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Gotta go along with Nam on the one-nighter issue.

Anyway, Huntress's status in BoP doesn't really affect the Tales in anyway, but questions such as this may. As I've explained elsewhere, a character appears or not, at length or not, depending on if they have a spark. If there is something that makes them alive in my head in relation to the others. Helena really hasn't, on the whole.

However the respect issue (or lack thereof) may indeed give her some common ground with one of our cast who we will be seeing more of in the next installment. Not one in the inner circle, however. H pretty much slit her throat there with the 'Wing affair.

1. Dick and Barbara are married now, and Helena is one of the things they've mutually agreed 'never happened' - water under the bridge, we don't speak about it because we never think about it. That is simple as long as she's not around. But if she is part of the team, her presence becomes a regular and awkward reminder of what 'never happened' All of a sudden they aren't not speaking about it because they never think about it, but instead, they're not talking about it because they ARE thinking about it.

2. Dick is a pretty smart kid, and I'm sure he's realized by now that the big attraction for H was that he was a way inside the bat-family.
Not to mention, having dealt with his own Bruce-acceptance issues over which they bonded at that time, he would shun any reminder of a part of himself he's grown beyond that way.

3. If #2, Helena's motivation in the affair, hasn't occured to him, it has certainly occured to Bruce. If B wouldn't accept her when she was simply a Loose Cannon, imagine how his objections are magnified now that she is a Loose Cannon who tried to use his boy. Plus - estrogen solidarity being what it is between Selina & Barbara - shudder - you just don't want to go there unless there is a half million in somebody else's jewels to be recovered.

Stay tuned.