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ririazulreblogsart · 1 year ago

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been thinking a lot about anticipatory grief lately. i love you so much that i know losing you will devastate me. i haven't lost you yet but i already miss you. we still have time, but it won't be enough. i think about what i would say at your funeral, and say some of it to you now cause i need you to know how loved you are before you go. you will go where i cannot follow, but you will never really leave me. it won't make it hurt less but it is a part of healing somehow.

#ive always thought this #writing batman is an exercise in anticipatory grief #hes so busy thinking about how much it will hurt him to lose those he loves #esp jason #and how to make sure he doesnt #that he lives in extremes and ends up pushing people away #and thats what ultimately leads to the deterioration of the relationships w his kids #for ex jason wants to be loved as he is now and bruce is just thinking about when jason kills again and he loses him #or keeps reflecting on his past mistakes and how it cost him his child and how bruce will fail jason again #meanwhile jason thinks bruce is looking back bc thats the only version of jason bruce is capable of loving #dont even get me started on how anticipatory grief destroyed bruce and dicks relationship #the man was so worried about him losing his child that he lost his child #and then is now doing the same w jason (now that jason is no longer murderous)#batman is what gives bruce purpose his children is what gives his life meaning #he found the meaning to his life and then couldnt accept as it changed (ie as dick grew up and didnt need him anymore)#his resistance to that change was rooted in his fear of losing what gives his life meaning #and by living in that anticipatory grief he ended up doing exactly what he feared: driving dick away #anyway i could rant about this for 24 hours straight but ima stop #bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #dc comics #dc robin #red robin #red hood #nightwing #robin #batman and robin

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