It is nonetheless not identified how precisely Nightwing turned the newest vampire king. Nevertheless, the primary hints have been given within the backup story “Dark Beginning: Half 1” from DC vs. Vampires: All Out Battle #2 (by Emma Vieceli, Haining, and Troy Peteri). What it implies is troubling, presenting the chance that he might have willingly chosen to grow to be the brand new king.
If that’s the case, then it solely cements how far he had fallen, being seduced by energy and temptation properly earlier than turning into a vampire. Oddly sufficient although, it looks like his intentions had been genuinely good — nonetheless wanting to assist others. Sadly for everybody else, Dick Grayson’s early adventures with DC’s vampire group ensured the downfall of his alternate world.
There are nonetheless too many unknowns to verify what truly occurred. Nightwing’s efforts to guard his sister throughout a gathering with Bludhaven’s vampire inhabitants turned out to be a ruse to attract him. To not spring a entice, however to ask for his assist. This was doubtless when he went down the trail to turning into the following vampire king. They requested that he homicide Mary Seward, the earlier vampire queen.
These vampires did not reveal a lot about themselves past their workforce’s title — the Acolyte of Shadows. They declare to be at odds with Mary and her “progressive” vampires, hinting at a robust ideological divide between them, one that might lead to bloodshed. This is the reason they got here to Nightwing for assist — to keep away from any extra lack of life. Nevertheless, serving to them might solely have made issues worse.
Calling Mary and her followers progressives implies that Mary desires to separate from the standard vampire technique of survival, preferring to try to method humanity extra brazenly and set up higher relations. This could battle with the beliefs of a extra conventional vampire, who would consider that people are solely meant to be meals.
Approaching Nightwing to ask him to commit regicide is hardly the easiest way to encourage confidence in them. Contemplating the hints given although, it appears doubtless that these speculations are true to a sure diploma. If that’s the case, then this may occasionally not even be about stopping extra deaths however merely discovering a disposable software to destroy Mary and one which pushes the blame onto another person.
No matter occurred after this level, nevertheless, will need to have formed Nightwing. Delving into the vampire world is to danger temptation at each flip, and he appears genuinely dedicated within the current day to preserving the vampire inhabitants. Maybe he skilled one thing throughout this mission that satisfied him the vampires had been in the appropriate. Or possibly, being across the Acolytes warped his priorities. He may need even been tempted by the ability that they had. Both method, proper from the beginning, Nightwing was concerned within the vampires’ politics. What he witnessed in the beginning is slowly being revealed to readers. It is clear that issues are much more sophisticated than anybody imagined.