Nyssa was Ra's first daughter. Like him, she's older than she seems courtesy the prolonged use of a Lazarus Pit.
[Bruce takes his jacket off, slowly, and hangs it in the hallway closet. He misses Alfred so intensely in that moment that he can barely stand it. Something about this older body is making emotion all the more poignant.]
They disagreed on a particular matter - her allowing him access to her body or those of his children as future hosts - and Ra's left her to rot in a Concentration Camp at the height of Nazi Regime. She was tortured, experimented on, and when the Camp was liberated she swore revenge against Ra's. As far as I've been able to ascertain, the rest of her family died there.
[He moves - slowly, but with no overt hints of pain - to the kitchen table and sits down. Standing is taking its toll on him, as much as he'd never admit it.]
She exacted that revenge by turning Talia against him. This involved systematic torture, execution and revival in a Pit. Nyssa had Talia for months, Damian. And your mother was never the same afterwards. Whatever, whoever she's become, she wasn't always that way.
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[Bruce takes his jacket off, slowly, and hangs it in the hallway closet. He misses Alfred so intensely in that moment that he can barely stand it. Something about this older body is making emotion all the more poignant.]
They disagreed on a particular matter - her allowing him access to her body or those of his children as future hosts - and Ra's left her to rot in a Concentration Camp at the height of Nazi Regime. She was tortured, experimented on, and when the Camp was liberated she swore revenge against Ra's. As far as I've been able to ascertain, the rest of her family died there.
[He moves - slowly, but with no overt hints of pain - to the kitchen table and sits down. Standing is taking its toll on him, as much as he'd never admit it.]
She exacted that revenge by turning Talia against him. This involved systematic torture, execution and revival in a Pit. Nyssa had Talia for months, Damian. And your mother was never the same afterwards. Whatever, whoever she's become, she wasn't always that way.