i genuinely don’t understand people who are like “Bruce didn’t care about any of the Robins” or like “they were just soldiers to him” or whatever because like.
the whole point of Batman is that he cares. a lot. about everything.
you’re telling me that when a boy barely older than he was when his parents died came to him in tears and demanded vengeance, he just said “okay sure” and set him loose on the world?
you’re telling me that little boy never skinned his knee on patrol and walked up to Batman, sniffling and fighting tears, and Batman never slipped his hands under the boy’s arms and lifted him up? and he never plastered a bandaid over it saying see? it’s alright. it’s all better.
you think that when that boy almost died, Batman didn’t ‘fire’ him in a panicked attempt to keep him safe? that Batman didn’t completely spiral when the next boy did die? that he didn’t make the third boy work that much harder, all so Batman could make sure he was safe? and so on, and so on.
the whole point is that they were never just soldiers to him, no matter what some people (or DC writers) try to tell you.