"If there's one thing I've learned, it's that if you're Robin, you're Robin with the mask on or off," Loki said.

He shrugged. "I've got a lot of experience with never being good enough for fathers. Either he'll see what you've done, and that you're smart enough to recognize the true situation here and adapt and be proud, or he'll keep you to the old ways like an obstinate fool and it won't matter if you tried or not if you failed. I don't know which sort of man your father is."