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it's important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye

What really gets me is that every Robin has an opposite.

Dick and Jason are opposites. Dick came to Bruce bitter and grieving and angry with the world, and being Robin slowly allowed him to take out his frustration in a way that Bruce never could. By the time Dick is Nightwing, he's essentially a more well-adjusted Batman. He's more chill and laid back, and most of all, he's happy with the world.

Jason, on the other hand, came to Bruce excited and full of wide-eyed wonder. He'd had a tough life up until that point but chose to reinvent himself. He was happy and cheerful and being Robin gave him magic. And then he died. When Jason comes back, he's angry with himself, Bruce, Dick, the Joker, and the world that let him die.

Tim and Steph are also opposites. Tim grew up rich and privileged. He saw evil in the world, but from his place above it all, he thought that heroes could end it. He was cheerful and optimistic about how justice would prevail. And then Tim becomes Robin, and he sees that evil up close for the first time. He sees it in the villains he fights, in the way Bruce grieves his son, in the way that everyone he loves dies. He becomes depressed and cynical. He still thinks heroes do good, but he knows he's truly barely making a dent.

Steph grew up on the streets. Her father was a villain. She knew evil, had seen it first hand since before she ever should have known it existed. She's cynical, and doesn't think heroes can stop all the evil she knows to exist. And then she becomes Spoiler, and then Robin. And she sees for the first time how much heroes truly do. She becomes more optimistic, realizing that if heroes work together, they may finally put a stop to the evil in the world.

And then there's Damian. He doesn't have an opposite, at least yet. If we ever get another Robin, though, I'd expect them to follow the pattern.

What I can say about Damian, though, is that he and Dick are the same. Not completely, but they both start their careers as Robin bitter and maladjusted. Damian appears to be following Dick's path of mellowing out. Not to Dick's extent, of course, but close enough that Dick can see himself in Damian.

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My biggest reason for not wanting to canon to ever change Jason clawing his way out of his own grave is, aside from the sheer horror of it, it's so important to me that Jason's resurrection be seemingly pointless.

Because then "why can't Jason move on now" is answered with "because he wasn't supposed to have this chance and he knows it". It's like survivors guilt, where you are both the victim and the survivor. He shouldn't know why he's alive again, he should just know that if it weren't for some cosmic mystery, he would still be 6 feet underground while his killer ran free and his family told themselves morals about his death while he was voiceless - helpless to have a say in his own narrative.

My ideal Jason isn't necessarily a Jason's who's right, but a Jason who raises necessary questions. Jason as a constant scream of the forgotten victims of rogues, of those who are failed by every sytem, and responding with a desire for blood and vengeance and a brutal justice. Jason haunting the city.

Not all men- right Tim Drake, Dick Grayson and Jason Todd would never.

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i love people with favorite characters who barely have any content. i hope you feast well on your three comically tiny bread crumbs tonight

nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!