omg don't apologize that all makes a lot of sense and now i'm having too many feelings about nico

i definitely agree that while it won't solve all his problems instantly, having one less thing that he's all tangled up about will probably make it easier for him to start dealing with other stuff

and yyy steph is open about being batgirl! she's appeared on the network as both and occasionally introduces herself as steph/batgirl so i am sure nico can pick up on it easily enough. wrt fourth walling i'm okay with people recognizing the batsymbol and knowing that batman/gotham/etc is a thing, but I'd rather people not know secret ids or mention to steph that they're fictional. comics of batman and co. do exist in the dc verse but steph would kind of freak out if some stranger knew heaps about the batfam, so yeah.