[Comprehensive British and American] Bat Parenting Encyclopedia

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The water pouring in from the broken front windshield wets the dashboard of the Batmobile, and the "Batman" who was shot in the head by his side is even more magical.

Tim panted heavily, not understanding why his body was heavy, and even his reaction was a few beats slower.

This must be a dream.

But even the dream didn't mean he was going to surrender.

The influx of gurgling water submerged his Robin boots, along with Bruce's blood, making the entire interior of the Batmobile shocking.

At this time, the crowbar began to hit the window of the passenger seat where Tim was, and within a few strokes, the glass shattered, and Tim stretched out his hand to cover it.

An arm reached into the interior from the broken window, and with a quick groping, opened the door on the passenger side.

The owner of the big hand threw down the crowbar when he saw Tim, and it wasn't until the owner of the big hand squatted halfway that Tim saw clearly that it was Jason in his blurred vision.

"Tim? Is that you? God, I finally found you..." Jason grabbed Tim's shoulders who were retching, "Hey—I caught you, calm down, I'm Jason— Really Jason."

Excessive breathing made Tim's eyes turn white.

He should really pay attention to his recent physical condition...

The ups and downs of the mood in the past few minutes and the visual stimulation just now were too sudden... He held Jason's arm, gradually calmed down in the fresh air outside the car, pieced together clues and the words of Jason in his ears, felt himself My brain slowly began to clear up.

"You said you are the 'real Jason'?" Tim looked at Jason in front of him who was not wearing a hood but wearing a uniform, wondering if he should believe him, "Prove that you are the 'real him'... "

Jason smiled wryly, "I just killed the fake Bruce, is that enough?"

He grinned at the driver's seat behind Tim, "That's not Bruce, if you don't believe me, look..."

Following the direction Jason pointed, Tim saw an unbelievable scene—the place where Bruce's body should have been, and "Bruce" was indeed lying there.

But this "Bruce" seems to have encountered a program bug, switching between different age groups and costumes, like playing a dress-up game...

Combining Tim with still remembering the cause and effect he heard from Doctor Strange before entering the space, he nodded slightly and said to himself: "... five-dimensional?"

"You don't look surprised at all." Jason carefully observed Tim's expression, and saw that his former successor to Robin immediately regained his composure after a short period of panic and confusion.

He pointed in the direction of the fake "Bruce" with the wooden warehouse in his hand, "What is that thing? Doctor Strange outside said that this is 'five-dimensional'...you also said this word just now."

In terms of scientific concepts, Jason understands that this term represents a high-dimensional state conceptualized by people in the current dimension, but in terms of specific operations...is it as troublesome as magic?What kind of messy chaotic order?

But Jason still knew it was science, not magic,

But the ignoring of time in the five-dimensional concept sounds enough "magic", even more magical than magic, just like a "corpse" can change clothes instantly.

As well as the weirdness that happened to him, it was as overwhelming as the magic-side troubles he had solved.

He understood from Tim's frightened eyes that his current "external" state was unstable again.

Tim, who had just regained his composure from seeing the fake "Bruce" corpse, was looking in surprise at Jason in front of him, who was also constantly "increasing age" and "changing clothes".

One second it was an eight-year-old boy wearing a worn-out gray-blue short-sleeved T-shirt, and the next second he turned into a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy also wearing a Robin uniform. Switching between Robin's uniform and his dusty, tattered top, his figure even overlapped with the tall silhouette of a grown man...

Like a game with dropped frames.

"It's coming again, isn't it?" Jason's voice also changed in a short sentence to the sound quality of different youths, "But my consciousness is fixed, I am still me."

It was this instability of the ontology that kept Jason from falling into the scene created by the space for the first time.

If this five-dimensional space is man-made, then what the maker wants him to see and let him experience must have some other purpose.

Or more accurately, the maker couldn't decide what to do with him...

Jason, who was constantly changing, showed Tim a bitter and ironic smile - of course, the bitterness and irony were directed at himself.

He guessed from Tim's Robin uniform from a few years ago and the mobile phone in his hand, "The night of Captain Boomerang, right? It seems that the creator of this illusion knows the history of all of us... wants to take these wonderful ...'going through' against us, cliche, isn't it?"

"Hit us with remorse, and then tempt us with so-called second chances... Am I right? But when this illusion comes across, I feel anxious. It may be to save my mother who was a drug addict. Or the mother who was captured by the clown."

He sneered, "He even wanted me to save my father who was caught in prison..."

"I guess... more childhood shadows are also an advantage, huh?"

Surprise, five-dimensional space?I do not care who you are?Jason thought silently—my life, Jason Todd, is such a shitty, fucked up mess, it's not going to get better even if I'm given a second chance.

Where can I be corrected, where can I be pulled out of the abyss?Are you also troubled?

With a parent who takes/drugs/deals/drugs, does not know repentance, and does not intend to work hard to live an upward life at all, if you want to give the children of such a family a "second chance", the conclusion can only be that they should not be born at all. ?

The reason why people regret and long for a chance to start over and correct is because they have the possibility of making life "better", and Jason understands that he doesn't need a second chance.

He simply doesn't make his life "better" because of certain choices.

Just like that rainy night, if Little Jason informed his father that the police would come to arrest him and let him avoid it, would his father stop and become a good citizen?

On the night when her mother died of a drug overdose, even if Little Jason could successfully prevent her mother from going out to contact drug dealers and buy drugs, would she quit drugs and become a qualified mother?

Later, the mother's death was proved to be an illusion, and it was the clown who was playing tricks from the beginning to the end. Leaking the whereabouts of the mother and taking her away, attracting Jason to take the bait, was all part of the clown's plan.

But in this incident, it was Jason himself who died. If he was given another chance to start over, he would still save his mother, but he was no longer out of the extravagant hope for the reunion of mother and child and the illusion of a new life.

Thinking about it now, my mother cobbled together her "normal" life after she faked her death.In other words, without him...my mother's life is very good...

Under the effect of the five-dimensional space, Jason, who turned into a boy in a Robin uniform, once again approached the clown trap with explosives in the Middle East, and his heart was still clear.

He will do better this time, with sufficient plans and clues left for Bruce, he can certainly rescue his mother, but he does not have any unrealistic desires, what drives Jason more is A sense of mission of the vigilante - the mother who was taken hostage by the clown certainly also belongs to the category of innocent victims; and, the duty of being a son.

Even if he was given a chance to regret it all over again, he wasn't eager enough for it. Jason guessed that this was an important reason why he didn't fall into the illusion created by the five-dimensional space in the first place.

Jason understands that he is not a happy baby like Bruce, Dick and Tim. Even if he is allowed to relive his childhood, his fate will not change towards the sun.

Little Jason, who has adult memories, will go to save the lives of his father and mother, but he will also put them in jail and pay the price of breaking the law.

But after that?Jason chooses to be himself.

He didn't know if the manipulator of the five-dimensional space adjusted the stage because of this. Before the young Jason could perform in the desert of the Middle East, his age and environment changed again in the blink of an eye.

However, little Jason, who has become 5 or 6 years old, still looks blank.

At that time, because of the quarrel between his parents, he was hiding under the table, holding an apple and hugging a dog, looking at his surly parents. For a short moment, he was very tired...

He thought of Artemis and Bizarro, Roy and Xinghuo, those were the few free times in his life, and he didn't need to think about what to eat for the next meal... He also thought of the big Caste training, thinking of the milk Ah Fu forced him to drink every night, thinking of Bruce who watched movies and ate popcorn with him.

Oh my god, he actually thought of a devil boy who was so upset that he wanted to practice with him...

A terrifying thought crossed Jason's mind - he didn't want a second chance, he didn't want to save anyone.

Again, it doesn't seem to sound good at all.

Everything about him, whether it's the Red Hood, Robin, or Lazarus's water, the blade of the caste -- whether good or bad, good or evil, is evidence of his own hard work.

If all these are gone, is he still himself?

The thought also made him blame himself.Was he really such a son?

Should it be said that Red Hood is a heinous person...

Afterwards, his mind became clearer, and the rules of space became chaotic again and again. The scene before his eyes was like God knocking over the color palette. The red of the red hood, the green of Robin's uniform, the blue of Bizarro, etc. Staggered and overlapped, engulfing him.

The mixture of multiple colors becomes black, and finally, it turns into pure black and nothingness.

Had the space manipulator abandoned him?

Jason didn't know about it, and he didn't care about it. He needed to find Tim and launch an attack on the manipulator of the space to win back.

He remembered that only energy can be transmitted between high-dimensional and low-dimensional. As a three-dimensional person, maybe he can receive energy?

He tentatively pulled out the blade of the great caste, and was pleasantly surprised to find that his magic weapon was not lost due to the space conversion.

Magic is actually a kind of energy, which is why Doctor Strange's magic can work in the fifth dimension.

Close your eyes, hold the knife handle tightly, and feel the subtle energy fluctuations in the dark space.

Under the guidance and guidance of magic weapons, he first found an uninhabited Batcave, and in the Batcave he found a set of Batman uniforms... Bruce also came in?Isn't he in space?

Afterwards, a small show-like theater with an empty stage, a black dress with a bow tie dropped between the seats.

Finally, he arrives at what sounds like a living scene, just in time to see the Batmobile whizzing by, and with the help of binoculars, he sees a flash of Tim in the co-pilot — still in Robin uniform.

Combined with his experience in this space, Jason quickly deduced that Tim was also given a "second chance" by this space—a target?Of course, it pointed directly at the old Mr. Drake who was killed by the boomerang captain.

Jason put down the binoculars and couldn't help but smile wryly, how could Tim resist this temptation...

Even though Tim knew all of this was false under his notice, Jason found that he could still clearly discern the disappointment and regret suppressed in Tim's eyes.

This look made Jason's heart tremble slightly - he could be considered cruel.

Sobriety is painful, but false hope makes people sink, willing to be buried by lies.

They are all orphans, the only difference lies in the luck and misfortune of childhood before becoming orphans.

For Jason, he didn't have a normal childhood, so it's hard to desire sincerely.

So, to some extent, Tim may be more painful than him.

Complicated thoughts made Jason reach out and pat Tim on the back who was leaning against the door of the Batmobile once again, emotionally - comforting people has never been his strong point.

Especially to comfort this brother in law and name. After his resurrection, Jason once thought that the other party was his shameless substitute.

On the other hand, the pain and sorrow of losing a father cannot be comforted by dry words.So Jason fell silent after taking the shot, and stood side by side with Tim, leaning against the Batmobile, looking into the distance of the virtual street.

Tim's heartbeat and breathing gradually slowed down. After he felt that he had regained his mobility, he turned around and nodded to Jason, indicating that he could proceed to the next step.

Neither of them is a talkative person, and they don't want to talk too much about their respective experiences and pains.Therefore, Jason also responded with a nod.

Afterwards, they tacitly dealt with the dead body of the fake Batman in silence. Jason, who was still in an unstable age and costume, drove the Batmobile with a broken front glass, slowly driving on the endless streets of Gotham, and at the same time , using the blade of the great caste to feel other traceable energies in the space.

The quietness of the two of them did not mean they were relaxed, but they were both tense—since Jason and Tim had escaped the control of the space, if nothing else happened, the space would definitely launch the next round of attacks or hallucinations.

Tim is telling Jason about the information he has learned about this space from Doctor Strange, and about the Helena on the timeline, who is the manipulator behind this space-he does not intend to hide that Jason has Being drawn in, it would be foolish not to share intelligence.

Jason, who was driving the Batmobile, was so turbulent in his heart that he almost couldn't hold the steering wheel steadily in his hand—thanks to the fact that there were no other pedestrians and vehicles on the virtual street in the five-dimensional space they were in after they saw through the disguise, otherwise Jason had already had multiple traffic accidents.

So, once, was there such a future?

Helena, the cute little baby with thousands of photos stored in his mobile phone, once lived outside?

Without the love of her father and brother, only her mother who was obsessed with building a stealing empire, and later the adoptive father Bain who loved intubation and raised her like a mercenary?

Their sister, the little tuanzi who brought them joy and filled their hearts, was once a baby soldier?

This life...was even worse than Jason's childhood?

It is also worse than Damian, Damian has at least always been the heir of the Assassin League; and little Helena is in Bain's hands, so it is guaranteed that she will always be used as a stealing tool to rush to the front line.

Does she have neinei to eat when she is hungry?Does she have a pink room?Does she have toys?

The immature shoulders also shouldered the important task of maintaining Gotham law and order, and he did it more decisively than the red hood; in the end... he went to extremes and was treated as an enemy by them, people from another timeline.

In Jason's mind, the imaginary image of a helpless girl overlapped with the baby who always gave him the brightest smile, making Jason grip the steering wheel tightly, shrouded in boundless sadness.

It's really distressing, the kind of twitching.

So how incompetent were they on this previous timeline? !

May I ask, can you beat that "Jason Todd"?Oh, and of course, beat up the old guy too.

He'd thought the old guy was passable at being a father—on Damien.

However, it now appears that this is just Jason's fantasy.

Tim rubbed his temples and leaned back in the chair, feeling another headache.

"But the two of them are completely different people, Jason, we must distinguish this point."

"I know..." There was no need for Tim to emphasize, Jason didn't understand this.

After that, something happened suddenly, and Tim, who was still calmly telling Helena's story, suddenly groaned in pain.Moan.

When Jason looked over nervously, he found that the brother beside him was bending over and trembling slightly, as if he was enduring great pain.

Jason had to stop the Batmobile to check Tim in the passenger seat.

Jason's own appearance was still changing ages, but it didn't cause him any physical discomfort.Tim's situation seems to be much more serious. You must know that this little Robin is also an expert in enduring pain. It will be fine if he doesn't sleep for a few days. It must be quite serious if he is so painful that he can make a sound.

"what happened……"

The pain seemed to come and go quickly. As soon as Jason parked the car and before he could finish his sentence, Tim straightened up slowly.

There was still cold sweat on his forehead, and the blue eyes of the black-haired boy were obscure, focusing on the void in front of the Batmobile, and he didn't know what he was looking at or thinking about.

Under Jason's anxious eyes, Tim blinked slowly and sighed softly, like some kind of enlightenment after going through a turbulent storm.

He blinked, clenched and loosened his hands on his knees.

"It's not a big deal, Jason," he pursed his lips, and the next sentence made Jason both confused and alarmed.

"I'm dead... no, to be precise, 'I' disappeared."

Facing Jason's troubled and nervous eyes, Tim said frankly, "I... know exactly how this all happened."

Thorough "knowing" is almost equivalent to personal experience-from the timeline where Helena was discovered and brought back; to Bruce's death and Damian's disappearance, and finally to Brainiac's The invasion, the sacrifice of Helena...

As well as his behavior of returning to the past in the future, Tim knows it all.

All this is because the memory of Tim in the future is shared with him in the present.

The author has something to say:

*Why there are not many nominations hhh? It’s because the official screenwriters are taking turns abusing him_(:з」∠)_. The garbage author guarantees that it’s not because there are not many readers nominating the barrels that they write the barrels for surprises. From the beginning Barrel was conceived, and the dialogue between him and Helena in the following episodes has been written.

Come on, second brother’s hug (no, crossed out, no such sentence...)

If the master encounters this kind of situation, he has no chance at all. The scene of the death of his parents in Crime Alley is enough for him to collapse.Barrel dies, his own son dies, Da Chao dies, Stephanie (fake) dies, Barbara is disabled, and when he knows his own daughter...any one can pull it out and it will be his turn.

I really don’t want to abuse him like this (Master is so easy to abuse_(:з」∠)_

I think Bucket belongs to the kind that although you are sorry for me every day, Beep Bruce, but in fact he doesn’t hate the master that much (Arkham Knight’s incomprehensible...), for example, when Rice died, the bucket was killed with the master Those who came to Apocalypse just wanted to get back Rice's body.

And even though he had a miserable childhood, in his heart he is actually a person who loves life very much. He also emphasizes the influence of personal ability in life, and he is actually very confident in himself.This is why he and Da Mi are at odds in life, because they are more similar in character.

The absence of parents and Bruce's intervention actually allowed Tong to escape the shackles of his original family to a certain extent. It would be difficult for Tong to grow up in such an environment with an unemployed drug/alcohol dad and a drug addict mother. with good results.

Although this process was very painful, Tong also had the opportunity to grow independently, met and became a better person, and Tong also cherished and made good use of this hard-won opportunity, such as love to learn and read books Yes, Bruce is actually a very important male life mentor during adolescence.And in the back, after being resurrected from the dead and being trained by the big caste, the barrel has actually been working hard on its own.

Fuck, the more I think about it, the more inspirational I get...

Hmm, does this count as a fan filter?The above is the personal understanding of the garbage author, ooc is sure, let's have fun.