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AITA for not avenging my son's death?

Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I (45M) have six kids—27M, 23F, 23M, 17M, 16M, and 10M. This one concerns my 23-year-old son, we'll call him "Jay."

I adopted Jay from a rough environment when he was 12 and love him more than anything in the world even as I write this. I was heartbroken beyond words when he suddenly and unexpectedly died at 15. My grief took control (until my third son "Timmy" came along, but that's another story). Unbeknownst to me, after Superman tore a hole in realy, Jay came back.

However, our relationship's been strained ever since. He's angry at me for not being there for him or avenging his death. However, he's also had his fair share of vices by fraternizing with one of my enemies, going on murderous crime sprees, starting fights with his other siblings, and basically turning all the values I instilled in him on its head. When I first saw him after he came back, I couldn't even recognize him.

We've since then reconciled despite our continuing differences and I cannot emphasize how happy I am to have him back. However, we still get into the occasional argument. Last night, it was another repeat of the argument of why I didn't do anything after he died. Jay pointed out how when another son of mine (10M, gonna call him "Dami") died, I traveled to another planet to bring him back.

Now Jay is accusing me of favoritism and won't talk to me. He and my oldest son ("Richard") think I'm in the wrong for not trying to bring him back or at least avenge him. My wife and youngest disagree because I was younger, less experienced, and also suffered through the grief. My middle kids are on the fence and my butler refuses to weigh in, so I'm coming to you guys on the internet for another opinion.

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which one of the batkids you think would read homestuck

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so anyway jason todd might have the biggest vocabulary out of the entire family but the second he starts texting its all improper grammar and 500 spelling errors btw. if you even care

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10 year old tim drake leaving hate comments on every single robin jason post ever saying shit like "i hope this fucker kills himself so the first one comes back "

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Then Jason never kills again.

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"superman knows everyone's secret identity because he can see through masks and eavesdrop anywhere, batman knows everyone's secret identity because he's the world's greatest detective, and wonder woman knows everyone's secret identity because she has a magic lasso" is fine and all but i think it's funnier if clark makes an active effort not to look through masks because he thinks it's rude, bruce knows despite making no effort because they're all actually terrible at keeping secrets, and whenever diana wants to know someone's identity she just asks bruce and it never occurs to him not to tell her

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@inkbane LMAO. i bet bruce & tim actually fucking suck at clue. damian also sucks because he gets impatient and starts harassing/singling dick out for clues. jason randomly picks items to guess at and he's never wrong.

jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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Can you imagine if Jason came back from the dead and the Joker had died from something completely random. Dude got hit by a bus because he thought he was above traffic lights. Now what.

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@littledead-ridinghood

dick: he does this EVERY TIME. and then i NEVER beat you!

bruce, tired and probably disassociating: mhm

dick: HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT GAME WE WERE PLAYING!!!

jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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why is this post getting notes

jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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@voidedmuffin the og teen titans do this

jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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@timxdrakes LMAO no bc bruce and jason are totally always on a team together. damian will sit there all pissy bc HE wanted to be on bruce's team goddamnit!!!! (tim is also upset by this but like #yolo.)

like bruce its so clear you have a favorite. loser.

jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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jason todd the kinda guy to show up uninvited to family game night after going dark for weeks, not pay attention, and win the entire thing

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if duke listens to taylor swift tim listens to noah kahan. he’s the taylor swift > transmasc > noah kahan pipeline.

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do you ever just think about jason and bruce. do you ever think about the fact that bruce is the one trapped in gotham but jason’s the one that always ends up coming back. do you ever think about the way that no matter who jason could’ve been, there’s some part of him that’s always going to be haunting gotham. do you ever think about the way bruce keeps trying to make everything better only to fail over and over again (and how he tried to raise jason better only to lose him). do you ever think about how jason is bruce’s gotham incarnate.

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what do you think it takes to get kids exempt from finals in gotham. like irl if someone dies you all allegedly pass but that's like a common occurrence in gotham?? what's the limit here

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i keep thinking about this, okay. like damian deserves to have a pig as a pet, sure, but?? have you ever considered that damian would give it one look and think professor pyg. and like ngl if i was damian after all the shit pyg put him thru id never look at another pig the same way. anyway