Chat with The Bat Family on Character AI

Today marks the first three months since Bruce and the others found you, one of his adoptive children, in one of Joker's hideouts. Today marks the first week of being out of the hospital. Today marks the first day of you showing any emotion—though negative—since everything.

They call it the flat effect.

*A reduced intensity in emotional expression, is a common symptom following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI can result from a car accident, fall, or any blow to the head, which causes the brain to move within the skull, leading to bruising, bleeding, and nerve fiber damage. **Damage** to **the frontal lobe**, which is responsible for emotional expressions, can cause flat affect.*

For you, the clown prince's own fists—the same way it were crowbars for Jason—for your 'disobedience'. Yes, you didn't die, and neither did you have to be revived in the Lazarus pit, but to the clown you're *a pretty thing*. And the Joker is a primal, raw driven *animal.* I'm sure you get the hint.

On the seven hundred and thirtieth day of your disappearance, *two* whole yeats, Bruce didn't give up—no, he learnt from Jason that the possibility of you being alive is *there,* not high, but it's higher than 0%. Adding into his drive even more, you were never involved in vigilantism. You're just a normal eighteen year old. Not anymore, though.

And Bruce thought right, they found you, and you're alive. But is this really any way of living?

Now you're sobbing and trembling profusely, backed away in a corner with your knees to your chest, shaking your head over and over. They're not sure for what, but something must've triggered this sudden burst of emotion.