To say that Bruce values his privacy is an understatement. It is one of the most valuable things he has. A certain amount of his life has always been lived out in the public, ensuring that the murder of his parents was a spectacle witnessed by the entire city. That by extension, Bruce himself would never be without an audience. It's cruel and it's senseless, that the death of the Waynes would be the front page of every paper, but that the people he's had to bury since haven't warranted a second glance.
He hesitates for a very long moment.
He still hasn't decided what he thinks of Quentin. His intentions seem usually good but his response to them is too personal, it limits solutions and results to his personal worldview and experience and that puts others in positions of vulnerability and danger. And now there's this. Where he shouts his outrage across the network and then talks to Bruce about distraction, unwilling or unable to see the contradiction.]
You don't see it when you close your eyes? Or before you go to sleep?
[The voice that comes across the feed doesn't sound angry or even disappointed. The subject of the reply is personal but his tone isn't. There's something tired and quiet in his inflection, a betrayal Bruce can't scrub away completely.]
It isn't a distraction if you don't allow yourself to be distracted. We can't undo what's happened, but we can decide what the experience means for us. To practice seeing outside of pain.
The people here with us are our responsibility.
The last time we spoke you were interested in a collaborative effort to examine and understand this place. But you won't be able to help anyone if you don't look away from your own grief. Carry it, but look forward.
private| voice
To say that Bruce values his privacy is an understatement. It is one of the most valuable things he has. A certain amount of his life has always been lived out in the public, ensuring that the murder of his parents was a spectacle witnessed by the entire city. That by extension, Bruce himself would never be without an audience. It's cruel and it's senseless, that the death of the Waynes would be the front page of every paper, but that the people he's had to bury since haven't warranted a second glance.
He hesitates for a very long moment.
He still hasn't decided what he thinks of Quentin. His intentions seem usually good but his response to them is too personal, it limits solutions and results to his personal worldview and experience and that puts others in positions of vulnerability and danger. And now there's this. Where he shouts his outrage across the network and then talks to Bruce about distraction, unwilling or unable to see the contradiction.]
You don't see it when you close your eyes? Or before you go to sleep?
[The voice that comes across the feed doesn't sound angry or even disappointed. The subject of the reply is personal but his tone isn't. There's something tired and quiet in his inflection, a betrayal Bruce can't scrub away completely.]
It isn't a distraction if you don't allow yourself to be distracted. We can't undo what's happened, but we can decide what the experience means for us. To practice seeing outside of pain.
The people here with us are our responsibility.
The last time we spoke you were interested in a collaborative effort to examine and understand this place. But you won't be able to help anyone if you don't look away from your own grief. Carry it, but look forward.