#batanswer

I personally don't get it due to Bruce (sort of) raising them from a decently young age but I'm interested in learning and hearing about it from your perspective if you're willing to give it!

If not, that's fine, I don't want this to seem rude or a hate remark.

Look I'm not some philosopher, I just think it's hot dude.

If you want a well-crafted and seriously thought out answer about the history, dynamics and reasons to ship these fictional characters, I'd definitely go to blogs like @inkrats and/or @vintagerobin for that.

What I can add though is another question; Why does the majority of people, including the official writers, think Barbara and Dick are sooo stinking cute together even though that's basically "pseudocest" too?

I mean the modern canon is that Barbara and Dick essentially grew up together. Bruce helped raise them both, considering the amount of time Barbara spent with him. She is a part of the Batfamily. So they are "pseudo siblings" just like Jason and Dick for example. How can antis be like "yeah but it's fine. Oh it's even canon in some stories? yeah that's fine. Yeah no no it's not weird. Also KYS if you ship other batfamily members."

Even if we go by the original canon, Barbara was 7 years older than Dick then if I'm not mistaken. And according to posts I've seen, many antis think anything over a 5 year age difference is pedophilia sooooo. Do you see how stupid this all is?

Hell in the animated version of The Killing Joke, Bruce canonically FUCKED Barbara for no reason other than to just have them do it. And yeah most people didn't really vibe with it but it got MADE dude. It got approved, animated, edited and released without any pushback from the workers/writers involved.  

Like the only real difference I can see is that those ships are straight.

Bottom line is, did anyone get hurt in 2013 when everybody and their mother on this damn site was shipping Levi (30-33) and Eren (15) from AOT? No? That's what I thought. And don't even try denying how big that fucking ship was at that time.

Antis are usually young, passionate kids who mean well but they seriously need to learn how fantasy and reality works. And if they can't? You filter your online experience and take care of yourself.

This is a really good question. Let's start with the basics, and lets assume that 'today' os always when the comic it hapened in came out, unless stated otherwise. Most sources agree Jason is 12 when he becomes Robin, at least for New-Earth/Earth-One. New 52, in an attempt to put all of Batman into 5 years, made him 15, but Rebirth/Infinite Frontier stretched that out, so we can ignore the 15 age.

In comics, Jason was Robin for 3-4 years before democracy kicked him. If we used that, that would make Jason 15-17 years old when he died, most likely leaning late 16, maybe 17, as he can mostly get a flight on his own. Jason is dead for half a year or so until he gets brought back to life, physically and mentally still 16-17, even after his 18th birthday is celebrated by Bruce memorializing his death.

Edit: Due to a comment left by @liedownquisition (thanks BTW, really) I was reminded of the alternative (and probably much more likely number). They are very correct when they say the certificate that only shows up twice is only a little canon, the price we pay for comic books I reckon. There is just as much evidence for the time between Jason's sidekicking and death only being 1-2 years, if even. This would place Jason dying anywhere from still being 12 (depending on if it even got to a whole year) to 14 years old. If you wanted to take an average of all these possible ages, it's 14. Apologies for leading you all astray. (Still fucked up a kid that young died though).

In terms of the Lazarus pit giving him powers, yes. We don't know the exact extent of those powers, but we know the Lazarus Pit has given him acess to magical abilities. For now, all we know is he can remove power and summon the All-Blades.