Barely a flinch, and it's more self-reproaching than anything - he screwed up tonight, and he knows it. He still would have acted to save the girl if he had a chance to re-do things, but he should have just moved to beating up the thugs instead of trying to stay low-key. Sometimes, subtlety just isn't the right choice.

"Duh. Everyone likes Dick best." He says that like it is an inevitable fact, not sarcastically - although it might not be true of his friends like Conner, there's an undeniable air of awe around Nightwing that they fall into, as well. And Dick is just... impossible not to like. He doesn't expect to match up to that in comparison.

And as for competence, he'll just have to work on it.

"I've been looking." In between working on other things, to varying degrees of success.