[He gets it, he really does, especially after what the Joker did to Tim.]
Look, I started young, too, so I can't be all "teens shouldn't be heroes blah blah blah," because of all the good I know I did. Saved the world more than once.
But I made a lot of mistakes when I started out. Some of them, I can't take back.
[He thinks of that poor impersonator he hired to go to a mall opening in his stead, when it was his idea, he couldn't even blame Rex. The one shot to death by the Silicon Dragons.]
[He'd only been around a little while before that happened. Should've moved faster, should've thought more about that collar on Tana's neck.]
And even though I was a little older when it happened, I was still in high school when I was murdered.
[He meets Jason's eyes with that one.]
So I get why you'd wonder why Bats would let someone else go out in that costume. Especially with the Joker around.
[That look is awfully dark and murderous there.]
But Tim's good. Really good. Saved the world in his civvies just by talking to someone good. When the rest of his friends would've tried punching the problem away - and would've failed. I'd be dead so many times over if not for him, and that means I wouldn't have been around when the world needed a good saving a few times.
So take some comfort in that at least. He earned that costume, and he's also got friends looking out for him. [Even if he's a giant pain in his butt right now.] Ones that can lift semis and break the speed of sound.
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[He gets it, he really does, especially after what the Joker did to Tim.]
Look, I started young, too, so I can't be all "teens shouldn't be heroes blah blah blah," because of all the good I know I did. Saved the world more than once.
But I made a lot of mistakes when I started out. Some of them, I can't take back.
[He thinks of that poor impersonator he hired to go to a mall opening in his stead, when it was his idea, he couldn't even blame Rex. The one shot to death by the Silicon Dragons.]
[The gang that he pissed off.]
[And others. Trusting Knockout. Letting Tana die.]
And I lost someone.
[He'd only been around a little while before that happened. Should've moved faster, should've thought more about that collar on Tana's neck.]
And even though I was a little older when it happened, I was still in high school when I was murdered.
[He meets Jason's eyes with that one.]
So I get why you'd wonder why Bats would let someone else go out in that costume. Especially with the Joker around.
[That look is awfully dark and murderous there.]
But Tim's good. Really good. Saved the world in his civvies just by talking to someone good. When the rest of his friends would've tried punching the problem away - and would've failed. I'd be dead so many times over if not for him, and that means I wouldn't have been around when the world needed a good saving a few times.
So take some comfort in that at least. He earned that costume, and he's also got friends looking out for him. [Even if he's a giant pain in his butt right now.] Ones that can lift semis and break the speed of sound.