Post by Nightwing on Mar 16, 2012 20:13:53 GMT -5
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Character General Info
Name:
Dick Grayson
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
March 21st
Age:
32
Age Looks:
28
Hair:
Soot Black, Medium Length Black Hair that falls down to his shoulders, and is often pulled backwards
Eyes:
Steel Blue
Appearance:
Physique: Dick Grayson stands at a decent height of 6 feet tall, weighing a solid 175 pounds. His physique is solid and athletic, covered in numerous scars that serve as a reminder to him of his previous confrontations upon taking the mantle of Nightwing.
Costume: His suit is made of a version of the Nomex fire-resistant, triple-weave Kevlar-lined material. It is an excellent protection against damage, and it's also electrically insulated. Instead of a black cape for stealthing, the suit is light sensitive, darkening when there is more light in the area. His current costume sports a stylized blue "wing" across his shoulders and extending to his hands, coloring his two middle fingers, over a black torso and legs. Nightwing's costume is tailored specifically to his unique style of crime-fighting. As such, his costume has fewer body-armor inlays than Batman's, anticipating a decreased need for shock-absorption and an increased capacity for motion. ("Move more, get hit less.") A caveat of this configuration can be exploited by capable fighters who are both fast and strong. Should Nightwing need to engage an enemy who is capable of exploiting this weakness, he has supplemental body-armor overlays which he can attach to his gauntlets, mask, shoulders, and boots.
The mask, in the form of his symbol, is fixed in place with spirit gum, and includes a built-in radio transmitter/receiver and Starlight night-vision goggles.
Personality:
Dick Grayson's mentality has undergone major changes as he has grown older, yet the fundamental personality traits he has possessed have remained roughly the same. While his mentor Batman has a more serious nature, Dick is a little more carefree, looking at his duty of crimefighting as an entertaining public service instead of a sworn duty. Also, while Batman had become more antisocial upon losing his parents, using it as a means for vengeance, Dick has taken the loss of his parents, in turn turning it into a means of ensuring justice is kept, so the same thing doesn't occur.
Dick is outspoken and not afraid to speak what is on his mind, allowing himself recognition as a natural born leader, also employing fine strategic tactics on the spot, in addition to maintaining quirky and witty remarks here and there, which indicates the carefree and joyous nature he had as Robin is still there, although not nearly as evident.
Though he may be an accomplished hero, Dick does take his losses seriously, blaming himself should something happen to his allies and occasionally doubting whether or not he is capable of truly providing the city the services it needs, giving his personality a bit of a darker, colder edge forged from his failures. This part of Dick is often shown in the allies with whom he had forged deep intimate connections with, often adding to the inner turmoil.
Family:
John Grayson [Father, deceased]
Mary Grayson [Mother, deceased]
Bruce Wayne [Father - Adopted]
Alfred Pennyworth [Surrogate Father, Butler]
Jason Todd [Brother - Adopted]
Timothy Drake [Brother - Adopted]
Damian Wayne [Brother]
Cassandra Cain [Sister - Adopted]
Background:
Born to a family of acrobats, Dick Grayson begins his life with an exciting childhood growing up in the circus. With his parents, John and Mary Grayson, his family forms " The Flying Graysons," famed trapeze artists and acrobats.
These happy times soon take a turn for the worse, as the mafia begins targeting the circus. At eight years old, Dick witnesses mob boss Anthony Zucco threatens the circus owner, demanding insurance for the safety of his performers. The owner vehemently refuses the extortion and Dick goes along his way. Unfortunately, Zucco decides to use the headlining act, which happened to be The Flying Graysons, as an example.
As the Graysons plummet to earth, hundreds of spectators watch in horror. Among them are billionaire Bruce Wayne. Feeling empathy for the boy's loss, Bruce decides to take the boy in as his legal ward, as none of Dick's family wanted him. The major difference between Bruce and Dick is that while Bruce's swore vengeance on his parents’ grave, Dick Grayson swore justice, which helped him cope with the death better then Bruce had his own parents.
After a short while, Dick realizes what his mentor is doing all these late nights, and eventually chooses the same life as well. Bruce decides that with the boy's extensive training in acrobatics and his sense of justice, he has just what’s needed to become the Batman's partner. After rigorous training from Bruce, Robin, the Boy Wonder, is christened.
Dick enjoys his first year as Robin describing it as an adventure; he battles villains such as Mad Hatter, Penguin, Joker, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, and Blockbuster. However, his so-called adventure quickly turns into a hellish nightmare when Two-Face kidnaps both the new District Attorney and Batman, suspending them both from a hangman’s noose in a double gallows death trap. Batman instructs Robin to prioritize saving the D.A. He follows his orders by throwing a batarang at the noose, freeing the D.A. and therefore saving his life. Unfortunately, Two-Face’s trap is a two-parter, and the false floor below the noose gives out before Robin can get to him. Robin jumps into the water after the D.A., but Two-Face pulls him out and beats him savagely while a restrained Batman watches in horror. Batman eventually frees himself and stops Two-Face, but not before Dick is permanently scarred. This frightens Batman so much that he temporarily suspends Dick, and the event continues to haunt Dick for many years afterwards. When Dick eventually returns to crime fighting, he is much stronger and smarter than before. He later studies law at Hudson University but drops out after one term due to his responsibilities as Robin.
After several years of fighting by Batman's side, Robin decides he’s ready to fight with others his own age. Dick joins forces with Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Speedy, forming the Teen Titans. Although Robin is one of the few members of the team without traditional superpowers, he emerges as the group’s natural leader due to his experience and intelligence.
Dick's new found independence and duties with the Titans leave him with less time for his former commitments in Gotham City. Dick feels that he rediscovers his self-worth among the Teen Titans Bruce, however, is less than pleased. He informs Dick that if he no longer wants to be his partner, he’ll have to retire as Robin. Furious, hurt, and confused, eighteen year old Dick Grayson leaves Wayne Manor after this fallout. Helping him through this difficult time are his fellow Titans, including Starfire, a beautiful alien with whom Dick had fallen in love. Dick ultimately decides to hand over leadership of the Titans to Wonder Girl.
Dick realizes that he’s grown up and doesn't need Batman anymore to help him. He decides that in order to discover who he is and his place in the world, he must leave Batman’s side. Dick decides to drop his role as Robin and as the leader of the New Teen Titans.
After that, Dick embarks on a journey to find himself, which leads him to Metropolis where he meets Superman. Asking for an outside opinion on what he should do next with his life, Superman relays the story of a hero from Krypton who had been cast out by his family only to become a great hero. This hero's name was Nightwing. After a short stint in Haley's circus to clear his head, Dick takes on the name Nightwing.
As his time as a hero returned, he is attacked not as Robin but as Dick Grayson by Deathstroke the Terminator, who was hunting the Titans. Dick manages to escape and meets the ex-wife of Deathstroke and his son Joseph. After saving his teammates and defeating Terra and Deathstroke, Nightwing once again becomes the leader of the New Teen Titans, before leaving the Titans once again to establish a reputation for himself in the familiar city of Gotham..
Character Info
Code Name: Nightwing
Enemy Code Name: Renegade
Powers/abilities:
- Peak Human Conditioning: Dick Grayson possesses the peak athletic strength and endurance of a man who regularly engages in intensive physical exercise. His physical attributes exceed that of any Olympic level athlete that has ever competed. His strength, speed, stamina, reflexes, agility and coordination are at peak human perfection.
- Peak Human Strength: He is one of the strongest non-metas on Earth. Although he relies on his speed more than his strength, he has shown remarkable strength throughout his career.
- Peak Human Reflexes: Nightwing's possesses reflexes that have enabled him to dodge point blank gunfire from multiple opponents at the same time.
- Peak Human Speed: He has run at speeds greater than the finest competing athletes. He has been stated to be even faster than Batman.
- Peak Human Endurance: Nightwing's endurance is greater than an Olympic Decathlete. He can exert himself at peak capacity for nearly an hour without rest before showing any signs of fatigue. His lung capacity is so great that he is capable of holding his breath underwater for 4 mins.
- Peak Human Agility: He has honed his agility to top human physical perfection. He is as agile as one could be without being considered superhuman and has even been told that he has shown agility that should be beyond human capabilities.
- Peak Human Durability: He has been thrown through entire walls, by Roland Desmond, and immediately rose back up to finish the fight, survived an entire building collapsing, has fallen of the top of a building when his and has sustained other extreme forms of punishment, and has survived it all without any serious injury.
- Peak Human Strength: He is one of the strongest non-metas on Earth. Although he relies on his speed more than his strength, he has shown remarkable strength throughout his career.
Equipment:
- Gauntlets/Boots Compartments: His gauntlets and boots each contain eight compartments in which he can store items. They have a self-destruct feature built into them, similar to the ones in Batman's utility belt, and, as an added security measure, the suit contains a one-use-only taser charge, which automatically emits a high-voltage electrical shock when someone attempts to tamper with either the boots or gauntlets.
Each gauntlet's sections can contain a wide array of equipment most often including:- tear gas canisters
- sonic or smoke pellets,
- modified batarangs ("Wing-Dings"),
- knockout gas capsules and throwing tracers.
The right gauntlet is also equipped with a:- 100,000-volt stun gun.
Boots: Like the gauntlets, his boots can carry vital elements like:- flares,
- a rebreather as protection against any airborne non-contact toxins,
- a mini-computer equipped with fax, modem, GPS and a minidisk rewritable drive.
Other Equipment:- lock picks
- first aid kit
- mini-cellphone
- flexi-cuffs
- antitoxin assortment
- signal flares
- wireless listening devices
- halogen flashlight
- tear gas canisters
- Escrima Sticks: Held in spring-loaded pouches in the back of his costume, Nightwing carries a pair of Escrima sticks made from an unbreakable polymer that are wielded as both offensive and defensive weapons. Some depictions have displayed these tools with the mechanism to shoot a grappling hook attached to a swing line, while, in other instances, he is seen using a "line gun" like the one Batman currently uses.
- Wing-Dings:Nightwing uses a modified type of batarang as a throwing weapon. Possessing the traditional bat shape, Nightwing's batarangs possessed a more circular shuriken type feel to them, being a bit more aerodynamic then the usual batarang, allowing for increased accuracy.
Strengths:
- Master Detective: Grayson is a world class detective He was rigorously trained by the Dark Knight in everything from escapology to criminology, fencing, stealth, disguise, and numerous other combat/non-combat disciplines.
- Master Acrobat: Grayson is a prodigious natural athlete, possessing a peak human level of agility/acrobatic skills. He is regarded as the greatest human acrobat in the DC universe.Batman himself is an incredible athlete in agility, and is at peak human perfection, but even he gives the advantage in that area over to Nightwing. He is the only person on Earth who can do the quadruple somersault.
- Intimidation: He has been taught by Batman, the ability to instill fear into others. While not as efficient as his former mentor in this category, he still uses this ability effectively.
- Master Martial Artist: As Nightwing, Grayson is a master of dozens of martial arts disciplines, with an emphasis on Aikido and Escrima, taught to him by Batman.His preferred fighting style combines Escrima, Judo, Savate, Capoeira, Aikido, Boxing, Wing Chun, Hapkido, Jeet Kune Do, Taijiquan, Ninjutsu, and Bojutsu with his acrobatic abilities. He is considered one of the finest human combatants in unarmed combat, almost on par with his old mentor. He has fought and held his own or defeated some of the best fighters in the world.
- Weapons Proficiency: Through his martial arts training with Batman, he has become an expert on almost all types of weaponry.
- Master of Stealth: His training has made him a master at stealth capable of easily breaching high security facilities without being detected. He has been compared to Batman, in terms of stealth and has been stated to be as good as Batman in this field. He has even snuck up on Batman himself.
- Expert Marksman: As a result of his training in ninjutsu and with Batman, Nightwing almost never misses his targets, 9/10 times he's successful. He has been practicing accuracy since the early days of his training as Robin and rivals Batman in terms of accuracy.
- Tracking: Nightwing has been trained in hunting and tracking techniques by Batman. He is a master tracker.
- Master of Disguise: He is proficient in the art of disguise as having been taught by the Batman himself.
- Escapologist: Batman has trained Nightwing in this ability since his earliest days, in turn making Nightwing, a master escape artist.
- Multilingual: Having had the finest education as Bruce Wayne's ward, he speaks with fluency in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, Swahili, Mandarin, Cantonese, and is possibly fluent in other languages. He has some knowledge of Romany and the alien language of Tamaran.
- Skilled Leader: He is also a brilliant and experienced strategist with superlative leadership skills, having served as leader to the Titans,and the Outsiders. Additionally, Dick's efforts to remain in contact with other heroes makes him a master at rallying, unifying, and inspiring the superhero community, a skill in which he has surpassed his mentor.
- Tactical Analysis: Like his mentor, Grayson is a brilliant, albeit looser tactician who relies more on intuition and timing, rather than meticulous preparation.
Weaknesses:
- Self Doubt: Since his earliest days as Robin, Dick Grayson had always carried doubts in his own abilities. Even as he progressed exponentially through the years, bringing him closer to his mentor, he still sees himself as inadequate, and constantly questions whether he is capable of defending the values he holds dear and the teammates who rely on him. Dick constantly seeks the approval and the recognition from his former mentor.
- Recklessness: Dick Grayson, though he has gotten better in recent years, has always been rather reckless. He has the bad habit of rushing into situations that call for planning in ahead, so he often finds himself playing into the villain's trap.
- Unrequited Passion: Nightwing has also seemed to develop interests in various teammates from time to time, most of which haven't ended well. His first interest came in the form of Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, but was broken off after an unsteady relationship. As a member of Teen Titans, he soon took to the alien Starfire, even to the point of marrying the Tamaranian girl before the priest was murdered by fellow Titan Raven, leaving the two separated. Also while in the Titans, he had an affair with Donna Troy, who initiated him into a version of the Justice League, though their connection was closer to that of brother and sister than of lovers. Then after the defeat of the villian Blockbuster, Nightwing had an intimate encounter with Catalina Flores, while he was in an emotional state, stating that the encounter was nonconsequential on his part. Nonetheless, whenever Dick Grayson develops a love interest, catastrophe soon follows.
Affiliation:
Bat Family
Other Info
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Will you be active?:yes
Do you Agree should you become Inactive you will have your Character Removed from the Roleplay?:yes
Sample RP:
The sound of a truck's engine permeated through the otherwise silent night as several men hauled large crates out of a warehouse into the large semi, the heavy thud of the crate hitting the truckbed floor evident as the men exited the back of the vehicle to continue loading the truck.
Unbenounced by them, they failed to notice the figure crouched on the rooftop, silently watching them through a mask that concealed the features of his face, his long, black hair fluttering aroung his shoulders as he analyzed the situation.
It was just your typical night in Bludhaven, these individuals being just another group of thugs doing another drug run, as the vigilante's nose picked up a familiar scent. The scent of gasoline. The smell was intoxicating as Nightwing sensed something was amiss. For one, gasoline seemed to suggest more than just local druglords at work. As his eyes drifted over to some individuals standing guard near the loading area, he noticed the heat they were packing. Ak-47s, most likely fully automatic.... Not a good sign.
"Guess someone has to break these goons the bad news," the vigilante would mutter quietly to himself, as he pushed himself forward off the roof ledge. As he descended onto the loose gravel, his legs bent slightly, pushing himself off the earth, as his frame flew by the individuals, the darkened shadows masking his presence as he neared the guards. A soft click and two baton like weapons flew from the back of his costume, welcomed by his expecting hands.
Clink....
Clink......
Clink........
Nightwing's Escrima sticks hit their mark as the guards fell into a heap onto the gravel. His appearance was marked by the disgruntled lifters as they shouted out. "Ah, shit, it's Batman. But I heard he hadn't been seen in a while." Dick didn't take the time to ponder the guards words, as his knee cracked across the temple of the nearest guy, the sharp groan indicating his target had hit home. "Wrong, care to guess again?" Nightwing would exclaim sarcastically as his aerial form took out the last of the men as he rushed into the warehouse.
Catching his breath, Dick looked around, his eyes immediately falling downwards towards his feet, the source of the smell earlier now evident as he had stepped in the liquid splashed across the warehouse floor. A new smell now coupled with the gasoline as the distinct of aroma of gunpowder mingled with that of the gasoline. A static buzz echoed through the storage facility as the warehouse gates came crashing down. A voice soon followed, jeeringly calling out the masked vigilante, laughing maniacally. "Hehehehe, you've fallen into a trap, Nightwing. I've rigged this warehouse with nearly ten tons of dynamite, which will engulf this entire warehouse in flames. I hope you enjoy dying by cremation!!!" More laughter ensued as the static buzz cut out.
The gasoline soon ignited around one of the crates, sending the box ablaze, as the flames caught these gasoline trail. Nightwing cursed under his breath as he quickly anticipated some manner of escape.
