I have party boy Dick Grayson brainworms tonight fellas so hear me out I’m tired I’ve had a long day and this is keeping me awake. There will probably be many typos that I won’t catch until after I hit post but anyway. Pls come along on this ride with me
Dick Grayson in his early-to-mid twenties. He’s a cop in Blüdhaven. He’s very good at his job. Very well liked by his colleagues. He works hard and he’s respected for it. Maybe Blüdhaven is slightly less shitty than in canon.
He also has a notorious reputation as a party boy from Gotham, billionaire Brucie Wayne’s oldest child and his mini me in every possible way. He’s a flirt and he’s an airhead and he stumbles around drunk at parties. He’s Gotham’s second most eligible bachelor only after Brucie Wayne himself, even though he doesn’t actually live in Gotham anymore.
And everyone in the Blüdhaven Police Department knows it’s all an act.
Dick is outgoing but he’s shy. He’s brilliant and he’s humble. He’s friendly but he keeps to himself. He talks endlessly about his little brother who he almost adopted when Brucie was “traveling the world” a few years back. He brags about how Damian is so bright and he’s so artistic and look at this drawing he made for me isn’t it great? I’m going to display it prominently on my desk and brag to anyone who walks by about how amazing it is.
They have a shift with him on Thursday where he gushes about how he and his littlest brother are going to the zoo in Gotham that weekend to see the elephants, they just had a baby, Damian is is so excited (it’s obvious he’s excited too).
Then they see trashy headlines all weekend about the oldest Wayne heir getting blackout drunk at the iceberg lounge and leaving with three different women hanging off of him. After he’d danced on a table and broke an ice sculpture that he threw a wad of bills at Oswald Cobblepot as an apology for.
When he comes back in on Monday, he has pictures of him and his brother at zoo to show off, along with a new sketch from Damian to put on his desk.
They know the party boy schtick is an act. They know it’s a mask, but they can’t figure out why.
A couple of them think Brucie must be running a human trafficking network and he uses Richie to lure girls into. That quickly proven false. All of the girls that Dick gets pictures with are always seen either later that night or the next day or so afterwards, there’s never anything nefarious.
Some of them think Brucie drugs him when he goes back to the manor. Except he always passes his random drug tests.
Others think it’s a body double so he can have a personal life away from the cameras.
There’s tons of theories floating around, but none are ever confirmed.
Until a newbie starts and just flat out asks him about why he’s so different when he’s caught on camera. And Dick just tilts his head.
“It’s easier if they all think I’m stupid,” he says, and isn’t that sad to hear? “They leave me alone for the most part if I’m acting like an idiot. Bruce taught me when I was little.”
It’s not a secret. But somehow, that’s even worse.
Dick just shrugs and goes back to work.
