== Character Bio ==<br/><div class="floatright">(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11115/111158823/4145675-marvel-wants-joseph-gordon-levitt-for-doctor-strange.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11119/111195216/4557194-8073001623-18868.png)</div>== Personal Information ==<br/>Legal Name: Richard ‘Dick’ Grayson-Wayne<br/>Alias: Nightwing<br/>Age: 26<br/>Sexuality: Heterosexual<br/>Part of Gotham Residing In: Gotham. The Old Wayne Manor.<br/><br/>== Physical Description ==<br/>Richard ‘Dick’ Grayson has the physique of a six foot man who engages in a significant amount of diverse physical training. Most of his time is spent engaging in acrobatics and gymnastics, resulting in a more limber and lithe form than his old mentor Bruce.<br/>He has generally sharp facial features, dark black hair, and a dark blue eyes. Facial and body hair is shaved, waxed, or trimmed (depending on the location of the hair) frequently in order to assure maximum mobility at any moment.<br/><br/>== Persona ==<br/>Dick Grayson is at his heart two things:  a performer and a protector. He tries with everything he has to make sure that people live the best life that they can, either by putting a smile on their face or by making sure they’d lose their life thanks to a nutjob in a mask. Bruce taught him to always put someone else’s life above his and Dick has taken that to heart, always giving 200%. Just because he has fun fighting evil and laughs at how silly the villain's plan is doesn’t mean he’s any worse at it.<br/><br/>== Key Skills ==<br/>*Unparalleled Acrobatic/gymnastic ability: Thanks to a combination of natural ability and years of intense training, Dick is easily one of the Human gymnasts in the world.<br/>*Master martial artist: Like all of the bat family, Dick Grayson received training from masters of countless different martial arts disciplines, eventually forging them all into a  unique style that takes advantage of his natural abilities.<br/>*Peak Human Strength/Endurance/Durability/Speed/Reflexes: Years of Training that would qualify for child abuse had anyone found out, and years of field experience against people much more skilled than he was, forced Dick to develop at an incredible pace. His body had been pushed to the limits of what is psychically possible for a human, and he strives to try and push past that every day.<br/>*Skilled Detective: While his investigative ability was never quite as fine as Bruce’s Dick has proven himself to be a more than adept investigator, solving multiple cases of ‘America’s Most Wanted’ in a single morning and cracking a homicide case that had been cold for 14 years.<br/>*Multi-lingual: Like Bruce and Jason, Dick was sure to learn a multiple different languages, ranging from English and Japanese to even a few key words of Alien languages.<br/>*Polymath: As the adopted son of Bruce Wayne, Dick received a world class education in a variety of different disciplines, sciences, maths, history and more.<br/>*Stealth: Dick has shown himself to be excellent at stealth and capable of breaching high security facilities, even able to sneak up on people that most consider impossible to surprise like Batman or the Flash.<br/>*Aliens: Thanks to a natural interest in the subject, and an availability of subjects to talk to, Dick has an impressive knowledge of the languages, biology, and cultures of a variety of Alien species.<br/><br/>== Advantages ==<br/>*Adaptable: Years spent as a performer left  Grayson with an incredibly strong ability to adapt to a changing situation. After all, if the rope snapped during a stunt, he wouldn’t have much time to plan out a way to save himself; it came down to ‘react or die’. This was only improved upon by years of fighting against impossible odds to defeat villains who should have, by all accounts, killed him and Batman.<br/><br/>*Jovial nature: Dick always seems to have a quip and a smile, no matter the situation. While many of his foes find it insufferable, and some of his allies too, it usually does lighten the mood and make the impossible seem less so.<br/><br/>*Access To Batman and Wayne-Tech gadgets: Along with two electrified Escrima, Nightwing's nullity belt is an ever changing assortment of different gadgets and utilities from smoke bombs and grappling wires to communications units and batarangs.<br/><br/>== Disadvantages ==<br/>*Human: Despite his peak-human conditioning, he is still human. He might be better able to defend himself or avoid fatal attacks than most other humans, but he isn’t invincible. A bullet in the right place at the right place will still kill him. A knife the heart is just as dangerous as it would be to anyone else<br/><br/>*Pride: Dick Grayson can lay claim to being the best in the world at many things: the best acrobat, the best practitioner of a few martial arts, and so on. And try as he might to stay humble, it’s hard not to keep that in the back of his mind.<br/><br/>*Self-doubt: Bruce Wayne, the person who trained him and was like a second father to Dick, is dead. And he asked that Dick take over for him in his war on crime, take on the mantle of Batman. But Dick just can’t do it. He doesn’t think that he’s good enough for the cowl, not yet.<br/><br/>== Background ==<br/>Dick Grayson grew up on the road, as the child of two world famous circus acrobats. By the time he was 5, he was already helping his parents show and getting up on the trapeze. By the time he was 10, there was talk among some of the circus that maybe they should try grooming Dick as a possible Olympian. But that plan, and so many others, was shattered on one fateful night in August 2000.<br/><br/>He was up performing a no-net stunt with his parents; They were swinging along, arms outstretched, seconds away from giving him the signal to jump and meet them in mid-air. Then a noise rang out, the loudest thing that Dick could ever remember hearing, and Dick saw his parents float for a moment in free fall before gravity took back over and they plunged to their death on the circus floor.<br/><br/>A man in a clean suit came up to Dick, who was still shivering and in shock, and told him that he wanted to give Dick a chance to get back at whoever had killed his parents. Without a moment of hesitation, Dick said yes and the pair started to train almost immediately. His new adopted father, Bruce Wayne, was a perfectionist, always demanding the best. And Dick took it with gleeful abandon. It let him push aside the thoughts about his parent’s, taking the anger, the anguish, the confusion and focusing it into something that might actually do some good. After a month of training, Batman’s sidekick Robin was revealed to the world.<br/><br/>And for years, the Dynamic Duo struck fear into the heart of Gotham. Dick found a new stage to perform for, something to replace the void that he’d felt ever since he’d left the circus behind. At heart he was a performer, and now he had an audience of crooks, villains, and henchmen. It seemed as if the Dynamic Duo could never stop.<br/><br/>Then the decline started. While taking down an assassin named Deadshot, a bullet hit Robin in the gut. It wasn’t fatal, and just a week afterwards Dick was doing somersaults and triple flips with ease, but Bruce wasn’t convinced. He put Dick on the side-lines, confining him to computer duty and helping with investigations. So Dick spent time on his own, exploring what Robin could be without Batman. He started to flirt with new fighting styles, new weapons, even a new costume, but only was Bruce wasn’t there to see.<br/><br/>Then as Batman was starting to relent and letting Robin join him on missions again, even letting Dick take on a few solo missions, a new member was added to the bat-family. A street punk named Jason Todd tried to steal the Batmobile’s wheels. In Todd’s eyes Dick saw something familiar, something that he and Bruce both had; he saw the anger and confusion that they had focused, but in Jason it was still running wild. So Dick convinced Batman to take Jason in. And suddenly, Dick had a brother.<br/><br/>Unfortunately brothers rarely get along under the best of circumstances, let alone while undergoing rigorous training that many would say bordered on child abuse. Tensions ran high between the two young boys, and Bruce didn’t know how to handle it. So one day, when Dick snapped about Jason making a minor mistake, which caused a fistfight that meant Alfred was cleaning up a few broken bones, Bruce told Dick that he couldn’t stand an insubordinate in his army. So Dick took the things he’d saved up from his years of service and left.<br/><br/>Without an identity or a real purpose Dick talked to Superman, the one other person who could claim to be ‘the light’ to Batman’s dark. And with that, Dick knew what he had to do. He moved to Bludhaven, forging a new identity as the hero ‘Nightwing’.<br/><br/>A few years went by, and Nightwing began to feel like he was making a real difference in the city. He’d done enough to help the police, to encourage the citizens to fight for themselves, even inspiring a few other minor heroes, that it felt like maybe he wasn’t needed anymore. So he engaged in semi-retirement, taking up full-time work as a gymnast, only re-emerging every few weeks to keep the legend alive or whenever something serious was threatening the citizens of his new home. He kept training of course, and even was a consultant on a few cases that the police were having trouble with, but it seemed that maybe he would live a quiet life. Or, atleast a quiet life for a super hero.<br/><br/>Then the unthinkable happened. The Apokolips invasion happened. The Justice League Died. Bruce Died.<br/><br/>Dick Grayson was named the sole beneficiary in Bruce’s will, heir to the money, the estate, even Bruce's position at Wayne Enterprise, with the stipulation that he return to Gotham and ‘perform the duties of the head of the family’. To most that would seem an insane condition, since Bruce and Dick both had no living relatives. Except Dick knew what that really meant. Bruce wasn’t referring to the Wayne’s family. No, Bruce meant the family that he had forged with countless other heroes, people who had proven their worth time and time again, both those with costumes and those without. Bruce wanted Dick to take up the mantle of The Batman, to keep the legend of the dark knight going past his death.<br/>Richard did come back to Gotham in the year following the invasion attempt, and returned to full time hero work. But he still hasn’t put on the cape and cowl yet. Not until he can prove to himself that he’s worthy of the mantle.<br/><br/><br/>== Timeline ==<br/>(This section is still being worked on. )<br/><br/>2000 - 11 year old Dick Grayson loses his parents, gets adopted by Bruce (28), starts training as Robin<br/>2003 - 14 year old Dick Grayson is injured thanks to Deadshot.<br/>2005 - 16 year old Dick Grayson helps train Jason Todd (15)<br/>2006 - 17 year old Dick Grayson has a falling out with Bruce, goes to Bludhaven and becomes Nightwing<br/>2010 - 21 year old Dick Grayson comes back to Gotham following Batman's death, moving into the Wayne Manor.<br/><br/>== Relationships ==<br/>(This section is still being worked on. If you would like to forge a connection, pm me and we can talk!)<br/>Bruce Wayne (Batman):<br/><br/>Alfred Pennyworth:<br/><br/>Jason Todd (Red Hood):<br/><br/>Stephanie Brown (Spoiler):<br/><br/>M'gann M'orzz (Miss Martian):<br/><br/>Koriand'r (Starfire):<br/><br/>Wally West (The Flash):<br/><br/>Conner Kent (Superboy):<br/><br/>Katherine "Kate" Kane (Batwoman):<br/><br/>Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn):<br/><br/>Artemis Lian Crock (Tigress):<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>== Character Extras =<br/>= Face Claim: =<br/>Joseph Gordon Levitt<br/>Ons: TBA<br/><br/>Offs: TBA<br/><br/>== Side Stories ==<br/>Spotlight on Spoiler (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240811.0): Stephanie Brown, better known as the Spoiler, has been living in Wayne Manor for a few months and she's starting to ask questions about Bruce Wayne and how Dick became Nightwing!<br/>Jokes On You (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240858.0): Harley Quinn, second banana to the Joker for years, is back in town and is apparently sane. Dick Grayson and Jason Todd are having a hard time belving it though. How will the pair react when they're forced to team up with their old time nemesis though?!<br/>Of Aliens and Acrobats (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=240652): An old Teammate and a former lover Koriand'r, better known to the world as the Sensational Starfire, is back in Gotham and she has some words for Grayson!<br/>The Bird Boys (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=239937): Teaming up with his once dead brother, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson tries to take down a weapon deal involving some tech stolen from his own company!<br/>Birds of a Feather, Clad In leather (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=239841.0): While tailing a dangerous Mafia lieutenant, Dick Grayson stumbles into a chance meeting with Raven. Raven being the daughter of Trigon he hadn't seen since years before when she'd been kidnapped and sent back to hell. And now she's back on Earth, working as a dominatrix?!<br/>In The Shadows of Titans (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=239896): Beaten and bruised from trying trials Dick finds comfort in the arms of M'gann Morse, and old friend and former teammate. Will Gotham's Prince and the martian Princess find happiness?