Dick Grayson Torrid Affair with Nightwing (NOT CLICKBAIT)
All it takes is one stupid comment at one society event for Gotham's news media to get the wrong idea and run with it. Of course, they might've let it drop if Dick hadn't proceeded to rent a proverbial back-hoe and keep digging himself deeper.
OR
Five times the Gotham Media thinks it knows what's going on with Dick's love life, and the one time they (mostly) get it right
Chapter One -- Not so far from the tree: Wayne's Wards Wasted at Wildlife White-tie
in which a trip to the Gotham Zoo sparks a rumour and Dick puts his foot in his mouth with admirable flexibility
commenting on fanfics you like is so meaningful to the authors, I literally got an email notification of a comment on a fic I hadn't touched in five years and the comment made me want to revisit it so I went back and revised the existing material and wrote three new chapters and updated for the first time in forever all because someone took a few seconds to comment on the fic
I drew one of the scenes from the rp story @lychee-not-dead-yet and I have going on :3
Context: Dick leaves Jason's apartment in the morning to have business lunch with Bruce. This is the inmediate aftermath of the Under the Red Hood arc. Dick has helped Jason in secret, leaving him patched up in his apartment. Bruce does not know about this, he thinks Jason is missing. Dick rolls on with the deception.
So, Jason hands Dick some lothes of his own for him to change from his Nightwing gear. Dick takes everything offered except the boxers, leaving them behind in the ground on purpose before quitting the apartment. Dick asked Jason for his phone number before leaving, and Jason saved himself as contact on Dick's phone as 'chick'. While the Dynamic Duo is driving to the manor to have lunch, 'Chick' sends Dick the picture of the boxers he left behind. Bruce now thinks Dick spent the night sleeping with one of his flings, instead of mourning/looking for his missing brother lol
in prime earth canon, jason todd (NOT red hood) was* publicly known to be alive
red hood: outlaw (2018) #32
(ID in alt text)
considering that jason todd was the official owner of the iceberg lounge during this time, it's likely he acquired the lounge legally and thus can be inferred that he had to be declared legally alive to do so
which brings me to my point:
i've seen a lot of people writing/speculating the difficulties and limitations jason experiences bc he was declared legally dead after ethiopia, which is all well and good, and is fantastic fodder for angst
but i've been wondering if this was bc people are actively ignoring canon (valid) or simply didn't know that at one point* jason was publicly alive (also valid, bc following comics is a shitshow lol)
please reblog to increase visibility! the whole point of this poll is to gauge how many people know this, so i'd love to see this post reach as many people as possible. thank you~! 😅🙏
(* big disclaimer under the cut!)
note: all of this info is as of may 2023. i am only one human so it's impossible for me to read every comic jason has been in since rhato (2016) and remember every single thing that happened. if anything i said above the cut is incorrect now, i apologize! /o\
for reference, as of creating this poll i've read:
red hood and the outlaws (2016) #1-26
red hood: outlaw (2018) #27-52
task force z (2021) #1-12
batman: urban legends (2021) #1-6 – cheer pt.1-6
the joker: the man who stopped laughing (2022) #3-5
i haven't read a lot of other important runs like death metal (2020), three jokers (2020), robins (2021), etc. if jason (NOT red hood) was declared dead once again in any of those, that is the reason why i used "was" in the very first sentence of this post and reiterate that he was alive at least for a limited period
my bad that i missed his second legal death tho LOLLL
i'm also aware that red hood (NOT jason) was known as "dead" by others after task force z (even though he clearly didn't die). that said, in the little i've read of tj:tmwsl, it seems that 1) not everyone knows red hood is actually alive, and/or that 2) red hood died at all. again, if red hood is generally known to be alive after tfz, that's on me
if there's anything else i've missed, let me know!! i'll update/reblog this post for as long as the poll is up (-u-)b