Anonymous1: Eh, other than the fact that DC would never be so explicit, this is pretty much their entire characterization when they're together: Just each other's significant other and little more. So much of Barbara's backstory is sacrificed. Would you believe he was 16 in 1971, and a real-time year later, she runs for Congress? They only recently gave her back her degree, albeit a new major.
For his part, they have him going back to the woman who rejected him once. And the batwriters insist he visited her every day. Which I would have no objection to, if "every day" wasn't four years of real time. Dick went through a lot of trauma himself in those four years. And some of it is "shit you should know if you're writing Batman", like Jason's death, which happens while he's in space.
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For his part, they have him going back to the woman who rejected him once. And the batwriters insist he visited her every day. Which I would have no objection to, if "every day" wasn't four years of real time. Dick went through a lot of trauma himself in those four years. And some of it is "shit you should know if you're writing Batman", like Jason's death, which happens while he's in space.