#dick/joey

[grayson-slash-thunderdome]

DICK GRAYSON/ROY HARPER: Roy and Dick have been been best friends since they were kids, have led teams together, saved Roy's daughter together (since Dick was the only one Roy would trust), and Roy straight up started a team to help Dick when he was depressed. They have been described in canon as, "mom and dad" of the Outsiders, "Lennon and McCartney in tights," and "would make a swell couple in an erotic Butch and Sundance kind of way" which is only made more romantic by Dick claiming that "there is no one…NO ONE I'd rather have fighting at my side than you."

- They have been childhood rivals and friends that have seen each other through their worst and best!

- Their deep passionate tension stems from their love and affection for each other!

DICK GRAYSON/JOEY WILSON: in fair gotham where we lay our scene, the son of his greatest enemy and his dad's archnemesis. dick trusts joey from the first time they meet and respects him enormously. they haven't interacted in like 30 years and i am begging dc to feed us.

WILDCARD!! DICK GRAYSON/DICK GRAYSON: Dick/Dick is chaos; an illusion; a menace. it's him but also not him; there but not there. Dick/Dick is everywhere, in every universe. Dick/Dick is love, Dick/Dick is life.

at first i thought dick/dick was kinda dumb but tbh i think he's the only person who would understand him

[mycenaae]

Here, have a horrible heartwrenching crossover prompt: Dick/Joey

.....pain

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Dick runs -- literally -- into him in New York, of all places. Dick's not even sure why he's there, just that it's somewhere he wanted to go. Or maybe Cassidy wanted to go. Dick can't tell the difference these days.

The kid grumbles and pushes past him, but Dick has stopped walking, and pivots slowly, sure he'd just seen his too-many-years-dead brother.

They end up at the same bar, because the universe is fucking cruel in Dick's opinion, and the kid edges over and looks up at him from under his eyelashes, and holy shit, Dick doesn't know if he's dreaming or if Cassidy had some long lost twin, but, Jesus.

"You're the guy I ran into today, right?" the kid says, and Dick nods dumbly, and pushes a hand through his hair.

"Okay, I am so fucking sorry I was such a douche, then," the kid says in a rush of words that sounds like when Cassidy used to get nervous around Logan or Dick's girlfriends.

"I'm Joey," he says, and then, "can I buy you a drink?"

They end up getting totally plastered together, and they go back to Joey's place, where Joey pulls his shirt off, revealing an ugly scar across his chest that he only looks at when he realizes Dick's staring at it.

"Uh," he says, but doesn't finish the sentence, because it's so goddamn easy to pretend that it's not some random dude who happens to look freakishly like Cassidy, but rather Cassidy himself, alive and well and only with a scar to show for his jump-fall, and Dick presses Joey into the bed and doesn't let him get more than a couple of inches away for the entire night.

They don't see each other again.