[Comprehensive English and American] Jason's beautiful day

Bruce hadn't really had a chance to think about anything until now.

A series of flawless events, even if it is as powerful as Batman, will inevitably be a bit exhausted.

He lay on his stomach quietly and obediently, resting his chin on the opponent's hand, squeezing his ears, and he could hear the steady heartbeat.

His child is still alive.

—but how long would he live?

It is difficult for Bruce to describe his mood. During the period of becoming a cat, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness every day. On the one hand, his body was trapped and unable to move. What made him even more painful was that he found himself Nothing can be done.

He realized he didn't know Jason well.

He doesn't know what kind of a person his son is-he knows almost nothing about him, whether it is life or relationship.

Bruce's impression of Jason stayed at the age of 15, but he must admit that he never cared enough for Jason.

He can provide this street boy with a good life, chat with him, give him the identity of Robin, and know what he likes or hates.

That's all.

He didn't know what Jason wanted. This question ran through the relationship between the two, and it was the origin and cornerstone of all tragedies.

Jason is good at hiding himself in front of him. Observing words and demeanor is a skill that the little dirty dog ​​who grew up in Crime Lane relies on to survive. The first time he came to Wayne's house, he found that he was incompatible with this family.

This family is noble and elegant, and the child living here should be as good as Dick, a perfect golden boy.

Jason did not receive much education, but luckily talent can make up for some gaps. Books are the best way to acquire knowledge. He subconsciously hides the swear words he learned on the street, and carefully helps Ah Fu with things.

Bruce could see that the kid was trying to please him, the real owner of the house, as much as possible.

Jason has a record of being adopted three times, but in the end he sneaked out by himself. After investigating, Bruce found that the families who adopted him were all scum—the adoption system back then was overthrown by a man who was squatting in the Black Gate Prison. Take control, for them children are just a commodity.

This is the fourth adoption by Bruce. At the beginning, Bruce only intended to treat the child as a guardian of Dick, rather than establishing a formal adoption relationship.

Dick has a very small age difference with him. He had real parents in the circus when he was a child. He treated Bruce more like an older brother. This blue bird has been loved by everyone since he was a child. When he really made a negative evaluation of himself, that was already the stage when he was preparing to become Nightwing.

Dick's existence put more pressure on Jason. He unconsciously imitated his predecessor's style, and he never even changed Robin's uniform. Be the second Dick Grayson.

His every move is like pleading - please don't throw me away, I will be good, I will be good, I will obey your orders.

Bruce was not good at solving problems between children. At that time, his relationship with Dick happened to be at a freezing point. In order to reassure Jason, he formally went through the adoption procedures and announced that Jason Todd was his son.

But Jason has been hiding himself, and the way he presents himself to other people is very different from the one he presents to Bruce.

It's not that he has become an obedient and good boy, irascibility and rebellion are things engraved in his bones.

But Bruce is still special, not just as Batman, but as Bruce Wayne as well.

He can make any request to Jason, he can disturb him at any time, even if Jason is carrying out his poor social life after school, Bruce can call the boy home with a phone - he knows Jason will not Rejection, there may be occasional disagreements when it comes to having a secret identity, but it's always Jason who compromises in the end.

This is not a father-son relationship in the normal sense.

In a healthy relationship, compromise is a two-way street, but Bruce has occupied a dominant position from the beginning, and this position is gradually strengthened in the day-to-day relationship, and he is increasingly ignoring what Jason really wants. s things.

What Jason craved was approval and affirmation from him, a kid with a morbid longing for family.

But Jason never said it, and Bruce just ignored it. During that period of time, the only child he really got along with in his life was Dick, and it was undoubtedly a mistake to treat Jason the way he treated Dick.

He can violently fire Dick as Robin in the Batcave, then cut his access to every Batman stronghold, and Dick responds by throwing him the middle finger and going to Bludhaven to find his new position .

Dick Grayson doesn't need himself to be needed. His self-evaluation is not based on Bruce's evaluation. He has Titans, Superman, and good relationships so that he is never alone. Jason is good at these things Dick In terms of things, it's just the opposite.

Bruce realizes this belatedly.

This opportunity was when Jason escaped from the Titans—he couldn't get along with those next-generation heroes at all, and seemed out of place in Dick's group, and finally returned to the manor in an almost embarrassed posture.

"What happened?" Bruce asked.

"Nothing." The boy turned his face to the side, but couldn't help showing embarrassment. He replied softly, "I want to take a bath."

After this incident, he stopped trying to make superhero-related connections to his Robin identity, and at the same time became more obsessed with his Robin identity and Bruce, as if that was all he was.

Bruce tried to release this abnormal dependence, but it was also during this time that Jason officially entered the growth period.

His childhood experience made it difficult for him to maintain an objective attitude towards criminals. He was fine when he was a child, but with the exponential growth of the boy's strength in adolescence, the original approach suddenly became problematic. After Robin's behavior contradicted Batman's principles, Bruce ceased to be Robin.

He still remembered the boy's pale face at that time, showing a look of collapse for a moment, and his blue eyes were full of weakness that he thought he had hidden well.

"Bruce, please, don't—"

I'm doing it for his own good, Bruce thought.

"You need to stop for a while." Under this gaze, Bruce still softened his heart. He didn't directly expel the kid like he did with Dick back then.

But this signal was interpreted by Jason to mean that he was no longer needed, that he was no longer close to Bruce—Jason had a strange definition of their relationship, and the adoption papers did not reassure him, the boy insisted. Their connection is maintained by Batman and Robin.

It took a long time for Bruce to figure it out.

Jason had never believed in unconditional love, never had it from his own parents, and had always seen himself as a useful or useless cog in terms of his place in the Wayne family.

Still the same problem, Bruce never knew what Jason wanted.

He thought he was giving Jason a vacation, but the indifference from his adoptive father made him more and more at a loss, and the clown keenly grasped the weakness of the little robin.

Gotham's criminal emperor is a master of manipulating people's hearts. He accurately grasped Jason's psychology, released the news of his biological mother, and then took this opportunity to kill him.

The man was already asleep, and the arms that held him were gradually relaxed, and his hand gradually slipped down. Bruce moved slowly and slightly. The body temperature of the cat was much higher than that of a human. When he moved, the other party felt a chill in his chest. Turned over, curled up tightly.

Bruce didn't move anymore.

He didn't really feel much about Todd - on this man, all traces of Jason before the age of 15 were wiped away, and Bruce couldn't even treat him as his own son.

But the behavior of the man always gave Bruce a strong sense of sight.

He observed for a long time, but he couldn't figure out where this feeling came from, until he saw his own eyes on the reflective armor in the bat machine.

It dawned on me.

Only then did he understand where Todd's weirdness was—he didn't look like Jason Todd, but rather a scarred Bruce Wayne, but he was worse than Bruce, at least Bruce never intended to give up living.

Todd didn't notice this at all, he thought he had completely walked out of the past, but in the Wayne mansion, day after day, he lived himself like Bruce.

Bruce suddenly realized that his child's obsession with the family had never disappeared.

He's trying to put himself in Bruce's shoes -- the core of the Bat-family was and will always be Bruce, and with Bruce gone, the family is dead in name only.

Todd didn't want the Wayne family to become a piece of old paper in Gotham history. He carefully and clumsily assumed the responsibility that should belong to Bruce. From the way he treated Jason and Tim, it can be seen that it was a A permissive perspective of the elders.

He was far gentler than Bruce, unbelievably gentle.

When Future Tim teased Jason with belittling and contemptuous tones, all he did was swear and cut off the communicator.

As Todd treats Tony, Bruce realizes something more.

Weissandi magic has the power to heal, Doctor Strange healed his hand, and people with cancer lived to be over 90 years old. In Bruce's file, he saw hemiplegic wounded on the basketball court after learning magic. run.

But Todd would rather use the impedimental prosthetic than treat himself.

It's not that he can't do it, but that he doesn't want to.

For a person who has lost the will to live, just being alive is exhausting, and the fragmented Wayne family is enough energy, and the future Gotham, he is not sure, whether he will make it worse.

When Bruce was ready to treat Todd as a stranger, his future child suddenly showed a broken look, but the breakdown was only for a moment, and was quickly covered up behind a blank mask. When he looked at himself, One of the man's eyes was the blue that Bruce was familiar with, while the other eye had a glimmer of light briefly flashing across it.

This reminded Bruce of a picture that was treasured deep in his memory.

"This is the best day of my life!"

The little robin gestured restlessly to beat someone, his pair of blue eyes sparkling.

——The gleam in the man's green eyes is exactly the same as that time.