Disclaimer : obviously this is VERY headcanon-ny, I know a lot of people (on tik tok mainly) tend to criticize any anon content. I'd like to remind everyone that we're working with crumbs. Let me cook.
When I think about Dick and Jason's relationship (which- if you know me, yk it's something I do A LOT) I think of them as the most complicated relationship ever.
As much as I'd love them to just be best friends forever, it's SO MUCH MORE than just happy moments together.
Their relationship is based on pain, Dick is resentful at Jason for 'taking Robin away from him' for replacing him and if not as Robin, then at least in Bruce's heart (or so Dick thinks, he doesn't know Jason envied him so much for that fake perfection and all those impossible standards Jason tried too hard to reach)
and then Jason dies and somehow that anger seems juvenile and useless and ridiculous because Dick had a little brother and he barely even knew him. His brain wants to make up for that loss so badly, Dick starts seeing his dead brother everywhere. He hears the snarky comments, the conversations that never happened, and he gets to apologize as much as he wants.
And because nothing in their lives ever seems to make sense, Dick sees Jason's return. But that guy isn't the rough but sweet boy he was used to, no suddenly he's that bulky and violent man he never knew.
It all comes back like a wave hitting him full force. The resentment and the apologies, and it's flowing out of his mouth without making any noise.
Jason wants nothing to do with him. He feels betrayed, Dick wasn't there for the funeral, Dick found another little brother he actually cares for and spend time with and Jason needed to be grieved (could he ever be??)
And with time I do believe their relationship would eventually move on from that, at least, mainly. The resentment and the unspoken words remain and linger in each of their conversations but sometimes,
Every once in a while, they're just two boys who were meant to be brothers. And sometimes, just sometimes, they feel like it.
It takes time and it's not perfect, they're incapable of explaining how they feel about each other, it's worse than love and it's not exactly caring for each other. It's deeper, harsher, more confusing.
The rest of their family and friends knows it, it's too complicated for anyone to understand.
(but at the end of the day, they'd kill, save, protect, fight, defend and learn to care for each other. They couldn't exactly say 'I love you' too seriously, it'd be between laughters after a bad prank, or through bloody hands after a rough patrol. It'd be a simple squeeze of the hand on a shaky shoulder. It's so much more than anyone could ever imagine, and it's so different from what they could've been.)
Sometimes Dick grieves the little boy he thought he knew. Sometimes Jason wonders why his older brother isn't as perfect as he wanted him to be.
Sometimes they're the only ones to understand each other.











