Still have this one on the brain. A collection of scene ideas/concepts that will not give me peace:
The Angsty ones:
Clark trying to get Bruce to tell him what the Anti-Superman contingencies are because guilt is eating him alive and they still don’t know what did this and he’s living in fear and he wants to know they could prevent this if it happened again, even though it’s already happened. This is, understandably, a very bad conversation for them both, given that Bruce is now in a position to be worried for Clark while doing his obsessive retroactive-rerun thing trying to figure out if concern or hesitation for Clark is what allowed the situation to escalate far enough to kill Tim. They both blame themselves.
Bruce realizing that his usual coping mechanism, getting really violent and borderline murdery, needs to be avoided for Robin’s sake (again) but this time it’s not because he needs to avoid traumatizing Robin, this time it’s because they have worked SO hard to get Damian less cool with murder and it would set a bad example.
Conner obsessively scanning the Wayne Industries rubble. There’s a lot of it but he has x-ray vision and super strength and they haven’t found a body yet and he won’t believe it until they do. Because this is Tim and they haven’t find a body and he’s not there and he needs to find him (and the grave is empty) and they can’t be sure.
Dick, who’s now lost each of his younger brothers at least once and is not doing well (but can’t have a breakdown at the Manor), shows up drunk at one of Jason’s safe houses, grabs him like he’s gonna disappear when he walks in and just starts sobbing on his shoulder. “I can’t. I can’t do this again, Jay. Not like this, not again. I can’t I can’t. I wasn’t there. Why am I never there?” <- in fairness to him he was on the scene when Damian died, even if he was knocked out. But, again, he is feeling neither fair nor reasonable about this rn.
Fun things:
Tim carrying Danny around on his back while he and Tam try to figure out where they’ve ended up. This means Tam is the one with her hands free when a ghost shows up. Tim has just enough time to regret this and try to engage instead, but she’s shockingly efficient. He turns, stunned, to his secretary who just clocked a ghost and she shrugs. “Do you have any idea how many meetings we refuse for you a day? This isn’t even my top five scariest days at the office yet.” Tim is speechless.
Jason and Connor’s get-along team-up. Work out your problems, boys, do it for Tim! They both start actively looking for Tim, convinced for their own reasons he may have gotten out. Jason is ghostly-adjacent in some way which is both an asset to this investigation, and really confusing for him.
Danny awake but kinda out of it:
- “Huh, oh I’m fine, I’m dead”
- “Oh yeah no worries I heal super fast ever since I died.”
- keeps forgetting whether or not they know he’s a ghost and trying to pretend he’s not half ghost while also actively doing things like flying or not having legs or being transparent
- Makes absolutely insane suggestions while Tim tries to engineer their way out of this. They can’t tell whether it’s the concussion talking or the evil-scientist-sounding parents they’re learning about. “We can’t repurpose a toaster as a communication device??? What parts do you think a toaster has???” “Not with that attitude you can’t.” This has been going on continuously throughout the plot. Then one of Danny’s batshit ideas actually works and Tim is completely scandalized.
Tim meets SkulkTech
Tim watches Danny also punch a ghost. Starts having some questions about the job application screening process and whether he’s somehow forgotten this as a hiring requirement. How are all his secretaries like this?
Danny introduces Tim to ghost coffee.
