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martyrbat · 2 years ago

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[ID: tags from @batgirlissue64. In all caps, it reads: prev yeah!! The cycles of martyrisms. And!! Do you ever think about Bruce post Jason's death, getting that haunting feeling that he suddenly understands his parents' decisions with a gravity he never thought he would? END ID]

LEE YOU ARE KILLING ME PLEASE

the man who falls - secret origins (1989)

[ID: two panels of Martha Wayne. In the first panel she's blocking her son as she gets shot, her arms up and purse falling in the air. In the second panel, Bruce is staring horrified as his mother collapses near his dead father. The mugger has his back to the viewer and is looking at Bruce. END ID]

#THE PAIN OF LOSING A PARENT ONLY OUTMATCHED BY THE PAIN OF LOSING A CHILD #AND WHEN YOU EXPERIENCED BOTH. WHEN YOU SEEN THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT COIN. WHEN YOU GET HIT WITH THE GRAVITY AND WEIGHT OF #THEIR MURDERS FROM THIS NEW PERSPECTIVE. NO LONGER BEING THE ORPHAN BUT BEING A FATHER.#JUST AGAIN. RIGHT BACK TO HAVING YOUR ENTIRE WORLD DESTROYED. EVERYTHING IS THE SAME BUT NEW. DIFFERENT. WORSE.#NOT HAVING THE CHILD LENSES TO LESSEN THAT IMPACT OF IT AND THE DEAD WEIGHT OF THE CORPSE IN YOUR ARMS AND GNAWING IN YOUR HEART #like god !! grief !!!! what a fucking bitch !!!!!#im someone thats gone through A LOT of it in both my childhood years and at my current age and #it changes in so many ways. as a child these feelings are always overwhelming and your world caves in and you try to make sense of it #with the limited knowledge and life experience you have. versus as an adult you understand the nuances of it more and how grief will #just implant itself in daily things and you HAVE to go on. you cant collapse with them. your world is broken yet you HAVE to keep going #because the world wont stop despite it. you have to keep your head above the water and learn to actually deal with it #because if not you will drown. the bleeding becomes an ache and that ache settles into your bones #some days are better than others. yet each day will be followed by another. time doesnt hold still like how it used to #now tying that in with bruce experiencing his parents dying and how it changed everything about him. how theyre always dying in his head #vs carrying his sons corpse out the rubble and how he has to go save another's man child when he couldnt save his own.#the orphan perspective in processing all these traumatizing events shifting and maturing to the grieving and hurting parent's.....#i am just worddumping and thinking outloud in my tags and being annoying bdjfh #but god having THE biggest event that defined you being viewed in that new perspective and light & with new grief to influence the old...

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