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_“There was always one thing I could never teach my brothers. They just never understood. None of us became Robin because we wanted to. We did it because HE needed us to” – Dick Grayson_
**Name:**
- Richard John “Dick” Grayson
**Alias:**
- None
Robin and Nightwing (Formerly)
**Age**
- 27
**Occupation:**
- Detective (GCPD, Gangs and Narcotics Division)
**Skills & Abilities**
- Martial Arts:
◾Espionage:
◾ Acrobatics
◾Weaponry
◾Throwing:
◾Genius Level Intellect
◾ Tactical Analysis
◾Disguise
◾Investigation
◾Leadership
◾Tracking
◾Escapology
◾Intimidation
◾Stealth
**Equipment**
- Standard GCPD Issued Sidearm
- Formerly the Nightwing Suit and Utility Belt
**Personality & History:**
_My Little Robin_
Young Dick Grayson was born on the first day of spring, March 21st. His mother nicknamed him "little Robin." Little did she know how prophetic this term of endearment would be in her son's life. The Flying Graysons were a Romany family whose act was based around an unrivalled mastery of acrobatics. Dick had been trained from birth to join them and was the star if the show by age ten. Before a very significant appearance in Gotham City, in which The Flying Graysons were the main attraction of Haly’s Circus, they were asked to pose for a photo opportunity with Jack Drake and his family, including their young son, Tim Drake. On that evening, he overheard "Boss" Tony Zucco, a well-known and feared crime lord, threaten the performers unless the circus's owner paid protection money. The owner refused, and that night Dick watched in horror as his parents' high wire snapped, sending his parents hurtling to their deaths, all while many of Gotham's elite watched on. Young Dick felt responsible, because he failed to warn his parents in time. Shortly after, billionaire Bruce Wayne sensing a kindred spirit, approaches the boy and offers to adopt him. Thus a lifelong friendship is born.
_Becoming the Boy Wonder_
Shortly after moving into Wayne Manor, Dick became suspicious of his new friend when he noted that he never saw Bruce after 7pm every night. One evening he used his acrobatic skills to follow Bruce undetected…or so he thought. Eventually, tailing the philanthropist brought Dick to the Batcave where Bruce discovered the young boy and decided to share his secret. Bruce then offered to help Dick in bringing Tony Zucco. The orphan accepted and Bruce trained him for months. After initially having trouble accepting a name, he finally settled on his moniker being Robin, the name his mother had given him. The Boy Wonder had arrived and a legacy was born. Forming a secondary team and a long standing bond with a girl calling herself Batgirl, Dick protects Gotham alongside Bruce for six years.
_College – Enter Nightwing_
At age sixteen, Dick finally began to feel the strain of being Robin. He began to realise that he never actually wanted to be a hero, he only became one because he realised that it was something Bruce needed. Bruce needed someone to stop him from crossing the line. After more and more conflicts, the dynamic duo finally went their separate ways. Dick dropped the Robin mantle and headed off to college in Bludhaven. Once there, he signed up for veterinarian classes and roomed with a kid from Keystone called Wally West (who would become his life long friend) he even tried to put Barbara out of his mind by dating Helena Bertinelli (another person who would play a vital part in his future). Eventually the call for justice became too strong and Dick dropped out of college to enrol in the police academy. Knowing full well he could no longer use the Robin name (especially since Bruce had given it to Jason and then Tim in the intervening years) Dick took up a new name; Nightwing. Barbara soon joined him in Bludhaven and helped him protect the city as best they could whilst also rekindling their on/off romance.
_A Normal Life?_
After graduating the police academy, Dick began is dual life as cop and vigilante. For over a year, the two fought tooth and nail to clean up its streets and corrupt police force until eventually they had done it. Of course there was still crime but they had made a serious dent and we’re more or less happy with their work. Resolving that they had done all they could, the couple hung up their cowls and for the first time in twelve years they simply were Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon. The two moved back to Gotham and Barbara asked her father to give Dick a job with the GCPD. Commissioner Gordon, aware of his daughters and her boyfriend’s identities, allowed him to join up. Four years on, Dick and Babs are still a happy, normal couple living a normal life. At least they were until an invitation to a certain wedding comes in the mail…
**Character Impressions**
• Bruce Wayne: My mentor, my father, my burden. We've barely spoken since the incident with Victor and Nora Fries three years ago. Little shocked he invited me to the wedding. I'll do my best not to punch him in the face.
•Tandem: ?
•Barbra Gordon: I have loved Barb since we I first discovered who was under her mask. She's so distant lately. I've done everything I can to be there for her. She won't let me in completely. Then again, I've never let her into my heart completely either.
•Stephanie Brown: She's like the sister I always wanted. Little dork.
•Tim Drake: Tim is......Tim is what I should've been. He's the Robin Bruce always wanted.
•Damian Wayne: Little brat but he's changing slowly, it's a good thing.
•Cassandra Cain: Haven't had a chance to get to know her yet.
•Catwoman: So Selina and Bruce are finally getting together? Well I'm just glad he decided on Selina rather than someone like Talia.
**Extra:**
- Dick is a huge music fan, he does everything with headphones in, including police and vigilante work.
- He is well known as a civilian in the gotham underworld for his trademark converse shoes.
- Despite not talking to Bruce for years, Dick has managed to stay in the loop in regards to other members of the family, he has helped train and select several of the Robins
**Story Arc:**
_The Gray Son of Gotham:_
For the first time in nearly twenty years, Haly’s Circus returns to Gotham City. Dick is torn whether to return, at least to see if any of the old faces are still there. Barbara on the other hand thinks it a great idea for the entire extended Wayne family to head off for a night at the circus in order to reconnect. Upon their arrival, they are greeted by CC Haly who takes Dick off to the side for a private word. Haly says nothing other than an old nursery rhyme he used to tell Dick as a boy before disappearing into the shadows. Unnerved, he returns to the others with horrible feeling that history is going to repeat.
"Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time,
Ruling Gotham from a shadow perch, behind granite and lime.
They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed,
Speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send The Talon for your head."
Ok so I have two Jason's. Both well written. Its pretty hard to choose. I'll let you know when I've made my decision but whomever I don't pick, I hope you find anothet haracter that takes your fancy.
**TIMELINE**
- - February 12th 1968 – Bruce Wayne is born.
- - April 1st 1968 – Selina Kyle is born.
- - October 31st 1977 – Thomas Wayne stops a mugging on his way back from a costume party dressed as a bat.
- - November 7th 1977 – Martha Wayne meets Joe the Drifter aka Jor-El of Krypton at a train station and convinces him that not everyone on Earth is a bad guy.
- - December 2nd 1977 – Martha Wayne is gunned down by Joe Chill who is soon beaten death by Thomas and his friend Alfred Pennyworth. Bruce witnesses all of this as does eleven year old runaway Selina Kyle.
- - January 1st 1978 – Thomas becomes the first Batman and year one begins.
- - March 4th 1984 – Thomas and Alfred are killed in a fire at Wayne Manor.
- - March 7th 1985 – Lucius Fox becomes Bruce’s legal guardian and the two head off on a journey around the world.
- - September 1st 1986 – Lucius returns to Gotham and claims Bruce is studying abroad.
- - March 21st 1987 – John and Mary Grayson welcome their son Richard into the world.
- - August 3rd 1987 – James Gordon moves to Gotham City from Chicago with his wife and new born daughter Barbara
- - June 27th 1990 – Jason Todd is born, his mother dies and his father runs away.
- - December 2nd 1992 – Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham.
- - January 1st 1993 – The first recorded sighting of the Batman since 1984.
- - July 19th 1993 – Batman meets Catwoman for the first time and Timothy Drake is born.
- - September 5th 1997 – Boss Zucco slaughters the entire Grayson family except youngest son Dick. Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle and four year old Tim Drake are in attendance.
- - September 10th 1997 – Bruce Wayne adopts Dick Grayson.
- - September 18th 1997 – Superman appears in front of the world.
- - January 4th 1998 – Dick becomes the first Robin.
- - May 2nd 1998 – Bruce meets Talia al Ghul.
- - February 28th 2000 – Barbara Gordon makes her debut as Batgirl.
- - June 30th 2000 – Batman teams with Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and Green Lantern to battle Darkseid and the Justice League is born.
- - December 2nd 2002- Talia gives birth to a boy named Damian.
- - June 30th 2004 – Dick discards the mantle of Robin and becomes Nightwing, leaving Bruce and heading off to school in Bludhaven.
- - July 4th 2004 – Bruce finds Jason Todd and formerly adopts him.
- - October 14th 2005 – Jason is sent off for school abroad or at least that’s what the public thinks.
- - November 29th 2005 – Tim Drake infiltrates the Batcave and becomes the third Robin. His parents die shortly after and he is adopted by Bruce.
- - August 6th 2007 – Tim befriends other young heroes, Connor Kent, Cassandra Sandsmark and Bart Allen, they form Young Justice and head off on their own adventures. In the meantime he abandons the Robin mantle and becomes Red Robin.
- - June 9th 2010 – Jason returns and becomes the new Red Hood.
- July 10th 2010 - Barbara is paralyzed in an attack by Joker
- - August 1st 2010 – Dick and Barbara return to Gotham and move in together. Both have discarded their hero persona’s.
- - January 1st 2013 – Damian Wayne arrives at Wayne Manor and soon becomes the next Robin.
- - May 23rd 2014 – Bruce proposes to Selina and they set plans for a Christmas wedding.
- - December 20th 2014 – Bruce and Selina welcome the Bat Family home for Christmas and a White Wedding
- - December 25th 2014 – Wedding Day for The Bat and the Cat
Hey guys, so the OOC is up
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75239/posts/ooc#post-2321547
I'm still trying to work out the kinks of the new site but right now there's an IC, OOC and a character sheets section. When moving your CS's over, please not I have altered it slightly so make sure to add in the new stuff!
**ATTENTION: FOR THE SAKE OF STORYTELLING, THIS RP IS SET IN A SOMEWHAT ALTERNATE UNIVERSE**
_The Story So far:_
We all know the story but do you know this one?; When Bruce Wayne was a young boy, he was forced to watch helplessly as a mugger named Joe Chill mercilessly gunned down his mother Martha Wayne in cold blood. This single act propelled her husband Thomas to pursue a career in crime fighting. Taking inspiration from his wife’s favourite animal and with the help of best friend and war veteran Alfred Pennyworth he became the first vigilante of Gotham, the first Batman. After the deaths of his father and Alfred in a blaze at Wayne Manor, a now adult Bruce decided that the most effective means of avenging the death of his family, was by becoming a fearsome creature of the night and following in the steps of his father, and thus the true Batman was born.
For the first few years of his career, Batman operated alone, prowling the rooftops of Gotham City, but on one fateful evening, he watched history repeat itself. A gangster named Boss Zucco murdered John and Mary Grayson, leaving their young son, Dick, an orphan. Bruce Wayne took Dick in, and trained him in the ways of crime-fighting. Dick became the flamboyant Boy Wonder known as Robin. In the intervening years, history continued to repeat and Batman and Robin were joined by others from Gotham who had gone through various tragedy and had been stained with a mark of dark justice.
Through the urban decay of Gotham City, the once solitary Batman had now built a solid family of surrogate sons and daughters, a family with the goal of protecting innocent lives from the evil that seems entrenched in the gothic city ground.
Today is a noteworthy day in Gotham City history as its favourite son, a now 46 year old Bruce Wayne, head of Wayne Enterprises marries on/off girlfriend local businesswoman Selina Kyle in a lavish ceremony at the majestic Wayne Manor. Join us for live coverage at 5pm won’t you?
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- Character Impressions (aka in character thoughts of other characters)
- Story Arc (Here I want you to give me a brief summary of a story you wish to do within the context of the rp)
- Extra (Any fun bits of information missed in your history)
- In Costume Appearance
Episode 1 – Blood in the Snow
Episode 2 – Girls Night Out
Episode 3 – The New Bird
Episode 4 – Kate
Episode 5 – The Brothers Wayne
Episode 6 – Making Amends
Episode 7 – The Gray Son of Gotham
Episode 8 – Heir to Two Worlds
Episode 9 - The Hit List
Episode 10 – The Serpent of Hong Kong
Episode 11 – Omerta, The Silencer
Episode 12 – Art of Assassination
Episode 13 – Perchance to Dream
Blackbat looks great. Only small issue I have is the fact you mention Alfred being the one that helped her. In this timeline, Alfred has been dead for years. In his place would be Lucius Fox. Other than that, she's accepted.
I'll put up an OOC tonight after work but I agree with Spidey that we should try an iron out character relationships first or at least get an idea of the directions we want to go with them.
ACCEPTED!
All CS's accepted so far :)
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