Now I imagine how Allen discovered he was gay.
Kyle: …Who was it? Your sexual awakening?
Allen stares at the Trinity Bruce without his cowl , remembering a young man with blue eyes trying to run a company and be a doctor at the same time. Who puts a hand on his shoulder while whispering in his ear, "Let's get out of here, Scott."
Can we, like, imagine a story that goes something like....
Reluctant high society member Alan Scott crossing paths with the idealist darling Thomas Wayne in Gotham's social sphere and hitting it off, but Alan's duty is to the world while Thomas will always be to Gotham first, and so they part ways amicably because Thomas cannot handle the waiting with hand over heart for someone who cannot and will not give within proportion.
By the time Alan retires and decides to give it another try, he finds Thomas already moved on, madly in love with Martha Kane, and having her son — a boy with the same eyes that Alan had first fallen in love with, with the bone structures and laugh of a person who could give to Thomas what Alan never could: commitment, proportional assurance that every bastardization and every scandal will be worth it.
Alan moves on, if for anything else, then because out of respect for himself and for Thomas. He finds love with someone who can understand the nature of this duty. He exists in spite of the bitterness of all that could've been. The thoughts get quieter.
Then somewhere, some time later, Hal Jordan and Bruce Wayne get together.
Publicly. In both cape and without.
Alan smiles when Hal talks to him about Bruce ("-you know Bruce, right? Waynes being city royalty, your city royalty") and sees a little bit of himself and Thomas in them. Just a little.
Bruce could give to Hal what Thomas couldn't give Alan, what Alan could never ask of Thomas. It was a different time, a different climate, but the bravery needed on both parties would've been the same: the bravery to stay and the bravery to ask to be stayed for.
So Alan smiles politely, says he's happy for them, and says he hopes they will be good and true to each other.
(If Bruce should find new flowers by his father's grave and know, then that's no one's business but the dead)
Bruce, buzzing with excitement: Mr. Scott, it's an honor and a pleasure to meet you in kinder lights
Alan Scott, a little exasperated, but fails to be firm with the Lanterns' most hostile JL ally because Bruce is of Gotham and genuinely looks so happy to meet him: Oh please, Mr. Scott makes me sound so old and formal. Call me Alan, I insist! From one Gothamite to another.
Bruce: I must tell you, my father and I were great fans of you for your earthside work.
Alan: Ah, yes, Thomas. We've met.
Bruce, excited: Really? How come?
Alan, remembering a wild night where young Dr. Wayne gave him a very thorough physical examination: ......how open minded are you?
Bruce, narrows his eyes: It depends. Was it before or after he met my mother?
Alan, having been romanced by a younger, spry Thomas Wayne: .....I think that's not the part you ought to be concerned with.
