Batman Comics: A Dark Knight Dub
E-Mon sdrawkcab for Robin #1 / Nightwing / Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson was once Batman's first sidekick Robin, before going on to become Nightwing. The youngest in a family of acrobats known as the "Flying Graysons," Dick watched as a mafia boss killed his parents to extort money from the circus that employed them (whose name was later revealed to be Tony Zucco). Bruce Wayne, secretly the vigilante Batman, took him in as his legal ward after witnessing their deaths, and eventually as his sidekick, Robin. Throughout Dick's adolescence, Batman and Robin were inseparable. However, as Dick grew older and spent more time as the leader of the Teen Titans, he decided to take on the identity of Nightwing to assert his independence.
We all need to take off the mask sometimes. To remind ourselves that we're people underneath.
If I don't crack a joke to break the tension-- I might never put on this costume again! Call it a home remedy for my own mental well-being!
[To Bruce]
What I've gotten is the realization that you did the best you could with what you had. You weren't a perfect father but that's okay because -- probably nobody's a perfect father. No family's perfect, either. I was lucky. I was privileged. Not because of the big house and the money, but because you gave me a lot of yourself. You taught me, you showed me, you encouraged me -- you never lied to me and you never demanded that I be anything I'm not. I didn't imitate you because you insisted that I do so, but because I wanted to. Of all the men I knew, you were most worthy of imitation.
