#goddamn no wonder bruce took a year long vacation after all of this shit worst fucking year of his life probably

[navree]

it's fodder for excellent drama but let's admit it, hush and war games and identity crisis and under the red hood all happening in relatively close succession is insanely funny. just bruce speedrunning the worst fucking 365 days of his life. they should release a compilation book of all four and just title it 'batman and the terrible horrible no good very bad year'

#personal #can you imagine being bruce and having to explain this after the fact to literally anyone #'yeah so an old childhood friend systematically attacked me and left me even more paranoid and damaged my relationship with my gf and kids' #'and also tormented me with a fake version of my murdered son whose death i still grieve and feel responsible for' #'and then my sidekick triggered a gang war but was tortured and murdered in the process and my only mother figure is kinda responsible' #'and my allies have all been alienated from me in gotham and meanwhile my friends in the justice league kinda mindraped me and are lying' #'which is ratcheting up my paranoia and my OTHER sidekick's dad died which i failed to stop' #'oh and that dead son? he came back to life and he fucking hates me and he's a criminal now and wants me to kill his murderer' #'so that's my 2005 wrap up anyway' #also i think under the red hood is immediately followed by yet another fucking crisis event where bludhaven got blown tf up #exploded into complete smithereens which like #goddamn no wonder bruce took a year long vacation after all of this shit worst fucking year of his life probably