Jason

Buffy and Jason parallels you will always be famous to me

Yes this all started because of the season 1 finale slapping me across the face with "Buffy is 16" and I still thought Jason originally died at 15 but I digress, that's not the only parallel obviously

You guys ever notice how all of Jason’s most impactful and important comics in post-crisis are extremely sparse on internal monologue? And most of the comics where he’s got internal monologue, it’s really corny gun-Batman bullshit? It’s like the author is trying to convince you not to think too hard about him because hey look see, these are his thoughts and there is nothing to them!

rough drafting it here but i think Batman has a special connection to the concept of child sidekicks in a way that defies modern feelings about child soldiers because he was the child who lost everything and felt he needed to make a change in the world but was denied the agency and choice to do anything. child Bruce would have fit right in with any of the Robins if he'd had a Batman and it's the fact that he didn't that ultimately drives him to extend the choice he never got. it was never about soldiers or "refusing to protect the children from themselves," it is, within the acceptable morality of the genre, respecting a child's personhood and ability to make decisions for themselves and giving them opportunities their adult never had. it's why you can't take the Robins away from Batman without significantly changing the character, because Batman was born from child Bruce's most heartfelt wish to be able to DO something about all the injustice in the world and so to deny other children that is to deny himself