Do you know why I love Batman so much?
(well, nope. you don't even know that I love Batman)
(still gonna tell you anyway)
The fact that his parents died after being shot by a poor, homeless guy who don't even know how to hold a gun properly,
and yet he still wants to be a hero who helps those kind of persons instead of being a villain and try to shoot them all for killing his parents.
He forgives.
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I don't know a thing about forgiving. For me, it's never been easy. What is forgiving, after all? Is forgiving and forgetting basically the same? Or, is it possible that you forgive but never forget? How do you cope with the pain that comes with the memory, when you say you 'forgive but never forget'?
Well.. perhaps Bruce himself don't know a thing about forgiving,
"You're stronger than your father."
"You didn't know my father."
"But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved one is just.. poison in your veins. And one day, you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed so you'd be spared in your pain."
..maybe he just learns to use his pain as his weapon.