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jasontoddsno1simp · 6 months ago

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Thank you.

I see a lot of posts saying Jason being told this (as well as the way Bruce grieved him) would change things, and I mean...

Sure, maybe it would, but it damn sure wouldn't be for the better.

Because, at the end of the day, his murderer is still alive and he still has no justice.

Nevermind the fact that he's treated by the narrative that wanting that, wanting someone to care enough to give it to him makes him a selfish and ugly person. But we don't got time for that;!

The thing surrounding Dick killing the Joker for Tim and Bruce reviving him is that if Jason ever learned about that, his two conclusions would be:

A) Tim is worth killing for, and he (Jason) isn't;

B) Dick's clean hands are worth more than Jason's mangled corpse and his memory and his legacy.

#I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding in the fandom about what Jason's problem with Bruce is #And what he actually wants #And I think a lot of it has to do with the ephemeral nature of comics #The fact that these characters are eternal therefore their characterization can and has changed on a dime #But more importantly I think it has to do with a lot of the fandom focusing a wee bit too much on Jason's words #And not the emotions fueling those words #Or even #Where those emotions came from #It's my belief that when Jason says that Bruce replaced him as Robin he meant that Bruce replaced him as his son #Because to Jason being Robin is the only way to be Bruce's son #And this isn't an out of the water assumption to make #In his post Crisis origin story Bruce has a few encounters with Jason before taking him in #As funny as it would've been for the Big Bad Bat to have seen this scrappy little hellion taking his tires and going #This is mine now #Bruce doesn't entertain taking Jason in until he sees Jason's potential to make a good Robin #So seeing Tim in the costume - as well as his killer still alive - just makes Jason feel unwanted #Like it was all a lie #I died and it should've changed everything #But it didn't change shit #Jason wanting Bruce to kill the Joker was Jason begging Bruce to prove - to him but also himself - that Jason was actually his son #Because parents avenge their children's deaths #Parents that love their children want justice #So why doesn't Bruce want that for him?!#He can fight for all these mother fuckers who have no real connection to him but what about me?!#I was your son!!#So Joker still being alive #On top of their being another Robin #And Gotham still being a shit hole of a city #AND the way Bruce in his grief and desperation to keep going as Batman tarnished Jason's memory #Well what the fuck would that say to you?!

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