bluandorange:

I want a comic about Batman who actually goes through therapy and has to take medication and has panic and anxiety attacks that he has to fight through to do what he wants to do

who is shown using his wealth to positively impact Gotham, who makes connections within Arkham and is actively trying to make that place fucking better and some of the real villains are the assholes who don’t want to fix the system, who are apathetic or complacent or actively benefiting from how things are and will fight both Bruce Wayne politically and Batman domestically to maintain the status quo

I want a Batman universe where Harley and Ivy and Freeze and Dent are all given the care and respect they deserve. Where there’s a clear distinction between people who are using their doctorates to be asshats and people who want to improve the world and have suffered for it. Where Bruce can learn to trust these people and they to trust him–because he’s just as fucked up as they are and will try and help them become a better version of themselves, as they are, if they want that. 

Where mental illness isn’t stigmatized, its the fucking people and their choices that determine who’s good and who’s bad. Not evil, not necessarily, but bad, abusive, selfish, sadistic. More interested in spreading pain than spreading change. Because everyone is fucked up and has to work, and everyone is gonna make mistakes and everyone is gonna hurt themselves and others, but at the end of the day, there’s an underlying message of not just ‘you can choose to be better’ but also ‘we will help you, we want to help you, we want to understand’

There’s just so much left to fester in the Bat Universe and the only reason is to maintain the status-quo of ‘Bruce is like this and the villains are like that’. Like there’s no possible way to take these people wHO ALL SHARE A VERY COMMON PROBLEM and give them not happy endings, but a journey within a narrative that treats them and their problems with some fucking goddamn respect