#make me laugh bc like. it should totally be the opposite. imho

[roobylavender]

you've spoken before about disliking when talia gets characterised as a "tiger mom", so i was wondering what your preferred depiction of talia as a mother would be?

this is one of those times where i regret not tagging things bc i used to have an ask addressing this but it's probably ancient by now lol. personally i want to see a talia who really struggles with motherhood due to the fallout of losing out on the opportunity to actually be one in the first place. obv the loss is initially devastating, but she spends the next handful of canon years utterly removed from that responsibility and with the liberty to only have to worry about herself. that forms a huge part of why walking away from ra's is at least somewhat easier than it might have been had she been raising a child under him. talia is beholden to no one and can dive headfirst into her own pursuit of the ideals she wants to see realized in the world. her duty to those ideals entails isolation, exhaustion, and misery, but she's willing to bear all of that if it means she reaches her end goal. and i think taking someone so deeply entrenched in her own sense of duty to the world and suddenly revealing to her that she has a child who needs to be taken care of would be.. really hard? bc talia isn't like bruce. she wouldn't drop everything for that child. she refused to do so in the first place when she saw bruce jeopardizing his duty to the mask in son of the demon. talia would try to be a good mother in the sense that she is emotionally available and supportive and intellectually stimulating. but she's not going to be the mother who looks between the two options of saving the world and raising her child, and chooses the latter. she would try to balance the two however she could, but she would never give up her duty for the sake of only being a mother and to go even further doing that duty would be critical to her definition of motherhood. like this is who we are; this is what we do; if i don't show my child that we have responsibilities to the world bc of the privilege and power available to us, who am i? and that to me could set up a way more interesting clash between her and bruce bc in the aftermath of what he has been through with the first three robins and bruce's general overprotectiveness of his child in son of the demon i seriously do not believe bruce would do anything short of everything in his power to shield damian from vigilantism completely