Re: A Lonely Place of Dying
Whether Tim makes or not a big deal out of his social background doesn't affect said social background. Whether Tim is written as aware of it or not, he's rich.
I think she did through his parents. We hear and learn a lot more about Dick's parents and life back at the circus in her Gotham Knights and her run on Nightwing than we almost ever had before. Suddenly Dick's parents counted. That's not a condemnation of the earlier writers; publishing context was different when Dick was created, and later on he was well-established enough that he continued to work as a character even without that.
Dick was suddenly an ethnic Romany with angst about the likelihood of him ending up in jail like so many of his kin. You know, given the recent Gotham Adventures post, I find it very hard to fault her for that.
Batman being borderline racist Or Dick being oversensitive and seeing something that wasn't there. As in, racism instead of classism.
about what being a Romany might mean Yeah, I didn't agree with her when she wrote that Dick couldn't speak Romany. Even if he hadn't been speaking it with his parents - given that Devin Grayson's Mary wasn't born a Romany it was possible - I imagine there was little chance Bruce wouldn't encourage him to learn his father's language.
Anyway, at this stage it simply wasn't important enough to Dick that he would do soul-searching on it. It was part of who he was, but it wasn't something that he was interested in investigating. He came from it, he didn't go towards it.