#the guilt wally has and will always have over the sanctuary business though hhhhhh

[cybervigilante]

i’m in the extremely privileged position of being able to write meta about how my characters feel about each other so i’d be remiss to not write about how wallace, raised as a midwest conservative and absolutely influenced by barry’s strict moral compass,   has always perceived roy as being a loser at worst,  victim of his own narrative at best.  while most people love to think about the titans supporting roy unconditionally and being all kumbaya about his issues, i know that wallace, with how strangely unyielding he could be about certain things, would find it hardest to completely look past roy's errors. i think he does come around to some distant support, because that's his childhood friend, after all, but this is where that 'he's a victim' narrative forms of roy in wally's head. it's easier to think of him as a someone led astray by the evils of life, and therefore forgive him for that and villainize the substances/influences, than think of Roy as a human who willingly made a mistake and is learning from it.

but this is why it makes my heart warm to know they become so close when they're both in the JLA. like wally, post-jai and irey, softens completely. he becomes more understanding with people he hadn't completely seen eye-to-eye with before ( i.e. patching things up with Bart, becoming more supportive/less critical of him, and becoming closer with Roy ) he starts seeing roy's human value, and how he tries, instead of seeing all the ways he's messed up. and that panel up there is from current canon ( Flash Forward #3 ) but it just captures perfectly the essence of wally's evolution when it comes to Roy.