Current thoughts: Nicknames with the bird boys, and most specifically “Little Wing”. Because - most nicknames give some sort of homage to the role they have and Dick has given Jason his own view on who Jason is to him.
In a way it's a promise, a way of sharing endearment because there's not enough softness in the world to make sure Jason never has to hurt again but Jason deserves it. He deserves reverence and worship and a devotion that won't waver even when he grows barbs from perceived threats (or worse abandonment). It's a damn near proposal for Dick.
Because the Flying Graysons are always in the sky- and how would they be able to fly without their wings? In all ways but legally Dick has basically given Jason the Grayson name - and given Jason the flight of Robin. Robin is magic - Robin is good - and Jason thrives on it.
He lives for the way his heart shakes when Dick whispers it in his ear - just for him and nobody else - or the way he’ll loudly share it out, daring the world to touch his wings - his flight. And sometimes it's not even verbal - sometimes it's in the way he presses a hand to Jason's shoulder blades as if he's searching for feathers - like Jason isn't stuck in Gothams streets - like Jaosn is something angelic.
And yeah it makes him a little dizzy to confront the fact that hes been fucking claimed but it also liquifies his insides and makes him feel so fluid and free he cant help but fall for it. Because even if he falls to a puddle in Dicks hands - the man isn't going to let him slip through his fingers.
And maybe it's because Dick hoards everything he can actually call his, but Jason is HIS and he has no intention of letting him go ever. I.e Dick and his possessive tendencies.
(also sorry for spamming i have a lot of ideas and im on the verge of creating a separate writing blog just to expand on them - the brain rot is terrible lmao.)
Anon~ you should totally make that writing blog and then send me an ask with your username so I can follow first ahhhhhhhh you have such a way with words and concepts and maybe I'm biased because somehow all these asks have just been my preference to a tee, but LOL it's so much fun to read!!
Little Wing is such a tender and sweet endearment. What's extra sweet is that I don't think Jason would recognize it for the expression of fondness it is for the longest time. And maybe he'd be self-conscious about it because he'd misunderstand it for not being good enough; not being an equal, not being seen as anything more than something small, less than.
And then he figures out that Little Wing is just Dick not wanting to share lol. Regrettably Robin would be tied so much with Bruce/Batman that Dick would /: although Robin is his. So - Nightwing. Nightwing's Robin? Little Wing.
Also, Little Wing. Dick's baby bird/bro/beau. //3///
Dick giving Jason the Grayson name every way but legally no one touch me I'm screaming my heart is doing the pitter patters
today i met a fat as fuck bulldog named meatball and i need everyone here to join hands with me and start a fan club for the one the only miss meatball ok?
"You are covered with soot [and] you managed to ruin the clothes I made for you, which were impossible to ruin." Calypso, Heroes of Olympus Book 5, The Blood of Olympus
that scene in the grove when you first meet wyll and hes being so nice and sweet and patient with the little tiefling child like okaywhat if i killed everyone and then myself right now. what if i sustained myself on a diet of glass and mercury alone.what then