Week Seven: Freedom

Maybe the wings are silly. He's been called a flying squirrel more than once. But Dick really doesn't care about that. The people who call him that usually wind up in handcuffs by the end of their meeting, and honestly, he’s been called a lot worse. Besides, the key word is flying.

Before he was Robin, before he was Nightwing, Dick was a Flying Grayson. He learned to walk on the tight-rope and some of his earliest memories involve soaring through the air toward outstretched arms. He felt at home in the air.

When he was Robin, he felt it again. The joy, the weightlessness, the wind in his hair and the drag on his cape as he leapt from buildings, shooting out jumplines at the last second, just to fly before it caught.

Nightwing doesn’t have a cape. It took some getting used to, but when he flies now, he really flies. No resistance. No jumplines, sometimes. Because Nightwing has wings. And Dick can fly. Free. He can soar through the air.

With the greatest of ease.

Dick Grayson/Nightwing
DC Animated Universe
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