#random thought bubble

Dick: Huh?

Tim: I get that Bruce and Clark are your best friends - really weird, by the way - but you always hang around the rest of the Justice League too when the titans aren’t there. Or even if they are. And you’re not chill, exactly, with the older villains but you’re sort of? Your older villain frequency encounter is statistically abnormally high among heroes.

Dick: Um-

Tim: And also, now you’re doing the same at parties with businessmen. Women flock around you, as do some young men, but you just flirt with them or brush them off.

Dick: Thats not-

Tim: So why? Is it for business profits? Because Lucius Fox does a spectacular job at running WE- oh, well, I guess you’re the Chairman but is it really necessary? Individually all these events are normal, or somewhat normal, but collated, quantitative analysis indicates a marked deviation from standard distribution. Furthermore, they seem to like you more than “a kid hanging out with the adults” kind of niceness they tend to display. So, why are you-

Dick: First of all, you notice me too much.

Tim: Not really…

Dick: Secondly, I get them.

Tim: “Get them?”

Okay, there is something I’ve thought about Anti for a while. He reminds me of other vain creatures that thrive under attention, and gifts and word of mouth or in the modern case, word of social media, that are possessive and once something is theirs’ it’s theirs’ until you beat them somehow. I don’t know if any of y'all grew up with tales of the fae or faire folk, but to say the least Anti holds a lot of the same attitude that they of the faire folk do. He’s vain, saying our attention made him stronger. Meaning he exists because of our support, like someone would leave bread and milk to a brownie. He’s possessive, saying that Jack is his like how a child would say a teddy bear is theirs if they’ve had it for a little while. Sadly this means we have made the situation worse now, we now have called him names, or as he said “Mocking me with your “Glitch Bitch.”“, we have angered him, all the while showing appreciation for him, obsessing over him, building theories and art and stories around him. We have given him a kingdom with us as his followers, as his puppets. He even says it’s been him all along. That he never disappeared.

The thing is though, he bares his teeth, a sign of aggression, a sign of fear. He mentions circles. Didn’t that seem like a random thing to anyone else? I mean yeah, it could mean we’ve been walking in circles, always coming back to the same spot. Or it could mean something else. Like that Jack is trapped in a circle. I mean, he even challenges us to save him, straight up saying Jack is out of our reach and that we can’t do anything, because Jack’s weak, everyone of the personas’ he’s shown are weak, that we are powerless.

I don’t know, I’m not a super big theorist. It just struck me as odd.

Also, Robin, amazing job, I know Jack couldn’t done this with out you.

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