These days, the only times Dick feels like himself while on the street are the moments in which the light — whatever the source — shines on the cape in that particular way that brings out that particular gleam.

It's only when the cape is slightly more blue than black that Dick feels like he can breathe again, like he can be a good partner to Damian, like he can do this and not fall down a bottomless pit of despair —

But Gotham is a dark, dark place, and the cape is almost always just black and there is no blue and no end in sight, and it's in those long hours that Dick can't help resenting Bruce just a little.