In Future State: Gotham #13, Batman’s former accomplice Nightwing continues utilizing an enhancement drug which may be suppressing his feelings.
Nightwing (aka Dick Grayson) has at all times been the very best and brightest of the Bat-Household, the proverbial mild to Batman’s darkness. Nevertheless, in Future State: Gotham #13 (by Dennis Culver, Geoffo, and Troy Peteri), Nightwing’s habits has grow to be more and more regarding. After his current overdose of the drug brane, he has began utilizing a supply system in his new Bat-suit to mechanically dose himself. The drug provides him enhanced talents, however it could even be hindering his means to really feel feelings.
Brane has given Nightwing perception into the previous, current, and future. He is seen visions of a calamity coming for the world, in addition to realized the place long-lost relations have been, along with discovering that allies he thought useless had been alive. Regardless of all this, he hasn’t as soon as proven any emotional response to any of it past a dogged willpower to avert no matter disaster is on the horizon.
There have been clearly dangers concerned in overdosing on brane. When Talia al Ghul and Nightwing concocted a plan to find Damian Wayne’s destiny they knew there was likelihood Nightwing may die. Fortunately, he survived, but it surely appears neither of them had been ready for the aftereffects. The power to psychically understand what he couldn’t concentrate on himself was at all times a advantage of brane, but it surely appears to return at the price of Grayson’s emotional response.
Within the span of some hours, Nightwing turned conscious that not solely had Damian been struggling alone in hell all this time, however that Bruce Wayne, the person he considers his father, was really alive. At the very least certainly one of these revelations ought to have evoked emotions from Grayson, however he did not even blink.
As a substitute, he merely knowledgeable Talia the right way to discover her son, with out going into a lot element about what turned of him. He then instantly set about turning into the most recent Batman, embarking on some unknown quest to avoid wasting the world. The notion of getting to grow to be Batman once more to guard the world ought to have induced some sort of response from him, contemplating that he has by no means been joyful about working within the function.
But, regardless of all these vital adjustments in his life, Nightwing has taken all of it in with out lacking a beat. This implies that an unexpected consequence of the overdose is that it restricted Grayson’s means to really feel feelings in a wholesome manner. This definitely tracks with the character of the drug, prioritizing the thoughts over the guts in a metaphorical sense.
Regardless of all the advantages brane has given him, it could have value Nightwing in the long term. Whereas his plan appears to finish along with his household reunited, he seems to not even have the capability to expertise pleasure even when his mission is profitable. In attempting to repair the issues in his life, Grayson might need completely broken his means to really feel love.
There may be one different risk that’s simply as troubling. It is attainable that Nightwing has no alternative however to be impassive. No matter he noticed coming sooner or later was dangerous sufficient to drive him to reclaim the cape and cowl. Maybe it was so terrifying he needed to numb himself simply to have the ability to operate. That nevertheless, may value everybody contemplating how necessary Grayson’s coronary heart and emotions are to his profitable operation as a hero.