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In his defense, she was already dead, and they didn't really know each other that well prior to that. I imagine in his mind it's like when the cat's owner dies and it realizes it's not gonna get fed anytime soon. He'd do the same to anyone else, is what I'm saying.
There is an interesting commonality in there in that they both have ties to Gotham's homeless, Croc more for psychological pseudo-heroic reasons(if he cannot have a home, he will create one for others) and Orca's more surface-level(if feverish) altruistic ones.
While their interaction in Gotham City Monsters was...short, to say the least(that it's still superior to their INJUSTICE run speaks for itself), but you see hints of it—more or less respectful on her part, referring to him by name, if subtly presumptuous concerning living a lifetime as a freak show compared to only a few years in her case(if that—I don't remember the timeline on that).
As I said before, her stories usually involve her feeling all the things Croc has felt his whole life for the first time—insatiable hunger(played for laughs) in New Year's Evil, loss of humanity in the King Shark mini, learning who and who not to trust in this world in that whole Punchline mini lineup(as hard as she jobbed there)-she's very much desperate to find someone she can help and BE helped in the process, in a way reminiscent of a younger Croc himself, still has that bit of hope instead of the steady nihilism he has settled into. If she's destined to be an eternal jobber for the rest of her days she might as well learn how to do it and explore her main character flaw(her naivete) in the meanwhile.
You could easily create a series about her deciding to do oddjobs or apply her marine biology expertise and stolen cash to make life a little more livable for Croc's followers, just because they're people that she can still help. Low-stakes, high character potential, bat family likely wouldn't nub her too hard for it.
