#also on a surface level i miss the quips she made during nightly stakeouts about grading papers. cause like saur true.
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there's so much to expand on wrt helena's day job being a public school teacher and the role adding this tenderness to a character whose seeming roughness gets read as uncontrollably violent (a convo for another day). the huntress to helena is fueled with so much inner strife, part of it is putting a tangible mask on something she was doing throughout her teenage and young adulthood, going from protecting herself to protecting the vulnerable. her choosing to be a teacher further roots her in the community that she aims to protect and allows her to become the helping hand she needed as a kid. her being a teacher makes her character so much more compelling, marking her compassion and desire to be there for children esp., as a trait that exists beyond the mask. (imo this also allows a deg. of character development with what the mask is to helena; moving between a means of revenge, idealization of her strengths, to a tool to be there for when blood cries) although bat editorial has never fully understood her (some of that misunderstanding is played up solely to rehash conflict between her and the other bats), there is something about the lack of “screentime” helena’s day job gets and desire to have these figures protecting gotham but no desire to tell the stories of the people/communities that make up gotham.
#even though huntress vol.1 was incredibly dark/disturbing and has got a good couple parts that didn’t age well. it provided#so many sub stories abt the people in nyc. those who could and couldn't stand up and it made for nuanced stories and for helena to have thi#interesting origin#even the robin stories she was in afterwards!#displaying helena as a teacher provides this heart i feel like we haven’t seen in a while#also on a surface level i miss the quips she made during nightly stakeouts about grading papers. cause like saur true.#and it makes vic feeling bad about not doing something about helena’s job so much more 🥹🥹🥹🥹#him identifying it was something important to her and grounding her…yeah#helena bertinelli
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