Dick ''Nightwing'' Grayson

[Richard ''Nightwing'' Grayson]

Richard John Grayson

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{Hmm... I could be cool here. But I'd rather be effective. I'm here to keep evil at bay. You should be afraid......Run, cause I'm your worst nightmare.}

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Full Name: Richard John Grayson
Code Name: Nightwing
Age: 25
Date of Birth: December 1st
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Species: Human
Alliance: Justice League
Citizenship: DC
Canon or Original?:Canon DC

"Victory is MINE Baldy!
And if you had any hair I'd take that too!"

Hair:Dick Grayson's hair is about 4-5 inches off of his head, along with several bangs falling over his forehead. His hair is jet black
Eyes: Richard's eyes are shaped like the generic human eye, they are ice blue just like Bruce Wayne's even though oddly enough they are not biological father and son.
Height: 6'1''
Weight: 175lbs
Distinguishing Marks: None

Appearance: Dick Grayson being a young man of extremely acrobatic feats, is endowed with an equally amazing athletic build. He stands about 6'1'' of lean muscle, only weighing in at about 175 pounds. While in uniform as masked crime fighter of Bludhaven, Dick's suit is all black with a red emblem going over his chest and extending to each shoulder, and as opposed to a utility belt, like his mentor, he uses his gauntlets and boots as his primary areas of storage. His mask only covers his eyes, and instead of white lenses that we see with so many other heroes, the lenses on his mask are red, some say he uses them as a scare tactic to emulate the appearance of a demon. When not in costume, Dick resembles a regular early twenty year old man, usually seen with a smile on his face. His hair is jet black, and his eyes are an icy blue color much like other members of the Batfamily. Also he is the only character in the Batfamily (Besides Jason Todd) not to dawn a cape, he thinks it is a bit silly and can even be detrimental in some situations.

Face Claim: No Thanks

"I’m not interested in making new friends,
I don’t even like the ones I have”

Likes: Success, Girls, Protecting those in need, fast cars, rooftop jumping, skydiving, martial arts, swimming.

Dislikes: Evil (obviously), Unjust treatment of children, carrots, he truly dislikes people who use their positions of authority to manipulate others, over aggressive girls, shy girls, bad mouthing Bruce Wayne, his mentor and father.

Personality: Dick Grayson is a serious but easy-going young man in his early to mid-20s. He’s in a way the perfect big brother: the nicest, most popular hunk in college, only five times as gifted, five times as cool, five times as smart - and ten times as dedicated. He will approach everything with the confidence born of amazing talent and incredible training, yet manage to never seem pretentious in the slightest, always caring for others and being genuinely attentive.

At times, a casual observer might think his Motivation is Thrill of Adventure - he finds rooftop acrobatics or driving the Nightbird just plain ''fun'', gets an obvious sense of satisfaction from bringing justice and happiness to the people, and has always some light banter ready for combat - although he’s not a motormouth like Spider-Man, he usually seems very relaxed when doing the vigilante thing. However, what actually makes him tick is a deep, burning desire to make the world a better, safer place where justice actually exists. Like the Batman, he wants no kid to ever suffer the losses he went through ; unlike the Batman he does not see the world as a cruel and harsh place, but remembers the wonderful childhood he had. This profound difference in their memories of the time before the loss let Nightwing fight for a better, safer world for honest people around him while his former mentor fight to crush evil. While Batman follows his own obsessive rules, Nightwing is actually sane and a part of society. However, like the Batman, he has a very strong “nobody dies on my watch” code.

"With great power comes great responsibility"

Powers:
Acrobatics: Grayson is a prodigious natural athlete and acrobat, possessing a peak human level of agility/acrobatic skills. He is regarded as the greatest human acrobat in the DC universe.

Disguise
Driving
Escapology
Intimidation
Investigation

Leadership: He is also a brilliant and experienced leader with superlative team skills, having served as leader to the Titans, the Outsiders, and even the Justice League. Additionally, Dick's efforts to remain in contact with other heroes makes him a master at rallying, unifying, and inspiring the superhero community, a skill in which he has surpassed his mentor.

Martial Arts: As Nightwing, Grayson is a master of dozens of martial arts disciplines, with an emphasis on Aikido and Escrima, taught to him by Batman.

Aikido
Boxing
Capoeira
Escrima
Hapkido
Judo
Ninjitsu
Savate
Taijiquan
Wing Chun
Muy Thai
Jeet Kun do

Multilingualism: Having had the finest EDUCATION as Bruce Wayne's ward, he speaks with fluency in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, Swahili, Mandarin, Cantonese, and is possibly fluent in other languages. He has some knowledge of the alien language of Tamaran.

Stealth: He is capable of breaching high security facilities without being detected. He can even sneak up on Batman himself on occasion.

Throwing

Tracking



Weapons

Suit: The Nightwing suit is a formfitting bodysuit of a unique nomex/kevlar weave that serves several purposes. First, it's highly fire-resistant. It's also fair protection against small-caliber firearms, though serious gunfire could still penetrate it. The suit is insulated against electric current, and is photosensitive in such a way that it actually darkens in higher light conditions. The mask attaches to Nightwing's face with a simple adhesive and provides him with a set of starlite night-vision lenses as well as an integrated radio transceiver. The entire suit is wired for a one-shot emergency taser charge that goes off if someone who doesn't know what they're doing tampers with his boots or gauntlets while he's wearing them. In the gauntlets and boots are a combined sixteen compartments for storage of useful items, serving as Nightwing's substitution for Batman's utility belt. The right gauntlet is equipped with a 100,000 volt contact stun gun, and both gauntlets have integrated jumpline launchers with about two hundred feet of de-cel jumpline in each, tipped with wall-penetrating pitons and featuring a recoil device that can haul about five hundred pounds of weight maximum. Nightwing's costume is tailored specifically to his unique style of crime-fighting. As such, his costume has fewer body-armor inlays than Batman's, anticipating a decreased need for shock-absorption and an increased capacity for motion ("Move more, get hit less."). A caveat of this configuration can be exploited by capable fighters who are both fast and strong, such as Superman. Should Nightwing need to engage an enemy who is capable of exploiting this weakness, he has supplemental body-armor overlays which he can attach to his gauntlets, his mask, his shoulders, and boots.

The rebreather is basically an air-recycling scrubber that allows Nightwing to survive in an airless environment (like, underwater) while breathing his own air over and over. It operates by chemically extracting the carbon from CO2 and turning it back into breathable O2. The scrubbers become saturated with carbon after about two hours of use, after which they stop working altogether.

Tracers and Bugs: Surveillance bugs and tracers are bread and butter when it comes to tailing suspects. It's so much easier to tag a target, let them go wherever they're going, and save yourself the chase and just follow the signal when it stops. It's also very handy to bug a room and listen from across the street while somebody includes you in their moment of exposition without being any the wiser. Nightwing carries an assortment of listening and tracking devices which can be used on people themselves, rooms, phones, vehicles, or even animals.

Binoculars: A good set of binoculars can help in many situations. Nightwing has a compact set that feature a zoom feature, settings for infrared, night vision, UV, and even a digital recording feature that allows him to use them as a long distance video camera.

Escrima: Escrima is a Filipino martial art teaching the skilled use of machetes in battle. It's extremely quick and brutal, and practice in escrima is accomplished with sticks to minimize wounding. Because machetes are decidedly lethal weapons, Nightwing uses the sticks as his weapon of choice in this art. The escrima sticks that he carries often fit into concealed pouches on the back of his suit. They are simple batons made of a high-strength Tungsten-Titanium alloy that is nearly unbreakable. There isn't much more to them than that.

Explosives: Explosives can be very handy, especially for breaching barriers like locks and solid walls. Normally Nightwing carries at least a little C4 with detonators carefully stored elsewhere on his person. He also has small concussion grenades which are useful for stunning rooms of people without seriously injuring them.

Tomahawk: As he is aware of the sometimes need for a blade, he chooses a tomahawk that he himself forged from the same metal alloy as the escrima sticks.

Razorwings: Similar to wingdings, these are sharp shuriken-like throwing weapons. Nightwing uses these for cutting things at a distance or for REALLY disarming someone, and not in the sense that he cuts their arm off. They're not THAT sharp, and his puns aren't that bad. They're weighted for accuracy and he can cut the wings off a fly with them.

Transportation

Motorcycle: Nightwing's motorcycle is based on a Batcycle, but with the whole Nightwing motif on it. It's a high-powered rocket on wheels that is actually faster than it can realistically go. The problem with motorcycles is that when they're powerful enough they tend to wheelie out and flip if the rider isn't careful. Nightwing's bike comes with a computer uplink and scanner similar to the Nightbird's all the normal armor where it counts, and a black helmet with a visor so if he wipes out he doesn't leave Richard cranium all over the pavement.

Nightbird: The Nightbird is Nightwing's ride. He realized he needed one after Batman suggested it and he found himself wishing he could run fast enough to chase down fleeing vehicles that he wasn't close enough to jump on. What he ended up with was a completely custom-built machine that is, for wont of a better word, his baby. The chassis is made of composite aluminum and the engine is a 640 horse power monster that, with proper traction, can bring the Nightbird from zero to sixty in five seconds. On board the car are a computer with a wireless uplink and scanner, a caltrop dispenser to give pursuing vehicles trouble, and a security system that responds to break-in attempts with tear gas. The real inventiveness of the Nightbird is that it has lots of different looks. It was built to be easily transformable by only replacing the outer body. Each of the bodies is reinforced to offer the maximum possible protection from gunfire, and some of the Nightbird's various 'looks' include a red sports car, a taxi, a police car, a truck, and a bombed out piece of crap hooptie. Wally West is not allowed to drive the Nightbird ever again.



Strengths/Abilities: Dick is widely regarded as the most acrobatic character in the DC universe, Master hand to hand martial artist well versed in several arts, He is a world class detective since he was trained and taught by Batman himself.


Weaknesses: Bullets, knives, fire, drowning, anything that would kill a regular human being, though he has found ways to minimize these risks with his suit.

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce
the sanest man alive to lunacy,"

History: Richard Grayson grew up at the circus. Dick and his parents, Mary and John Grayson where the acrobatic group known as the flying Graysons. They were famous for their trapeze and acrobatic acts in the circus and where the headlining act. When Dick was eight years old he witnessed the mob boss Anthony Zucco trying to extort the owner of the circus. The mob boss was demanding money to insure the safety of his performers. The owner of the circus refused to be extorted by the mob and Dick went his way. Anthony Zucco had other plans. He was going to make a example out of the leading act, the flying Graysons.

During their act, the trapeze wires where sabotaged. As his parents fell to their deaths, hundreds of spectators could only watch in horror. Among the audience was Bruce Wayne. Feeling empathy for the young boy, Bruce Wayne took him in since none of Dick’s family would take him in. The difference between Bruce and Dick was that Bruce wanted vengeance for the death of his family while Dick wanted justice. This helped him deal with the death of his parents.

After staying with Bruce for a while, Dick figured out what he was doing all these nights. He figured out that Bruce Wayne was actually Batman. Dick wanted to be trained and be the same as Bruce. Bruce decided that with the boy’s training and sense for justice he had everything he needed to be his partner. After training with Bruce he became Robin, The boy wonder and Batman’s partner.

One of the important parts in his life as Robin was first appearance of Batgirl. Barbara Gordon became Batgirl with much dismay from Batman. Batman found that she took his name and persona for herself and didn’t think she would fit in well. Robin on the other hand was more open to the idea. This was partly because he had a crush on her. It was Robin’s pleads that would convince Batman to accept Batgirl into the group and work together. Soon after Batgirl would be known as well as Batman and Robin by the criminal underworld. When the Batman was busy elsewhere Robin and Batgirl would often team up, or enjoy something of a relationship.
The second important event is his life was the forming of the teen titans. After several years under Batman’s training he decided it was time to fight with other heroes his own age. He forms the teen titans together with Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wondergirl and Speedy. All of them where sidekicks from actual Justice League members. Even though Dick does not possess superhuman powers, He quickly emerged as the groups natural leader with his experience in the field.

When Robin was 17 he was shot in the shoulder by the Joker. This was the last straw for Batman and he ended the Robin career. For Robin this was the time that he outgrew being Batman’s sidekick and wanted to find himself. His new found freedom gave him times to do his Titan’s duties in New York. With all his work done with the Titan’s he rediscovered his self-worth. Batman was not pleased however. He no longer wanted Robin as his partner and he would have to retire the Robin persona. Dick left Wayne manor after the news and went to find himself.

In order to find himself he turned towards a man who would understand, Superman. Superman had to answer what Dick could do after giving up the Robin Persona. Long ago on Krypton, a man was cast out by his family - just as Dick had been. He dreamed of a world ruled by justice, and set out to protect the helpless of Krypton. His true identity was never revealed. He was known only as Nightwing. After taking up the persona of Nightwing after a staying with the circus for a while to clear his head. As a new hero he has made a name in Gotham City and Bludhaven. He currently operates in both cities.

"Next time guys, we should just
rebuild this place outta Lego."

Writing Sample:

Dick jumped from roof top to roof top of Bludhaven, the city was rather quiet this evening. Perhaps the villains had finally all realized that this city was under his watch, and given up their evil ways.... yeah right. The much more likely reason was that they were all plotting of a way to dispose of him. This may or may not have been true, but Dick had been taught to expect the unexpected by his mentor/father Bruce. He was very fortunate, he knew this, and he would make sure to share his fortune with the rest of the world, by helping to make it a safer place.

He scaled the tallest building in the area, story by story he worked his way up and when he finally found himself at the top, he sat there in the perch and activated the lenses in his mask to look below. He was shocked when it began to rain a bit, but then again, it always rained here, and he attributed it to the fact that it was a dreary city with plenty of saddened people in it, Gotham was the same way in fact. He scanned the sectors below the 20 story building which gave him a pretty good view of the city. His attention was caught by a group of thugs in an alleyway surrounding someone. Immediately he jumped from the perch to a lower building, using his grappling hook to lessen the fall's force on his legs. He sat there for a moment to gather what was going on. Sometimes he wished he was a Kryptonian like one of his other heroes, Superman, then he could just swoop in and beat the bad guys while saving the day. But he did enjoy this way as well, and with that, he jumped to the ground and folded his arms looking at the group.

''Ya know guys, picking on someone in such a big group is a bit ....well mean wouldn't ya say'', he said as they turned around to look at him. With a grin on his face and their attention now on him, Dick smiled and waved them on as he unfolded his arms. One of the fellows rushed him and swung a crowbar towards his head.

''We'll show you to keep your stinking mouth shut Bird Bra-'', the thug's sentence was cut short as Dick blocked the swing and moved into his opponent's body and struck him in the temple with a vicious Muy Thai elbow. Once he got started, it was like a sea of opportunity opened, and he loved to exploit it. As the first one fell, Dick leaped towards another throwing an axe kick from 12 to 6 and cracking him on the top of his head sending him crashing to the asphalt. He rose to see the angered looks on their faces as the rest of them rushed in.

You'd think seeing what they just saw would spur them to run away wouldn't you?, he thought to himself before pulling his Escrima sticks and taking down each one of them with a single swing, until he was down to the last one. By now, he was terrified by what Dick had done and had dropped the weapon in his hand, and placed them in front of himself in a surrendering fashion. His face only got more coated in fear as Nightwing began to walk near him.

''I'll leave! Just let me go! I promise I'll never do anything like this again'', he said cowering in fear as he curled up in a ball sure he was about to be stricken down.

''Eh, you've seen enough, and your friends here will probably have the same revelation after they wake up. Leave'', he said in a stern tone. Clearly this guy didn't have the heart to be a criminal, Dick knew real criminals who wouldn't give up until they were in full body casts, or a casket, and he was not one of them. ''Hey, you okay?'', he said turning his sight for the first time to the victim, who was a middle aged man who looked to be a little roughed up. The man got up and looked at Nightwing.

''Thanks, that could have gotten ugly if not for you Nightwing, I'm glad you were around. Those thugs were trying to collect protection money, protection from what I don't know, Couldn't they protect me from themselves'', the man laughed and rubbed his head as he reached to shake Dick's hand.

Dick smiled and reached for his hand and they shook. ''You should really be getting home, I'm sure your family must be worried sick, out in Bludhaven this time of night'', he said as they began to walk to the end of the alley way stepping over the bodies of the incapacitated thugs. As they reached the end, the man said his final goodbye's and began to trot down the sidewalk towards what Dick assumed was his home. Then he was off once more, determined to protect the innocent of this city.

"I'm through talking, get out of my cave,"

Your name/alias: Dick
Timezone: North American Eastern Time Zone


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