Hero in Blue

Gotham. Bludhaven. Metropolis. Star City. "I'm chatty. It's part of my charm." Indie Nightwing RP blog. Links in top left corner. This blog is OPEN for new threads. Message for plots. Replies will be posted this Thursday (updated 6/02)

[redbird-bluewings]

Lined || Tim and Dick (closed)

[thesassybird-archive]

Tim laughed. “Guess they wouldn’t care, but after they gathered their teeth from the ground, they might tell to their buddies who punched them to avoid, um, me.” He went silent, then he turned and looked at Dick. “I have some old costumes and I can put on one, if you need me to accompany you. I should get to know the city again. Any fresh tips and news?”

[redbird-bluewings]

"Well, then you’ll get to surprise them with a new look," he grinned.

"If you want to come, I want you to come. But if you’re tired, I understand. Let’s not make this partnership about slave driving, like Bruce gets sometimes," and he made a face. "But, uh, no news that I know of. I sort of just… wing it, to be honest," he laughed. "We could ask Oracle?"

[thesassybird-archive]

Not if anyone would give a second look at him if Nightwing’s there. The thought made Tim chuckle. “Sure. Maybe I just dress in all black and… and stay home, because I will have a lot to do and I’ll be tired. Shoot.” Tim pouted. Calm, down, Drake, patience, you have time.

He looked at Dick. “Yeah, maybe I should ask her. Everyone of our enemies are still alive? Just to make sure.”

[redbird-bluewings]

"All our enemies and all our friends," he smiled. "We can at least be happy about one of those. "And hey, don't feel like you have to rush this, okay?" He could tell Tim looked a little anxious. "You've been gone for a while. I just want you to be comfortable."

[redbird-bluewings]

Lined || Tim and Dick (closed)

[thesassybird-archive]

"Then it’s decided!" Tim didn’t stop washing the window. "I want to," he said quietly. "But I can’t." He looked at Dick. "I just ordered my costume, it won’t be ready for tonight. Maybe tomorrow." He knew he should go out and look around. It was long when he last saw the city, he had to get familiar with it. Step by step. He shouldn’t hurry. He has time now.

[redbird-bluewings]

Dick shrugged. “Whatever you need. You can always just come as Red Robin. I really don’t think anyone is going to care what you’re wearing when you punch their face in.”

[thesassybird-archive]

Tim laughed. “Guess they wouldn’t care, but after they gathered their teeth from the ground, they might tell to their buddies who punched them to avoid, um, me.” He went silent, then he turned and looked at Dick. “I have some old costumes and I can put on one, if you need me to accompany you. I should get to know the city again. Any fresh tips and news?”

[redbird-bluewings]

"Well, then you'll get to surprise them with a new look," he grinned.

"If you want to come, I want you to come. But if you're tired, I understand. Let's not make this partnership about slave driving, like Bruce gets sometimes," and he made a face. "But, uh, no news that I know of. I sort of just... wing it, to be honest," he laughed. "We could ask Oracle?"

[redbird-bluewings]

Amuse Me

[redbird-bluewings]

"And that’s all the night is getting," Dick emphasized as they got off of the Ferris wheel. "It’s not a date." Though it felt a lot like a date.

[redhoodoutlawmoved]

   Jason looked at Dick with a questionable glare. “It’s just a way for me to pay you back.”

[redbird-bluewings]

"Pay me back? Oh, come on, we're just hanging out. This isn't an I-owe-anyone-anything." At least Dick hoped it wasn't. He just liked being family with Jason. Y'know, when they weren't trying to kill each other.

[redbird-bluewings]

Lined || Tim and Dick (closed)

[thesassybird-archive]

Tim chuckled. “Yeah, we can,” he nodded. Dick hadn’t changed a bit. He was his old self and it warmed Tim’s heart and made him smile. “Hope you’re talking about the original series,” he added, then he climbed off to move and clean another window. He didn’t really like cleaning. “Maybe I’ve asked it before, but I don’t remember what’ve you said: do you plan to go on patrol tonight?”

[redbird-bluewings]

"We can watch whichever," he said with a smile. Though, truth be told, his favorite was Next Generation. But he didn’t think it was necessary to tell Tim that.

"I guess so. There’s no one else with their eye on Bludhaven. You want to come with?"

[thesassybird-archive]

"Then it’s decided!" Tim didn’t stop washing the window. "I want to," he said quietly. "But I can’t." He looked at Dick. "I just ordered my costume, it won’t be ready for tonight. Maybe tomorrow." He knew he should go out and look around. It was long when he last saw the city, he had to get familiar with it. Step by step. He shouldn’t hurry. He has time now.

[redbird-bluewings]

Dick shrugged. "Whatever you need. You can always just come as Red Robin. I really don't think anyone is going to care what you're wearing when you punch their face in."

[redbird-bluewings]

Poison in the Blood

[redbird-bluewings]

Relief came like a tiny spark on a cold night. Faint, a flicker, but bright despite its brevity. His heart jumped into his throat when she groaned. “Babs, please stay with me,” he pleaded again, pushing his bike to its limits on speed, threatening his own safety as he outstripped the threshold for his reflexes.

He skidded to a halt in the cave, scooped her off his bike in a fluid motion and rushed her to the medical table. “Come on, I’m right here. Babs, I’m right here.” He yanked her cowl off to check her vitals. A heartbeat, she was breathing. All good things, but he needed her awake, please dear god let her wake up.

[blackyellowandread--archive]

"D—"

Dick. Richard. Richard who? There were images of black hair and blue eyes and kisses and laughter but Barbara couldn’t piece together who he was to her. A brother maybe. So many years together, that was clear enough. She saw him through different incarnations. First, with short legs and a squeaky voice and then growing into himself. His shoulders were broader but his limbs were still lanky. But her head to shift up and he would say—

He would say—

Her name. What was her name? What was her name? Flickers of a mirror, of pictures, of newspaper clippings that mentioned that Richard and whoever she was. But nothing about herself, what she looked like or what her name was or who she was related to, could be discerned. 

Barbara’s eyes shot open, wide and panicked. Where was she? What the hell was she wearing? Who was the man in front of her that looked so scared?

More importantly: Who was she?

Without having to tell her body to do so, it flipped backwards off the table and dropped into a fighting stance. 

"Who are you? Where have you taken me?"

[redbird-bluewings]

Dick was shocked by her sudden mobility, but instantly held his hands up in surrender--arms out, visible, palms forward.

"Babs, take it easy." He pulled his mask off and set it on the table. "It's just me. It's Dick. You're hurt, alright? Can you let me help you?"

Amnesia. A side effect of the drug, right? Please not a concussion. He had enough guilt eating him up as it was. Though, at least a concussion was recoverable. She'd heal from that and start to remember things. He had no idea what the effects of toxin were.

"Just sit down. You're safe." He took a hesitant step forward, careful to keep his hands visible and look as unthreatening as possible. 

[redbird-bluewings]

Capes and Civs || Dick and Jason

[redbird-bluewings]

"Why doesn’t really matter," he sighed. "I just do, okay?" He poured himself another cup of coffee. He was starting to lose count on these.

"It’d be nice if for once you could just accept that there are people who care about you instead of acting like a rabid dog and snapping at people all the time." Not that Dick was one to talk. He had his own share of self-esteem issues, and plenty of daddy-issues related to Bruce. Enough to fill volumes with. He had much of the same struggles Jason did, he just didn’t express them the way Jason did. And he didn’t approve of Jason’s forms of expression. Made it harder for them to connect, but it didn’t make Dick care any less.

[notoriousredhood-archive]

“Rabid dog?" The fact that Jason was snarling probably didn’t help his case, but he was offended at the comparison either way. God forbid Jason have feelings. He’d think out of anyone in this family Dick would understand what it’s like to feel too much. To have so much pent up emotion and not be allowed to express it. Jason had a short fuse and when he exploded he took everyone with him. Dick…well god only knows what Dick did with all his pent up emotion.

"I’ll snap at whoever the fuck I wanna snap at, and right now that’s you and it’s your own damn fault for even still being here.”

[redbird-bluewings]

"It's my place," Dick snapped back, "and it's your fault you got in this mess. You refused to let me help, refused to let do anything, and you're still refusing my help, even though you can barely walk." He drummed his fingers anxiously on the table as the exhaustion mixed with an overdose of caffeine. He could tell he was getting irritable because he was more tired than anything and so he took a deep breath and sat down. "Just forget it, Jay. Do what you want."

[redbird-bluewings]

Officer Grayson and Barbara Gordon || Brisk

[redbird-bluewings]

  "You could always join me in them," he smiled, playful, cheerful, and hopeful all in one. And then a shadow passed over his face momentarily. "Bruce didn’t send you after me, did he?"

[ofbatboys]

She smiled  and gave a small laugh. “Maybe, but not tonight.” She glanced up at him. “Tonight I want to spend with Dick Grayson, not Nightwing.” She shook her head. “No, I came on my own. I just… I really missed you. I know we still talk. But actually having you beside me is much better.” 

[redbird-bluewings]

He kissed her cheek with a smile. "Unfortunately, I'm a bit inseparable from Nightwing. I can promise to tone down the backflips, but not the puns," he said with a wink and pulled her closer as they walked. A night in with Barbara was more than anything he could have asked for this evening. He didn't think he could call what they had true love or anything. It was far too rocky for that. But it was something, and he liked that something. Especially on nights like tonight, where they weren't fighting.

[redbird-bluewings]

Hail Hydra

"Hah... Haha..." Dick tried to laugh, slowly, awkwardly, but quickly dissolved into a sulking mess--just before the verge of tears. "BUT THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS. THEY WERE BEST FRIENDS AND HE DIED AND FORGOT AND ITS SO EMOTIONAL."

PSA; no one has stronger bucky feels than Dick Grayson.

[redbird-bluewings]

Capes and Civs || Dick and Jason

[redbird-bluewings]

Dick wasn’t 100% positive why he cared, either. Because he owed Jason for neglecting him the first time around? Because he felt bad about what had happened to Jason? Guilty? Because Jason was family? Maybe all of the above.

Maybe Dick was just a hopeless sap and this was how it would always be, him trying to care for people who had done nothing to deserve his affection.

No, those weren’t his words. Those were someone else’s. But he couldn’t quite place who had said such awful things….

"You’re not okay," Dick sighed and ran his hand through his hair. That much was clear. Jason needed help. Well, Jay needed a lot of help, but right now, specifically, "Medically, I mean," he amended. 

[notoriousredhood-archive]

Those words running through Dick’s mind very likely came from Jason himself. Jason and every other person who saw Dick’s affectionate nature as a weakness. It had been used against Dick before, and it surely would be wielded as a weapon again in the near future.

The double-meaning to Dick’s words didn’t escape him, and he snorted as he finally looked away. Right. Jason wasn’t okay. Jason should be locked up in Arkham with the other psychopaths Bruce and his team of merry men refused to put down. Jason was unstable, a criminal, a murderer. 

But not even they could dispute the results he was getting.

"Still doesn’t answer why you care."

[redbird-bluewings]

"Why doesn't really matter," he sighed. "I just do, okay?" He poured himself another cup of coffee. He was starting to lose count on these.

"It'd be nice if for once you could just accept that there are people who care about you instead of acting like a rabid dog and snapping at people all the time." Not that Dick was one to talk. He had his own share of self-esteem issues, and plenty of daddy-issues related to Bruce. Enough to fill volumes with. He had much of the same struggles Jason did, he just didn't express them the way Jason did. And he didn't approve of Jason's forms of expression. Made it harder for them to connect, but it didn't make Dick care any less.

[redbird-bluewings]

Amuse Me

[redbird-bluewings]

"Maybe after the movie," Dick sighed. "You’ll ruin your liver at the rate we’re going."

[redhoodoutlawmoved]

    Jason rolled his eyes. He knew he was better off without the alcohol, but he couldn’t help it. “Dinner, movie, drinks.. I like the way this night is going.” He commented almost under his breath, but secretly just wished they could get out of the damned amusement park.

[redbird-bluewings]

"And that's all the night is getting," Dick emphasized as they got off of the Ferris wheel. "It's not a date." Though it felt a lot like a date.

[redbird-bluewings]

Officer Grayson and Barbara Gordon || Brisk

[redbird-bluewings]

  He tightened his hand around hers as they walked. “Here on… business?” he asked with a raised eyebrow.

He blushed at the compliment and tugged self-consciously at his tie. “Of course I missed you. I always miss you. Besides, police work isn’t as exciting as… hobbies,” he said with a smile.

[ofbatboys]

She just smiled up at him. “Something like that.” She stated giving his hand a small squeeze. “Hmm you must have some great hobbies.” She teased playfully. “Should tell me about those sometime.” 

[redbird-bluewings]

"You could always join me in them," he smiled, playful, cheerful, and hopeful all in one. And then a shadow passed over his face momentarily. "Bruce didn't send you after me, did he?"

[redbird-bluewings]

Lined || Tim and Dick (closed)

[redbird-bluewings]

"Oh. Makes sense." Dick stepped halfway through the door to shake out some of the dust in his rag. "We should watch Star Trek while we eat, for a little afternoon siesta," he grinned. Cleaning could get exhausting, after all.

[thesassybird-archive]

Tim chuckled. “Yeah, we can,” he nodded. Dick hadn’t changed a bit. He was his old self and it warmed Tim’s heart and made him smile. “Hope you’re talking about the original series,” he added, then he climbed off to move and clean another window. He didn’t really like cleaning. “Maybe I’ve asked it before, but I don’t remember what’ve you said: do you plan to go on patrol tonight?”

[redbird-bluewings]

"We can watch whichever," he said with a smile. Though, truth be told, his favorite was Next Generation. But he didn't think it was necessary to tell Tim that.

"I guess so. There's no one else with their eye on Bludhaven. You want to come with?"

[joker-is-cackling-again]

Running In To Bird Boy

[redbird-bluewings]

Nightwing lost the handcuffs in the struggle and tried not to let his rage blind him at the dig at Jason. He got back up with a wince. “Watch the hair. I spent a lot of time on that,” and he pushed his bangs out of his eyes.

[alaina-oiche-deactivated2015080]

Joker cackeled at the Bird as he saw the rage in his eyes. ” What’s wrong boy blunder did I pluck a few feathers?”

[redbird-bluewings]

"Maybe just ruffled them." He knelt to pick the handcuffs up without taking his eyes off of the Joker. "I recommend you come quietly, and save us both a lot of trouble."

[redbird-bluewings]

Hectic couple of days happening over here. Got called into work at 4am tomorrow so I don’t have time for replies tonight. Will try to get to them tomorrow between class and work.

i owe; joker-is-cackling-again, notoriousredhood, thesassybird, redhairandkevlar, and redhoodoutlaw (too many reds damn. well, Dick does have a preference….)

Like if I owe and you’re unlisted. Thanks!

Also, this blog is OPEN for new threads. Message if you have a plot (or if you just want to say hi). please don’t forget that there are rules and a faq

[redbird-bluewings]

Hectic couple of days happening over here. Got called into work at 4am tomorrow so I don't have time for replies tonight. Will try to get to them tomorrow between class and work.

i owe; joker-is-cackling-again, notoriousredhood, thesassybird, redhairandkevlar, and redhoodoutlaw (too many reds damn. well, Dick does have a preference....)

Like if I owe and you're unlisted. Thanks!

Also, this blog is OPEN for new threads. Message if you have a plot (or if you just want to say hi). please don't forget that there are rules and a faq

[joker-is-cackling-again]

Running In To Bird Boy

[redbird-bluewings]

"Who said he’s not on his way?" Nightwing grinned and landed in front of Joker. "You got any problems playing with little old me? I promise I’m not as little as I used to be."

[joker-is-cackling-again]

" Believe me when I say we have all noticed that you aren’t little anymore." Joker told him as lunged and Nightwing. He drop his bag of loot to fight the Bird off.

[redbird-bluewings]

Nightwing ducked and caught the Joker’s leg, tackling the man to the floor. “Was that a dick joke?” he teased with a wide grin and reached into his belt for a pair handcuffs.

[joker-is-cackling-again]

Joker rolled as he fell taking Nightwing with him. ” It might have been.” He laughed as he got up. He grabbed the boys hair and throw him across the roof. ” To bad I don’t have crowbar.”

[redbird-bluewings]

Nightwing lost the handcuffs in the struggle and tried not to let his rage blind him at the dig at Jason. He got back up with a wince. "Watch the hair. I spent a lot of time on that," and he pushed his bangs out of his eyes.

[redbird-bluewings]

Open RP || Brisk

[redbird-bluewings]

. 

Dick was startled first by, ‘boy blunder,’ second by the bright red hair, and then finally he was able to process the entirety of her words, and what he came up with in response was the well-thought-out splutter of, “Babs? What are you doing here?”

He recovered mildly well by pulling her into a tight hug. “Honestly, there’s probably nobody I’d rather see,” he smiled gently.

[ofbatboys]

Barbara couldn’t help the smirk on her lips at his first response to seeing her, she felt a little proud being able to surprise him for once. Her arms moved to wrap back around his strong frame, a content sigh escaping her lips. She missed hugging him like this, just him in general. “I was in the neighbourhood, thought I’d drop by. You know the police get up looks good on you.” She teased softly pulling back just slightly to glance up at him. “Mmm you missed me then?” 

[redbird-bluewings]

He tightened his hand around hers as they walked. "Here on... business?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

He blushed at the compliment and tugged self-consciously at his tie. "Of course I missed you. I always miss you. Besides, police work isn't as exciting as... hobbies," he said with a smile.