It would be hard on Clint, Steve's compassion, but not in the same caustic bite as pity.
I thought his mother is killed when he's older, though yes Hulk comes into being when they are toddlers. Probably the only thing that kept his fawn response from getting him dead.
If he was old enough once the trials were over he might have rattled about and gotten finagled off to a boarding school because the judge knew someone that owed him a favor to deal with this unwashed genius. Bruce is right where someone might be willing to stand upwind and defend him as their goose, enough to get short attention-span bullies to move along. Even at twelve Bruce would have been closer to grown, than Tony at sixteen.
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Trigger warnings: Bruce Banner backstory
Date: 2014-03-30 11:56 am (UTC)I thought his mother is killed when he's older, though yes Hulk comes into being when they are toddlers. Probably the only thing that kept his fawn response from getting him dead.
If he was old enough once the trials were over he might have rattled about and gotten finagled off to a boarding school because the judge knew someone that owed him a favor to deal with this unwashed genius. Bruce is right where someone might be willing to stand upwind and defend him as their goose, enough to get short attention-span bullies to move along. Even at twelve Bruce would have been closer to grown, than Tony at sixteen.