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1. look back in anger by vechter

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Multi
   • Complete Work

   04 Sep 2024

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
   • Dick Grayson & Donna Troy
   • Dick Grayson & Roy Harper
   • Garth & Dick Grayson & Roy Harper & Donna Troy & Wally West
   • Tim Drake & Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson & Barbara Gordon
   • Cassandra Cain & Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson & Alfred Pennyworth
   • Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne
   • Dick Grayson & Teen Titans
   • Batfamily Members & Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson/Roy Harper
   • Dick Grayson & Midnighter
   • Dick Grayson & Clark Kent
   • Dick Grayson
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Donna Troy
   • Roy Harper
   • Slade Wilson
   • Wally West
   • Garth (DCU)
   • Tim Drake (DCU)
   • Cassandra Cain
   • Barbara Gordon
   • Damian Wayne
   • Alfred Pennyworth
   • Spyral (DCU)
   • Post-Spyral (DCU)
   • tw for slade wilson but dw he's only there briefly to kickstart the healing
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Teen Titans as Family
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • basically what I wanted post spyral to be if n52 hadn't killed my hopes and dreams
   • a slightly more nuanced take on the final confrontation in nightwing 2011 #30
   • featuring a fair degree of suicidal ideation and self-loathing
   • dick and his nebulous relationship to his personhood

   Summary

   Dick and Bruce are like this:
   Not the sun and moon, a love devastated by circumstance, a story of light and gravity but a different beast altogether. A nucleus fissuring into two, borne of the same energy, the same matter, the same decay.

   Their story has always been radioactive.

   A canon-divergent take on Dick's return after Spyral featuring debilitating self-loathing and guilt, interspersed with the ordeal of being unmasked and the subsequent waning sense of personhood.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   40,443

   Chapters:

   3/3

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