Day 26. Moment Dick has acted like a big brother/guide to other heroes (hero? does she count as one? how about anti-hero?).
Do you guys have like, sort of "guilty pleasure" team ups? This one is mine, I mean, Dick and anyone from the Wilson family is that for me. Everything about it sounds amazing to me, it is such a captivating dynamic.
But Dick and Rose in this arc have always caught my attention. Don't get me wrong, I still see how out of place it looks but at the same time it just works.
I think that the reason as to why I think that way is because Dick "wasn't" Nightwing at the time, he was Renegade and that makes all the difference.
He and Rose have such a fun dynamic, he is mentoring her the way Slade wants Dick to do it but he is also doing it his way, it is like a mentor-inception really.
He was just so smart too, he really wanted to make things work for him while he was working undercover and all that but he also didn't want Rose to follow Slade blindly, he wanted what was best for her. That meant that he would teach her everything that he knew and then she would choose her own path.
Look at them, Dick is mentoring Rose and Rose is just having the time of her life, she is obviously alert but that doesn't keep her from having fun.
But when the time to stop goofing around comes she jumps into action as soon as she is told to do so.
He really was training her on all levels, he wanted her to know exactly what she was getting herself into. He knew Slade and how the whole situation could turnout, so he made sure Rose was as prepared as possible.
But Rose didn't fully understand what Dick meant to do, so she will still ask if he was trying to make her betray her father or lead her wrong. To her questions, luckily, Dick had very clear answers though.
He puts himself on her shoes and is completely honest. There is a job to be done but Dick can not move on without focusing on Rose and trying to make her understand that he only wants her to make her own path, like he once did.
I am not putting as many panels/pages as I want because this arc has so much stuff going on but if you would like I would suggest reading the very next issue. It has Dick being an absolute beast and some more information on what Rose might chose to do in the future along with Slade being a shady bitch.
