light to the dark

So idk, maybe it’s because I love the Bruce/Dick relationship so much, but I hate hate hate the retcon that Bruce was distant and cruel and manipulative toward Dick when he first took him in. I hate it. With the power of a million suns.

And yeah, I’m probably the only person who gives two fucks about this and it was a thousand years ago, but I wish that people would remember that, before the later eras came along and made everything grimdark, Bruce and Dick’s early relationship was literally this:

"With concern for your safety, a donation from Wayne Enterprises…" 

batman likes bad puns and he cannot lie

Can we just appreciate the fact that in a world where Bruce’s parents never died and he never met Dick, (who was murdered by the same people who killed John and Mary) Bruce is still haunted by the boy’s memory and can’t help but think that he could have done something to save the kid.

It’s also finding Dick’s corpse here that starts to really make Batman fight back against what is really happening— which is that Dr. Hurt and his men are extracting Bruce’s real memories, while attempting to distract him with a fake life made of his worst fears.

Dick nearly dies, but Bruce refuses to accept that and manages to revive him by the power of will and questionable 1940’s medical technology.