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Grayson - The Dark Heir
Back to Robin and Batman, my personal read on the situation is that Bruce cares deeply for Dick but doesn't understand any healthy ways of showing that. He stresses Dick should be a soldier, rather than is a soldier, and to me, that means he wants Dick to be so good at what he does, that nothing bad can ever happen to him. At the end of the day, Dick is a child in his care, and nothing scares him more than Dick getting hurt. It's a far cry from the Miller-y Batmans that treat their partners as soldiers to keep them at an arm's length. We see Bruce try more than once in these first two issues to make Dick happy after all. The mission debriefing shows that Bruce really just cares about Dick being capable of holding his own against the "Demigods". He doesn't care if Dick has friends, but he also doesn't care if he makes some. I think that's going to be Dick's salvation, where he internalizes all of Bruce's lessons and training, but uses his own strength to become a healthier person by making the right friends. I'm curious to see if the book will get to how much of a difference Dick's presence alone makes on Bruce's character. I also want to see Alfred go off on Bruce sometime soon because I think he needs it lol.