“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”
I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.
Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.
I just read a fic of this event where everything goes according to canon but at the end Bruce subdues Jason in chains as Jason screams and cries that Bruce was supposed to choose him! If Bruce loved him he wouldn't have hesitated and he would have chose him and all Bruce did was placate him and ignore his words. Honestly it sat a little sour because the fic continued on as though this was the start to Jason's reentry to the family because Bruce faced him head on, stopped him, and "comforted" him when in actuality he didn't change his behavior at all. It's bitter because we all know that Bruce can't chose Jason.
“Jason should have ducked”
Jason gave Bruce a gun to shoot him with.
Jason gave him three options but there are only two results. Either Joker dies and Jason is left alive or Joker lives and Jason is too dead to care. That’s not an accident you have to understand.
It’s the most miserable “win if I win, win if I lose” I’ve ever seen set up and it worked. The neck slice moment isn’t just written for shock value it’s a demonstration of the truth of Jason’s point. Sometimes refusing to choose one over the other is just a choice for the other.
I have a tummy ache and the crushing weight of the aftermath of a meltdown but wow I get the full human experience
me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid