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[monsterhemademe]

...I wanted to help. I was... I was supposed to be his chance... to get everything right. I was. I don't know, any more.

I gave up everything I was to be Robin. My dad died because I was Robin... I gave everything... to being Robin. I made myself a mask. Tim was the mask. I...

[He pauses, realising he's speaking nonsense.] I don't feel like

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[secondacrobat]

[ begin here]

[Jay listens quietly, knowing that even if it doesn't make "sense", sometimes there aren't words for how a person is broken.] Well, sometimes you can fix what's been done and be who you were again. And other times you just have to rebuild someone new on what's left.

[monsterhemademe]

[He shudders, not sure at all what he'd doing with himself.] I... I feel so empty. I feel... like there's nothing to build myself out of.

I don't want to be Red Robin... B-but. It's all... I have left. I wanted to help people.

[secondacrobat]

You don't have to put on a mask to help people, if that's what you really want. Bruce's way is not the only way.

[monsterhemademe]

....I know. It's still... why I started this. Why I put the mask on. I feel like I got lost... there were so many tests. So many lessons. He didn't want me to trust anyone. But act on his word without question. Soldier, soldier, soldier...

[He closes his eyes and sighs deeply, tucking his knees up against his chest and leaning his face against them.] I'm tired...