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• The Performance of Daylight by 7SMR55

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

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
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  • Work in Progress

  01 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Dick Grayson & Amy Rohrbach
  • Amy Rohrbach & Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
  • Batfamily Members & Dick Grayson
  • Dick Grayson
  • Amy Rohrbach
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Blüdhaven Police Department Officers
  • Post-Spyral (DCU)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Dick Grayson Needs a Hug
  • Dick Grayson is Nightwing
  • Dick Grayson is Not Okay
  • Scary Dick Grayson
  • Identity Reveal
  • Identity Issues
  • Gun Violence
  • Original Character(s)
  • Mentioned Batfamily (DCU)
  • Morally Ambiguous Dick Grayson
  • Angst
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Character Study
  • Dick Grayson Needs Therapy
  • Loss of Innocence
  • Detective Dick Grayson

  Summary

  Fourteen months after a classified medical leave, Detective Dick Grayson returns to the Blüdhaven Police Department looking exactly like the man everyone remembers: bright smile, bad jokes and with a box of donuts in hand. But Captain Amy Rohrbach and Detective Vance begin noticing things that don't add up... his body moves with inhuman efficiency and, sometimes, when he thinks nobody is watching, the smile disappears.

  Nightwing may have survived Spyral but Dick Grayson didn't.

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  A post-Spyral fanfic that explores what could have happened if Dick tried to return to a normal life after the trauma of Spyral.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,293

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  130

  Bookmarks:

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