Nightwing

In 1973, Charles Grayson, the youngest son of **** Grayson, the second Batman, was 13. Fascinated by his father's crimefighting career to an extent that his elder siblings, Angela and James, simply weren't, he wanted to be Robin. He'd insisted since the age of seven that his father train him, just as he had Bruce Wayne Jr. At that time Wayne was 23, and beginning to feel rather self-conscious about the whole thing. Okay, so the costume he was now wearing covered his legs [1], but still... He decided to try focusing on Wayne Industries and his relationship with Kara Kent for a while, and see how things worked out. After six months, it was beginning to look as if **** and Chuck [2] Grayson would never speak to each other again. Chuck felt his father was being overprotective, that he wasn't being allowed to take the risks his father or Bruce Jr. had at his age. Simultaneously, he also felt that he'd never be as good as the previous Robins, and he projected his feelings onto ****, believing he was being judged. And, after all, he was only getting to do this because Junior had taken a sabbatical. If his dad had to choose, he'd defer to Old Man Wayne's judgement, and it would be his son getting all the fun, right?

For his part, **** found the whole experience fraught. He cared about Bruce Jr. and, when Bruce was younger, he had emphasised not to take unnecessary risks, just as Bruce Sr. had for him. But with **** as Batman and Chuck as the Robin, this was the first time a Batman and Robin team had actually been blood related. He didn't know if he was being overprotective or not, and this made him edgy. Helena Wayne refused to patrol with them, claiming it was impossible to talk to either of them and Batgirl would have to work independently until it was sorted out. Something was going to snap.

The breaking point turned out to be the Joker. During a fight between the less-than-dynamic duo and the Clown Prince of Crime, Chuck was shot in the shoulder. **** felt strongly that the boy was just too reckless to continue with a crimefighting career. He was outraged when Chuck told him that if he'd been paying more attention to the situation and less on "mollycoddling" the whole thing would have worked out. After being released from hospital Chuck announced he was going to stay with his Great-Great-Aunt Harriet.

A few weeks later Bruce Wayne Jr. was Robin again.