Love When Characters Who Have Spent Their Whole Lives Believing They Are Annoying, Useless, And A Burden

Nightwing as a flying fish mermaid, in honour of Mermay, because I am every shade of nerdy

bruce and dick are both emotionally repressed but in kind of different but parallel ways. like, the repression that bruce experiences stems from never confronting trauma or any negative emotion, whereas dick's repression stems from needing to be the emotional support for an emotionally repressed man at the ripe age of 9 and so never being able to process any emotions associated with that responsibility

Sometimes I like to sit and wonder what the whole like Wei Wuxian drama was like for Nie Huaisang

We obviously don't see them interact much after Cloud Resseces but I personally like to head cannon them as best friends also he convinces Mo Xuanyu to sacrifice himself to bring Wei Wuxian back so at the very least he trusted Wei Wuxian's abilities

How do you think he felt as the hatred of Wei Wuxian started to grow.

Do you think he knew of the plans to besiege the Burial Mounds and kill everyone there including Wei Wuxian?

If he did do you think he tried to convince his brother not to go or at least not to kill Wei Wuxian?

I can't imagine how that could have been for him whether he and Wei Wuxian were close at the time or not.

In my mind, when Nie Huaisang found out about the hatred for Wei Wuxian he wasn't surprised but would look back at the memories from Cloud Resseces and be like "Wei bro? My Wei bro? The one who taught me how to fish with my hands in the pond behind Cloud Resseces and bought porn from me Wei bro?"

And while he wouldn't say anything out loud when people like his brother or the other clan leaders mentioned how they hated Wei Wuxian he would curse them out in his head or something.

Also in my mind, Nie Mingjue's participation in Wei Wuxian's death is one of the only things Huisang could never forgive his brother for until the day of his death.

I love Nie Huaisang both as a clueless head shaker and as a scheming mastermind.

Live, Laugh, Nie Huaisang!!

thinking about that one trope where the hero is dying and reveals their secret identity at the last moment so they can die known and as the true person they were, not the hero name they designed. how, if dick were out as nightwing and were to be somehow in a life or death situation he literally could not see a way out of, and he was with a civilian who was comforting him in his final moments, he literally would have to die as nightwing and not dick grayson or else risk exposing the rest of his family. even if the civilian swore up and down and made a blood oath to never speak a word of this, dick would be unable to bring himself to allow himself the mercy of dying as dick grayson or hearing the name his parent's gave to him one final time

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context (from here):

apparently, recently(?) on douyin, a housewife posted about her husband's unhinged reaction after she ate the last 2 swiss rolls out of a box of 8 when her husband and 2 kids had already eaten all the other swiss rolls. the husband's unreasonable response naturally outraged cnetizens. thus, one recent(?) douyin trend has been for women to ask their boyfriends/husbands the following, and then to record the answer: suppose that we get married and have two kids, and then obtain a box of swiss rolls, how should we split them?

anyways here are some of the provided responses from OP's post, put through the SVSSS filter (sorry OP):

"Dick was a terror of a child" "Dick was Bruce's least favorite child to raise" my love there are much easier ways to say that you do not like loud children than projecting it onto Bruce Wayne, who loved raising Dick Grayson's rambunctious ass so much that he gave 3 children a lifelong inferiority complex about it

anyway a lot of i write about these two is inspired by me growing up with a single father in the early aughts. yes he never had any idea what he was reading because id make him turn the page before he was finished reading it aloud. yes id give him notes on his performance. for revenge he'd read the last page of a book we'd just started and then act shocked and refuse to tell me what happened. #singlefatherthings

im being so serious when i ask this, but, how has dick's characterization become so opposing to his actual character? like how in the world did this pervasive and frankly invasive depiction of him become so popular? where in the world did people get these scraps of personality that they've frankensteined together to create this fucking weirdo that shakes his ass for criminals and is the biggest attention seeker? for decades we have had pretty consistent source material that continually establishes that dick is quite serious and a leader, and also someone that cares deeply for people and has the skill set and willpower to do literally anything for them. how has this fanon characterization that's quickly becoming canon happen to him?