“blah blah blah stop centering Kory’s narrative around Dick”
oh yeah? well i want Dick’s narrative to center around Kory. I want her to be fucking inescapable. I want her to haunt the living shit out of runs SHE ISNT EVEN IN. I want someone to say something that reminds him of her. I want her to be the manifestation of his regret, of his longing for a different life, a counter to his obligation to Bruce: his obligation to his parents. Wouldn’t they have wanted grandkids? Wouldn’t they have just wanted him to be happy? I want her to be what he thinks of when he’s lonely, when he’s hurt, when he wakes up in a hospital and for a split second, before he opens his eyes, think maybe? and come to realize that one of the nurses must just use the same shampoo. i want him to see her on magazines and billboards and just ache. i want him to wish that donna would mention how she’s doing when he calls and then regret even asking because hearing it: good or bad, hurts too much. i want him to work a child trafficking case and be sick the entire time, unable to get an eleven year old version of her out of his head. i want him to finally break said case and sit in the station hallway with his forehead in one hand and cell phone in the other and wish so hard that he could and know that he can’t.