#also ☝️ Bruce doing the you need parents thing to Jason semi SECRETLY by not even telling him his father was dead

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My thoughts about Jason are just like I think they try to cash in on the dead kid thing a lot without providing much substance for it (1 reason I think utrh as a movie pulled it off is because it does give us not only a happy Jason but a smiling and happy Bruce) because in many (not all) comics flashbacks robin Jason is being a bit bitchy or difficult and it’s almost never about Bruce liking him as a person. So that combined with the adoption being a retcon dick brings in through confrontation adds up to this impression that Jason is like. A lump. An uncomfortable obligation and a regret.

And there *is* imo a lot of father son stuff to mine in Jason and Bruce’s relationship but a lot of it is pre crisis and is Dc ever gonna make that one hug canon again? No. And then all of this on top of how Jason robin personality wise was a lot like dick AND there’s how Bruce adopted Jason because he had no parents and needed a father and what Bruce wanted was a chance to do it over with dick with the foresight of how much they would mean to each other. So when you don’t account for pre-crisis there’s the impression that Bruce made a promise to be his father before they even really knew each other- and that is a big regret. And Jason as his son is an obligation. Based off of how he felt about Dick. And then I go insane.