Hi so I just saw that postnof yours abt tim witnessing dick at so many of his low moments and I got all of the incidents mentioned except one, where dick asks abt the adoption if there was no bruce wayne? Like. Bruce didn't adopt him, or bruce didn't exist and there were no other relatives? I can't quite figure it out lol
hi! okay so, short version, this goes down in batman #600 and i freak out about it here.
longer version: bruce has been accused/arrested for murder, the batfam cannot prove that he didn’t do it, and pretty much only dick and alfred are like certain of his innocence. bruce decides, “hey! wouldn’t it be so brilliant of me to break-out of black gate and be batman 24/7?” so he does exactly that, much to everyone’s dismay and they all go to meet/confront him at the batcave.
lots of arguing, bruce refuses to outright say he didn’t do it and then tries to leave. dick flips out and calls him a hypocrite because when dick had been accused of murder, bruce was like, “you can’t solve this case as nightwing”, and now when it’s bruce’s murder he’s just continuing to be batman.
he hits bruce with this:
to which bruce responds:
yep. mhmm. now mind you, besides all the obviously devastating implications of that- dick has only recently been adopted by bruce, and it has been on his mind constantly during this whole murder trial.
like he says, he never thought he could be more loyal to bruce, but on top of everything, he is his father now.
but if there is no bruce wayne? well:
dick asks who adopted him if there is no bruce wayne, and he is met with silence.
i literally had to like pause and compose myself before i went to the next page when i was reading this arc because oh my god??????!!!!!!
anyways, dick does not let him leave, they get into a massive, massive fight, everything hurts, and it ends only because dick ends up accidentally smashing the display case that held jason’s robin suit. while he’s frozen in horror, bruce takes that opportunity to hop into the batmobile and dip.
it is not a great night for dick.
they do eventually solve the case and make up:
honestly, if you have a way to read comics the bruce wayne: murderer?/fugitive arc is phenomenal. highly recommend.
but yeah, long story short, this is the moment referenced in the post! tysm for asking!
