Originally Posted by
Badou
I think it is beyond stupid, but Williamson is probably just picking up the plots Priest introduced. In Priest's Deathstroke book he retconned it where Deathstroke and Talia in the past before she was involved with Bruce slept together and Deathstroke was the one Talia originally wanted to have a kid with that would rule the world or something. This Respawn character being a little older than Damian fits with that, and now Williamson is doing some first ever meeting between Bruce and Deathstroke in the past that I would bet probably involved Talia in some way.