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roobylavender · 8 months ago

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i’m sure you’ve talked about it before but you expand more on your thoughts about talia & jason and how their relationship would be? what are some positives and negatives their interactions would bring? (your talia metas are everything)

thank you! on talia's end i think a lot of it would come down to balance and restraint. because there are a lot of unpredictable factors at play and on top of it her tutelage of jason coincides with her last years under her father's thumb so there's parts of herself that she's beginning to close off out of self preservation and exhaustion. that's why i like the placement of under the hood right after the close of lexcorp era even if it obv wasn't intended because it puts her in a place comparatively to take all of the risks after a year of complete physical and emotional isolation. and even then i feel like there would still be a lot of restraint because of the guilt over her part in jason's various massacres. i could see her reprimanding him but in a very cautious and empathetic way so as not to set him off the way bruce would if he was the one lecturing him. so like.. not quite in the realm of mothering but maybe teetering on the edge of it. and i do think talia would try to maintain some distance out of respect for his history. which may or may not fuck with jason emotionally because as possessive as he is of his own grief i do think he'd long for even the smallest semblance of what he thinks he could get. like guarded as he is he would certainly soften to her over time and abide by her guidance even if he didn't necessarily verbalize the fact. i don't really know that i'd see any negatives between them like at worst it would be awkward and strained because he wouldn't be sure of how to place her in his life and she wouldn't want to overstep

#like on one hand i know a lot of people hate shoving talia into that motherhood role at any available opportunity and i do too to be clear #but ig i wouldn't think of this as exemplary of typical 'motherhood' as we know it. it would be motherhood in the sense that she would #come to love him as if he were her own. and in the sense that you could draw parallels between jason entering bruce's life at a time #when he was incredibly lonely and despairing and entering talia's life when she was feeling similarly as well #so there would be that shared experience between her and bruce of jason filling an empty space #but i don't think she would be outright parenting him. although there could be an unspoken truth between them that he would allow her to #eventually. because he would trust her enough by that point to listen to almost anything she said #and he would see her sorrows too and he would care about them because he knows no one else has #that's where i would bring in damian. i think he would help her get him back because he would know how much it means to her #as someone who's been through that situation in the reverse of losing the opportunity to have a relationship with your child #outbox

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