You know that thing bikers do when they see a police car? The tap on their helmets? Yeah so Arsenal, Red Hood, Red Robin and Spoiler (who I think are the only ones who ride motorbikes outside of their vigilante personalities) do it whenever they see Nightwing. And you better believe it makes others so fucking confused.
Nightwing: *Drops down into the fight.*
Red Hood: *Stops everything he's doing to tap the top of his helmet.*
Spoiler: *Sees it and then stops to do it too.*
Red Robin: *Gets a giddy little grin and starts tapping the top of his head.*
Thugs: *All collectively very confused.*
Thug #1: Wha... What're they doin'?
Thug #3: Hey, isn't that what bikers do when they see a cop?
Thug #2: Nah. Nightwing's not a cop, dumbass.
Thug #1: Yeah, he's a vigilante. Wha's he need with bein' a cop?
Thug #3: But he's the type to snitch tho.
Thug #1: Well... I guess. Maybe that's why they do it, cuz he's such a snitch.
Thug #1: *Pauses but doesn't hear anything.* Uh nah.
Thug #3: Exactly. Where'd the fightin' sounds go?
The fighting had stopped because everyone else had been taken care of. The batfam had just been waiting for them to finish their conversation like Alfred taught them to. He would be proud. Probably of the broken and fractured bones that followed. Well, he'd be proud of their technique, they reckoned. (To be honest, Alfred would be proud no matter what.)
Arsenal: So he just... told you all to stop?
Red Hood: *Shrugs.* Pretty much.
Red Robin: I don't get why B wants us to stop using 'dick' as a term of endeerment. It's a compliment! Being like Dick is the highest honour.
Red Hood: And that has nothing to do with the fact the Baby Wonder finds it infuriating?
Red Robin, grinning: Cassie hating it is an upside, I won't lie.
Nightwing: *Drops down next to where they're all gathered on a roof.* Hey guys, sorry I'm late, I-
Nightwing: Uh guys? *Starts sweating because there's something wrong with the way they're all blankly staring at him.* How- how's everyone?
Red Hood: *Starts tapping helmet.*
Nightwing: *So concerned that something's wrong he doesn't clock it right away so he just stares, a crease forming between his eyebrows.*
Red Robin: *Taps against his hair.*
Nightwing: Wait a sceond-
Arsenal, Spoiler: *Taps their heads.*
Robin and Orphan: *Looks at each other. Holds eye contact and then starts tapping their heads to fuck with Nightwing.*
The next day a photo of Nightwing standing with his head bowed in defeat whilst being surrounded by Red Hood, Arsenal, Red Robin, Robin, Spoiler and Orphan who are all patting their heads is trending. People think they're in some kind of cult and that they were either sacraficing Nightwing or they were summoning something. The fact that Nightwing isn't spotted for the next week makes everyone lean towards the sacraficing.
(Jason made him promise he would play into the bit by not going out and letting his friends and/or his siblings patrol his city. Dick has never been good at saying no to his little brother. And, come on, Dick fucking loved the idea of people thinking he was being sacraficed. Also, he doesn't mind the head patting. Batman was the only one who thought it might reveal his identity. Dick was with Stephanie on it all, really. There was no way people would connect him to Nightwing and if they did, it's not like anyone else would believe them.)
It gets to the point that it's not even to fuck with Batman anymore. It becomes a normal greeting, something that bleeds into their civillian lives. People understand it more when it's directed at Dick Grayson but it's very endeering to see it. It all fuels all the Bruceman shippers when Tim Drake-Wayne is caught doing it to Nightwing.
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