My Special Brand Of Weirdness

The trauma of his parent's murder is when it started. They didn't die immediately. They died slow, and painfully, and Bruce screamed for help for hours until his voice was hoarse and they finally stopped breathing. He didn't speak for years afterwards, until he was in his teens, and Alfred nearly had a heart attack when Bruce walked up and bullied his way into a hug and whispered thank you against his shoulder.

Two-Face uses sign language with Batman.

Dick is also selectively mute. He has a better support system than Bruce did, though. They can read each other with a nil fail rate when they're both mute, and it baffles everyone else.

The other kids all insist on learning ASL for him even when he says they don't need to.

“no understand do puppet show” “do you still need the puppets” “yes yes showtime”

“thumbs up baby” 👎

”do you have to sit right there?” “is usually closer”

”not half bad!” “is full good!”

”bad no good grace die rocky die all earth die we die we die we die”

"You just need to find someone to be brave for."