#atrickofthetoxin

DEATH.

Crane does not internalize death very well, nor does he deal with it in any healthy manner. He has killed before but he doesn't fully grasp the concept of mortality; the existence of actual afterlives (like Hades' Underworld) as well as the existence of The Black Lanterns and the constant altering of things that should not be possible means that he is not even anywhere NEAR ready to come to terms with death. A part of him realizes that his father, and all those he has killed, are not coming back, but the other part of him tells him its simply because they're waiting to be brought back.

This hits very hard when a loved one dies. He typically talks to them as if they're still alive, and not just in a "sitting at your grave" type of way, but in a "dig you up from your grave because how are you supposed to actually escape when you come back" way.