That’s the complete opposite of the reaction he was aiming for. Puzzled, he studies her silently for a moment. Clearly there’s more to this story than what he knows, but it doesn’t make a difference to him. She was murdered, a victim of the city-wide smog of injustice he’s seen up close and personal for nearly his entire life. That single fact outweighs any possible complicity she could possibly have in what happened, in his mind.
“You on the GCPD payroll? Or maybe forget to mention you’re Batman? ‘Cause I gotta say - if you are, you’re a lot shorter than I remember.” A joke, obviously; his mouth twists into a wry half-smile. Attempting to redirect using humor usually works for tense situations like this. “Point is, there’s people who’re supposed to protect people like you from crap like this, and they all failed you.” Hell, Jason counts himself among them; he would remember a gang war on a scale this big, so either they’re not from the same Gotham, or she’s from his future, and his choice to not take Black Mask out permanently had a hand in what happened to her. He assumes, naturally, that it’s the latter.
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“You on the GCPD payroll? Or maybe forget to mention you’re Batman? ‘Cause I gotta say - if you are, you’re a lot shorter than I remember.” A joke, obviously; his mouth twists into a wry half-smile. Attempting to redirect using humor usually works for tense situations like this. “Point is, there’s people who’re supposed to protect people like you from crap like this, and they all failed you.” Hell, Jason counts himself among them; he would remember a gang war on a scale this big, so either they’re not from the same Gotham, or she’s from his future, and his choice to not take Black Mask out permanently had a hand in what happened to her. He assumes, naturally, that it’s the latter.