In my heart of hearts, once Dick gets past feeling like a Christmas puppy or an Easter rabbit, and Bruce accepts and embraces his role as his guardian, a young Dick Grayson LOVED being the only kid of a single billionaire. He loved to perform and as long as he’s going to be there anyways, he WILL absolutely bask in that attention.
Vogue, Forbes, and Cosmo all want interviews in one day? He is happily flying to New York or Chicago or LA with Bruce for a fifteen hour day filled with interviews, catering, makeup, and photoshoots.
Morning and late night talk shows where he can show off his skills bc the crowd and the host always eat it up? He’s thriving!
Modeling and brand sponsorships? He’s using that to show off his Wayne heirloom ring and the Wayne cufflinks while donning the newest Louis Vuitton or Ralph Lauren or Tom Ford.
Red carpet walks? He is sashaying down that carpet exactly as Bruce taught him to, interrupting paps annoying the women around him (and charming the socks off of everyone as he does it) while posing.
He is creating his own “candid” pap shots with Bruce in public bc he knows the media eats it up. (He still occasionally sees the one where he forced a confused Bruce down to one knee on a public street to tie his shoes when he was 9. Everyone ate it up for weeks.)
The galas, fundraisers, dinners and luncheons, he could do without as he’s often the youngest there but he’s come to enjoy messing with people and providing quotes for the press.
He is legs deep in Bruce’s assistant’s email and voicemail logs looking at the opportunities coming their way and begging Bruce for the ones he wants to take. They want to throw them (AND SOMETIMES SPECIFICALLY HIM) sports tickets, movie showings, cars, food boxes and fine dining, cameos, and so much more. He may not be Brucie Wayne but he’s solidified himself as the perfect “boy next door with a heart of gold” heart throb of America’s preteens/young teens, people want him, and he is THRIVING. That resume of his quickly becomes 3, 4, 7 pages long just of public persona/media/modeling/acting stuff by the time he’s twelve.
This continues until he’s approximately 15/16 and he and Bruce start fighting more and more. That’s when he starts hating his public persona bc no one actually cares about him, they only care about him in relation to Bruce, and he’s over Bruce by that point.
But approximately 10 to 14-year-old Dick? Yeah he’s living the life.