dick protects his siblings at all costs

bruce suspects jason of doing weed?

dick: oh no those are just the brownies i made last night!! clearly i'm not the best cook

tim in trouble for sneaking out?

dick: oh my gosh this is all my fault, i asked him to come over for a sleepover and forgot to tell you!

damian gets in trouble for a fight at school?

dick intercepts the call and shows up to pick damian up from school, when the principal ask where his dad is dick is ready: oh gosh he's stuck in a meeting!! if you wait around for him you'll be here all night. don't worry i will talk to bruce about this and he will be disciplined (no he won't)

and everyone always believes him because dick is so mature and reliable

that ask about Brothers in Blood got me thinking about them again. have something I've just written. set in my blending of pre and post crisis universe

"You know, when we first met you I wanted to take you in," Dick's voice was deceptively casual, as if he hadn't just destroyed Jason's entire worldview. "Bruce wouldn't let me."

Jason sat straight up and stared incredulously at his older brother. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Mhm, yeah, said I was too young and that he also knew what it was like to be an orphan. That he could support you just as well as I could."

"No, no, you don't get to breeze past that as if it's nothing," Jason said firmly, eyes wide. "What do you mean, you wanted to take me in?"

Dick glanced over, noticing the stunned look on Jason's face. "Did you... did you not know?"

"No. No I didn't," He whispered.

"I thought you did. I thought it was obvious. I gave you Robin."

The younger man's brow furrowed. "What does that have anything to do with it?"

Dick blinked. "Robin was my mother's name. Giving that to you was me saying you're family."

"Oh."

in my hc/au, dick and rose met during his apprentuice arc (tgt with terra) -> based on this fic

so

on this au

when dick and terra ran away, rose stayed.

after some time, dick and jason started to be like brothers, but... dick saw A LOT of rose in jason

even switched names sometimes.

after jason's death, he had no one anymore. tim came and made things a bit better, but he still missed them

and them he re-encontered rose (renegade arc). they reunite and he couldn't be more happy. except for.... he sees jason in rose now.

allucinating him in her

now they're both ok, his siblings are both ok

but it was a hard time for sure

in the early seasons of supernatural, sam wears unique clothing. he wears jeans with detailing on the pockets, his signature hoodie, and lots of graphic tees. even his computer has cute little stickers on it.

yet as the seasons go by, he loses more and more of his unique clothing until his wardrobe is nearly identical to deans. this loss of personal style tracks with his willpower and willingness to fight with dean and his assimilation into the hunting lifestyle.

Supernatural if Sam and Dean didn’t constantly fumble

Wally: I bet you can’t make a sentence without using the letter ‘a’

Dick: You thought you just did something there didn’t you? Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but numerous sentences could be constructed without using the first letter of the english lexicon.

Reporter: Nightwing you’ve worked on a lot of cases what’s the strangest conclusion you’ve come to

Nightwing: oh uhhmm I’ve come to the conclusion that Gotham is sentient and has a romantic relationship with Batman

Reporter:….

Bruce would give up the mission if Dick ever died. And not in the angry-grief way of "this is the last straw on the camel's back" aka the way he sorta kicked Dick out, but in the "hasn't set foot in the Cave in over a month because the last time he did he kept hearing Dick's laugh echoing across the stalactites" way. He literally cannot bear to put on the cowl, to be Batman, because Batman has existed longer with Robin than without. Bruce doesn't remember being Batman without Robin (without Dick) anymore. He can recall his first meetings with a few of the Rogues, but beyond that? It's been so long that those first 2-4 years are all just a haze of self destructive grief. Dick flipped his entire life in a 180 to the total opposite direction. He showed him how to hope, to love, to live. If Dick dies as an adult, Bruce would've spent half his life with his first son. No matter what age Dick dies at, Bruce will have always spent more time being Batman with Dick Grayson as a son rather than without him. Dick changed Batman, changed Bruce so irrevocably that Bruce wouldn't ever be able to wear the cowl without remembering him.

Okay, so, Dick, right? Everyone's like, "Sunshine boy!" and all that. But, seriously, think about it.

His parents? Gone. Just... gone. Right in front of him. That's, like, super messed up. You don't just forget that.

And then he goes to live with Bruce. Which, yeah, cool, but it's also, like, a whole different world. Secrets, shadows, all that.

And then Robin. First Robin! But then there's more Robins. It's not mean, but, like, things change. That's... weird.

He's so good at pretending he's fine. Always smiling, making jokes. But I bet when he's alone? He remembers. The falling, the noise, the scared feeling. It's still there.

And I bet he feels kinda... lost sometimes. Like, who is he, without Robin, without Bruce? That's, like, all he knows.

He's always making sure everyone else is okay. But who's making sure he's okay?

He's got this "I'm fine!" thing down. But I bet he's just... tired. Tired of pretending. Tired of all the stuff. I bet he just wants someone to, like, really ask, "Are you okay?" And listen.