Character Biography for Sixth Iteration

[bludhavenknight]

Name: Dick Grayson
Canon: DC Comics
Scrubs Color: Light Grey
Visible Age: DC Comics is terrible with ages once someone hits eighteen (and sometimes before that, too), considering it has to span from the 1930s onward. And unlike Marvel, which will occasionally throw the reader a bone and tell you someone’s current age, or what grade they just graduated from, DC decided that they would rather reboot their entire universe versus telling us how old Batman actually is. This Dick is pre-reboot, and it’s still a best guess, but I’m going to go with 25 years old.

Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Physique: Dick is an acrobat (among other physical activities) and is in tip top physical shape. Seriously, he's solid muscle, though not excessively bulked up like some superheroes.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue

Defining Marks: Nothing when he's wearing a shirt, but if you see him without one, you might need to be warned about how many scars he has all across his chest and back. And legs, if you check under his pants.

Bearing/Demeanor: Dick is one of the friendliest people you will ever meet. After spending time with the guy, you have now joined the ranks of friends, and he will remember your name, age, and birthday the next time you see each other. After spending an entire day with him? You're practically family, and he'll treat you like it the next time you see each other. Dick is everyone's favorite big brother, and he'll tell bad jokes and even worse puns whenever possible, because they're fun and he can get away with it.

Habits: He walks on his hands instead of his feet a lot. No, really, he likes to push himself into handstands on a whim whenever he can. Also likes to get onto roofs, and find some way to swing between buildings. Dick likes spending his time in the air whenever possible, it's in his blood.

Skills: Dick has a lot of abilities, both from his circus years and while being Robin, then Nightwing. H’'s in peak human conditioning, being able to more pain then a normal person would, and he is incredibly flexible and agile. He’s an acrobat, so he has quick reflexes, and is able to tumble through the hair a hundred different ways. And he never falls. He’s one of 3 people who can do a quadruple backflip, and he actually gets better the higher up he gets. He’s very quick and strong, and able to hold his breath for 7 minutes, and can go four days without any sleep. He is a master detective; he solved four cases of “America’s Most Wanted” in a single morning, as well as solving an unsolved homicide from 14 years ago. He is a good leader, and has led multiple groups such as the Titans, the Outsiders, and even the Justice League, at one time. He keeps in contact with other heroes, and he’s good at getting them all together when needed, as well as inspiring them to help, as well.

He’s a martial arts expert, though he has an emphasis on Aikido and Eskrima. He knows and uses:
Aikido
Boxing
Capoeira
Eskrima
Hapkido
Judo
Ninjitsu
Savate
Taijiquan
Wing Chun

Because of his training with Batman, he knows how to use various different weapons like Shurikens (in the form of Wing-Dings and Batarangs) and swords. He prefers to use Eskrima sticks, and because of his police officer training and Batman teaching him, he knows how to use a gun, though he prefers never to use them. Dick is also multilingual. He speaks fluently: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, Swahili, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Romany. He has some knowledge of the alien language of Tamaran, as well.

Like all Bats, he is an expert hacker (he’s hacked into the JLA using their override codes, and he’s even hacked an alien terminal using some of the language Starfire taught him). He’s an expert escape artist, very stealthy, and is an expert marksman, being able to hit someone at a great distance with his eyes closed. He is great with technology, being able to build his own “Nightcar”, build and program a Tech Glider, and he knows how to fool a polygraph. He hates numbers, but loves history, and he is technically considered a genius. Let’s say he’s intelligent enough for his liking.

Some other little tidbits: he’s a good pickpocket, he can speak circus language (a mix of pidgin English and Romany), and he’s held down multiple jobs such as being a bartender, cop, male model, instructor at a gym for 12 -18 year olds, and a museum curator. This makes him a good acrobat teacher, and he can make a mean old fashioned.

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[bludhavenknight]

HISTORY

Dick Grayson's History! Sorry it's a long wiki article, the boy has been in print since the 1940s.

What is your canon exit point?: During Batman: Battle for the Cowl, part 3, where Dick finally decides to take up the mantle of Batman.

PERSONALITY QUESTIONS

What skills does your character bring to the situation?

Dick brings a lot of things to the table, ranging from leadership skills to actual physical skills. First, he's a highly skilled trained fighter; he was trained under the goddamn Batman, after all. While he's developed a specific way of fighting, he is still very adaptable to any given situation, whether it's a fight or figuring out where he's going to work. He knows how to use a variety of weapons, though he does specialize with nonlethal ones. He'd mostly prefer to use nonlethal weapons against people, though animals are a different story, especially if it involves hunting them for food and such. That's a completely different story.

He is also a master detective, being able to solve problems easily and quickly, like when he solved four cases of “America’s Most Wanted” in a single morning, as well as solving an unsolved homicide from 14 years ago. If someone got murdered for some reason? Chances are Dick is the man you want to go to to help solve the case.

The man has a way with people, and doesn't mind taking the lead when needed. He's also very good at following orders when that's needed, too. The biggest skill that Dick brings to the situation is his empathy; his ability to empathize with the people around him, the people who need him or who need help. His skill is being the guy you can count on for anything, and he takes that very seriously.

Why did you choose this specific character for 6I, and how do you picture them fitting into the game?

The reason why Dick is good for this game is very simple: Dick is adaptable and can fit in anywhere. He's a person who likes to help people and is always up for solving a mystery, whether it be why he's in a place such as this, or how he can help others in a place that makes no sense to what he's used to. And he's used to being in different places, just from all of the traveling he's done throughout his life. Dick would fit in well here, not because he's someone who's perfect for the setting, but because he's someone who fits in everywhere. He'll mold himself into whatever he needs to be, for whoever needs him to be anything. That's not to say he loses his identity, but that he just adapts well to whatever situation he's put into. Even if it's being transported to a completely different world. He'll make himself fit in, rather then fight against it.

How do you imagine your character will survive in 6I, and in what ways will they contribute to the settlement, if any?

Dick would survive rather well in this world. He has the skills and the abilities to hold his own in any fights that might come up, whether it's against people or creatures that he's never heard of before. And Dick? Dick is a helper. He'll contribute in whatever way is needed, even if it's doing something he's never done before. Sure, maybe he's never butchered a pig before, but show him how to do it one time and he can remember how to do it, and won't ever need to ask for help. Someone needs help chopping wood? Dick is your guy, because he's got the strength for it, and he genuinely wants to help. This is the guy who will go out of his way to help a crying child even in the middle of chasing down a bad guy through the streets of Gotham, New York City, or Bludhaven (he's been a masked vigilante in quite a bit of places).

There's also the side of Dick that has everything to do with wanting to make people happy. He's going to want to keep people's morale's up. Dick doesn't like to see people unhappy or down, just as much as he can get into his own brooding moods at times. He's a Bat after all, they tend to have their own brooding times, but Dick has always been the one who can get out of them a little bit easier then others. This makes him want to do the same for everyone else, and it's what he tries to do. So, besides having another helping hand around the settlement, you have the guy who will sing and do handstands and crack jokes, just to get someone to smile for the briefest of moments.

How will your character react to...

Being separated, possibly permanently, from loved ones and their previous life, including loss of powers, if applicable?

So, Dick doesn't have any super powers that he would be losing, so let's scratch that one out. But being separated from loved ones and his previous life? Is going to hit Dick hard. It won't be easy for him, because Dick considers his family to be, well, his family. He really cares for his family and his friends, who he also considers family. You could almost say that Dick has no friends, because they're all loved ones, family, to him. And he has a lot of them, because the guy is pretty damn popular. Almost too much for his own good, really, but we can ignore that for now.

It'll be difficult, because he would be worried about them. Scared for them, even, considering the canon point he would be coming from, where the most important members of his family were fighting for something that one could almost call a birthright. Also, his father figure had just died, so he would be having such a difficult time with that already. Dick doesn't do well with losing people permanently. It would send him into a depression for awhile, one that he would struggle mightily with, but be able to hide extremely well from anyone who doesn't know him really well. Eventually he'd be able to deal with it, but it would always be in the back of his mind, wondering how everyone was doing, and if people were okay. There would be a lot of guilt as well, being away from people who might need him, as well as an entire city that needs Nightwing and now Batman.

Their environment being manipulated, possibly in strange or extraordinary ways, and possibly in ways which restrain them?

The environment around him being changed would definitely freak Dick out a little bit. He's used to a lot of things happening, though, such as the world changing for the different, or a city becoming a literal No Man's Land. So there's the two sides to Dick when it comes to that, because while it would freak him out, he'd also be able to take it in stride. He's a very complex person when it comes to changes in things, because he can handle them very well, just not like them very much.

It depends on how he's being restrained, of course. Because being restrained physically would be a problem. Dick is an acrobat, someone who's always on the move, and being forced into a smaller room situation, or somewhere where he can't move and do the things that he's used to doing (such as being able to fidget and go into handstands at the drop of a hat) would be a problem for him. Dick can't stand still for very long, and that doesn't mean just physically. He's always been the kind of person who has to keep moving in life, doing new things. It's not that he gets bored, it's just that he needs this freedom that comes from being able to do or be whatever he wants to do or be.

Being forced to do something that he doesn't want to do? Not something he's comfortable with, and he might fight it for a little bit before going along with it, but still on terms that he's comfortable with. Something like rationalizing what needs to be done for the greater good, versus what's good for himself, that sort of thing.

Being physically and/or mentally manipulated, such as having hallucinations or suddenly possessing special abilities they did not have before?

This would be very difficult for Dick, because he's the kind of person who has been manipulated in the past, either by extraordinary means, or by something that happened to him but was badly received. As said before, Dick is an acrobat, he's a man who is always on the move and suddenly being restrained? Not something he would take well. He would struggle greatly against that, physically if need be, and mentally as well. He does have a strong mental focus, and is able to resist quite a lot when it comes to mental manipulation, as well as being physically strong when it comes to physical. That's not to say he can't be restrained, because he is only a man, but it would be hard for him to deal with that.

As for suddenly having special abilities? Dick would think that was pretty damn cool. As a kid, and still as a young adult, he idolized people like Superman, and always wished that he had special powers that had a lot to do with, well, special type abilities that he'd never had before. Dick would find it to be some great adventure, and would have a blast with it. Once he learned how to use them, of course, without hurting people. Because if he got special abilities that he then hurt someone with, even by accident, the guilt would eat him up inside for awhile, and he would do whatever he could to make it right.