Your gateway to endless inspiration
YALL DONT UNDERSTAND
My favorite part of Bruce and Dicks relationship isn’t the unending loyalty and devotion and the self assured destruction of loving a man who hates himself on Dicks part and using an eternally flying man as a your stable ground on Bruce’s part
It’s not the adoration that feels like shackles or the unending trust that feels like raking hot coals over your back
It’s the fact that Dick Grayson will always love Bruce Wayne
And also
Always want to kick the absolute shit out of him
Violently
Like Dick has pent up rage and we see him lash out at people but almost never has he ever attacked any loved ones physically with the exception of Roy Harper after the women who they both loved more than life itself passed.
But with Bruce?
Yeah no
Dick not only hits to hurt
He hits with the aim of getting Bruce down and keeping him there.
It feels like vindication to him
He borderline revels in it
I mean look at the hits he landed during the Gotham War run or Forever Evil/Spyral
And then there’s Bruce
Who knows
Because he is not an idiot
And he knows he fucked up with Dick more than the rest as Robin (nothing can really compare to how he treats Jason as the red hood)
But do you think Batman feels guilt over the fact that Dick HAS this much rage and bitterness over the things Bruce has done
Like Dick in unendingly Kind and forgiving but he’s also and pardon my French, a dick (lowercase) so he absolutely holds resentment over the stuff Bruce did to him even if it’s water under the bridge in his day to day
But he’s still mad
He’s still mad over the loss of Robin
The gauntlet
The death of Jason Todd
The court of the owls
The reveal of Damian Wayne
The fact that Dick had to be Batman
The fact that Bruce died
The fact that Bruce told Dick he never should’ve been Batman
The fact that dick had to continue the cycle of orphans raising orphans
(no he doesn’t count Talia as a parent cuz then he’d have to view her as human and human life has value and in his opinion she has no value and should go find a nice comfy corner to die in like an old cat)
The fact that he was basically pushed into a pseudo father role with all the kids past Jason
Letting him kill the Joker
Bringing the joker back to life
Damian’s death
Steph’s fake death
Spyral
Losing his memories and leaving Dick alone at spyral
Showing Dick a video of him getting shot in the head when he’s mentally a 12 year old and also an amnesiac
And about 6 million other heart wrenching things
So yeah Dick hits to hurt and those times where Bruce has lost control (mind control, clone, fight etc) and Dick has Carte Blanche to cause harm to Bruce
He
Does