#like if we take him gravestone convo w cass at face we see a grieving man who never recovered from an insurmountable loss

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

Hey. Do you think Steph ever thought maybe Batman sanctioning her as Spoiler was a plan all along to get her to quit?

I mean, the guy comes to her out of nowhere, and for reasons Steph has no way of fully understanding suddenly wants to take her on and teach her. Suddenly she has potential. Suddenly she has this opportunity to be good.

And then, just like that, she isn’t anymore. No warning, no explanation as to what has changed. Steph is just no longer good enough to even be trained. She lacks the skills and talent. It doesnt matter that Batman told her she could be good, that she could learn, now she just can’t anymore, and she’s told so in the bluntest way possible. Not even told she’s fired, just totally ghosted. And then told to throw in the towel, the same thing she was told over and over again before Batman suddenly decided she could be useful.

Do you think she thought it was a ploy? She wouldn’t give up before, she wouldn’t quit then, so Batman gave her false hope, so he made her think he actually enjoyed her company, so he told her she could succeed, so that when he ripped it all away it might finally get through her thick skull: she isn’t wanted.

I think it went through her head, at least once. Maybe not right away. But at least once I think she thought about it as a possibility.