Robin

Dick Grayson

A teen age dick as Robin

Dick was placed in uncaring juvenile but is taken out by the billion Bruce Wayne. Frustrated by the lack of attention from his new guardian and the mystery still surrounding his parents death, a naive Dick snuck out of Wayne Manor to solve the murder of his parents, armed with only his bravery and amazing acrobatics. While out Dick runs into Batman who is investigating the murder of Dick’s parents. Dick and Batman find Zucco but he dies of a heart attack [it is latter revealed that Zucco is still alive but had been confined to a ventilator]. Seeing a reflection of himself in Dick, Bruce reveals his secret identity to him and also training Dick in many forms of combat and how to be a brilliant detective also improving on his all ready amazing acrobatic skills to make the best acrobat in the world and Batman’s young protege and making him one of the worlds best fighter and the worlds greatest acrobat.

Early years

After months of grueling training, Dick was ready to take Batman’s final test “the Gauntlet”. Dick had to elude the Dark Knight on the streets of for one night from sundown to sun up, without any outside help. Dick succeeded, simultaneously bringing gangster Joe Minette to justice. Dick took to the streets as Batman’s full-fledged partner crime-fighter, Robin the Boy wonder.

Dick enjoyed his first years as Robin describing it as an adventure; he fought villains such as Penguin, Joker, Mr. Freeze and Scarecrow. His so-called adventure would turn into a hellish nightmare when Two-face kidnapped the new District Attorney and Batman, each suspended from a hangman’s noose in a double gallows death trap. Batman told Robin to save the D.A, Robin obeys Batman and throws a batarang that cuts the rope holding the D.A, it works, but Robin dose not take into account Dents obsession with killing the D.A, it was a two-fold trap and the floor gives way before Robin can get to him, Robin jumps into the water after the D.A but is pulled out by Two-face. Robin is surprised by this and received a very savage beating from Two-face as a restrained Batman watch’s in horror. Batman eventually is able to free himself and stop Two-face. However this event haunts Dick to this day (Dick would go on to badly beat Two-face many  times as Robin and Nightwing), this would also scare Batman so much that he suspended Dick for a time.

Dick would come back to crime fighting much stronger and smarter than before. Dick would go to university but would drop out after one term due to his responsibilities as Robin.

Teen Titans

Robin would team up with some fellow sidekicks, Kid Flash and Aqualad to fight the villain Mr Twister. It was the first time they teamed up. Their second meeting was more eventful Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad, now joined by fellow sidekicks Speedy and Wonder Girl to fight their mentors, who had been possessed by the evil Antithesis. At this second meeting the youngsters decided to become a team they would call themselves the Teen Titans. Robin naturally became the leader. The sidekick’s continued to operate with their mentors, as well as spending time with each other as the Teen Titians but through the years there was some changes that did not go down well and the team split up.

The New Teen Titans

Robin continued his adventures with Batman and started going on solo missions and discovered he was a very good crime fighter in his own right. Robin moved out of the Dark Knight’s shadow more and more through out his mid-teens, the two still had a father and son bound but started to drift apart. Robin became more independent, he no longer relied on Batman, in fact he and the Dark Knight disagreed on crime fighting methodology and when the Titans re-united Robin spent little time in . Batman did not like this and told Dick that if he did not want to be his partner he has to give up being Robin. Furious, confused, hurt and resigned Dick left Wayne Manor after a strong verbal with Bruce. Helping him through this difficult time was is fellow Titans during in this time Dick and his fellow Titan, Starfire, a beautiful alien princess, had fallen in Love.

Unsure of what to do, Robin asked Superman for advice, Superman told Dick an old Kryptonan tale of hero called Nightwing. Dick tuck this to heart and made his new crime fighting identity as Nightwing. All of Dick’s Nightwing costumes are in honor of both Batman and Superman.  

Dick now has a strong relationship with Bruce, Bruce has even adopted Dick as his son and is know step brothers with the current Robin Tim Drake.