o what suffering the editors hath wrought

[3goodtimes]

Filling roxrox 's request for Tim finding out about Steph's death. Later, I'll make another post dealing with Tim's grief (or noticeable lack thereof) as it relates to our lovely Ms. Brown.




In Batman #634, Bruce speaks about the aftermath of War Games with Dick and Alfred.

The story begins, as they so often do, with Bruce royally fucking up his family relationships.


You can almost forgive him for chickening out. He doesn't want to see someone he loves in pain. It's similar to the situation with Jason and his mother. Bruce can't crush the hopes of his Robins. In this case though, he only makes the situation harder for poor Tim who's robbed of a chance to say goodbye. Alfred's scolding look is well-placed.

Somewhat selfish of you Bruce, but poignant statement nonetheless.


Oh Tim. You're breaking my heart here.





And then Dick has to steal the spotlight for his angst of course. Typical. :P

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I believe it was actually in Robin that she reunited with her mom. Tim and Bruce found out the person dressed as Spoiler was her, and I think it might have been Bruce or Alfred who asked if her mom knew she was back (because she was obviously living on her own), and then later Tim went with her to the hospital where her mom was working and they met. They didn't show the gory details, but it was obviously something Steph was putting off because she was afraid of how her mom would react, and probably also feeling really guilty about it all.

Then later, again I think it was in one of the BftC spin-off oneshot books, they had her and her mom make reference to Steph not being Spoiler.

And it was in the first few issues of Batgirl that we saw Steph's mom expressing her happiness that Steph wasn't doing the superhero thing anymore, all the while Steph is hiding from her that she actually is doing the hero thing.

[mystery]

It was in Robin that we first saw that! That's when she went to first go tell her mom she was alive.