#as an individual character in isolation i love her

As an individual character, I honestly enjoy what a mess Talia al Ghul is. She’s inconsistent about whether she’ll fight at Bruce’s side or stand by while her dad tries to kill him. She’ll take Bruce’s resurrected dead son in off the street, nurse him back to health, send him all around the world to get the best training possible, then finally see Jason again after a long time apart when he’s an adult and sleep with him. She’ll disobey Ra’s’ orders and rules to save Damian and Jason but whether she’ll do the same for herself or Bruce depends on the day.

What does age mean when you’re only a few decades old yet your father has multiple centuries of life? Possibly millennia? Does she consider Bruce and Jason to both be her own age? What does a generation mean to her?

She loves her son. She wants to get Damian out of the violent cult she was raised in. She can’t imagine a life truly without violence and wants Bruce to train their son as a warrior. She’ll clone her son and have the clone kill him. She’s seen her father die and come back through the Lazarus Pits countless times. She’s died and come back that way. She found her beloved’s dead son and healed him that way.

What is death to Talia al Ghul? What is murdering her son with another son but yet another training method? Another test?

Of course she saves her son from possession and carries him off the battlefield. Of course she kills him. Everyone who matters comes back for Talia. If they don’t come back, where they ever even real?