[CENTER][h1][color=steelblue][b]OLD MAN GRAYSON[/b][/color][/h1][color=goldenrod][b]A N D   R O B I N   T H E    T O Y    W O N D E R[/b][/color][sub][hr][/sub]
[sup][img]http://baku-panda.org/images/absolute_toy_wonder2.png[/img][/sup][h3][sup][sub][color=LightBlue]R I C H A R D   G R A Y S O N  [color=1E90FF]♦[/color]   J A S O N   T O D D  [color=1E90FF]♦[/color]  B L Ü D H A V E N  [color=1E90FF]♦[/color]  B A T - F A M I L Y[/color][/sub][/sup][/h3][img]https://baku-panda.org/images/absolute_grayson.png[/img]  [img]https://baku-panda.org/images/absolute_toy_wonder.png[/img]
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[CENTER][sup][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5_TydTzwk]Old Man Grayson’s Theme[/url] | [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tpIMDy9BE]Robin, the Toy Wonder[/url][/sup][/CENTER]
[INDENT][INDENT][b]Dick Grayson[/b] [i]was only 10 years old when he became an orphan. At the time, he had been the youngest performing acrobat. That was in 1968, the same year he met a man named Bruce Wayne. Wayne fostered the orphaned circus performer, invariably dragging into Wayne’s own world of secrets and shadows. Dick became Robin, the Boy Wonder -- until 1980, when a falling out between the two led Dick to striking out on his own. He got serious about his education and became a Blüdhaven police officer to make ends meet. For a time, he lived a double life. Officer Grayson by day and the vigilante known as [b]Nightwing[/b] by night. That lasted until the early 2000s, when age and competing interests with his police career caused him to hang up the cowl. Today, in his early 60s, he’s still active as Commissioner Grayson of the Blüdhaven Police Department.[/i]

[b]Jason Todd[/b] [i]is a mechanical automaton. Originally constructed by the late Winslow Schott to serve as both a surrogate son and henchman, the robot terrorized Gotham and Blüdhaven as the villain [b]Toyboy[/b] until 1996, when he betrayed the Toyman and turned both Schott and himself over to Nightwing.  Using stolen patents, Jason's android replicates the work of Dr. [url=https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Phineas_Horton_(Earth-616)]Phineas Horton[/url]. Originally classified as a robot or android, modern scientific nomenclature describes him as a synthetic human or [url=https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Glossary:Synthezoid]synthezoid[/url]. Powered by a [url=https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Horton_Cells]Horton Cell[/url] battery, Toyboy has been studied by S.T.A.R. Labs since the doll surrendered itself to Nightwing in 1996. In order to facilitate the double life that he now leads as part of Dick’s life, Toyboy has adopted the identity of [b]Jason Todd[/b], the alter ego of [b]Robin, the Toy Wonder[/b].[/i][/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R   M O T I V A T I O N S   &   G O A L S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]This season will explore Dick’s backstory while continuing the new adventures of Robin, the Toy Wonder across three story arcs that will incorporate my own take on a classic Batman: the Animated Series story, an early Jason Todd/Robin story, and a Tim Drake/Robin story.[/i][/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R   N O T E S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]As a Bat-Family character, Robin, the Toy Wonder shares much of its concepts with those of [@Lord Wraith]’s Batman. Particular characters that will be recurring to the Bludhaven Saga are:.[/i]

[color=lightblue][b]THE GOOD[/b][/color]
• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Sarah_Charles_(New_Earth)]Dr. Sarah Charles[/url]: In the 1990s, while just an intern at S.T.A.R. Labs, Sarah Charles was rescued by Nightwing and became a trusted contact and confidant. She was entrusted with custody of Toyboy and became the head of the secretive project studying the Horton Cells that power him.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Cissy_Chambers_(New_Earth)]Lieutenant Cissy Chambers[/url]: A good cop who stumbled into a police career against her best intentions of a brief interlude to pay for her education. Currently being groomed by Grayson to replace him as the next police commissioner of Blüdhaven.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Colin_Wilkes_(New_Earth)]Colin Wilkes[/url]: A troubled orphan in the care of the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission, currently held in state custody at the Blüdhaven Home for Boys, run by Ma Gunn.

[color=lime][b]THE BAD[/b][/color]
• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Anton_Schott_(New_Earth)]Anton Schott (The Dollmaker)[/url]: The son of the Toyman, the late Winslow Schott, Anton was the victim of horrific crimes at the hands of his father, resulting in deep psychosis that led to his creation of the Dollmaker identity.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Steven_Smith_(New_Earth)]Sheriff Steven “Shotgun” Smith[/url]: The sheriff of Gotham County, with fills the jurisdictional “no man’s land” between Gotham City and Blüdhaven. A history of racially charged police beatings ran him out of the Gotham City Police Department, but he’s managed to hold onto his police career outside the city limits as the sheriff.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Matthew_Hagen_(DCAU)]Matthew Hagan (Clayface)[/url]: In the 1970s, Matt Hagan was an aspiring actor who might have hoped to have become a D-list Hollywood Talent. Unfortunately, his experimentation unstable chemicals to enhance his looks resulted in a monstrous transformation. He battled Batman and Robin (later Nightwing), but has been presumed dead since the early 1990s.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Fay_Gunn_(New_Earth)]Ma Gunn[/url]: An elderly Gotham heiress who has devoted her family’s fortune to investing in the impoverished children of both Gotham and Blüdhaven, overseeing the Blüdhaven Home for Boys as her part on the Governor’s Juvenile Justice Commission.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Arnold_Etchinson_(New_Earth)]Arnold Etchinson (Abbatoir)[/url]: A serial killer who believes that he draws mystical power from the blood of those who share relation to him, leading him to murder any and everyone with a connection to the Etchinson line.

[color=crimson][b]THE UGLY[/b][/color]
• [url=https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Cullens_(Earth-616)]The Black Cullens[/url]: The organized crime that runs the Blüdhaven Ports Authority. They exist in a sort of gang “cold war” with the Black Mask crime group that operates out of Gotham.

• [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Street_Demonz]The Street Demonz Gang[/url]: The derelicts, drop outs, and future felons on two wheels that terrorize the outskirks of Blüdhaven, rarely but occasionally, stirring up trouble in the city proper. They’re separate from the Black Cullens, but often get used as low level dealers, muscle, or otherwise pick up odd jobs for the mob money.[/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]S E A S O N   O N E   S Y N O P S I S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]When 15 children disappear during an elementary school field trip, Dick Grayson realizes that he’s facing a menace beyond the means of law enforcement. Too old to suit up as Nightwing, Dick instead gambles on using one of his former enemies as a surrogate Robin -- Toyboy.  With Toyboy’s robot senses supplying information for Grayson’s deductive reasoning, the pair are able to identify two possible locations where the children could be held. The subsequent investigation goes awry, with Dick becoming entangled amid a meth lab while Toyboy stumbles upon his former charge and master. Though Toyboy was ultimately successful in the rescue of the children, Anton Schott escaped and remains at large.

Realizing that he’s too old to ever be Nightwing again, Dick resigns himself to playing the role of Jim Gordon, while living vicariously through Toyboy’s own adventures as the new Robin. While Dick’s police force continues the work of pursuing where Anton Schott may have fled, Dr. Sarah Charles de-activates Toyboy again in order to perform hardware, firmware, and software upgrades necessary to prevent Toyboy from becoming unrepairable as his manufacture rapidly becomes obsolete.[/i][/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]P O S T   C A T A L O G:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][color=LightBlue][sub]S E A S O N   O N E:[/SUB][/COLOR]
[indent][b][color=steelblue]Chapter One: “The Dark Nightwing Returns”[/color][/b]
[i][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4898042]Issue 1.01[/url]: Objects in Motion
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4901508]Issue 1.02[/url]: Objects at Rest
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4907268]Issue 1.03[/url]: Past Prologue
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4908562]Issue 1.04[/url]: Commissioner Grayson
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4910367]Issue 1.05[/url]: Smells like Toyboy Spirit
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4911388]Issue 1.06[/url]: I, Toyboy
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4913949]Issue 1.07[/url]: Nightwing
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4916775]Issue 1.08[/url]: Sins of the Father
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4920162]Issue 1.09[/url]: Cold Comfort
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4920909]Issue 1.10[/url]: Boy
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4924202]Issue 1.11[/url]: Schott's Flaw[/i][/indent][/indent]
[INDENT][color=LightBlue][sub]S E A S O N   T W O:[/SUB][/COLOR]
[INDENT][b][color=steelblue]Chapter Two: “Feat of Clay”[/color][/b]
[i][url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4927344]Issue 2.01[/url]: Unit 12
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4930104]Issue 2.02[/url]: Do Toyboy's Dream of Electric Sheep?
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4940373]Issue 2.03[/url]: Disappearing Act
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4945994]Issue 2.04[/url]: The Masquerade
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4954752]Issue 2.05[/url]: A Boy Named Jason
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4959845]Issue 2.06[/url]: Imitation of Life
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4965106]Issue 2.07[/url]: About a Girl
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4971305]Issue 2.08[/url]: Darkwing
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4998469]Issue 2.09[/url]: In And Out Burger
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5006530]Issue 2.10[/url]: Annie
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5017481]Issue 2.11[/url]: Enter the Clayface
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5026804]Issue 2.12[/url]: Boy Wonders
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5034113]Issue 2.13[/url]: I Know Just The Place
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5042432]Issue 2.14[/url]: How I Met Your Father
[url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5053468]Issue 2.15[/url]: I Am Clayface[/i]

[color=steelblue][b]Chapter Three: “Where the Streets Have No Name”[/b][/color]
[i]Coming soon.[/i]

[b][color=steelblue]Chapter Four: “On the Wings of Dirty Angels”[/color][/b]
[i]Coming soon.[/i][/indent][/indent]