Unexpected and delightful is /exactly/ what i was going for here! Thank you!
(And yes I have all these plans I never expected, because I'm firstly just fascinated by Dick being raised by other people especially Batman villains (There are some interesting fics of him being raised by Catwoman and there was one like comic panel where an alternate Dick showed up going by Dick Zucco and one day I will actually scream enough about that idea) and like how that affects who he is because Dick is still fundamentally Dick: Loyal and brash and loving but also depending on circumstances things change. Like, he's much sharper and more brittle and angry because he's loyal to Waylon here and Waylon has been rejected and persecuted. So seeing how that plays into his interactions with the world, with Bruce. But we also know he thrives under confused tough love because Waylon's sorta inability to be soft in some ways reflects Bruce's own inabilities as Batman to raise Dick. So like that's a huge thread I want to explore over and over, and how as much as Dick is affected so is Waylon who doesn't eat people and has turned to crime because what else is he gonna do? Unlike canon where often times he's been stripped of everything to care for, and a Bruce who has no Robin.
And mostly Bruce is just going to be so CONFUSED and I'm cackling to myself over that)
Bruce being baffled and out of his depth in the face of the full breadth of Dick Grayson's personality, without any previous experience on how to respond to such a force of nature is just the greatest. Heeeeee, you and your brain deserve a high five.
ALSO SURPRISED BY HOW MUCH I LIKE WAYLON??? HE'S A CROCODILE I'D TAKE HOME AND INTRODUCE AS MY BESTIE FOR SURE.
Bruce is gonna be baffled this whole story and it's sorta insanely exciting to me?? He's usually so in control but then like Dick always blindsides him and it's so much worse when he doesn't know him.
Ahahahaha! I'm glad! I honestly was not expecting this amount of Waylon feelings myself (But like it's combining a lot of different canons to make this Waylon because like reading the prequel comic for the Arkham games? There's these pages of him like in the circus and reveling in being loved for the first time and belonging and being happy but then the circus is violently attacked and most of them die and you see him snap and he turns into the human eating monster you see in the games like with no faith or hope in humanity and this is the Waylon who was accepted in the circus again, but he never saw it destroyed and he's been dealing with Dick's aggressive hope in humanity for like 6 years now. And it's also his tendencies to accidentally pick up kids from the new 52 the ONE THING I TRULY LOVE IN THE NEW 52 and a dash of him being misunderstood from the Batman Earth One series). SO YES TAKE HIM HOME AND INTRODUCE HIM TO YOUR BESTIE HE'S A KEEPER. He'll lurk around and bitch about french literature and eat a lot of food but it's worth it.
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