Obsessions of a (Wanna-be) Teenager

May 20 2012 ∞

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May 12 2012 ∞

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Mother’s Day tribute to some of DC’s mothers.

[From left to right:]

Koriand’r, Alura-El, Hippolyta & the Amazons of Themyscira, Donna Troy, Martha Kent, Lois Lane, Pantha, Dinah Lance, Barbara Gordon, Dana Drake, Kate Spencer, Stephanie Brown, Helena Sandsmark, Ellen Baker, Linda Park-West, Bonnie King-Jones, Bianca Reyes, Crystal Brown, Talia al Ghul, Lara-El, Mera, Mary Grayson, Martha Wayne.

Awesome…but Talia? As a representative of Loving their children in life? …really?

I think Talia, personally, is underrated and underestimated as a woman and as a mother. While I agree that the way she shows love is completely different from others (but what mother is the same as another?), I try to think of it with a different perspective.

First of all, Talia al Ghul is a woman who is not normal. She doesn’t have a normal life or a normal family. In her world, there is only the fight for survival and what better way to fight than by being the best, the most powerful? Her father is Ra’s al Ghul and by that, you already get an inkling that her childhood is not one of normality. I doubt she was shown love like how a daughter should have been.

There were probably no hugs, no pets to the head, no combing of the hair with fingers, and no “I love you” said as often as it should have been. The love she was shown was most likely through training. Kind of a like a “I will show you how important and how loved you are by teaching you how to survive and rule with an iron fist in this world we live in.” We also do not know who her mother is or if she even shows up or played a part in Talia’s childhood and adulthood. So just by this, I see Talia as a woman who was raised with completely different norms, rules, and depiction of love.

So if she was to take how she was raised a role model (and she has no other role model in my honest opinion, since she’s surrounded mostly by Ra’s group, power hungry men, ninjas, etc. etc. ) for love and a proper childhood, then we can assume that she thought (perhaps to us, wrongfully, but we must think of it in her perspective) it would be proper to raise Damian in the same way. He too, was raised and born in a world that was dog versus dog but he was born in a position where he was already alpha in status and name. It makes sense, at least to me.

Now I don’t think she sees Damian as just a tool. She loves him in his own way. She calls him “habibi”, which is a very sacred nickname. She calls him her son and asks for his opinion. Most importantly, even if it is seen as wrong in the light of “justice” or by Batman, she prepares him to be a king in his own right of both worlds (the al Ghul world and that of Batman’s). She wanted the best for him. If he asked, she would have given him the world for his birthday. That, right there, to me signifies that she loves Damian so much. That and the fact that she asked him who he would prefer to go with. His mother or his father. Yes, something a parent should never ask, but yet we see this in divorce cases at times.

And I’m just going to add more cents in for some of the things that caught my eye when it came to Talia being a bad mother. Just because I might as well, you know?

Cloning Damian. We don’t really know what exactly made her want to clone him in the first place. Yes, the comics say it’s so she can have a son again. A proper one for a proper place in the world that she sees in her mind. Still, this shows love to me. She didn’t just pick another boy. She didn’t get another man to get another baby. She picked Damian and remade him. While it’s all musing and headcanons, I also thinking the cloning part could be part of the backstory when Damian had to get his spine surgery and so on. I mean, even before that, it’s possible that the cloning was there long before that moment in the comics where she tells Damian it’s “your new self”.

Damian was bound to get hurt in whichever world he picked. As an al Ghul, he was bound to be wounded. Perhaps enough to be in need of a new organ or two. Skin grafts. Things like that. What better than a clone of him to harvest such items? His body wouldn’t push away something that was technically originally from itself. In my head, (yes yes, headcanons god, I’m so sorry), Talia said he was an enemy to the house for two reasons. To protect herself and to protect him. To protect herself because she needs trust from her father and her contacts.

Can’t have that if she’s rumored to still love her son more than anything else and therefore, be part of some underground plan with Batman. To protect him because Bruce Wayne and co would never trust Damian if it turns out that he was still speaking to his mother and by default, connected to the al Ghul world. (I say this because in the comics, Bruce -despite loving Talia- rejected her because she was still connected to Ra’s even if she said she would give it up.) Now we have the bounty. To me, I almost see it as just an add on to the cloning headcanons/explanation thing. It’s support for her words and hey, Bruce sees the bounty on his son’s head. Puts everything in a more concrete level.

Ahem, this ended up like a giant headcanon thing rather than an explanation. But it’s really the headcanons that have put Talia in the “mother in life” section, so excuse me if it seems to lack facts. -shrugs-

I also would like to point out that not all parents are capable of showing love like many. Talia, who lives in a different world with different rules, are one of them. Even Howard Stark didn’t show Tony any “love” but we seen in the movies (oh hey, Iron Man 2!), that he does love his son. And technically, he showed his love by giving his son hints and …a special video. So yep.

I just don’t think love is a word that is easily defined or put into constraints or boundaries.

I’m sorry. I just have a lot of feels for Talia. OTL