#dark victory

[prophicc]

bruce & dick inspired by batman: dark victory

[robs-your-robins]

Working on the AU of Dick being selectively mute or unable to articulate himself aptly in English, due to possibly growing up speaking Romani or Picard French or German or Hungarian as a child with his parents and other members of Haly's Circus. Dick knows English but he's eight, he just lost his mom and dad and he's not allowed to stay in the place that was his home for his whole life. He's landed into this place where everything is different, he's surrounded by strangers and he's just eight. He's scared, he misses his mom and dad, he has nightmares and he's unable to put all these feelings into English or any sort of words and other than telling Bruce over and over that he wants to kill Zucco.

Now, dressed as Robin? Dick is giggling, he's making puns and snapping back insults. He's a yapper like he was before the Fall. But that's when he's Robin, that's when he's a hero, brave in the yellow, red and green of the Flying Graysons, the Boy Wonder and even the scariest rogues on Gotham flee before him.

But as plain Dick Grayson, orphan and ward of Bruce Wayne? He's just a kid. Dick is a quiet child at first, he knows he's safe with Bruce and that he and Alfred care about him but with anybody else, he just doesn't speak, he communicates by looks or motions. Bruce can translate off the bat (pun intended) after a few weeks. Dick wants to go outside and play? That's easy to translate. If Dick does speak in company, it's in his mother tongue and barely above a murmur. Most people have zero clue what's going on when they meet this very quiet and reserved little boy who doesn't talk. Bruce gives them a very brief explanation when prompted and they back off. Dick will eventually speak to a new person after they have met a few times but never straight off...

All except Superman who he immediately starts talking to, so excited that he keeps slipping into his other language and Clark, of course, doesn't point it out, and answers back in the sane language because he's just as excited to meet Batman's little guy as he is to meet Superman.

Thanks to @whimsicalwanderingsunfolded for the inspo on this one.

[paprixao]

some cranes I doodled during class today

[hayworth-rita]

BETTE DAVIS as Judith Traherne in DARK VICTORY (1939) dir. Edmund Goulding

[bloodyminyard]

dark victory makes me giggle bc every issue it opens with bruce being like “harvey dent… my ally… my friend…. i miss him everyday… all the evidence points to him being the hangman… but my heart tells me it’s not true… please come back harvey”

sir get up you have a child to raise

[bobbinalong]

little dude.

[classicfilmblr]

DARK VICTORY (1939) dir. Edmund Goulding

[gl1tchr]

I love the way you draw literally every Sale design oh my God!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! really it's the designs themselves doing most of the work, they're just Iconic