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silverwhittlingknife · 2 years

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nightwing secret files | nightwing 139

so in nightwing secret files and origins, there's a hurt/comfort storyline called "lost pages: teen titans." dick's robin and he's grieving for his parents and having a hard time, and he's gone off on his own, and wally comes and finds him. and then in nightwing 139, there's a hurt/comfort story where tim's robin, and he's grieving and he's gotten kidnapped and tempted into trying to resurrect his loved ones, and dick comes and finds him.

both of these comics are wonderful & i would now like to share my favorite parallels.

brooding over memories:

anger turning into tears:

outstretched hand of affection:

teary removal of mask:

hugs and family:

anyway i love these stories separately but i also love all the little ways they echo each other <333

#i really love post-crisis nightwing comics you guys #something something paying it forward #history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme #dick grayson #tim drake #dick & tim #this is a little hard to articulate and obviously the storylines are very different but there's still something compelling to me here #both about dick and tim's similarities and about the role of friendship in their lives #one aspect of dick and tim's brotherhood that i like a lot is that in some ways in his relationship with tim #dick is often the kind of friend that his titans friends have been to him - and i find those parallels really moving #often he's got an instinct for the right thing to say or do because tim's dealing with things he's been through before #and he also ends up kinda low-key revisiting some of his own issues because tim has a bunch of the same ones #because their issues are so similar dick's attitude toward tim is sometimes kind of a proxy for his attitude toward his younger self #like in graduation day when he's being hard on tim in pretty much the exact ways he's hard on himself #and donna's pushing him to be more understanding but of course that's the precise thing that dick's bad at doing #because he doesn't know how to cut himself any slack ever about anything #which makes it doubly touching to me when he gets past that #because it's not just about extending grace to tim but also to himself #which is really hard because it's really hard for dick to forgive himself for anything #so it's the collision of his uncompromising attitude toward himself and his love for tim #and the love always wins in the end *cries*#parallels

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