#but somehow as a writer i cant formulate it properly now

[haveihitanerve]

ok- ok see see - ok, i love WFA- so so sooooo much. so much. And I love the emotional turmoil of seeing Bruce battling his kids to keep them safe from Joker. I eat that up every time.

But the episode/comic when Joker is freed and they all argue against him, about how he trained them, and they know the risk, and he said he trusted them and if he can't trust them with this then how can they ever trust him? how can they ever have a stable relationship if he doesn't trust them...

but- but the thing is, Bruce did trust them. He trusted Jason. He told Jason to stay put. He tried to trust someone. And Jason failed that. By being a good person, by being who he is, who Robin stands for. An honorable thing to strive for. A good thing, even.

But Jason dies, and comes back- and immediately starts harping on Bruce. About how he shouldn't have let a kid onto the streets. About how it was so dangerous. About how he didn't save him in time.

Bruce knows that!

He has nightmares about not being able to save his children, and this is his way to stop them, to keep them safe. Joker has taken one of them, multiple of them, from him already. He doesn't want it to happen again.

He does trust them. He does love them. But they cannot tell him they know the risks and that he needs to trust them, when Jason makes the same argument and then when Bruce did trust him and it got him killed, and then he pins it all on Bruce, on how Bruce shouldn't've let him out, should have protected him, should have saved him in time.

Those are Bruce's fears. That he won't get there in time. That he can't protect them.

And the reason they're there? Jason. Not just his death, but his rebirth too. Because Jason voiced all those fears and made them reality. Blamed Bruce.

I get that it's all complicated, that there needs to be equal push and pull from both sides. But it still makes me just a little pressed when people are so quick to jump against Bruce and jump to the kids defenses when they are the reasons for his fears and protectiveness.