(this is about my au DEAD BOYS CLUB)
thinking about how, despite it all, Jason was mourned and grieved. About, how, despite it all, he has a grave, a monument of the living's loss and care for him. How, despite it all, people knew Jason died.
Dick and Tim doesn't have that.
They were alone in the Batcave when they died. They were alone when they returned, assumed to have been on a mission together. No one heard them, no one saw them. Not a single person ever noticed. They died too, yet not a single person grieved or mourned them. There's no monument or testament of the living's care and loss for them. There's no flowers, no whispered apologies, no prayers in hopes of them hearing, not even any avenging their death. They died, and no one knows.
And I think. And I think that Jason will be one of the very first, if not the first, to know and recognise what happened to Dick and Tim. And I think the three of them will be jealous and angry and messy, because how it is fair all three of them died and came back different? A lot of the anger will be directed at Bruce too, even at Alfred, because how come they never noticed what happened? Dick and Tim fell, in the Batcave, and neither of those they call guardians noticed, knows. Bruce won't find out for years, the issue to close to him and trying to logic his way out of it (and makes it so much weirder and worse than it was)
They can't stay angry at Alfred for as long, he's just the kind of person they can't be mad at. Bruce tho? Hooo boy, they all will hold anger for him for a while. He's supposed to be their main caretaker, their guardian. Yet he cursed all three of his robins to death and come back different? Which is, exactly what Bruce himself will think once he finds out too. There'll be so much guilt to unpack in that, so many complicated messy feelings none of them knows how to verbalise.
Dick and Tim doesn't need to verbalise emotions any longer, not with the empathy that comes with being a ghost, a halfa. What comes with the Hivemind. But everyone else? They don't have that luxury (though maybe Jason will get low level empath? it could be remnants of the Pit Rage. not sure on this path yet)
But back to the grief and mourning because honestly? I think both Dick and Tim, on some levels, do want a monument or just something to testify that fact they did die. Somewhere they can grieve their own deaths and comes to terms with what happened to them. If so just a pot of flowers, a bush, a small stream of water, a rock.. Something, anything.
Which is why I think that evantually, there will be something beside Jason's own grave. Maybe Jason himself was the one to make it for his two brothers? A few small pots of flowers, a few stones, a windchime and container of water. Two golden plate, unnamed. Something.
At least Dick cried when Jason showed them. They came back, they all did, but... While Jason was fully resurrected, Dick and Tim got stuck halfway. If Jason is a zombie, they're the possessing ghosts.
It's nice to be grieved, to be mourned. They all deserves that at very least.
And I think that Jason, Tim and Dick would all give each other funeral or death flowers, make it into a game. Gift the most obscure death adjacent flower they can get their hands on. At some point there's a straight up dead plant too (Jason gave it to Tim, Tim gave Jason an even uglier one back. They treat it like siblings banter). Poison Ivy helps them pick out flowers too, and so she'll be the third to know Dick and Tim died, too.
(The second one is Clark. He hugged them all so tightly he might have accidentally broken a few bones. Well, Jason's bones at least. Dick and Tim shifted into ghost form, and didn't have any) (Conner may be competing with Poison Ivy as the third to find out)
(and I think birthdays would suck a lot, feel like a lie because no, they didn't survive one more year, they didn't get to turn one year older, because they died and now are forever and always half-dead! )
