nightwinging it

dc fan (reluctant) // @thepaladog

[grakkie]

Here you go tumblr, I offer you the instagram defined version of that Nightwing doodle

He progressively looks older over each version

[allineedisonedream]

donut break 🍩

i missed drawing my boy 💖

[oxalees]

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[ieatstarsss]

sparkles

[ghostly-creator]

this was supposed to be a DOODLE. A SKETCH so I could say "hey! Please give me DC related drawing requests! I want to draw DC stuff rn :]" and then this happened... Anywho

hey! Please give me DC related drawing requests! I want to draw DC stuff rn :]

[magnumzine]

the man the myth the legend

[creature-lala]

The different stages of Jonathan Crane.

Artist headcanon ramblings under the cut 👇

I had the idea to do this for a while to explore my hc of Jon. I draw characters out a lot first instead of write things down since that’s how I “get to know them”. Anyway, I like year one’s canon but I found it to conflict whenever I wanted to draw him with crows since he’s scared of them. But when I drew him at age 12 holding up a crow, I think I figured out a storyline.

[TW child abuse, childhood trauma, self harm]

He used to find comfort in them at first, as he considered them his only friends. Granny Keeny didn’t like that he was happy so then the events of year one followed, in which she would make the crows attack him. Because of this, what once was a source of comfort became a source of fear and trauma. I think this would further hammer in the idea of how powerful fear can be.

Later on in life he still grew up with that fear. He was scared of a lot of things. I also really like the comic that portrayed him as someone who was addicted to fear (Batman: Black and White - Fear is the Key)

Eventually, he sought to surround himself with crows and take care of them as a way to relive the traumatic event. On a surface level, it’s because he feels addicted to fear and controlling when and how it happens to him in order to study and use it to then control people the way it controls him.

On a deeper level, I think he does it to self harm, and in a strange way, to self soothe. I think here the crow is a symbol of his relationship with fear just as much as the scarecrow. In the sense that, even if something or someone has brought you feelings of hurt, trauma, and fear, they can still be comforting. Because it’s familiar, because it’s all you know. And fear is all Jon knows.

[lovelylonelymoonlight]

It’s important to me that dick Grayson is a “nightmare” child and Bruce loves him unconditionally anyways like it doesnt really phase him at all

Dick hits and bites and yells and scares off therapist and has intense mood swings and Bruce doesn’t care that’s his lil Robin

Because Bruce remembers being the nightmare child and how every adult didn’t get it and even the good old fashioned “I hope you get a kid like yourself one day” and Bruce does and he loves him

[tizeline]

When your LITTLE brother stops being little (relatable)

Audio from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

[renviary]

(plat/fam) blah blah smth smth protective older brother

[pigeontoedradishes]

happy (belated) birthday, jonathan! feat karen

[alikunsblog]

I need more nightwing in my jacket.

[prokopetz]

Yeah, it's basically my favourite comic. What? No, I hate everything about it, but I love the idea of this one character, and I've constructed a completely different and much better comic revolving around that character in my head. Anyway, check out the latest update – can you believe this shit?

[apchipip]

Young Jonathan ?

[renviary]

love him down

[demonicsuffrage]

The reactions to The Batman part 2 announcements are always so funny on twt

[nyukaart]

Did I already post this I forgot

The back is supposed to say "I am gonna grown wings"