He Did Learn :)

He did learn :)

JASON: [bursts from the surface of a Lazarus Pit, screaming incomprehensibly]

RA'S: What is that demonic speech?! Talia, the boy is rabid!

TALIA: No, Father—that's just a New Jersey accent.

i don't know how you can "the curtains are just blue! ACAB lol" fucking Death Note of all pieces of media

this is a show for thirteen-year-old boys. the only writers I've seen who are less subtle about what they're going for were fucking Victorians.

Death Note but instead of Ryuk loving human apples he’s obsessed with the human world’s weed. The weed from the Shinigami realm is all reggie and brick weed. He shows up in the human world and discovers our dankest stickyickyicky and Light spends the rest of the series tossin him fat nugs.

Misa may have the best fashion sense in Death Note but people don’t give Mello enough credit. He has a cohesive wardrobe, utilizes the same pieces in different ways, says fuck the weather I’m wearing leather. It’s a bold move to never wear anything but shiny leather and fur coats but he does it with sheer boldness and an absurd level of confidence. He commits to his otherworldly style hard, and he kills it. Who out here is spying on random civilians in all black sweating in the sun as he bakes to death in his jacket and looking this dripped out at the same time? Misa may be your supermodel goth fantasy girl but Mello dresses like an eldritch mercenary creature from hell and he’s so memorable for that. God I can’t tell if he knows what he’s doing and created the futuristic reptile trying to blend in with society look to make a statement or he just throws a bunch of expensive pieces he stole from designer stores and owns it. Everyone knows that to be a fashion icon you need a trademark and he has it in spades with his ever recognizable rosary. Truly the fashionable character of the 2000s. Of all time.

It's weird how Jason Todd is so frequently assigned insecurities that directly contradict the core of his character.

like, in fanon AND canon.

He only makes sense as a character if he has a very strong sense-of-self and firmly believes that Bruce loved him before he died.

Because Jason came back and not only did he believe that Bruce would love him enough to kill the Joker, he was furious when he found out he didn't! His belief that the little boy he was deserved to be avenged was the driving force of his returning arc, and he believed that Bruce should have loved him enough to do it!!

Only after the completion of Under the Red Hood does self-doubt start to creep in. Not about whether the boy he was deserved love, mind you. That immutable fact sits at the heart of his character, even now.

No, what Jason begins to fear is that there is no love left in the world for the man he has become. That he burned it all up in his return, and none of that love exists for him anymore. Bruce still quietly mourning Jason's death even now that he's back only compounds this.

And it just makes him angrier, it just makes him sick and angry and more determined. It just commits him further to his cause because this PROVES the only thing he ever could depend on was his own heart. His own sense of right and wrong.

He hates Batman so much it makes his chest ache.

So really, Bruce can love and miss baby Jason all he wants, but he's not getting the actual, living Jason back until he can process that grief and love Jason for who he is now.

But Bruce can't let go of his grief because it's the retraumatization of losing his parents all over again. The complete loss of control. The inability to fix it even 30 years and a lifetime of training later. So he just shuts down. Shuts Jason out and weaves that grief into the heart of himself to drive him. And looks through him. Doesn't see him. Doesn't dare love him.

Because look what Bruce's love did to Jason last time?