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Batfamily, Wayne Family Adventures Model + text posts (and other stuff) pt3 (masterlist)

When we talk about restorative justice we talk about letting the person who was harmed lead the process and do what feels right to them. Taking that choice out of their hands makes everything worse and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the police, or a family member, or a vigilante doing it. So he’s going to hold their hand and lead them out of the darkness and fight for them rather than just random vigilantism.

I would like to talk about the sequence in which Bruce watches Riddler’s video about the Wayne family history.

Bruce is someone who has a rose-colored view of his parents. It’s easy to romanticize a dead loved one, especially if they passed before you could grow to be critical of them.

Not only is he hearing awful things about mom and dad, he’s hearing things that completely shatter his reason for living. He’s hearing that his father, a man who prioritized human life above all else, had someone killed. (We find out later that this isn’t 100% the case but for Bruce in this moment it’s true.)

There’s a really brilliant edit after the Riddler exposes that Martha was in and out of mental hospitals: It cuts to Bruce, wide-eyed, shaking, devastated. This man who is clearly struggling with mental illness himself just saw that his family has a serious history of it. He is horrified.

Right after this scene he goes to talk to Falcone. He looks like shit. He is incredibly vulnerable. Falcone treats him like a 10 year old and Bruce just takes it.