When Steph Comes Back And Tries To Fight Crime As Spoiler And Later Batgirl Everyone Keeps On Reminding

When Steph comes back and tries to fight crime as Spoiler and later Batgirl everyone keeps on reminding her that she ‘died’ once and Steph’s like ‘wow everyone sure keeps mentioning that’ and I just realised that Steph has no idea how badly her death affected the Batfamily.

Steph’s death shattered the Batfamily.

Steph’s death hit Bruce hard, he went to her funeral even though Bruce wayne had no reason to be there, he visited Steph’s grave over and over again, he left flowers both at her grave and at the memorial the people of Gotham made for the Robin that died in the gang war. Steph’s death affected Bruce so much that he banned Leslie Thompkins one of his oldest allies and the person who was said to be a mother figure to him as much as Alfred is a father figure out of the country.

Cass couldn’t even talk about her, crying for the the first time since she could remember and she would even hallucinate Steph whenever she was near death. Steph being the person she wanted to see most.

Steph’s death broke Tim arguably.

Tim completely lost his optimism once Steph died, of course he would loose his dad and several of his friends in the coming year but Steph’s death was the first and arguably one of the hardest hits. Fighting the evil that took Steph and his dad and other friends became his reasons for crime fighting and he even hallucinated Steph himself (though in a much more disturbing way than Cass did), Tim kept his own memorial case for Steph along with Kon’s uniform underneath Titan’s tower, he thought about her and her death often and even wanted to use Lazarus waters to bring her back. After Steph’s death Alfred mentions to Bruce that Tim has become darker instead of making Bruce brighter.

Alfred cried over Steph’s death and during the beginning of Under the Red Hood he actually thinks about Steph a lot and how death has visited the Wayne household again and they’ve all lost someone they hold dear.

Barbara felt she had to leave the city after Steph died and Jim actually moved to Metropolis with her because he wanted to be near his daughter so Batman lost two major allies as well as the Birds of Prey this isn’t even talking about all the times Black Canary thinks of Steph or how Barbara talks with Misfit about Steph.

Dick struggles to even say Stephanie’s name, over the family having another loss.

Jason’s death broke the batfamily but Steph’s death also shattered them. 

Jim, Barbara and the Birds of Prey moved to Metropolis. The police turned against Batman. Tim and Cass moved to Bludhaven. Leslie was banned from the country they didn’t need a memo about your death Steph, it really, really hurt them.

Sorry this is so long I’ve actually left out a lot of grieving, I’m barely even mentioning how Joker straight up tried to kill Black Mask for killing the girl Robin and I’m still convinced that the main reason that Jason targeted Black Mask was because he killed a Robin, in comics he has the Joker captured while he’s going after Black Mask it’s got to be about Steph, avenging her the way no one avenged him.

I can’t decide what hurts more how much Steph’s death hurt the Batfamily or how Steph still doesn’t realise or know how much she meant to them and how much her death hurt them even after she came back

I always wonder whether Batfam fans really get just how fucking rich the Waynes are. Like of course we shy away from thinking about the fact that we're talking Musk and Bezos money, and focus on how Bruce funds the freaking Watchtower and has what is functionally a high-tech military base and lab and the world's most expensive vehicles. But this is the one time you don't have to factor in the implications of wealth-hoarding, so there's nothing preventing y'all from understanding exactly how much money we're talking about here.

For instance, there doesn't seem to be any concept of how palatial Wayne Manor is, simply going by the outer facades of it that appear in the comics and movies. Or how decadent the lifestyles that accompany that kind of ancestral home. Alfred couldn't run that place on his own even if he had super powers, which is why even the movies occasionally show a rotating probably-temporary staff in the background. The house probably has like 3 hundred-foot pools. Their garden is a protected heritage park.

The Waynes are 10x richer than Crazy Rich Asians. They buy and wear the jewelry worth hundreds of millions that belonged to royalty. They own private islands. The art in the house alone is worth more than the GDP of a small country. They went to school with like every US President since Teddy Roosevelt and still think the Rockefellers are new money. They're personal friends with Beyonce and can get her to perform at private parties. They can rent out an entire three-star Michelin restaurant and fly out to one for every date. They have top-line penthouse apartments in every major city in the world. They can buy a luxury sportscar instead of hiring a vehicle anywhere they visit and then just toss the keys to the nearest person on their way out (Arab royalty is known for this appearently. There's been some very lucky parking valets in the UAE iirc).

Bruce is as rich as Ra's Al Ghul, regularly make social calls to heads of state and his family has a history of being king-makers. Every one of Bruce's children, from Dick to Jason to Cass, is poised to inherit one of the largest and most powerful empires in the world. That means every time Bruce adopts an orphan off god-knows-where, the entire global elite is thrown into consternation and horror. Even Tim is barely acceptable to these people because he doesn't have the pedigree. I don't follow the reboot comics so Idk if Duke is adopted, but it would be so fucking funny if he was because they'd react a lot like the British establishment did to Meghan Markle (except the family and WE would have Duke's back completely). As for Damian, the fact that he's not white would get him snubbed if everyone who's anyone didn't 100% know who Ra's Al Ghul is. And they're fucking terrified because, for maximum hilarity, they probably figure that Bruce doesn't.

I just find it incredibly fucking funny when I'm reading fics that the writers can only imagine Bruce and the kids's civilian privileges extend only to "big house", "a lot of cars" and "Gotham famous". Lol. Lmao even.

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Edit: Explanation for people justifiably skeptical that Bruce could be rich as Ra's (scroll down)

The Reverse Robin au except the first Robin is literally just a big chunk of Gothams youth population, like just several teens ranging from 13 to 19 dressed up in red, green, and yellow clothes committing mass acts of vigilantism, identifying as one individual. They're somehow organized as fuck and have a lil scheduling system which only allows 10 Robin's out per night. Eventually Bruce is like "ok this fucking ridiculous, we're choosing ONE Robin" and all the other Robins nominate Duke. And while this point forward (at least till a couple years later) Duke is Bruces only Robin, it doesn't stop Duke from having Robin family reunions in the Wayne Manor backyard

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There is a lot of Discourse ™ about how Jason’s days as Robin are portrayed now and whether or not he was always a Bad Kid and whether portraying him as such foreshadows Red Hood or undermines the whole tragedy of that story and yadda yadda. Having read Every Single Jason Appearance, I can tell you that he was definitely not originally an irredeemably bad kid, just a mildly-rascally-at-worst kid trying to survive on the streets.

However. There is one element of his post-Crisis personality that crops up a couple of times, most notably in the infamous Felipe Garzonas story, that I think shows a really consistent through-line with who he would eventually become, and that is his reaction to sexual assault. So I want to take a look at both stories -  first one that takes place over Batman #421-422, and then the Garzonas story almost immediately after in #424 - and see how they frame both sexual assault, and Jason’s reaction to it.

Content Warning: These stories are very explicitly (though not graphically) about sexual assault and serial killing and the complete incompetence/apathy of male authority figures (particularly the police) when it comes to doing anything about violence towards women, so I’m going to be talking about all of those things behind the cut. There is also a suicide in one of these issues and some casual racism.

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