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Not my idea, pointed out in Tiktok, but something had to be up with Martha Wayne if her alternate self becomes the Joker after seeing her son die.

Now, onto what is my idea; There definitely was something wrong, but it was handled for the most part until that point came up and she had a full mental breakdown over the event

And there are two ways she could’ve been mentally ill, and that depends on the time period you set Gotham back in

If it’s modern day? Martha could’ve been getting genuine medical help, seeing a psychiatrist and being properly medicated by some of the best doctors in the business. (Isn’t Thomas a doctor sometime too? They had to have trusted friends in the field to help her and keep it under wraps from the public) Maybe her symptoms are minimalized but still there in Bruce’s childhood and his young self can’t understand why there are some days where he just can’t be around his mother or why she has bad days, but there’s always his dad or Alfred able to distract him while the other keeps an eye on her in some other part of the Manor because there’s plenty of room to keep space when she’s not herself that day. Maybe, in that one horrible night, she breaks and doesn’t want to be there or lucid enough to understand that her son is gone and just falls further and further into the role she took up.

The worse outcome if it’s old Gotham? Lobotomy. Women who needed help and care having their brains irreparably damaged so they’re less to deal with, and what’s an eight year old to understand of what happened to their mother or how their mothers always been like?

#there had to have been something going on behind the scenes if they’re a possibility she ended up like Joker on her own #and by on her own I mean there’s no intervention. just one point of truama and no outside assistance #I’d believe it too since disorders and mental illnesses can be genetic and there’s definitely something with Bruce too #it could be an interesting topic too #the idea of privilege and mental illness of how one gets adequate care and others don’t #a lot of Bruce’s rouges need help so it’s a topic you could tie in with a lot of people #take Dent and Bruce figuring out he overlooked two of some of the most important peoples in his lives illnesses and watch the words pour #martha wayne #bruce wayne #Wayne family #thomas wayne #Batman #dc #dc comics #flashpoint

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