[Comprehensive British and American] Bat Parenting Encyclopedia

I can see things you can't see

Tony was speechless. Even though the biological age of the two was actually not much different at this point in time, this young man who inherited the mantle of the Dark Knight was always treating him with a kind of respect for his elders.

As a parent, Tony has always believed that he should support them, but in the "once" future, they failed to do so.

Whose fault is it?

No one knows what will happen to the young Tim on this timeline if the timeline really passes through, or if the young man in front of him disappears due to the backlash of time and space.

"Although I built this five-dimensional space, I don't even know what kind of situation you will face. We have no precedent. You can only adapt to the situation." Doctor Strange has already tacitly agreed that Timothy will be the first to set off, He nodded to the young man, "I don't think I need to emphasize how the fate of the world—"

Timothy raised his hand and stopped the other party's words, "There is no need to mobilize me for any action - if I don't come back, or the mission fails, naturally you two need to be on top, we don't need greetings and humility."

He wasn't even sure he could deliver the message.

Facing the unknown, the only plan of action?Naturally, direct action.

Therefore, Timothy didn't talk nonsense, simply nodded to Doctor Strange and Mr. Stark, and he jumped into the wormhole, tracking Helena in the five-dimensional space according to Doctor Strange's magic logo.

Timothy originally thought that after passing through the entrance of the wormhole, he would have a floating feeling, just like the effect in the weightless environment of the universe.

However, he arrived at a "space" with a familiar environment in an instant—maybe this is the feeling of a five-dimensional person traveling through time?

However, this "space" is difficult to describe - the picture in front of him is indeed familiar, it is a corner of a training ground in the Batcave, but this corner is presented to him in millions of different time states.

It's like a freeze frame of a cartoon at different playback times.

Since this five-dimensional "space" was created by Helena...

—So, Helena, is this where your bond is deepest?The training hall in the Batcave?

At this time, Doctor Strange's tracking magic started to work, and Timothy felt that the multi-layered picture in front of him began to be confused and rotated——

In the end, the pictures of countless bat cave training halls merged like a palette and changed into a unique one.

The time was fixed, and not far from Timothy, in front of a vertical punching bag, the figure of a black-haired girl appeared.

This figure was no stranger to Timothy.

——This is 15-year-old Helena. In her short 15 years of life, she lost her mother, was taken away by Bain, and was trained as a thug until she was 10 years old.Found by his biological father, but lost him again 5 years later.

Before Timothy adjusted his mentality and quickly formulated a strategy to deal with the situation in front of him, he suddenly realized that an abnormal change had taken place in himself!

Only then did he realize that his cloak suddenly became heavier, and his mask and uniform became bigger!

——No, he got smaller!

Timothy Drake turned 15, too!

Not only the physical change from 36 to 15, but also the memory!

This is not to say that he has no memories after the age of 15, but the memories of the 15-year-old, all of which came to him in the most vivid form—as if he had relived his life as a teenager.And the memory after the age of 15 still exists, but it starts to blur in my mind.

But Timothy's own 15-year-old was not a beautiful and green age.

Because of his identity as Robin, his father was designed by the villain and died; Stephanie was pregnant...

All the depression and pain of the year were also repackaged, packaged again and sent to him by express courier...

Timothy took off the oversized hood with trembling hands, unbuttoned the heavy cloak, and took off the baggy Kevlar uniform, leaving only the dark gray T-shirt that was worn close to the body—it also became baggy at this time .

He wiped the sweat from his brow.

So what exactly are the rules of this space?All changes according to Helena's state?

He did not feel that the life experienced by fifteen-year-old Helena was short.

Tim, who is also 15 years old, feels that this is already a heavy life, which makes him overwhelmed.

The girl turned her back to him, facing the sandbag, with bandages wrapped around her hands.

Black waist-length hair slightly curly, black vest and overalls pants - she has never liked the little princess style dress.

Timothy did not hide his whereabouts, and the flurry of movements and breathing sounds just now were also very obvious in the quiet Bat Cave, so the girl Helena must have known about his appearance long ago.

However, she still just stared at the vertical sandbag in front of her, not turning around to check, nor facing Timothy.

This is actually an expression of confidence in one's own abilities, which makes Timothy even more unsure.

Timothy looked around at the space node where he and Helena were at the moment—expressed in the form of a bat cave.He didn't forget that he was not in the real Batcave at the moment, all of this was actually "built" by Helena.

Helena's clothes reminded him of a painful night.

——No way, is this the day?

— not surprisingly, in fact...

It was the night Bruce passed away unexpectedly, and the father and daughter had just had a quarrel - because of Helena's attitude towards criminals, a topic that has been talked about for five years, a similar topic Damian and Bruce had also quarreled with, but this time the father and daughter It was very loud.

Bruce asked Helena to reflect on herself at home, but Night Watch did not take her.

An ordinary, not even worth mentioning, explosion of a seaport container took away Bruce, who made a slight mistake.

No one would have thought that the Dark Knight would fall in this way.

If it's really this time...

Timothy suddenly felt that all his actions and words were feeble.

He clenched his fist and loosened it, reaching out to rake his sweaty forehead hair, feeling like a bewildered teenager, the "age" of his appearance at the moment.

Timothy decided to be honest. He tentatively spoke to the girl's back, but he spoke in a juvenile voice that he was not used to, "The timeline has been corrected. Our fathers already know where the enemy is. You can let go of Helena." .”

There was no change in the girl's back, and there was no response.

Timothy tilted his head, couldn't she hear?

He decided to make persistent efforts, "You have a chance to do it again, Helena, let go. Not only give the world, but also give yourself a future."

The girl Helena still didn't answer right away. After a few seconds of silence, she raised her head and looked up at the dark void above the Batcave.

"I just want him to be proud," she said softly.

This is also Timothy's familiar girlish voice, not the electronic voice that later became New Brainiac.

"He will," retorted Timothy, "no, he's always been, always been proud of you."

In response to Timothy's answer, Helena sighed, as if exhausted, "You guys have told me so many times—my father has never told me that. So, I can reasonably speculate that you are just trying to comfort me again." , and this consolation is simply false.”

Indeed, similar dialogues have happened many times in the "once" past-many times, Timothy defended Bruce in front of the sad Helena, saying that Bruce was just not good at words, he just cared about you, just like a family bond agent mother.

Timothy understood the problems between Bruce and Helena.However, as a father, he was just too focused on correcting Helena's lack of education in the first 10 years, worried that she would grow into a tyrannical little girl, and then apply to his daughter the same way he did to Damian.

He thought that using an education method similar to Damian's, that is, letting him be Robin to channel his tyranny, could achieve the same good effect on Helena as Damian.

But Helena is not the same as Damian in essence, not only because the little girl is more delicate, whether it is psychology or pedagogy, the relationship between father and daughter and father and son are different.

In terms of growth experience, even though she has a force value comparable to that of Damian, no one asked Helena to "conquer the world" when she grew up - Bane didn't teach her that way, Bane just used her Stealing ability, incidentally trained her fighting.

The grievances between Batman and Bane prevented Bruce from seeing this, but he became stricter on Helena.

So, after Helena returned to her biological father, she was "corrected" forever, and her beloved male elders never really recognized her—at least not in words.

She has never felt that kind of unconditional love.

Adolescent children, the less they get the love of their parents, the more surly they will be, and the more they want to be noticed.

Children who lack love are actually more likely to grow into a pleaser personality.Behind the heroic girl who finally defeated Brainiac, there is always a little girl who longs to be recognized by her tall and stalwart father...

Helena was still staring at the void above, and her words interrupted Timothy's meditation.

"What I can see, you can't, Tim."

Then a picture appeared in front of Helena's line of sight, similar to the countless bat cave pictures Timothy saw before he found the girl.

However, the content of the screen made Timothy realize that this is a linear time playback——

The background of the picture is also in the Batcave, and Bruce is playing hand-eating games with the baby Helena in the harness.

Bruce wore a happy smile that Timothy had rarely seen on his face. He didn't even look at the data on the bat computer. Instead, he lowered his head and focused on playing with the baby.

"Are hands so delicious? Come, let Dad taste your hands."

Then Bruce pulled the baby's small fist to his mouth, opened his mouth wide, and pretended to bite it down.

Strangely, the little baby liked this game very much, giggling non-stop, and his eyes were bent into slits.

Two suspended small pedals.

"Oh? You want me to eat your feet? Will you share them at such a young age? So powerful?"

Such a picture made Timothy smile involuntarily.

However, he suddenly thought that the girl Helena was also watching...

The girl Helena had never seen this kind of smile.

——When the parents are the most loving, it is the time when the baby has the least memory.

——When we all grow up, why can't we talk properly?