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Kon-El | Conner Kent ([personal profile] lowercase_el) wrote in [community profile] metalogs 2022-12-23 02:41 pm (UTC)

That's fair.

[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.

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