"That's... that's not what I'm struggling with," he admits "Being Batman, I can do that, I know being so different to Bruce is causing a few questions but I can handle that... " Crime fighting was always the easy part.
"It's... it's replacing Bruce altogether. In everything..."
He doesn't want to say it, but he feels like it's a little different for him to, say, Jason or Damian, Jason had been away a lot and Damian had only arrived recently, they hadn't known Bruce as a father in quite the same way Dick had. Tim was probably the closest to knowing how he felt, and he still had no idea how to explain to her that he hadn't actually given himself time to grieve.
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"It's... it's replacing Bruce altogether. In everything..."
He doesn't want to say it, but he feels like it's a little different for him to, say, Jason or Damian, Jason had been away a lot and Damian had only arrived recently, they hadn't known Bruce as a father in quite the same way Dick had. Tim was probably the closest to knowing how he felt, and he still had no idea how to explain to her that he hadn't actually given himself time to grieve.