Well not everyone gets to start the race with the benefit of hindsight.
[ It's also not what Damian's really asking him.
He's only a boy. A kid Dick's let down twice over now, whether he'd had any control over the situation or not. It's one of the many reasons why he'd wanted to let the whole affair quietly die, unacknowledged. Fold it up with that impossibly small, pantsless Robin suit, already tucked away in a forgotten corner of the lair.
But that clearly isn't what Damian wants. And Dick owes him that. He owes him the truth, whatever he decides to do with it. ]
I don't know what the other me told you about the Flying Graysons. But my mom and dad wore something like it. [ Just different enough (they'd hoped then, foolishly) not to raise any suspicions. He'd promised Bruce. ]
I didn't want to change the design because I didn't want the last thing they put into the world to disappear. I didn't want to see it die.
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[ It's also not what Damian's really asking him.
He's only a boy. A kid Dick's let down twice over now, whether he'd had any control over the situation or not. It's one of the many reasons why he'd wanted to let the whole affair quietly die, unacknowledged. Fold it up with that impossibly small, pantsless Robin suit, already tucked away in a forgotten corner of the lair.
But that clearly isn't what Damian wants. And Dick owes him that. He owes him the truth, whatever he decides to do with it. ]
I don't know what the other me told you about the Flying Graysons. But my mom and dad wore something like it. [ Just different enough (they'd hoped then, foolishly) not to raise any suspicions. He'd promised Bruce. ]
I didn't want to change the design because I didn't want the last thing they put into the world to disappear. I didn't want to see it die.
Do you understand that, Damian?