#Nexus Being Dick Grayson
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thinking about some quotes i’ve read and i wanna hear your thoughts on them because i have a lot and i don’t know what to do with them.
“the day Dick Grayson turns evil is the day the universe ends, not because that day will never come but because the boy will make it come”
“Dick Grayson isn’t the universal constant of good. Dick Grayson is the universal constant of competence”
“So, having said all that, it is a few but definitely significant words that fill the contingency plan on Nightwing in case the hero of Bludhaven ever turns to the dark side. Let's hope that never happens.”
YESSSSS
“the day Dick Grayson turns evil is the day the universe ends, not because that day will never come but because the boy will make it come”
This is the truest fact I've ever heard because this is really canon.
Word for word this happened.
In one of the canon timelines Clark laser blasted Bruce under mind control.
And oh how Dick took over. You know what Luthor says?
"After all, as I've heard your father [Dick] so often quoted, 'we make the hardest decisions for those we care about the most.' Well, in his case...that has meant remaking the world."
This man has the power to single-handedly control the fate of the world.
Whatever he wants, he will make it happen.
The entirety of the justice league, all the metas, heroes, and villains too stood no chance against him.
DC vs Vampires
“Dick Grayson isn’t the universal constant of good. Dick Grayson is the universal constant of competence”
I think it's true.
Nightwing is one of the most formidable figures in DC, without fail consistently coming out on top, so if Superman is iterating that Dick's personality and essence of being is the same, then there's really no room for disagreement.
But more truly, I think he is a Nexus.
By Marvel's definition, "Nexus Beings are rare individual entities with the ability to affect probability and thus the future, thereby altering the flow of the Universal Time Stream. These beings, each referred to as a nexus, act as the keystones of the Multiverse and are crucial to its ultimate coherence and stability."
That means that the universe hinges on the actions of Dick Grayson.
Not only does he control the fate of the world but his mere existence determines what will become of it by other people:
I'd like to reiterate that Neux Beings are "the keystones of the Multiverse and are crucial to its ultimate coherence and stability."
You can still be a nexus if you turn dark. For example Lore was a dark version of Wanda Maximoff but she is still considered a nexus.
So you're right in saying that Dick Grayson is a multiuniversal constant of competence.
“So, having said all that, it is a few but definitely significant words that fill the contingency plan on Nightwing in case the hero of Bludhaven ever turns to the dark side. Let's hope that never happens.”
In the easiest terms as someone put it, "hope he fucks up" is Bruce's only contingency plan against Nightwing. The man doesn't have a clear plan how to neutralize Nightwing.
His exact words are: "As a result of overanalyzing any situation, this allows Dick Grayson to overconfident and misdirected. This will make himself open to a second attack."
So the plan is basically 'Dick is too smart for his own good so we'll have to go with a lucky surprise attack.' He's literally saying 'yupppp. Let's just hope he messed up because there's nothing we can do on ouR end.' Note that Bruce doesn't even have a back up like 'the second attack didn't work? we're fucked.'
For everyone else he actually has a coherent plan in mind- do this and they will fall. But for Dick? 'I hope he messes up enough for a second attack to actually stick. Otherwise we're shit out of luck. And lives. Fingers crossed he doesn't jump to the bad side.'
Tim also confirmed he would never make a contingency plan for Dick. The only person in the world he wouldn't do one for.
He's just that formidable of a man. Even now he can easily take down the Justice League if he wanted to.
And we know that Dick has one of the strongest wills on the planet.
"I have my enhancements. I have powers. Dick Grayson...what do you have?"
A world where Dick loses his emotions is a world that would not survive.
#canon#dick grayson#nightwing#bruce wayne#batman#clark kent#superman#midnighter#batfamily#dc comics#thanks for the ask!#tiger#cl anon asks
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ngl though, my personal ideal reverse robins scenario (circa bruce in the timestream era) is batman cass with robin dick--if you want to mirror the initial "bruce isn't thrilled about the new child in his house" dynamic on damian's arrival, cass is the one at the circus that night. but she doesn't watch the graysons die--she watches their son watch them die, sees and feels his grief as viscerally as her own, and swoops into action as black bat... and brings a child home with her. she's always been his batman 🥺 ANYWAY the two of them together as a batman-robin duo is insane. two extreme prodigies with preternatural control and understanding of their bodies, their team up moves would be bonkers. I think dick would idolize cass to extremes but struggle with how she just shuts him down regarding his desire for vengeance on his parents' killer rather than really talking him through it.
damian is and stays nightwing when bruce dies, obviously, although while not quite "battle of the cowl" levels he and cass definitely have a knock down drag out verbal argument about it. so he spends a lot of this era sulking in blüdhaven and working with the titans, who include jon kent, yara flor, and irey west. (how is irey here when her dad is a little baby like dick? idk, speedster timestream shenanigans. bart's furious at her for stealing his future time traveller schtick. or maybe the speedster for damian's era could be avery or ace instead? actually yeah, reversing age on the two wallaces makes much more sense lol. anyway.)
duke upgrades from robin to signal and goes haring off across the globe to track bruce through the timestream (possibly taking spoiler!jason with him?). he (and the rest of the robin gang) had taken up the cause in the wake of steph's (and tim's, more on that later) death, when bruce is spiralling and gotham still needs a light ✨ they're so determined that even getting on batman's badside can't stop them, and finally they wear him down. duke (who knows bruce wayne is batman) is the one bruce thinks of as robin, but riko izzy and the gang are still around. (then jason shows up in purple, and he's inducted into the gang for months before bruce finds out there's ANOTHER teenage vigilante running around.)
tim is an oracle equivalent, but this is the one identity I would actually change the name of; I don't know what I would make it, but oracle specifically is deeply connected to babs for me and I'd like to leave it open for her to take up later. (robin IS deeply connected to dick but it's also been given connections to some of the other robins over the years, so I don't think it's unreasonable to keep it in an au like this, especially for how iconic it is. dick of course still gets a really heartbreaking scene connecting this new hero name back to his mother's nickname for him.) (batgirl is open at this point in and time and babs does hit the streets first on her own and then taken under cass's wing while bruce is dead, obviously.) tim doesn't have babs's talent and ability for being a living information nexus but he does have the tech knowledge and the tactical knowledge to still take on a ~big brother~ style hero persona and run a team a la the birds of prey (I would also not actually make them BoP; I would pull the rest of core four young justice + others he pulls in for various jobs); tim's number one advantage as a hero has always been network building and so I would play off that as much as his tech skill. a la steph's faked death in canon, tim's civilian persona is fake dead in this au, and I lean towards making tim an amputee rather than parapalegic, to facilitate interesting conversations between him and babs down the line after she's paralyzed, about what it means to be a disabled hero and how their situations compare and differ.
when steph gets resurrected and eventually takes on the red hood persona, she doesn't know tim is actually alive, because that's juicy. and extra fodder in her vendetta against bruce. tim starts working with the red hood before either him or steph knows who the other is. yes, they have a weird agressive flirtation going on. yes, it only gets worse once they find out. (yes, tim blows up at bruce when he finds out bruce has known/suspected the red hood's identity for a while.) yes, duke, jason, and dick fucking hate working with the two of them because it's super embarassing to listen to their older brother flirt with a mass murderer.
oh, and I'd make charlie gage-radcliffe the bette kane bat-girl equivalent who's like, relatively removed from all of this but also knew and worked with damian when he was a baby robin and has all of the good dirt and they lowkey hate each other but in a, like, frenemies way
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Sorry to bring back up a concept from a while ago, but I just found all ur stuff on nexus being Dick Grayson and I am going insane over the concept like it FITS honestly I love it so much
If u have any more ideas etc I would obviously love to hear them but dw this isn’t a demand for ur ideas I just wanted to let u know that I appreciate ur au so much and am rotating nexus being dick Grayson in my mind at all times <3
never apologize for bringing up the nexus dick au babe it's my most self-indulgent thing ever and i love it i love it so much
do i care about dark crisis all that much? no not really. it's got some pretty good moments but overall i'm kinda like meh about it. but when the cover art for dark crisis #7 came out oh dear lord
if this isn't nexus dick idk what is
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Look with the nexus dick idea....Mar’i Grayson would have been a powerhouse
she would and she is which I think reinforces the whole thing.
There is so much to play with here. Because Dick is a universal constant and like damn Mar’i is too strong for DC. They’re terrified of her. And Kori. It’s why they aren’t mainstream
(And I think Franklin Richards is a nexus being and if his kids would be more powerful than him like what????)
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Bottom line why the “Tim being fired as Robin was just like Bruce firing Dick, so Dick should’ve known better” thing bothers me so much is it manages to spin things to assume the worst of Dick in all scenarios, while never expecting any of the others to be accountable for their own reactions to being replaced.
What I mean is: if Dick ‘firing’ Tim as Robin and replacing him with Damian is just like Bruce doing the same with Dick and Jason....then why is Tim considered justified in resenting both Damian and Dick for this and holding a grudge for years....but any time Dick is mentioned as having initial animosity towards Jason, its painted as though he should have gotten over it?
Like, look at how mentions of Dick and Jason’s early interactions due to Dick’s rumored animosity to Jason are portrayed in fics....and tell me its anywhere close to as sympathetically rendered as Tim’s resentment towards his own situation is in fics.
Not to mention the facts that Dick didn’t take it out on Jason in canon, and it ISN’T the same as when Bruce fired Dick and made Jason the new Robin without telling him, because Robin WAS Dick’s to give away or share, in a way it never was Bruce’s to do so.
This name that they all have been written as resenting Dick because of, due to how he did or didn’t handle each successive passing of the torch, only EXISTS because of him and his homage to his family. And its so fucked up that the one guy who gets the brunt of the others’ grudges in regards to it, is the one and ONLY person who should have ever had control over its succession in the first place.
Imagine if after Bruce’s parents had been murdered, members of WE’s board of directors bribed people to rob Bruce of his inheritance and control of WE, and had him taken from Alfred and shoved into the system. Imagine if he’d been told Gotham isn’t a good fit for a traumatized kid like him and been taken away from everything he knew and was familiar with and sent to another city to grow up in. If he didn’t have his house anymore, or his belongings, or his parents’ portraits or heirlooms, or anything else that tied him to his parents, his family, the generations that had inhabited his family home before him....imagine if the only thing he had left of all that, the only thing tying him to everything he was ripped away from and not allowed to keep, the only thing he brought with him to this new place he now was expected to grow up in, that he didn’t have to be given by his new guardians....was his mother’s pearl necklace, that let’s say Bruce managed to pocket and hang onto the night they died.
Imagine saying that ANYONE could EVER be justified in taking that pearl necklace, the ONLY thing in this world that is definitively Bruce’s....and giving it away. Demanding he share it or let others wear it. Arguing ‘well its not like you’re wearing it/getting any use out of it/you just keep it lying in a drawer.’
Because that’s what Robin is to Dick. Its his pearl necklace, the only real piece of his family history he could hold onto, that the system couldn’t take away from him, force him to give up.
That’s the thing that’s been passed around and that Dick so often ends up resented for, for having the NERVE to act even slightly possessive of, or like, daring to imagine it might actually be HIS to designate who wears the mantle and when.
Even acknowledging that his brothers have of course added their own bits of family history to it now, does not change the fact that Robin did not exist to BE Batman’s partner. Robin existed because Dick was going to do this whether he had help or not, as we’re so often told in multiple versions of canon, and the only reason Bruce ever let a kid out on the streets to fight crime was because he knew he couldn’t stop him and so figured this was his best chance of keeping him safe. And Robin specifically was the guise and symbolism Dick chose to conduct his own mission in. The name ONLY has meaning because of the meaning it carried for Dick, and that Dick in turn gave to it in the eyes of others.
Like, if you imagine that for a family of entertainers, they saw their life’s work as being about making peoples’ lives a little brighter, lighter, more hopeful after they walked out of their shows than when they’d first walked in......then of course Robin made Batman’s existence brighter, was the light to his darkness, as Tim saw it by the time he became Robin. But not because Dick was TRYING to be that for BATMAN....but because Dick was trying to be that for GOTHAM, period....and Batman by virtue of being at his side, received the most tangible benefits of that.
But that doesn’t mean it was intended that way, it was merely a byproduct due to proximity. And the more the characters and fandom try and cut out Dick as ‘the middle man’ between Batman and their versions of Robin, instead of paying actual acknowledgment to Dick’s place in all of this, the more it ends up that like....this one thing that the member of the Batfamily most INSISTENT on having his own identity outside of Bruce’s partner/shadow/heir, the ONE thing he had that didn’t come from Bruce or the Batfamily, this one thing that was his and his alone, his continuation of his family’s work just in his own new way.....its become like, completely in service to Bruce and his legacy and lineage.
And that’s so...so....blergh.
Robin was Batman’s partner situationally. But Robin was created to connect to a family legacy that only Dick is a nexus point for, because he’s the lynch pin between generations of Flying Graysons and each new sibling to be named Robin.
And to then on top of it try to box Dick out of his connection to it more and more with each succession, like with all the others bearing some kind of grudge or resentment towards the guy who was FORCED to share this in the first place, not even asked, but just EXPECTED to make his peace with it.....and to say that Dick doing this to anyone, at any point, for any reason, could possibly be the same as Bruce taking it and giving it to someone else....
Yeah.....
The other Robins are NOT the victims of Dick’s like....entitled handling of HIS family legacy. They’re just not. There’s no way, shape or form, in which anyone EVER has more of a right to the name, colors and mantle of Robin than Dick himself.
And this isn’t a slight against any of the others at all? It doesn’t make them lesser as Robins, because how could it, if Robin makes them all brothers, makes them family, and the original Robin has always said hey, Robin means family, and that’s how we’re brothers.
Its not about ranking them or anything like that, its simply about context.
Jason has Gotham itself. He’s frequently written both in comics and fanon as though like...he’s OF Gotham in a way that even Bruce isn’t, that he’s part of it, part of the streets of the city, its people, its neighborhoods, in a way that none of the rest of the Batfamily ever can compare to. And the others acknowledge this in various ways, in both canon and fanon.
Tim has Drake Industries, his inheritance from his parents, his family name on tons of buildings all bearing the name Drake due to his first family’s contributions to the city and the footprint they left on it. And again, Tim’s status as the heir of Drake Industries is frequently acknowledged in various ways, in canon and fanon.
Same with Damian’s legacy from his mother’s side and his grandfather - for better or worse, its very much acknowledged as being THERE, and his connection to prior generations, and while Cass would likely be more than glad for more distance between her and reminders of her parents, those connections are everpresent in everyone else’s eyes as much as hers.
Only Dick’s connection to HIS past and and his family’s history is like....CONSISTENTLY claimed and appropriated, without anyone ever thinking this is a problem. Sidelined more and more with each new Robin, as the others’ gripes with Dick over his ‘mishandling’ of HIS family inheritance, essentially, all compound and group together, resulting in Dick’s brothers finding solidarity AGAINST him in the name of like...their issues with how he views HIS freaking legacy.
Siiiiiiiiiiiigh.
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Final Crisis
CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #12
MARCH 1986
BY MARV WOLFMAN, GEORGE PEREZ, JERRY ORDWAY, TOM ZIUKO AND TOM MCCRAW (RE-COLORED VERSION)
SYNOPSIS (FROM DC DATABASE)
In Brainiac's starship, Dolphin, Captain Comet, Rip Hunter, Animal Man, the Atomic Knight, and Adam Strange convince the reviving robot that his memory was tampered with to make him forget the Crisis. Admitting that his power is inadequate to battle the Anti-Monitor, he sets course for the world of a more powerful being. On Earth, the Anti-Monitor's visage is seen in the skies all over the globe. He repeats that the Earth is now in the anti-matter universe. His past victories over positive universes are meaningless, he says, because of the super-heroes' efforts to stop him. When he lists Supergirl and the Flash as casualties, Kid Flash demands to know what has happened.
The Supermen scan the globe and watch the populace panicking. Harbinger appears, and teleports them to a chosen destination, then gathers Dr. Light from Japan, leaving Sunburst to defend the island. When Dr. Light states that she caused Supergirl's death, Harbinger replies that the battle had already killed Supergirl, and that the Anti-Monitor's final attack merely gave her a swift death. In the skies, the darkness splits into a million shadow demons, which begin an all-out attack on humanity, and the super-heroes mass to resist them. The Global Guardians team with other heroes to free their native lands from the threat, but the demons' numbers seem endless. The Phantom Stranger summons Dr. Mist to help revive the Spectre who lies comatose. Below, Harbinger has gathered a large group of heroes, along with Pariah and Alex, to lead a final assault on their nemesis. Alex creates a bridge between universes, and they depart near Apokolips.
Brainiac's ship goes into stationary orbit, and he and his guests teleport to the planet, where Darkseid appears and introduces himself.
Back on Earth, the majority of the heroes are still battling the demons. The Dove is slain by a shadow-being as his brother watches in horror.
In Dr. Fate's Salem tower, the magically powered heroes have gathered to pool their shamanistic might. The Earth-2 Green Lantern and Dr. Occult form the nexus of their energy.
On Qward, in the anti-matter universe, Harbinger and the heroes have arrived in the Anti-Monitor's old headquarters. Kid Flash insists on joining them because of his mentor's demise. Suddenly, an image of the Flash appears to him—the last one Barry cast before his death. Wally follows the afterimage to where an insane Psycho-Pirate clutches at an empty uniform. Kid Flash knocks him out, and realizes that Barry Allen is truly dead when Lady Quark finds his ring. Pariah informs them that a great concentration of evil lies before them. They follow to find a towering Anti-Monitor, ready for the final slaughter.
In Atlantis, Aquaman leads his underwater legions against the shadows. Lori Lemaris saves a trapped Mera with a force beam. A demon closes in on her and kills her. In Chicago, Green Arrow of Earth-2 is killed by a shadow. In Philadelphia, Cyborg, the Son of Vulcan, the Vigilante, and the New Wildcat continue rescue operations.
In New Orleans, Shade the Changing Man witnesses the death of Prince Ra-Man. In Skartaris, Travis Morgan leads his forces against the black menaces. In Gotham City, both Clayface II and the Bug-Eyed Bandit perish at the hands of the demons. In Salem, the tide finally turns. The supernatural crusaders send their combined force in a net of energy to gather the demons from the Earth's surface, and bind them helpless in space. Over the Earth, lives have been lost, including those of Kole, Huntress, and Robin, but other lives have been saved. For a moment, the survivors can take stock.
On Qward, the Supermen of Earth 1 and 2, Captain Atom, Lady Quark, Firehawk, Wonder Woman, and other tarot's strike at the Anti-Monitor, but he ignores their blows, feeding on the energy of a nearby star, As Dr Light absorbs the energy of one of the binary suns they are between, the Anti-Monitor feels his power draining away. Alex begins to drain the anti-matter energy away from their enemy. Negative Woman uses her negative-self to bind the Anti-Monitor and inhibit him: then Harbinger leads all the energy-producing heroes against him, Dr. Light blasts him with the energy of a sun, and he falls into the ruins of his fortress. Alex creates a dimensional hole, large enough to enclose the Earth and return it to its proper universe. The heroes follow. The ball of bound demons hover and then fall on the fallen enemy. Thus, the Anti-Monitor absorbs his slaves energies and rises again, while the heroes start to give battle. Wonder Woman is caught in a withering flash of power, and is borne away to an unknown destination. Superman of Earth-1 and Lady Quark vow deadly revenge, but Kal-L knocks them out, and tells Superboy to take them back. Since he has no world and no wife to return to, the elder Superman has the least to lose. Then he confronts the monstrous Anti-Monitor, and batters him. Superboy sends Superman and Lady Quark back through Alex's shrinking body, and turns to aid him. Superman continues his one-man war against the Anti-Monitor, striking telling blows, while the villain, his power waning, absorbs more energy from the anti-cosmos, and blasts him and Superboy. Darkseid, watching the conflict on a viewscreen, proclaims his planet to be endangered if the Anti-Monitor survives, sends a power burst at him through Alex's eyes. The enemy, devastated, is hurled into the core of one of the binary suns. Superman, Superboy, and Alex are stunned to see the spectre of their enemy rising from the sun. Superman smashes into his foe's fiery body, scattering him: the remains fall back into the sun and the star begins to implode.
They bravely await the end and Superman wishes that Lois could have lived to see their triumph. At that, Alex produces Lois from a void-pocket in his body where she had been sent to wait. She tells her husband that she had been to a tranquil world. Alex cannot return them to Earth but he can take them all to this beautiful world. Superman, Lois, and Superboy opt for that choice. The foursome vanish seconds before the exploding sun would have reached them.
Back on Earth, Lyla is explaining facets of the Crisis to Pariah and Lady Quark. Wonder Woman was returned to the clay which Aphrodite and Athena had given life, then spread across Paradise Island.
Time then continued to reverse itself, as the Amazons were returned to their original homeland before they fled Man's World. Zeus brought the homeless Wonder Woman of Earth-2 and her husband Steve Trevor to Olympus, where they could live peacefully. The bodies of Robin of Earth-2, the Huntress, and Kole were never found. All those who died were mourned. In Keystone City, Jay Garrick determined that Kid Flash's illness was in remission, his body chemistry being changed by a blast from the Anti-Monitor. He could again move at super-speed, though only to a maximum of Mach-1. Wally donned Barry Allen's uniform, and announced, "From this day forth — the Flash lives again!"
The Great Disaster will not exist in the Earth's future, but a lost child will be found in Command D. adopted by General Horatio Tomorrow of the Planeteers, and named Thomas. Jonah Jex will be torn from his era to fight in the future, while the Guardians of the Universe must face the first division in their ranks. Thus, Lyla concludes her tale, and Lady Quark and Pariah ask her to help them explore their new homeworld. They leave with her, honoring the memory of their benefactor, the Monitor. And, in Arkham Asylum, the staff discuss a new patient who seems beyond help, straitjacketed in a rubber-lined room. Roger Hayden, formerly Psycho-Pirate, gibbers about Earths beyond numbers, the Anti-Monitor, and the memories, which only he had been allowed to keep.
NOTORIOUS DEATHS IN THIS ISSUE
Anti-Monitor
Dove
Green Arrow (Earth-2)
Huntress
Kole
Robin (Dick Grayson, Earth-2)
Sunburst
Bug-Eyed Bandit
Clayface II (Matt Hagen)
Lori Lemaris
Ten Eyed Man
REVIEW
The ending of Crisis is the only part of it that remains canon after it (as it happened on new earth). Although many things about it will not remain (no one will remember the multiverse, not even the ones that survived it). Same will apply to deaths like Huntress, who will be completely replaced post-crisis.
So, was it worth it? Absolutely. Wolfman’s idea of rebooting the universe every 10 years would have been a great idea, but sales will not always allow for it (this is the reason DC was never able to do a complete reboot, you don’t fix what isn’t broken, namely Batman, Legion of Super-Heroes and the Green Lantern Corps).
As for its legacy, this event is the father of all events. Cross-overs and team-ups have been plenty, not only at DC, since the Golden Age. And while there have been similar events in 1982 and 1984 over at Marvel, they barely had any impact (Spider-symbiote being the one thing to remember). Crisis was a whole different thing. But sadly, it happened at DC, that means that not all the opportunities will be taken seriously.
Crisis offered the chance of a blank slate, but instead, the relaunch was sloppy and as a result, the universe required a soft reboot less than 10 years later. Crisis tie-ins are a good demonstration of how slow DC was to react to what they were doing. They do not match the chapter of the month.
Another interesting example is Wally West, who was restored in the end, with a slower speed, and became the Flash. However, it would take more than a year for Wally to take on his own book. This coincided with Justice League International and the end of Legends. Wonder Woman suffered the same delay as well. There were no plans to what would happen afterwards, because DC wasn’t fully aware of what they just did. They were too busy closing down titles, and the reaction to restart everything was delayed, sometimes by more than 5 years. Fortunately, the man of steel would end the year with one of his most emblematic runs.
As for the story itself, the science makes little sense, but I am willing to forgive those flaws. The essence of the event was to revisit the DCU history, to streamline everything and to showcase every single character they had. It was supposed to launch in 1983, but it had to wait until the 50th anniversary (while a long research had to be done to figure out the full DCU history). This story accomplishes that. The tie-ins... not so much. But Crisis as a story works very well. Without tie-ins.
There is a lot of love poured into it as well, and you can tell. Those final sequences with Alex Luthor, Kal-L, Lois and Superboy-Prime are beautiful and sad at the same time (again, DC would shoot themselves in the foot by desecrating that ending in 2005, but that’s a story for another time).
You cannot imagine another penciler for this story either. George Perez is the god of team-ups. Since then, he had some replacements, most notoriously, Phil Jimenez, but in 1985, it was pretty much him. And the art is so beautiful, and so meaningful, Crisis on Infinite Earths became on of the greatest achievements in comic-book history.
Jerry Ordway had to step in after Giordano and DeCarlo, for reasons I do not know. He was the perfect choice for this event. His style adds some clarity to Perez style, where Tanghal wouldn’t have dared to modify too much. As a result, you get an interesting hybrid. Ordway’s realistic faces, with Perez crazy layouts and detailed backgrounds.
The art in general is something to admire over and over. That scene where the shadow demons break apart and darkness becomes sky... that’s Michael Bay High Octane shit. You are basically watching a disaster movie.
Some of the deaths in this story mean nothing. Losing Green Arrow from Earth-2 or Helena Wayne will not have an impact. But they can seriously affect some readers.
One thing I didn’t mention before, was that New Genesis was actually part of the Crisis, as Darkseid only cloaked Apokolips, but apart from Crisis #10, I haven’t seen anything happening over there in other books.
Now, which version should you buy? All of them.
I grew up reading the spanish adaptation, which was pretty much the original with translated text. Then I bought 1998′s slipcase, which was already re-colored. I really think this one was the best as the wrap-around cover has the full Alex Ross painting. 2015′s deluxe edition includes the History of the DCU, with a new cover by George Perez. Perhaps this one adds more value. There is also a very expensive edition coming at the end of the year that includes all the tie-ins, but as you may have read, not all tie-ins are good or worthy of reading with this saga.
Then I actually recommend the digital version, as this book is so beautiful, you don’t even want to touch it.
I give this story a score of 10
#alex ross#george perez#dc comics#comics#review#1986#modern age#crisis on infinite earths#harbinger#anti-monitor#the monitor#superman#superboy-prime#the flash#kid flash#wally west
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Remember Dick being a Nexus? This is a fanfic that kinda plays with the same idea, I thought you would enjoy :D "It's a simulation" by queenofquarrantine
oh holy shit a 100k word fic about nexus dick grayson??? i know what i'm reading this weekend, thanks vv much for this babe
#this is. sO incredible. so many kudos to the author already#i just think that nexus!dick-#nexus dick grayson
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I don't think I've read enough comics to confirm this (and if I'm wrong, screw DC, I'm right), but I belive Dick is a Nexus being. This is completely based on the one comic where Bruce is like "and did this world corrupt dick grayson? Is he better where you're from?" and Clark is like "Nah, he the same. He great here and there". And nexus being's are a thing from Marvel where they're the same across all universes. And like. I just think Dick being one would be neat. Cause he's technically Normal
WAIT BABE YES
i actually love that marvel made nexus beings a thing. i mean, granted, they can single-handedly affect the timestream, and can majorly screw things up if they wanted to. but also, they’re fucking anchor points for the entire multiverse. they’re the reason the multiverse doesn’t dissolve into chaos, simply by being alive and being themselves. they also have that thing where, if they have children, those children are usually unbelievably powerful, and might i remind everyone that jake grayson in new order was basically god.
anyway, i love the idea of dick being a nexus being so goddamn much. i don’t usually like to mix marvel and dc, but this is a situation where i very much would like to. it throws the “universal constant” thing and the “catalyst of change” thing in an entirely new light, and it makes it make even more sense.
and your point about him being “technically Normal” is actually super interesting to bring up!! because marvel’s nexus beings are, like, scarlet witch, vision, jean grey, odin, and motherfucking MERLIN. (i don’t acutally remember all of them, sorry, those are just the ones i could think of off the top of my head.) those all have something very obvious in common: they’re fuckin powerful beings. and dick is,,,,,human. he’s human. and it’s been a while since i’ve dusted off my knowledge of marvel lore, but i don’t think him being a nexus being would impact him being human in any major way.
his humanity, his ability to face down laughably steep odds with nothing but the sheer stubbornness and determination in his tiny little well-trained but human body, is what makes dick grayson,,,,dick grayson. so the idea of this very much human man being someone that’s an anchor point for the multiverse??? and monstly DUE TO THE FACT that he’s human?? aghhhhhh that’s some poetic shit right there.
anyway thank you so goddamn much for this idea i loved it i loved it i loved it. if i force myself to read some marvel comics and remind myself about the details of nexus beings sometimes soon, i may write a little hc/fic thing about this, that’s how much i loved it.
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Do you think if the Flash went to another timeline, he would want to visit a nexus being just to feel some sort of familiarity of his universe?
oh god yea that would be,,,,heartbreakingly real babe.
i'm not entirely sure about barry, because as much as yja fandom loves to talk about dick growing up at barry and iris' house and calling barry "uncle barry" and stuff, as far as i've read canonically (which again may be wrong i'm in no way a comics encyclopedia) dick has a healthy respect, appreciation, and fondness for the hero who treats wally as an equal. not much beyond that though. so barry may seek out a nexus being if he was particularly close to one, but in marvel lore, there's only supposed to be one nexus being per universe, and this little au we have going on has dick grayson as the nexus being.
wally though? oh god yes. i can see wally as the flash, right after barry died, still on the titans and still on shaky footing in this new mantle, trapped in an alternate universe for the first time and being terrified. everyone he knows took two steps backward and shifted slightly to the left, enough so that he recognizes them but doesn't know them. he's lost, he's sinking, he's drowning.
i'm not sure how he stumbles across dick. maybe he's searching for the titans, and finds nightwing at the tower first. maybe he's drawn to nexus beings in particular. maybe the speedforce wanted to guide one of their few chosen heroes to someone that they knew would help wally get back home. whatever happens, wally finds dick, and practically melts in relief.
because dick's the same, he's the exact fucking same. sure, the scar on his jaw is missing and there's a new, angry looking one streaking down his bicep. sure, he doesn't fiddle with his thumbs anymore and scrapes his teeth against each other instead. sure, he doesn't remember some of the things wally tells him and asks about events that wally knows never happened.
but his hugs are the same and his easy smile is the same and it feels like his goddamn soul is the same, and in a world where it feels like wally's a ghost walking straight through people he swore he used to know, dick is a breath of fresh air and wally is venus, desperately floundering her way to the sea's surface.
(it's a little difficult to leave that universe once he finds out how to go back to his own, because he'd grown oddly attached to the dick in this world in a way that he wasn't with the dick in his world. but he shrugs it off, gives dick a smirk and a pun, and runs as fast as he can to sink into the warm familiarity of his own home again.)
#is this birdflash? should i tag this as birdflash?#it was supposed to be platonic#fuck.#well someone comment or something if you want me to tag it as birdflash#i have a pretty rigorous tagging system and i want everything in its proper place#the flash#wally west#barry allen#dick grayson#nightwing#dc#nexus beings#i've been asked to tag as birdflash#birdflash
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zatanna said the word anchor point, and that's where she lost dick. anchor points and multiversal constants and universal stability. galaxies shattering into pieces behind his eyelids before swirling together tighter and more whole, before dick would inevitably wake, the lights from that goddamn recurring dream still flashing in his mind.
constantine was looking at him with sympathy, pity. dick wanted to wipe that look off his face with bleach. with acid. he normally wouldn't consider fighting john constantine, since he's always been able to sense the sheer power bubbling under the man's drunken and sloppy exterior. though, apparently, that ability to sense was what could possibly give him the edge in the fight he was imagining, but would never happen.
there were only a few people in the room, but someone would rip him off the man. maybe clark, whose features were painted with worry and concern. that, and the lights from the galaxies outside the watchtower windows, the eternity of the galaxy covering the entire room in a gentle wash that dick had been able to ignore for all of his life, excluding the past couple of hours. maybe diana, who was starting to look at dick with a bit of fear. not of him, but for him, and for everybody else. dick couldn't blame her. she had more than enough experience with powerful men who made themselves god. the only difference was that dick would rather let himself burn up from the flame that was inside of him before becoming whatever they said he was.
it's not about becoming, raven whispered in his mind. her presence was gentle, familiar. it took a certain length of self control for dick not to latch onto her, about the length of rope needed to make a noose. you already are. there are no new powers or abilities or anything that will happen to you. you always were a nexus being, and you always will be. it's just a part of you.
"just a part of him." just a part of him? like how wally's slowly failing heart had just been a part of him? or how jason's pit-induced fits of rage were just a part of him? or how cass' assassin training she fell back on no matter how hard she tried to override it was just a part of her?
bruce hadn't said anything. actually, zatanna had stopped talking, not that dick had been fully listening in the first place, and everyone was lost in their own quiet thoughts. but bruce's silence had been the most stomach-churning, the most horrific.
dick knew bruce didn't like metas. knew it because of the sighs he used to make due to the league's foolishness back when dick was robin, running a hand through dick's ruffled hair and telling him he was so glad you're not like them, dick, they're exhausting. he knew it because of bruce's fury every time someone powerful fought in gotham and destroyed the city, rubble on the ground as they went off, completely unconcerned of the damage they left behind. he knew it because of the extensive files in the batcomputer detailing each league-affiliated and known meta's weakness, or how their strength could be flipped like a playing card, until dick was almost convinced being a meta made one weaker. (according to bruce, it did.)
bruce didn't like metas. and dick wasn't a meta, but no one knew what he was anyway. no one but the magic users, whose vague explanations told them they weren't really sure what he was either.
"you're connected to the universe, dick," zatanna sighed. "the multiverse comes together in you. and as much as i don't like it, we need you."
all eyes were on him. dick was looking at his feet, but he could still feel them. that was one of his new "powers," right? knowledge of the multiverse? a gross misuse and bitter accusation, dick knew. but he couldn't get the fear out of his mind, and fear left unchecked grew fuzzy with mold until it disintegrated into anger.
"you need me?" dick said hoarsely. "the multiverse, what, comes together in me? you do realize what utter bullshit that sounds like?"
"i know it don't seem all that good, but trust me," constantine said. "it's a thing. it's real. you are one."
"you said these people are supposed to be beings of power," dick argued back. "so why aren't you a nexus being? or raven? or fucking ra's al ghul. i'm sure as hell not a being of power. i'm human."
"i suppose that's exactly what makes you one," diana murmured. "i have met many powerful men in my life. i've found the ones that i respected the most were the ones that were most in touch with their humanity."
this was crazy. this was crazy. dick felt like the particles that came together to make him were blowing away in confusion until he was one big cloud of unrecognizable light, before he was scattered in every direction. how the hell was he supposed to be one of the things that kept the universe together when he couldn't even keep his own damn self together?
avoiding bruce wasn't working. dick just felt like he was about to fray at the edges. so, gathering up his courage, dick turned to face the man and quietly, in a voice more delicate than china, said, "b?"
batman didn't look at him. batman didn't even look up. but batman did speak.
"alternate universe superman. he called you the multiversal constant. the one thing he could depend on."
out of the corner of his eye, dick could see clark nodding a little.
bruce continued. "you named yourself after a mythological figure who was known as the catalyst of change. or the great rebuilder. and kryptonians we've met have said how well you embody the role."
"it's...it's just a name, bruce."
"you, of all people, know it's not," clark said.
"so what am i supposed to do, huh?" dick whirled around. "fight this battle zee's recruiting me for that's entirely above my skill level. become some sort of, what did you say, universal anchor? i don't know the first thing about this shit, and i don't know what it'll do to me!"
"you're scared," bruce said, always willing to cut right to the chase with everyone but himself.
dick didn't answer.
"raven, establish a mental link between me and nightwing."
raven nodded, then with a flutter of her hands, dick felt a presence inside his head. it scared him to realize how easily he accepted it, how easily he had always accepted it. he never understood how unusual that was until now.
of course i'm scared, dick whispered into the mind link. i've gone my entire life knowing exactly who i was, what i could do, what i strive to be. and in the span of one day, that's all gone.
then what do you plan to do about it? bruce asked.
he said it so simply, so easily. like discovering something this monumental about himself was just another tricky case or difficult puzzle to solve. dick would have an easier time plucking each and every star in the galaxy and making a mosiac out of them.
raven's hood was lowered, but dick could still feel her eyes on him. constantine's features were still dripping in pity, zee looked imploring. diana was looking at him with hesitating acceptance, bruce was unreadable as always.
but clark. clark was looking at him with steady eyes and and a kind smile. he looked knowing, quietly vindicated. it was as if he'd known there was something...off about dick. something two hopscotches and a backbend away from "special," but close enough. something that had led to clark giving dick a piece of his people's legacy, and trusting him to fulfill it to the best of his ability.
clark wasn't scared of him at all. but clark couldn't make up for bruce.
"will you help?" zatanna asked.
everything inside dick was itching to say yes. jumping at the chance to help his friends, aching to be useful. it was a response he'd carefully cultivated years ago, and pushing it down was an almost physical ache.
but the stardust behind his eyes wasn't so easily forgotten. the hook behind his navel that seemed to drag him into the fabric of a universe that dick couldn't comprehend still dug into him. the world was spinning and the stars were turning and the earth was tumbling over itself, all of them in an effort to stop their twisting and turning and to right themselves once and for all. but dick wasn't moving. dick was completely, utterly still.
"i don't know," he said.
Dick Grayson Anniversary Week ‘21, Day 6: Universal Constant
"i don't know," the author says, because she truly has no idea what the fuck she just wrote. i started imagining nexus dick grayson and this just spilled out onto the page. it makes absolutely no sense, but there are some nice sentences in there that i don't want to get rid of, so hopefully yall can somewhat make sense of this ramen soup of a fic.
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I read a fic a while ago where every time dick dies the day starts over. Imagine that but part of the nexus AU. Because think about it - if Dick is an important being tethering reality in place, there’s bound to be some safe guards to keep him from dying before his time. ESPECIALLY if there was some other powerful mystic being purposely setting up situations dick could die in. (Like maybe it wasn’t just coincidence that Zucco chose that family/circus to attack. Maybe dick was meant to die with his parents) and then when he did die with them, the day started again. Maybe every year on the anniversary of their death is the day that the universes align to allow some meddling. Every year dick nearly/does die on that same day. Maybe his “respawns” are running out and the deity watching over him is trying to get him to recognize the pattern before it’s too late. Or not. Idk.
wait oh my god babe i've read that fic hold on—
found it!! thank god for ao3's tagging and bookmark system. here it is for anyone who wants to read it
i really do like this idea, it fits in with the whole "universal/multiversal anchor point" that goes with nexus beings. i think i've mentioned on another nexus au post that in most dc universes, when dick dies, that world goes to shit. it can't really keep going without a nexus being in it, so it just,,,,collapses in on itself lmao. injustice, earth 3, dceased, off the top of my head.
so instead, he just,,,,respawns and lives the day over again so he doesn't die. in the fic, he remembers each day, so he's able to prevent his death (and/or, in an angst-filled scenario, a loved one's death).
this, however, is sorta veering into dick being a bit of a magical being though, and part of why i like the dick grayson nexus au is that, despite being a nexus being, he's just straight up human and doesn't have any powers. on the other hand, the angst potential for this is amazing and explored so well in the above fic. gotta figure out a way to balance the two somehow,,,,
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reverse batfam is coool , but add a littlr bit of spice and make it nexus!dick too , and somehow someone in the fam or all the fam discover it , and like should they tellvthat 8 years old baby about it ?
oooooooooooh now that's certainly an idea babe
whenever i think reverse robins batfam, my mind usually goes to bruce, then damian as the eldest, steph and tim around the same age with steph as a version of red hood and tim as a version of oracle, then cass, then jason, then finally little dickie
i feel like tim would be the first to figure it out, honestly?? he's probably the most connected to the larger jl world, especially since he's super close with the supers, the flashes, and somewhat even the amazons (kon, bart, cassie). bruce, tim, and maybe damian have heard about nexus beings from visitors from another universe or aliens, but tim's probably the first to suspect dick is one bc of either possible experiences with other universes or things he's dug up with his Computer Skillz.
still gotta flesh out some ideas and characterization for everyone here, but i think he'd tell bruce, which is how damian would find out. and they'd elect not to tell baby dick about it because he is a Child and shouldn't have to deal with the potential pressure of being a nexus being. maybe they tell cass and jason down the line, and the two of them elect to treat dick as Normal As Possible, as opposed to the elders' slight overprotectiveness
idkkkk i'll have to think on it but this is such a cool idea omg. i'm always a sucker for reverse aus, so this concept is Particularly Interesting!
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My friend, I would personally love more Dick as a nexus being au stuff! What if he had a power like Ciri's from the Witcher games where he could use the nexus to go to other worlds. Just one problem: he doesn't know how to control this power or what triggers it, so there is a very tense but funny period of time where he keeps going "poof" and Zatanna and Constantine need to go and fetch him from random places and he meets up with other versions of friends like 1966 batman and hilarity ensues!
hello hello hello babe!
thank you thank you ("i would also love more nexus dick au stuff" i say to myself lmao)
and ahhhhhhhhhhhhh yes yes yes i LOVE that idea!!! i've never actually played the witcher games, but what i'm getting at here is that the basic concept is dimension hopping? dimension jumping? since he's kinda a focal/anchor point for the multiverse, he can travel through the multiverse to other versions of himself
now, when he does that, are there going to be two dick graysons running around in that universe? is he just going to temporarily take over the other dick's body? interesting to think about
also yes yes YES him just poofing into random universes and needing the other magic-users to help him get back home is utter hilarity. imagine him popping into the 1997 batman and robin movie dear god. dick poofing into the gotham by gaslight universe and being like me, jason, and tim together on the streets???? dear god kill me now (but also loving it a little). also if we adhere to the concept of parallel realities as written in the dc universe, then technically that means one of the realities dick could pop into on accident is one of our fanfictions. please imagine dick somehow finding himself in a 30k tim drake whump + hurt/comfort fic with main supporting character Magically Redeemed Jason Todd.
this is. a top tier idea i love it
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So now i imagine like zatanna and constantine totally panicking at dick" death" , because thing are about to ho baaaddd , and when they see thing still like not apocalyptic they are suspicious , or even discover the secret
It set in nexus au
ok but that would be hilarious babe.
imagine all the powerful (good) magic users in the dc universe getting together: zatanna, constantine, dr fate, idfk tim hunter or whatever his name was, etc. because they know for sure dick’s a nexus being, thought they’re still a little iffy on whether or not he’s magical or anything. and they need to make a plan in case something ever happens to dick, because the death of one multiversal constant could mean massive instability for their world, and could maybe even affect others. and that cannot happen.
but then dick dies. and every magic user collectively freaks.
because yes, yes, nightwing was a wonderful hero that they’d all helped or had help from or at least met at one point. hell, he’s someone constantine genuinely thinks is a decent person, and someone he respects. but that’s second to the fact that dick was a nexus being and that he was (unknowingly) responsible for keeping the universe anchored, and now he’s dead. who knows what sort of threats or general b a d s t u f f would happen now that he was gone? the magic users prepare themselves, even consider warning the justice league.
and,,,,,,,,,,nothing happens. nothing at all. it’s as if not a single thing changed. so first of all, they’re sure they’re missing something. maybe those evil forces are biding their time and planning something? maybe the speedsters noticed the multiversal instability and are handling it with their incomprehensible speedforce bs? when that proves false, they consider that the protective force that dick provided was still in affect. he may have cast a spell or protection charm or something to keep the world running okay in the event of his death. when that doesn’t pan out, they start wondering if there’s another nexus being around. it’s improbable, because they most likely would’ve met them before, but not impossible. but they search and search and can’t find anything.
so if dick grayson was the one (unconsciously) protecting the world, and after he died, the world was still being protected, then that means dick’s still alive.
anyway, yea, i’ve become entirely too invested in the dc magic community frantically attempting to work together to deal with/help/cover up for nexus!dick for a person who honestly doesn’t know shit about the dc magic community aside from the basics.
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Dick being a dramatic bitch and saying stuff like “alas, I can not go back to Gotham. For I, a plexus spexus Texas being now count as a meta. Bruce would never accept me. I can never return. My family has shunned me!”
“Shut the fuck up” -Jason
i want you to know that i spent a good 10 minutes wheezing over “plexus spexus texas being” so thank you for that babe.
and listen. listen. i know this was supposed to be funny. i actually laughed when i saw this. i was imagining dick doing his dramatic ass faint on the ground, complete with a hand thrown across his face like a middle schooler taking drama for the first time and playing a victorian noblewoman in an itchy dress and trying to sell said noblewoman’s grief and longing.
but just think about the implications behind this.
because bruce has made his no-meta rule pretty clear. duke is an exception to the rule, but he’d been a meta for a while. bruce knew that when he took duke in, he was prepared for it. on the other hand, bruce had spent decades believing dick was just a normal human, and so now for him to suddenly be a nexus being? not even a meta, because metas were known variables. dick was a nexus being. somewhat like being gay and being terrified to come out, because even though your parents/guardians are ok with other gay people, it’s different when it’s your child.
or maybe this was before duke, and there were no metas in the batfam at all.
can you imagine how terrified dick would be? because bruce would handle the situation terribly, of course he would. his paranoia would lead him to both imagine how much danger dick was in and how much danger dick was.
on one hand, dick was a nexus being. bruce was still figuring out what that meant, but it left no doubt in his mind that dick was important. he was valuable, and that put a target on his back, much greater than robin or nightwing or even batman ever had. people would try to use him or manipulate him, and even though both his training and dick’s experiences have taught him well, some part of bruce that will always see dick as a 9 year old slip of a thing sitting on bruce’s shoulders is terrified for his kid.
on the other hand, dick was a nexus being. he’d never shown any power or inclination towards power before, and he was certainly steering clear of it now. but nexus beings were incredibly powerful by design, and that wasn’t something dick could just ignore or turn off. bruce didn’t even know if dick could access anything remotely magical-ability-like. (because remember, nexus beings is something you are, not something you can do, but bruce doesn’t know that. for all he knows, dick could be superman and zatanna combined.) he immediately starts thinking of contingency plans for dick, because there was the off-chance that he could hurt the justice league. he could hurt any of bruce’s other kids, and even if it was an accident, bruce wouldn’t be willing to take that chance.
and dick knows this. he knows how bruce thinks and the lengths he would go to protect his family, even though it would kill him to show up. but a small part of him would worry, wondering if this meant he wouldn’t be welcome in gotham anymore. wondering if this meant his family was scared of him. the titans were well-versed in powerful beings by now, and dick would probably stay with them for a little bit, but his family was gotham. tim still flinched every time jason made a sudden movement, despite the two of them getting along recently. would that become him?
anyway, the potential for a n g s t is just so much in this au. i’m sorry for taking your joke and turning it into feels, but to be fair,,,,,,,,,,,,,,yea no i don’t have an excuse i’m sorry.
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ldfgkdjngndfkgd the magic users knowing and not telling Dick is so funny. even funnier is all the magic users (good and bad) being mildly terrified of dick because. no way he can be normal, right? that's an act, right??? He's faking it. and what kind of freak is ultra powerful but pretends to be NORMAL? That has to be some next level, reverse psychology, jedi shit. and then. then at the same time everyone else finds out that Dick is a nexus being, the magic users find out he really is normal.
it really is hilarious isn’t it babes
all the magic users are all slightly on edge with all of the bats, because there is absolutely no way they are the way they are without at least some supernatural element. i mean come on! red hood is built like a brick shithouse and has more guns on his person than batman has children and yet you don’t hear a single noise when he moves unless he wants you to. each member of the fam is uniquely terrifying, so there’s no way they aren’t magic, right?
i feel like that’s just a thing within the magic dc community. they all think the bats are supernatural in some sense, but you just can’t mention it.
anyway, i’m not sure how the magic users would know dick was a nexus being. maybe they can sense how stable and anchoring his aura is? or they can see how in tune he is with the multiverse? either way, if you’re a magic user worth your salt, then you can see ripples and shifts in the multiverse, and once you meet nightwing, you can immediately sense his presence in said multiverse.
so they’re like:
a) is a member of the batfam
2) does creepy shit like breathe fire and swallow knives to distract enemies
iii) is an anchor point in the multiverse
and come to the conclusion that dick is a magic being and he most certainly knows it and manipulates it to support his identity and stuff. and they think he’s pulling that weird jedi reverse stuff, but also they’ve met nightwing. no way could whatever he’s doing be overly malicious or harmful. so then they come to the stunning conclusion that the reason they don’t see dick use his powers all that often or the reason he only uses his powers to hide his powers is because he is so goddamn powerful that him using his powers would be catastrophic and he’s doing it for the greater good of the universe.
dick, meanwhile, is just a Normal Dude who happens to be a bit bendier than most people. and he has absolutely no idea about any of this.
when it finally comes out, probably during a multiversal crisis that has all the big names in the dcu involved. barry probably fucked something up on accident, clark probably made it worse. anyway, whatever happened led to the discovery of dick grayson being a nexus being.
and just the chaos that would cause. jesus christ on a corn tortilla, it would be the funniest thing ever. the batfman’s freaking out over the fact that dick’s a nexus being, what the hell does that mean, how the hell does this affect every interaction he’s had with them. the speedsters are probably all i knew it!! because both wally and barry have spent enough time with dick grayson to be like “hm. something’s a little odd.” and then just shrug and go on with their lives. same with supes, probably. people who don’t know dick grayson that well would be spazzing over the fact that nexus beings exist, and that a normal human is one of them. and the magic people? “HE WAS COMPLETELY NORMAL AND HUMAN THIS ENTIRE TIME??? WHAT?????”
this is a truly incredible concept and i love it so much.
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