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#it can arguably be said that Dick spent more time mourning Jason than he ever even seen him face to face
trashbatistrash · 1 year
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#just wanna get some thoughts out of my head#I don’t think Jason and Dick would ever be close#I don’t think they’d have a good relationship#I don’t see them hugging or letting themselves be vulnerable with each other like they individually might with other members of the family#I believe there’s a yawning chasm of distance that exists between them#there can be like bids to narrow the distance that Dick might take but#I’m personally obsessed with the tragedy of death objectifying people to the point they become more symbols than individuals to the mourner#and it can’t be denied that that was what Jason was to both Dick and Bruce#it can arguably be said that Dick spent more time mourning Jason than he ever even seen him face to face#most of their purported closeness is inserted retroactively#anyways. what I’m saying is that I think Dick might feel obligated to form a proper brotherly relationship with the kid he mourned#but Jason would pick up on that distance and not be receptive toward it#they’re still fam but like. at arms length.#like kids with that older brother they might wanna impress when they were younger but they’re always away at college#and now that they’re grown it’s just. awkward. you lived in the same house but you know nothing about each other.#how do you come to terms that everything you knew about the kid you mourned had to be told to you by someone else#how do you push aside that grief to get to know this new person they’ve become?#how do you befriend that older brother that has always kept his distance#it’s so much easier to picture Jason and Bruce hugging it out than Dick and Jay and it’s kinda sad#ramble#nonsense rambling#just emptying out my brains for now#not sure if this is what I really think
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