#Robin being Dick’s real name and Richard being the stagename

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Now if there’s one thing I love more than angst, it’s Dick Grayson angst feat Batfam. So, instead of studying for finals, I present this:

Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian are captured somehow. Who what how idgaf just roll with it. They’re expecting the normal torture identity reveal bullshit, but instead this villain changes things up.

They are going to be watching Dick’s memories.

Instant freak outs from everyone no one (Jason, Tim) wants to see Nightwing’s infamous hooktips, nor do they (Bruce) want to see how their actions have truly affected Dick. Dick, who is freaking the fuck out because holy shit does mans have trauma and baggage that no one knows about and oh god his dad and his brothers and son are going to watch— But before any of them can do anything, magic wavey hands, the first memory starts.

Definitely don’t think about Dick bursting into tears at the sight of a young 20-something Mary Grayson holding a black-haired toddler, rocking him gently as she sits on a platform above a net while a young 20-something john Grayson practices, taking frequent breaks to check in his wife and their few-month old baby.

Definitely don’t think about how identical Dick looks to John, from the hair color to the jawline to the build, but with Mary’s curls and blue eyes and smile. Definitely don’t think about baby Grayson being left with Zitka while Mary starts training again, the elephant doting on him like he’s her own kid. Definitely don’t think about his first words being “fly” and “up.” Definitely don’t think about all of his aunties and uncles and cousins spoiling him rotten, showing him all their tricks; pickpocketing and knife throwing and contortion and flying-

Or how the first important memory Dick has is of being in the air with his parents. Or how Dick’s “cradle” is a chest they use to store clothing and baby supplies during the day, and at night line with soft pieces of scrap fabric from the tent and costumes to lay baby Dick down in.

Or how in every memory, Dick is called Robin— my Robin, little Robin Grayson, this is my son Robin— unless he’s performing, only then called by a stage name of “Richard” and “Dick” by fans; how Dick’s real name is Robin; not a nickname, not a petname, his name.