Some background on this fic, cause you'll need it:
This story will be a cute series of moments of Dick's life in the circus, before his parents' deaths.
I'm kind of doing the version of Dick's past where his Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin are not there, not included, not mentioned. Basically, they kinda don't exist. But hey, they're my own tweaks and twists I'll be making.
While I'll be writing in English of course, Dick will primarily be speaking Romani, Spanish, or French. When he or someone else is speaking in a foreign language, the text will be italicized to indicate that.
The chapters go in no particular order regarding Dick's age.
He can speak French and Spanish as easily as Romani because those in the Circus Family closest to the Graysons speak their own native language, as well English, so as Dick grows up he becomes familiar and fluent in these. Seriously, this stuff happens. My Aunt knew this lady who spoke German and English, and her husband spoke Russian and English, and so their kid spoke German, English, and Russian. Crazy combination, but ya.
Dick will only know a tiny bit of English, and hates trying to learn it; his parents buy Disney movies to help encourage him to learn, and such. Thus, the beginning of Dick's obsession with Disney (well, the obsession I gave him in my stories).
We will also see how early the puppy dog eyes started, as well as his fear of spiders, ability to play guitar and piano, love of animals, and his early pranking days. (all things I created for his character; couldn't really tell you how much, if any, is accurate or actually canon. But come one, it's fanfiction!)
Hopefully you'll grow to love John and Mary (I don't mean the Supernatural or Sherlock Johns and Marys, although hopefully you love them too). I'm sure you guys like them, but it's different when the character actually comes to life in writing, you know? Rather than just being talked about, referenced to, etc. Other than a few pages in comics, we never really got to know Dick's parents, so here's my take on them.
You guys can thank Bluephoenix22, who picked this story from a list of ideas I pitched at her. I had to choose from a list of like 12 story ideas for what to do next, and Blue said "do this one!" so here we are! I'm happy about it, I've wanted to do this one for a while now.
I think that's all you need to know, so...onto the first chapter?