hikasho replied to your post: Sometimes I think about Wayelska and I get sad....
I think about this all the goddamn time and it wrecks me tbh
My heart just breaks for Bruce, because as tragic as Jeremiah’s story is at some points, Bruce’s is just 100x worse. Because he thought he had a friend, he thought he had met someone like him, someone who wanted to change the world, to save it, to make it better, just like he did. So he trusted him, he helped him, he cared about him. And it all went as wrong as it could possibly go, because Jeremiah knew him better than almost anyone else. Because he used that. Because Jeremiah’s attacks were personal in a way and to and extent no one else tried. Because what they had between them, the feelings, the affection, the respect, the love, was twisted into something monstrous. And everything Jeremiah does, he puts it on Bruce, he makes it about him, for him.
So Bruce is scared and afraid and grieving and angry. He’s struggling with the loss of Jeremiah, of his home, his city, Selina and potentially Alfred and Lee and Jim too. The loss of his hope and who he is and what he believes.
Like, no wonder Bruce has trust issues and communication issues and is incapable of fully accepting anything truly good in his life. His formative years and a good chunk of his relationships were horrifying.
