I love to think that Bruce, although he was never good at expressing affection, he could never see Dick sad, he would immediately jump into bat-dad mode.

Dick was a very expressive child. He could bottle up his emotions like Robin, sure... But Dick Grayson rarely needed to hide what he felt. Plus, Dick knows Bruce's social skills are atrophied, so openly expressing his feelings was helpful for him and Bruce (and Alfred, too).

However, when something he considered trivial bothered him, he preferred to keep it to himself. He usually managed to hide it until he was ready to talk about it... But sometimes he never really felt ready to bring up the topic himself.

And Bruce, even though he may not know everything about emotions, is a great detective, isn't he? He can definitely tell when something is wrong with his child. (It's a little hard not to notice when Dick has already started to shift uncomfortably on his feet, but although he doesn't let his body stay still, he doesn't say a word, when it is usually the little ray of sunshine that fills the space with conversations or random data on any topic).

Bruce always tries to help Dick in his own way, especially when he realizes that those "unimportant" issues are indeed important and he can now take matters into his own hands.

Even as an adult, Dick, although he now hides his annoyance much better, still has some nervous tics that Bruce has memorized and sets off his alarms, they are so subtle, and yet only seen when he is around someone he trusts... So, even when Dick is completely capable of figuring things out on his own... Bruce goes into concerned dad mode, ready to do whatever he can for his son.

(Yes, Dick knows this... Yes, there were times when he took advantage of this like Robin...)

(Yes, being the baby of the Justice League, it wasn't just Batman who went into protective mode when the little ray of sunshine looked nervous).

hbd @regret-with-a-u !!!!!! !! !!!!

Don't interrupt them from kissing💋

Cosmic love, baby!

Nightwing commission for a friend! (I would've done it for free you silly goose 🧍‍♂️)

Dick fakes a polite charming laugh that all the Batkids have gotten wise to, and they consider it major bragging rights to be able to trip up Dick's façade and get him to break into a bone-chilling hyena cackle, particularly in front of rogues.

This!!

some nightwing hcs

maybe i'll say more about them

Tim: hey dad how do I file my taxes?

Bruce: I honestly don't know.

Tim: but ... Then who does our taxes?

Stephanie: or are you that rich mfer that doesn't pay his taxes?

Dick, snatches their forms, grumbling in "doing the Wayne's taxes since he was 8": should have stayed on the streets, this is bullshit...

Jason trying to put all his blames on Tim 😭

Everyone was doing their Dick aus being de-aged... I want too-

The spell probably wasn't intended for Nightwing... It was a spell meant to leave the recipient vulnerable, probably... But he hit Nightwing, and things got... complicated from there.

Zatanna can't risk guessing the spell, she can only guarantee that it's temporary, so... They have to wait.

Dick, now almost twenty years younger, sits in the cave on a nursing gurney, hugging a stuffed elephant to his body as if his life depended on it.

Alfred, the first person he saw, told him the whole situation... And he accepted it.

And, now, his brothers are looking at him as directly as he looks at them.

Damian is... As impressed as he is scared.

Dick, his older brother, a father figure... His Batman, sits in front of him now as a boy almost half his age.

If Dick were a year younger, and Damian just a few months older... He'd be half his age.

But Dick was in his Robin uniform, just as Damian himself was. Dick, being almost half his age, had already gone out onto the streets to patrol, to fight.

He knew Dick was admirable, someone worthy of the adoration the hero community bestowed upon him... And maybe less than three years ago he wouldn't see anything strange... bad, in this form of his...

But now he saw it.

Tim, who always looked at Dick with a mixture of admiration and respect, now saw him like that... But also with an underlying desperation that had joined his gaze.

He had always been smaller than Dick, being younger by a few years. When he met him, Tim was just a toddler, so there was no way he didn't see Dick as someone big... When he himself was Robin, Dick was already an adult, he was still big.

But now, seeing Dick barely older than the first time he saw him..., and he being a young adult himself...

God, Dick was small.

Jason was disturbed.

He had been small when he was Robin in the beginning, he knew that... He barely reached Bruce's chest back then.

But, Dick? Seeing him in his Robin costume, for the first time ever... When he, Jason, was almost as tall as Bruce...

Richard Grayson was so tiny in comparison.

Dick couldn't reach him above the waist, he was smaller than most children of eight, almost nine years old, and he had seen little children on the streets.

And so, so small, tiny... And he was already a vigilante.

Jason feels sick.

Bruce thinks he might throw up.

Had Dick been so small back then? Wasn't that a side effect of the spell?

How had this little kid defeated guys the size of Bruce? How did he manage to fly through the air back then, so big for the Earth, even though he was so small?

He approaches the stretcher to see his first child, and the child smiles as soon as he sees him. He is missing one of his front teeth, having lost it shortly before.

He was a baby.

So capable... So terrifyingly capable.

So small. So young.

But so strong.

God, how could he have let this kid go back then? He knew his capabilities; he wasn't so foolish as to underestimate him because of his size and youth...

But how did his heart bear it?

Bruce doesn't know.

Bruce Wayne’s dad lore but it’s Dick Grayson actually.

Nobody actually does look into Dick’s past too hard because they’ve heard way too many stories and after a point just stopped asking around because each one was more impressive and unbelievable than the last. However, because of this seemingly impenetrable aura of just being Robin or Nightwing, nobody really realises the stories from his normal mundane “human” activities as Dick Grayson are equally as incredulous, if not more.

*Jason and Dick at a stakeout alone in the car*

Jason: Ha! I’ve been to prison before!

Dick: Same.

Jason: .. Dickie you got arrested? Did you finally lose your shit??

Dick: I was nine.

Jason:

I want to read a fic where all the Robins are rejuvenated to the age where they became Robin in the first place, but they remember everything, like, only their bodies are rejuvenated, not their minds.

Tim and Jason meet up right away, then they find Damian (who's the one who's changed the least, obviously), Stephanie quickly arrives with them and they try to figure out what happened while they search for Dick, since he disappeared.

It's not until a while later that they manage to find him, and he already has the wizard who rejuvenated them tied up and unconscious, and the scene is just... Something else.

Everyone knows that Dick was clearly the youngest of them when he became Robin, he was barely 9 years old... But they had no idea how SMALL he really was, not even Tim, who even though he saw him as Robin, Dick always seemed bigger than him being older, not like now, when Tim is in his body a few years older than Dick was when he became Robin... Well, when Robin became a vigilante, rather.

And Dick obviously continues to act like his usual self, he's a leader who quickly takes control of the situation and starts organizing them... But it's just weird for everyone, because, okay, they're all little now... But even for them, Dick is much smaller and it's just... As surprising as it is distressing.

Okay, but I can't stop thinking about a scenario like this:

A girl sees Dick on the street, and without thinking she approaches him in "Omg, you're Dick Grayson???" mode.

Dick is resigned, clearly thinking it's like the times he's recognized as Bruce Wayne's son, or something like that.

And before Dick can answer, the girl shows a photo of the circus poster on her cell phone. "Dick Grayson, like, from the Flying Graysons???"

And the girl starts telling him that he's the reason she started trapeze and gymnastics, that he inspired her so much, and knowing that he kept doing gymnastics despite what happened to his parents is so inspiring, and, and, and- she goes by that way, u know?

And that simply turns out to be the best day of Dick's life.

Simply because Dick is so inspiring, as a hero, and as a civilian, just as himself, and this started when he was a kid in the circus.

Bruce Wayne is such a funny example of maturing because he'll get the whole "boys will be boys" speech from someone who doesn't know his secret identity and they'll say something like "well I'm sure you were doing something equally stupid at 24" and it's a horrible example because at 24 Bruce was basically on his hands and knees begging the head of a terrorist organization to give him a TBI (AKA LoA training) and teach him how to do a triple backflip without making a sound and also how to torture someone without leaving a mark, so really his benchmark for 24 is wildly, wildly skewed.