[Dick gives the bit about having family an acknowledging tilt of his head, but it's also not the important part.]
[People had failed Jason, yes, but he spent as much time chasing them away as he ever had trying to accept it. And it's not like Dick doesn't understand where it comes from, same as Jason does. Being abandoned so often in your formative years is tough to reset yourself from. Even if some of the abandonment wasn't something that could really be helped.]
[Addiction, after all, is a terrible thing and not something easily gotten rid of.]
[The last has Dick setting his helmet aside, just so he has both hands free to put on Jason's shoulders.]
You can. Or, at least, you're going to have to try. [A pause.] Well, you're going to have to try with Kyle. Dickie...even at that age, I'm sure he's like me. He's stubborn enough that he won't give up easily. He'll wait and he'll wait until you're ready, even if it never happens.
But Kyle? Kyle's a good kid. Somehow, through everything the world and the Oa have thrown at him. He's powerful beyond anything we can really comprehend because he has a great imagination. Something that can also be turned against him. If you don't tell him the reasons, he'll come up with them on his own.
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[People had failed Jason, yes, but he spent as much time chasing them away as he ever had trying to accept it. And it's not like Dick doesn't understand where it comes from, same as Jason does. Being abandoned so often in your formative years is tough to reset yourself from. Even if some of the abandonment wasn't something that could really be helped.]
[Addiction, after all, is a terrible thing and not something easily gotten rid of.]
[The last has Dick setting his helmet aside, just so he has both hands free to put on Jason's shoulders.]
You can. Or, at least, you're going to have to try. [A pause.] Well, you're going to have to try with Kyle. Dickie...even at that age, I'm sure he's like me. He's stubborn enough that he won't give up easily. He'll wait and he'll wait until you're ready, even if it never happens.
But Kyle? Kyle's a good kid. Somehow, through everything the world and the Oa have thrown at him. He's powerful beyond anything we can really comprehend because he has a great imagination. Something that can also be turned against him. If you don't tell him the reasons, he'll come up with them on his own.