Young Justice: Immunity
Kon: hey, Tim, do you know about this case?
Tim: oh, that's from when the Clench happened.
Bart: the Clench?
Tim: yeah. Epidemic that was caused by a weaponized virus back in my Robin days.
Cassie: I feel like I vaguely remember this. Didn't you almost get it?
Tim: oh, no, I did catch it. Nearly wiped me off for good- thankfully B managed to get a cure.
Bart: well, good thing you're cured!
Tim: kind of.
Kon: what does that mean, "kind of?"
Tim: so the cure didn't 'cure' it, only made it undetectable, but there was a chance it could come back, and the second time it was 100% chance of mortality, the second time; attacks your nervous system and causes critical nervous system breakdown and heart failure.
Kon:
Cassie:
Bart:
Tim: Gotham's medical staff noticed though, that immunocompromised people were less likely to have the second Clench over regular people. Something to do with the body being too hostile, I believe.
Tim: Anyway, when I lost my spleen, I became immunocompromised, and my chances of getting the Second Clench dipped down to 0.10%. but also I got like, two smaller spleens that are like, doing the work my original spleen was doing, so I'm not as immunocompromised as someone without a spleen would be, and overall it's kind of like going back to zero. Leslie says I'm kind of a medical miracle.
Tim: that's why my answer is "kind of."
Cassie:
Kon:
Bart: what the absolute fuck, Tim.
