.

[one-chaotic-bee]

Why doesn't anyone talk about the fact that Dick can also read body language? I remember several comics where he can draw impressive conclusions just from body language. There's even a version where he discovers Batman's identity like this.

Dick has a variety of skills that can get overlooked in favor of others. For example, Dick's been shown to be quite perceptive (The New Titans #65 and Batman: Gotham Knights #1) and have good hearing (The New Titans #86, Teen Titans (1996) #12, Future State Gotham #2 and #5). People may focus on his strategy or acrobatics rather than what he perceives with his senses, including body language (for those wondering, some of Dick's body language skills can be seen in Nightwing (Vol. 3) #0 and Superman: American Alien #4).