[ The first question takes him aback. That Damian would even think to ask. The implication that the answer matters to him. The careful segueway he'd been planning falls away.
It had hurt to be replaced. It had hurt to spend years fighting all over again for the place he'd had to fight for the first time around. It had hurt to watch someone else become a son. To wonder still if Bruce had ever felt anything like that for him.
But it isn't about Robin now. Damian should know that. ]
It doesn't bother me now.
When I was younger... yeah. It was hard for me and your dad. It took us a while to figure out what we were. And who Robin was.
But the truth is he's not just a memory. He's not just an homage. He brings something to innocent people that Batman can't. And he does for Batman what no one else can.
There's a lot of things I worry about when I think about what's coming, but you're not one of them, Damian.
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It had hurt to be replaced. It had hurt to spend years fighting all over again for the place he'd had to fight for the first time around. It had hurt to watch someone else become a son. To wonder still if Bruce had ever felt anything like that for him.
But it isn't about Robin now. Damian should know that. ]
It doesn't bother me now.
When I was younger... yeah. It was hard for me and your dad. It took us a while to figure out what we were. And who Robin was.
But the truth is he's not just a memory. He's not just an homage. He brings something to innocent people that Batman can't. And he does for Batman what no one else can.
There's a lot of things I worry about when I think about what's coming, but you're not one of them, Damian.