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One thing I’d love to touch on one day, probably in a “Batman adopts Captain Marvel” fic, is how Billy went through what would’ve happened if Bruce wasn’t taken care of

Specifically, where Billy had wealthy parents, pillars and stewards of their community, who died tragically when he was young and left him in the care of someone who he was supposed to trust, so did Bruce. But their situations went differently

Bruce was left in Alfred’s care and was taken care of, Billy was left in his uncle Ebenezer’s care and neglected and then thrown out with his inheritance taken away from him. Both at roughly the same age and both having enjoyed a fairly idyllic childhood that’s suddenly torn away from them, with Billy it’s either his parents murder at the hands of Theo Adam or a sudden lightning strike that causes them to crash their car and die.

Bruce lost and reacted with righteous fury and anger at the world, resolving to do good and make sure what happened to him doesn’t happen to other people ever again while fixing the issues that helped cause his tragedy. Billy lost and reacted by staying the same and by showing all the kindness the world failed to show him, never stooping to the level his villains go to because he has to be better or he’s just being another bully. The grand difference being that Bruce still had someone holding him up and giving him a shoulder to cry on with a room to isolate in, Billy had none of that and had to work to keep himself safe and fed.

Idk, just with all the focus on putting these two characters together makes the angst brain go full throttle