#like idk some of these conversations tend to meander into the realm of 'no one in dc cares about jason bc they never did' and it's like

[roobylavender]

i recognize that with the way comics work it's easy to take what is publication fact as canon fact. and while at times this may give way to very useful, innovative readings of characters, at other times it's not much of that at all and instead amounts to a revisionism wherein either a gap in content or a lack of its development is subsequently used to punish the character. i see this happen esp with jason, in that his short-lived term as robin is subsequently used to diminish the life that he led, to deplete it of friends, happiness, joy, interests. and i would really advise against it bc.. sure it's easy to imagine jason had no long-lasting, consistent friends bc editorial never had the time to explore him having any. it's easy to imagine that jason's life as robin was squarely plagued with his anger and grief and emotional instability. it's easy to imagine bruce loved him less bc of how he was deterred from killing the joker or bc of how he othered his grief in the aftermath (personally i severely disagree with this statement but i am making it merely for the sake of argument). the lack of content (and this coupled with the fact that jason's character was rebooted two years prior to his death) makes it very "easy" to envision that jason never actually possessed any personhood in comparison to his contemporaries. but i don't see what it does for jason as a character. why isn't he entitled to the same fully realized life, to the same friendships (mark w. barr and his silly school-centered issues, how i adore you to no end), to the same scope of closeness and endearment and happiness to bruce that anyone else called robin would be? i don't want to take what we lacked in publication as immediate fact of whatever failed to exist in canon. i want to imagine and embrace the trivial details, the nooks and crannies, the meaningless extrapolations of jason's life. i refuse to allow editorial's ignorance, disgrace, and condemnation of his grievances to rob him of a life. he doesn't deserve that, and we should never pander to it