in the two dads au it would be super interesting to explore how both bruce and willis are shaped by their circumstances and how that influences how they parent jason. (add in the fact that willis is a criminal (+why he's a criminal) vs bruce who is a billionaire and batman, who takes it into his own hands to apprehend criminals)
and how jason is split between what willis taught him when he was young and his own experiences taking care of catherine and living on the street. vs how now he has money and safety and the ability to not only get an education but literally the best education money can buy, and how he desperately wants to just be able to relax and trust. and how that might make him begin to resent willis—for being a criminal, for not being able to provide, for teaching him to be distrustful as he allows himself to be kept safe by bruce
and as he grows up—even if he doesn't die in this au—how he learns to balance what willis and catherine and the alley taught him vs what bruce and money and the manor has taught him
(two dads AU: original ask, follow up, fu #2)
I’m 👀 at this so hard. What really struck me is this idea between unacceptable criminality and acceptable criminality.
Like, Willis is an unacceptable criminal, he hurts others for personal gain (except does he? Or is he just trying to survive and provide for his family in the only way he can?). But Bruce is also a criminal (vigilantism is not legal and he beats people up on the regular), but theoretically he’s not doing it for personal gain, he’s doing it to help others, so it’s acceptable.
As Jason grows up, does his resentment for Willis grow, or does he come to a place where he realizes that both his dads were doing the best they could in the circumstances they were given, to vastly different results?
