And then there is Jason. Jason was most certainly my ego. From the moment I caught him furiously plying his 'skillz' on the Batmobile's hubcaps, I saw a chance to remake my personal mission. All these years prior I had been the hunter that captured the animals and let the system take their best shot at rehabilitating them. I helped keep Gotham safe, and the system theoretically provided much needed help and transformation for the 'misguided' that I sent them. Problem is I saw so few of these creeps and thugs and sociopaths repent of their ways and allow themselves to be transformed into decent citizens. The system has most assuredly failed! In Jason, I saw the chance to try my own hand at being 'the system'. When I recognized all those years ago that the police were hopelessly corrupt and inept, I stepped in and claimed Gotham as my own. I did the job that NEEDED to be done – and that was outside 'the criminal justice system'. It didn't take long to realize that the 'rehabilitation system' was a joke of ….well Joker-proportion! I could have busted Jason…sent him to juvie like any other punk, but I knew 'the system' would surely fail Jason as it seems to generally fail all who enter it. Maybe it was time for me to step in there too. I could make Jason better. I could give him a better future on a solid path with true direction. I was oddly excited by the thought of acting as a healer (in the vein of my own father) rather than as an avenger. Jason was my experiment as a rehabilitator. I loved Jason as much as my other 'sons', but my motives with him were different from the beginning. With Dick and Tim there has been tension because their own unique personalities were very different than my own. With Jason there was the intent to mold him into something very much like 'me'. Train him. Craft him into something different….something better. Ultimately, I succeeded in making him into something better…a MUCH improved, highly evolved version of the punk he originally was. I should've given him to Diana to train somehow. "Come back with your shield or ON it!" How can I not love such a philosophy!