he was fearless, he was effusive

Loyalty/Compassion
We see Dick diving off buildings to catch falling infants and supervillains alike without making a clear distinction between them, and his determination to refrain from killing at all costs comes as much from a need to see due process served as it does from Batman. Above all Dick values life in the abstract and people as individuals, and it's a pattern he's taken far. Wherever he goes he's quick to form connections and loathe to disengage from relationships - even when it would be in his best interest to do so. Family is everything to him, and he'll be a devoted friend, brother, son or lover to the detriment of everything else in his life.

Willpower/Integrity
While his quick wisecracks and off-beat sense of humor can leave a flighty impression, Dick’s sense of responsibility for those around him never flags when he considers himself to be on the job. The lives of his loved ones depended on his ability to make the right decisions in the circus, and it’s a sense that’s been drilled into him tenfold by Batman. Gotham needed Robin, and now Bludhaven needs Nightwing, and Dick is driven to meet that need mostly by an overpowering desire to spare other people suffering. To make the random, often grotesque cruelty of crime in the DC universe somehow fair.

Adaptability/Persistence
Dick is nothing if not a natural survivor. As a child orphaned by a violent crime, he actively sought a father, friend, and teacher in Bruce before even Bruce himself was ready to assume the role. While a part of him will always hurt for the loss of his parents, Dick never lost himself to vindictive anger and pain. Instead he thrived as part of a new family unit that he in large part helped to facilitate, and it’s a skill that’s only grown with him.

Low Self-Worth/Fear of Abandonment
Losing his parents at an early age has also left him with no shortage of abandonment issues, most of which manifest around the fear that he will lose – or be declared unworthy of – the love or respect of those he cares about. He can be volatile and quick to get angry when he’s feeling jealous or threatened, and his tendency to hold himself to unattainable standards (read: Batman’s standards) sometimes borders on pathological. Failing those he cares about is the fear that leaves him drenched in cold sweat in the wee hours of the morning.

Guarded
While we often see Dick chatting easily with others and building friendly rapports with new acquaintances, by necessity he invests a lot of time and energy into maintaining a secret identity, which can present a significant barrier to the closer bonds he might have formed otherwise. While the ideals he approaches the world with are inherently honest, most of his relationships with non-family members are based on fundamental dishonesty on his part. His total inability to keep dates with Clancy or come up with reasonable explanations for his absences at work speaks a lot to his state of mind: the full time gig of his heart will always be superheroing, and it's often difficult for anything - or anyone - that exists outside of that sphere to hold his attention for very long.

Self-Righteousness/Stubbornness
Dick’s sense of justice tends to be black and white, without a lot of room for ideas that err outside of the sphere of what Batman considers acceptable. When he's come close to crossing the no-kill line himself — always in response to an intense personal loss — it’s a heated reaction to a particular moment in time, and one he'll always step back from later steeped in guilt and self-loathing. He's quick to get angry and lose patience with anyone who can’t or won’t define themselves based on a code of honor that he finds personally acceptable.

Dick appears to be a human male of Romani descent in his mid-late 20s. At 5'10", he’s built lean and athletic, with dark blue eyes and black curling hair that he keeps a little on the longer side. While he knows how to clean up for a formal event, in civvies he tends to dress like he offended the god of bad 80s TV, or in poorly fitting jeans and awful band T-shirts. His entire body is covered in rad looking scars, which he keeps covered most of the time in layers.