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Grant was the same age as Dick...or possibly a little younger
I've been seeing fans interpret Dick's age as the same as Joey's, or somewhere between Grant and Joey, and you can absolutely change up their ages in fic or fan ideas! However, there is a canon basis for how old Grant was when he died and how old Dick was at that time.
The New Teen Titans #1 (November 1980)
At this point, Dick has been in college for at least one semester, possibly two. In Detective Comics #488/5 (February-March 1980), Dick signs up for "another" semester at Hudson University, and then drops out in Detective Comics #495/5 (October 1980).
Dick first left for college in Batman Vol. 1 #217 (December 1969). He was, in his own words, an adult when he went to college, which I take to mean he was eighteen years old.
Batman Vol. 1 #217 (December 1969)
(Also, both Dick and Bruce crying about Dick leaving but not letting each other see it...aw lol)
So...given comics time, I'm not sure exactly how long he was supposed to have spent at Hudson University, but it has to be at least one and a half semesters, making Dick at least eighteen or nineteen in NTT #1.
This is also the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths timeline, which came out in 1985-1986 and changed some things about the mainstream DC universe. In pre-crisis, Dick was still Robin while in college, and seems to have spent longer there.
In post-Crisis, Dick is 19 when the Joker shoots him in the shoulder and Bruce fires him as Robin (Batman #408 - June 1987). Dick later says that he finished one semester of college, but was distracted and did so poorly that they asked him not come back for a second semester (Batman #416 - February 1988). Following this, he joined (rejoined?) the New Teen Titans as Nightwing rather than Robin, and the events with Ravager, Deathstroke, and the Judas Contract seem to have proceeded as they did in pre-crisis continuity. This would put Dick at 19 or 20 at the time of Grant's death.
Now that we're in the post-Flashpoint continuity...I honestly don't know if Dick's age in relation to Grant's and Joey's was supposed to have changed. Deathstroke 2016 features the New Teen Titans and Grant's death in one arc where Slade has the speedforce and is time-traveling...but Dick's age is pretty unclear.
(DC: "We rebooted the universe in 2011 to make it easier for new readers to get into."
Me, a new reader in 2021: "I don't even think you tried at all.")
So, after all this, I'm going back to The New Teen Titans (1980), which has this panel:
The New Teen Titans #2 (December 1980)
The dates on Grant's headstone read 1961-1980, which puts him at either 18 or 19 when he died, depending on whether or not he had a birthday that year yet.
If we are assuming that both Grant's and Dick's ages stay constant in relation to each other as the irl years change--and I think we have to; if comics characters aged in real time, Bruce would be long dead--then they are either the same age, or Grant was in fact slightly younger than Dick.
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"god, I am such a slut for a time loop," I say, surprising absolutely none of my readers
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king of suffering and despair and agony
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you know i have never heard a convincing arguement as to why AO3 should not moderate the content that is posted to their website and i think a lot of the arguement against moderation on AO3 boils down to, terminally online people thinks community moderation is the same as government censorship and personally sending the cops to someoneās house to arrest them irl/
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Tim: Hey Bruce. We had an incident on patrolā
Bruce: Hn?
Tim: Dick wasā
Bruce, internally: Dick was shot he was mauled he was maimed by the joker he was tortured by scarecrow he was broken in half by bane!!! dickās DEAD??? what else could be wrong he canāt tell me himself that means he is vulnerable that means he may have been shot in the head is Dick dead what do I do if heās dead Contingency Number D1492 I need to contact Clark and let him know and tell him to isolate me and I need to contact Jason (Contingency J384) but what do I do if Dick is gone can I go on of course I can I need to but I canāt see his body I canāt do itā
Tim: ālimping after he tried to get an ice cream from the soft serve machine and ate shit lmao. His ankle is twisted; might take a couple days to recover.
Bruce, a very normal person who doesnāt suffer from anxiety and ptsd: okay
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I don't know how to explain this I just wanted Jason to adopt an ugly cat
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the babies (dick grayson & bruce wayne) (please don't flop this took a stupid amount of time) (i used a different pen and im not a fan switch back to my bae š) (i looove dick grayson as robin)
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is it gay to spar with your enemy. aaaand post
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Part of a prompt from the fratt?! server.
*read from right to left
the original prompt from the server here
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fuck all of you guys. im posting nick robles horny nightcrawler art.
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