@03140418 "If i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more" STOP STOP I'M ALREADY DEAD—
No but for real, the people who think wayleska is one sided might as well have 4 pair of eyes to me because Bruce's love language is offers of resources and protection. and he ONLY ever offers these to two people; Selina and Jeremiah, noone else. In season 1 he offers Selina to come live with him, have a safe home, warm food, protection from street thugs. In season 4 he offers Jeremiah Valeska —the brother of a known psychotic criminal that tried to kill him three fucking times— full funding in golden Wayne Enterprises cash, after having been in his mere vicinity for some wonderful, wonderful 3 hours. No background research, no resume read-ins, no inquiries on how much fund the project might even need, how large the scale of it is, what the financial and commercial commitments of the contract would be, if the Wayne Enterprises board could even be persuaded to fund the independent project of an insane criminal's insanely weird brother.
Like, i dont think people actually understand the level of absurdity and insanity and lovestruck stupidity of the context, what Bruce did for Miah on spot. He offered him millions of fund upfront, no questions asked whatsoever, and it wasn't just money. When Jeremiah dumps Bruce in Jerome's grave and goes to visit Wayne Enterprises, he has active access card to all of the building, each and every door, without a supervisor or accompanying company staff. His generators are not stored in a WE warehouse somewhere in whateverville outside Gotham; they're stored in THE central Wayne Enterprises warehouse directly located under the main WE building. Jeremiah more or less has CEO-level access to almost the entire building, and Bruce had a level of trust in this man that was quite frankly incomparable to anything he had ever offered anybody else before, and you better damn well believe that he fought the WE board members tooth and nail to secure all the means Miah needed to completely his project. The entire central Wayne Enterprises build was at the service of Jeremiah's project, their had their best scientists dedicated to the reproduction process. And people think that Bruce had no feelings for Miah, or was just trying to be "a good friend"? He is a good friend to Lucius, and Lucius didn't even get half the resources that Bruce allocated to every need Jeremiah might have. Jeremiah's generators were possible literally because Bruce poured everything he was and everything he had into Jeremiah’s life, and it's the very thing that eats him from the inside.
And so really, who cares if a 16 years old boy doesn't have the most intricately nuanced Freudian take on a script he's given to play before he's even legal to touch alcohol? Look at the narrative in front of you, Gotham TV is ripe to the point of burst with subtle subtext and symbolism, this show relies so much on metaphors and parallels— do people really think that it was a fun cutesy unintended accident that the scene where Jeremiah and Bruce meetup in the bunker when Jeremiah's going insane is shot in a way that has both character surrounded with wilted yellow roses, a symbol for friendship and affection and ALSO lost romantic love?? Do they think it's a fun whatever, the way the Ace Chemical fight almost exactly replicates Five and Selina's fight in which Selina falls to her death?? Like c'mon, for anyone who wasn't 14 and had even just the most basic grasp on literary symbolism David said nothing that we didn't know before, and he really didn't have to. The story is right there, everything in this song is written in a very specific key, and Nygmobblepot dont jump out of a happy meal box by the finale and declare "WE LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH!!!!" either, and people see them as canon just fine, so i have to wonder what exactly keeps them from seeing wayleska for what it is, which is an explicitly canon struggle between two obsessive, heartbroken men in love who will do anything at this point to get under each other's skin, because hatred is just love translated into familiar language.
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