#in many ways bruce is still a boy kneeling under a streetlight and holding the corpses of the people that mean the most to him.

[martyrbat]

batman #428 / batman: legends of the dark knight #100

It's over. It's begun. The end of the training and the worry that he wouldn't pass the tests and make the grade, the beginning of a life with meaning. Jason smiles. A bright smile. The kind of smile Robin, The Boy Wonder should have. And he is Robin after all. For now and ever more.

‘Part of me recalls him putting on his costume that first time... the look on his face... his smile... as if it were yesterday. That first time, I must keep it alive... the memory of it. Alive in my heart so that the memory of this... here now... doesn't destroy me. We're together at least. One last time together... as it should be.’

#in many ways bruce is still a boy kneeling under a streetlight and holding the corpses of the people that mean the most to him. #in others hes still a man kneeling in the rubble and holding the corpse of the person that meant the most to him. #the only difference is now the corpse is smaller and his grief is altered. he spent so long musing about what if he was the one that was #killed just to learn firsthand the pain a father will have to experience when he outlives his son. #anyways. i think its fun remembering bruce is still currently clinging to an image of his dead son. #an image that that no longer exists. an image that may never have existed. #hes clinging to the memory of his child while jason is now a young man. hes perpetually mourning the living. #c: batman | i: 428 #c: batman: legends of the dark knight | i: 100 #crypt's panels #posts from the crypt #batman #bruce wayne #robin ii #jason todd #bruce & jason