#Nightwing and Robin

[tarta-de-limon]

@zorilleerrant uhm, actually he's, like, ten apples tall 🤓☝️

I attach evidence:

[mysteriouslbatsy]

Another post about worried parent Dick Grayson

[robinsleeping]

Nightwing once said: (part 2)

[taxidermiedratsprancingaround]

Like father like son. Shapes and Colours the likes of which I’ve never seen.

[lemonfizzyy]

Dick is an older brother/father figure to Tim, with a heavy leaning on older brother. Dick is an older brother/father figure to Damian with a heavy leaning on father figure. Send tweet.

[ghost-bxrd]

Little sketch for the idea from earlier 👁️

[haridkrish]

This is my recent Red Hood illustration and I’m so glad to hear that people comparing this to comic covers. Thank you if you feel the same way :) Still a long way to go. But, hopefully someday. Someday.

[axstoria]

Thinking of Dick and Damian, had Dick actually adopted him instead of toeing the line as he had in the comics.

Damian's sitting at the dining room table, scribbling out equations and calling the whole thing "stupid", because what could he, as a highly-trained assassin, need algebra for? He' already the top of his class, and this should be easy for him, yet for some reason, he can never get x to equal 27.

Dick's busy making dinner, occasionally pointing out little tips as Damian reads off the steps he'd taken, wanting his other brother—his dad—to help him out.

Dick never really got to finish high school. Sure, he got his diploma and all, but he wasn't as great as he wanted to be. He'd been far too busy dealing with his parents' death and the whole Robin gig to really care about school in the way he should have.

Damian was pulled from being Robin the second Dick signed the papers and took him home. This child was his child, and he wouldn't put him under any more stress than his grandfather and biological father had. He'd be a good dad. He'd try.

Still, Dick has his moments where he questions if Damian had been better off with Bruce. Damian is having a nightmare where he doesn't even want to be held, and it becomes awfully clear to the man that he didn't know a damn thing about being a father. His regular "older brother" jokes weren't working, Talia wasn't there, and he had no guide.

Dick is just as stressed as Damian, upset he can't help the child in front of him deal with whatever was going on in his mind. He tried. He promises, he tried.

He lets Damian bring home a cat and they rescue Haley together. They're happy. Damian learns to make friends, and he's growing faster than Dick expected.

Dick knows he's only just breaching his 30s, but that doesn't stop the flicker of pain in his chest when he sees his once-toned form melting into softer curves and Damian growing a little taller with each new week.

By the time he's 16, Damian is already as tall as Dick, and the doctors claim he's nowhere near finished. Dick isn't surprised, the boy has giants on both sides of the family, but his heart still aches at the knowledge that his boy is getting older.

He's content, for now, to help Damian with his homework at the dining table, cooking up some Arabic dish he could hardly pronounce. He was going to be a good father. The best he could for this kid. His kid.

[webbgtm]

I got bored so I wanted to sketch damians relationship with dick

[darkcrowprincess]

Found this cute picture of Brenton Thwaites holding a baby:

This is how I imagine Dick and baby Jason.

[tammysart]

a quite night of catching wayward Robins ~

[tarta-de-limon]

Damian is two apples tall. Change my mind 🍎.

[mysteriouslbatsy]

No doubt he learned that sass from Dick 😂

[robinsleeping]

Look at the little guy.

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

you can pry damian seeing dick as his true father and dick seeing damian as his son from my cold dead hands but you will never succeed

[lemonfizzyy]

Damian and his son apprentice he has legal custody of. (Pose is from this tumblr user!)

I made their symbols myself! Damian's is based off the earlier Nightwing symbols (Hopefully I didn't just copy one, I didn't use a ref for that part.) and Dick's is self-explanatory.

I can't help but feel like Dick's proportions are off??? Please let me know if you think it looks weird too, I can't tell what's wrong with him.

Some lore under the cut, I really go off on a tangent:

The scars on Damian's face and ear are from Deathstroke trying to take out his eye! His bro, Respawn, has similar ones. They quite like the fact that they match; only good thing that came of the situation tbh.

Dick was adopted by Bruce shortly before being presumed dead. The rest of family, put simply, is in shambles.

Cass has her hands full with the Batman mantle, Steph took her search for training off-continent, Tim's distancing himself as always, Jason's convinced he could find a way to bring Bruce back if he just could his hands on the body or the next best thing. That leaves Damian and Alfred as the only possible guardians for Dick, and Damian steps up to take custody.

From Dick's POV, he's learned two things: 1) Bruce was Batman, and everyone here is a vigilante! 2) If everyone's so busy, who's going to avenge his parents now?

Thus Robin becomes a thing. Dick just starts clocking in for patrol like it's normal, and Damian is like 'WHAT.' And Dick demands asks nicely that he help him take down Zucco.

Damian is successfully able to keep Dick from following him onto patrol for nearly a month. But the longer Dick's parents go without justice, the angrier he gets. Dick well and truly hates Damian for keeping him from stopping Zucco. There comes a breaking point where Dick screams at Damian, calling him a bunch of names and cursing him for existing.

For Dick, it's a violent outburst that's been in the making since his parents died. For Damian, though, it's like looking a mirror.

Damian caves. He'll help Dick, but not before preparing him. Dick is very quick to be portray it as an equal partnership. Damian shuts that down immediately. Specifically, this is an apprenticeship. Damian will train, support and be with Dick every step of the way, but he definitely won't be an equal.

The Bats have had untrained members before. Every single one craved to be trained properly and took their time mastering their skills. Dick is headstrong, driven by revenge. That's a massive risk, and Damian has train him without Bruce's expertise in taming young overeager vigilantes.

On patrol, Damian needs to know Dick will do exactly as he says when he says it. Thus, the apprenticeship takes form as it is. Nightwing and Robin.