I'm just. Do you KNOW how unhinged this scene is?? To set the stage: Damian died in the Leviathan attacks on Gotham, Bruce feels responsible and has been going off the deep end about it, he's been an absolute asshole to everyone in his family about it (including that time he basically tried to get Jason to relive his trauma because whatever made Jason come back might bring Damian back too, like, Bruce is not doing well over this), and now he's running simulations to try to figure out how he could have saved Damian, over and over and over, never finding the answer he's looking for. So, Alfred calls Dick to come in from Chicago to try to talk some sense into Bruce, to get him to stop this, and Bruce is absolutely ready to get into a fight about this, but then THIS CHAOS GREMLIN CHILD is just like, "Hey. I recognize an unstoppable shitshow when I see one. This thing got a second player setting?" This gremlin COULD have tried to stop this, but he was like, nah, that's not going to work, if you're going to do this, then let's fucking do it, and JOINS IN and BRUCE JUST LETS HIM. And of course it fucking works! They figure out how they could have saved Damian, by working together, and it doesn't mean anything, because Damian's still gone, and it doesn't pull Bruce all the way back from the ledge, but it does wake him up enough to stop this much, to instead turn to avenues that will help him grieve, to turn to the people who love him and the issue ends with Alfred running his own simulation of how he could have stopped this and Bruce apologizing to Alfred for turning away from him. Just. Dick Grayson, everyone. Absolutely unhinged behavior that works because he knows how to wake Bruce up better than anyone, because Bruce's first is the one that knows him best, the one that, no matter how much they fight and resent each other, that's his first baby, that's his first son, that's the one he'll let shove him back out of the dark.
