You know what I also think about??? That Jason is mentally younger than he is physically.
Six months in his grave. (Six months dead) One year in the hospital. (One year comatose) One year homeless. One year with Talia.
He only spent two of those years conscious, both seemingly lost to him when he was restored by the pit. If those two years are lost to him, that would mean he's physically three and a half years older then he his mentally.
Also, those two years, he may have been mentally impaired but he's still Jason.
He still is kind, still trying to help people.
Still recognizes who his "allies" are. If not just that Jason has always been soft and forgiving towards women, even the ones that hurt him.
He remembers enough of Bruce that cries when Talia talks about him to Jason.
Of course he's not exactly the same kid. Not after all he's been through even up to this point. He's lost and scared and so very hurt but he's still Jason at his core. Still that kid who steals tires to survive but tries to ambush a gang to stop them from robbing a museum. The same kid who tried to strangle Two Face but tried to save and forgive the mother who was partially responsible for his death.
I'm getting a little derailed. But Jason is just so young! He's nearly an adult but he's still a kid. He can never be who he was but he's still Jason!
It's really hard to explain what I mean but yknow that moment in the show where the protagonist realises who is pulling all the strings and it all clicks into place. But it implicates their companion in the process? And they turn around to tell their companion about their revelation and the shot changes and you can just see the companion is already 5 steps ahead of them. They're got this knowing look and a smarmy smile on their face. And before the protagonist even gets to speak they have a silent moment of "we both know what we know." LITERALLY MY FAVOURITE TYPE OF VILLAIN REVEAL.
let’s see paul allen’s mall-based outfit
Jason "growing" by learning not to kill and becoming like every other vigilante: boring! just folding him back into the status quo! go on dc give us nothing!
Jason growing by being entrenched even further into victimhood and what that means, being explicitly written as the voice of victims who aren't forgiving, who want blood to pay for blood: yes perfect please.
anytime someone asks me “there’s more than one Robin?” i begin to vibrate at a frequency only dogs can hear and my brain goes to static and then i open my eyes hours later to find i have explained the entire history of all the Robins and their vigilante identities after outgrowing the title to some poor unsuspecting soul
(this does not include carrie or jarro. i just don’t rlly care abt carrie, and i hate jarro with a burning passion. there is no reason for me to, i just do. i hate that stupid little fucking starfish)
i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…
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