Re: Bruce B/Jason T
Yeah, I don't mind the gray so much, and I'm already close to the bottom of that slope. But it doesn't keep me up nights. I do what I feel I have to, or I should, same as I always have.
I never said I wanted to kill everyone. I don't see anything wrong with what you did, or what you would do. If I had the power to keep people safe from what's big and bad, I would. I do the best I can, but I'm just a guy. Aside from not being six feet under when I should be, I'm nothing special, so all I can do when the big threats come to town is try to keep people safe. For human sized threats, though, I'm mostly good at hurting people, so that skill has to find a place somewhere.
We all tried. We tried listening. She kept doing stuff like trying to build a device that would force us all to go back to the places we came from, just because she wanted to go. Damian practically begged her not to kill herself. If that wasn't enough to make her feel like she could trust somebody, I don't know what is.
What would have helped me? Nothing anybody could have done. The Bat could have killed the Joker in front of me, and it wouldn't have filled the hole. Not really. [...] I could have used somebody to vent to who didn't make me feel like a psychopath who cuts people's heads off, which I guess I was, but, you know, I had feelings.
In all seriousness, I don't think I ever felt more alone than I did when I came back. That didn't really change until I got here and got to know some of the members of my own family again. Helena, though, everyone's been around her trying to help this whole time.