hi!! would love your thoughts on who’s more likely to suffer a catastrophic breakdown and disassociate whenever the couple is mentioned:
bruce when he finds out about clarkdick
dick when he finds out about bruceroy
this would be so messy especially if they’re doing it out of proxy to each other in like some capacity. also ollie fits in here somewhere….somewhere in turmoil, nauseated, confused and not completely unfeeling about the fact that roy is more than likely being put through the mattress. yeah
this is a such a great question omg. i have been delighting myself thinking about it. both of their breakdowns would be catastrophic obviously but all else being equal I personally think Dick finding about bruceroy would sliiiightly edge out. specifically because while Dick and Clark have pre-existing dynamics (even if they mostly involve Bruce), Bruce and Roy have no ostensible reason to do anything more together than perhaps end up on the same mission. Which means bruceroy is 100% about Dick, and he knows it.
which is not to say clarkdick is not about Bruce, or to leave out that for Roy, bruceroy is also a lot about Ollie. but on Bruce's side at least, Dick is 100% the impetus for it in this undeniable way, and i think this would make the emotional crashout of it bigger for him than it would be for Bruce hearing about clarkdick. not by much though!!!!!! i think they'd be pretty evenly matched on it