Unusual Skills And Habits

Weapon Specialist

It was a well-known fact among the superhero community that Nightwing was a skilled fighter like all the bats but when it comes to comparing the family of vigilante. He was certainly not considered the best not by a long shot when compared to Batman or Black Bat but that because it was The Batman and the other had been trained as a human weapon. Jason and Damien were also considered the most dangerous when it came to fighting lethal but only because they weren't exactly fazed by it.

The thing was though even with all these facts that even the family agreed, Nightwing still somehow managed to surprise them.

Sniper

Gun training was not something the family did often or even together so this was a rare occasion for the family. They were in an old hunting wood but due to Damian's refusal to kill animals unnecessarily, they had set up robots that mimic animals to shoot.

It was going quite well, as expected Jason was the best by a long shot much to the annoyance of his younger siblings. They had just got done with shotguns when Bruce decided that they were doing sniper rifles. Dick had tensed up at the word and wore a blank face until Tim asked if he was alright to which their ever cheerful brother just replied with a smile, which was duller than usual, and reassured that he was 'fine, just a bad memory is all'.

Which Jason took as a cue to start teasing him, "aww is golden boy scared of a little sniper rifle" to which Dick just replied by rolling his eyes and giving him the middle finger.

Everyone had a basic aim with the gun even Jason since it wasn't a thing he likes to use often but then came Dick. He essentially got a perfect score every time much to the shock of the family even Bruce but when question Dick just gave the simple answer of an old friend taught while I was founding the Titans.

Needless to say, everyone was suspicious. Especially with how he said friend in such a way that it looks like he rather died than call the person he was talking about a friend.

Swords

Swords were next.

Although it was more like blades as a whole, to be honest. Damian as always had been the best in it with them being his main weapon although Jason had gotten better recently.

Damian and Dick were sparring with swords and Damian was thoroughly beaten every time to his annoyance and to his sibling's amusement. "How HOW do you keep beating me?" Damian all but yelled to which Dick just shrugged and replied "maybe you're just off your game tonight little D". This just to seemed to infuriate the kid more.

"Calm down demon spawn" stated Jason who had been cleaning his guns while watching the fights, "so the golden boy is better than you with a sword, it's not like he's bested your grandfather in a dual", "True" muttered Damian which was when Tim noticed Dick had a guilty look on his face.

"You haven't had you?" Questioned Tim almost pleading, "Errr well...you see" started Dick only to be cut off by Jason yelling "are you fucking kidding me".

Bo staff

Not question about it, Tim was the best with staff but it was clear the other Robins were skilled with it too. Although this wasn't really acknowledged until a battle with assassins and Nightwing had lost his weapon much the annoyance with his siblings who had been berating him in the coms when he just decided to improvise which he informed his family of doing before tuning out the extra chatter on the coms and focus only on the fight.

It took twenty minutes for the other to arrive and help Nightwing since he had gone in the most enemies filled area. His siblings were annoyed that he had done that and also lost his weapon as well. With Jason summing up everyone's mood with "I can't believe we have to go save goldie ass again".

Only to be surprised by the scene of a goon running out of the building to escape which only resulted in a metal pole being thrown like a javelin into the back of his head, knocking him out cold.

Sure enough, Nightwing followed out afterwards collect the pole and waved at his collective siblings. "What the hell Nightwing?" Exclaimed Tim walking over, "what I told you guys I was improvising" was his quick reply, "Jesus goldie, you did a number on these poor sods" whistled Jason making the others observe the scene in the wear house.

About 500 men were all beat up and knock out cold with hardly any blood spilt making his siblings just look at him incredulously, "what I did use a staff while I was Robin y'know" stated Dick, "it's like my back up weapon in a fight"

This of course ended up with his siblings asking more questions and getting increasingly frustrated by his vague answers.

With these three events, it was clear to the family that they didn't know Nightwing as well as they thought they had. This lead to them compiling a list of weird instances of skills and habit their big brother seemed to have and theorising over what it could possibly mean.