glumshoe:

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glumshoe:

Never actually seen it occur in canon, but I always imagine a young Dick Grayson at the start of his crime-fighting career, before people started to recognize Robin, busting out some circus skills as a distraction technique.

Like there’s a bunch of mobsters or whatever planning an assassination and then, boom, suddenly there’s a brightly-colored child standing on the table across the room, juggling and humming ‘Entrance of the Gladiators’, doing six backflips in a row, and then balancing on one hand from the back of a chair. He does a somersault and then bows deeply. The mobsters begin to clap, impressed despite their confusion. No one even thinks that Batman might be involved—this is so not his M.O. Is this kid a joke? Hired entertainment? Is it someone’s surprise birthday party? Will there be a cake?

And then it’s over before it began. They never got a chance to throw a single punch before Batman caught them.

Not only is this completely in line with Golden Age Robin but I think this would be the most cathartic thing for young Dick. “I’m unsure of your live fighting capabilities yet so preform some of your favorite sequences while I go out and punch the surrogates for your parents murderer. Keep going until I give you the signal to stop or I join in.”

“Dick, I believe in you, but you’re ten years old and weigh, like, 70 pounds soaking wet. I’ll train you to punch and kick like the best of them, but for now I think you should stick to what you do best: flips ‘n’ shit. Be adorable. Bask in the attention. Be too gosh darn cute to shoot at, and if that fails, be too fucking agile to actually hit. I’ll take care of the ‘gratuitous violence’ part.”

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