Nightwing #3

[superfangirl1]

Mr.Haly's son was the one that hired the assassin Saiko.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Indeed the whole relationship is altered, they would probably be closer to brothers than father and son, but the father and son thing should be, if nothing else in the Batverse is, inviolable.

[jlbarnett]

If Dick was 16 when his parents died why wouldn't he just be able to have himself emancipated?

[icon_uk]

A travelling circus might not be viewed as a stable environment so it might make emancipation tricky, or he might not want to be emancipated, nor have the resources to do so.

[jlbarnett]

true, at the same time it'd be the place where he'd have recieved his entire education and he'd be a non-local who was stuck with their child services by sheer chance, combined with the fact he'd be a legal adult in just two years, why the hell wouldn't they do everything they could to not have to use resources on him.

[kenn_el]

Who says he didn't? If Bruce just trained him to be Robin, then there's no reason that Dick couldn't just sign on as an adult. (Though I imagine Gotham rumor mills would have a field day with Batchelor Bruce sharing the mansion and the fortune with a nearly-adult male.)

[icon_uk]

Thus removing the entirety of Bruce becoming Dick's adoptive father? ICK!

[kenn_el]

The actual adoption never appealed to me, so I'm happy to lose it. Dick was old enough even pre-Flashpoint to have had a relationship with his parents that an adoption seemed to infringe upon.

[icon_uk]

I actually meant "whatever variation of custody Bruce had with Dick when he took him in". Guardian/ward or adoptive father/son. Their father-son bond has always been clear without needing to be stated or legally clarified.

And to his credit, Bruce was always shown to never force "his" kids into adoption, he said it was something he would like to do, but not if they felt it was disrespectful to their birth parents.