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B being B
thinking about a Lonely Place of Dying and the significance of Batman being trapped in a home that has literally been flipped upside down (by loss) and brought to ruin (by grief) and the fact that he has fallen into the depths (of a basement) and he brought Dick with him and now it feels like the entirety of this house, and figuratively his home, is crashing down around them. And it’s like,,,, YEAH! LOSING A CHILD IN A HORRIBLY TRAGIC WAY WILL DO THAT TO YOU!!!!
and I’m also thinking about how Robin is the one who pulls him out. Tim is the one who saves him.
crisis-on-infinite-batblogs reblogged
Tiny little Jason Todd used to play baseball
Imagine tiny little Jason Todd writing poetry on his glove like Allie from the Catcher in the Rye
#stop doing what you are doing to me right now#I forgot about tiny baby Jason playing baseball 😭😭😭#and OF COURSE he writes poems on his glove#and Bruce remembers every detail with his stupid photographic memory#Bruce remembers punching all the windows because he can never forget#and it was the grief or the glass or it was both things#but something BROKE in him#catcher in the rye#post Jason angst#Jason todd book club
Crying, sobbing, screaming, thinking about Bruce wandering the library at night and finding a note in Jason’s handwriting, hidden in a book of poetry.
His bitter laugh comes out as a whimper, and the words fall from his trembling lips, unbidden: “Vainly I had sought to borrow, from my books… surcease…” the recitation trailed off before ending with a heavy sigh, its rhyme scheme abandoned. Shaking hands gently clasp the book, they press the pages to his hollow chest, and an echo murmurs back the word, “Jason.”
Batman #431
"I thought that I held the corpse [...] in my arms [...] and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel."
Frankentodd: 15/?
Batman #450
Scarred by past trauma, filled with regret, and crippled by self-doubt? I eat this shit up. Hell, he even threw in an ominous portent at the end!
Batman #443
Somebody help this man.
Detective Comics #609
Bruce is finally starting to process Jason's death, but he's only able to do it through the use of layered allegories while discussing the villain of the week.
Batman #439
"Jason... For the first time in months, that name comes to his lips."
Thank God for Marv Wolfman. Batman: Year Three is a fucking masterpiece. So much good Nightwing content. So much post-Jason angst. The characters truly shine, and there is a lot of cool lore that makes it's debut here (not to mention tiny baby Tim!!!!) This one is a must-read for me.
Batman #439
"You came so close. Why did you shut down all over again?"
It's a little something I like to call ~trauma~
Batman #439
"--you considered letting him die."
Batman #420
Huh...turns out the KGBeast didn't die in that subway tunnel after all. Unless Dick's referring to a different criminal that Batman lured into an underground death trap...?
Batman #432
Bruce keeps a glossy jpeg of Jason in his utility belt :' (
Batman #432
Holy dramatic irony, Batman!
Batman #431
Who says Batman isn't relatable?
Batman #431
Time to watch this man spiral. I was planning on skipping right to Tim's introduction, but I had forgotten how delicious the post-Jason angst was.
Batman #429
And then Bruce killed him. The end.