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>Alfred describes the aquarium as "now owned"
i'm aware.
on one hand, Camille owns the aquarium, wants to shut it down, wants to evict Grace, and threatens eviction via false safety inspection (performed by a lackey of hers literally named "Mr. Sleazak" who she has clearly worked extensively with before) to get a kid to commit arson at the aquarium.
...on the other hand, Alfted said "now" in an info dump.
keep in mind the place is repeatedly referred to as the "OLD Gotham Aquarium."
you could be right, but there's a LOT implicating Camille, and nothing directly implicating Grace's mismanagement (especially since Esther was still alive).
>to stop the aquarium from being burned down first
he steps out and gets lucky hearing the kid struggle with the lighter, which leads him to a "final" clue (discarded fraudulent safety inspection further implicating Camille), and in the very next page he and Orca are already at Camille's yacht.
in the narration he's just satisfied by "solving the puzzle" and weirdly excited by correctly "predicting" Orca's arrival; he doesn't once consider preventing it by intercepting her, and he arrives first.
>established superhero tries to get them to stop despite having no moral ground to stand on
this is exactly the hypocrisy, and that hypocrisy still fuels that image of the character was my point.
as far as "committing felonies" as a character indictment compared to "vigilantism", Batman is MUCH further afoul of the law than Orca by this point. Orca's PLAN is more peaceful than most of Bats' are; she's just too out of her depth (heh) to pull it off by herself or with homeless accomplices. Salman effectively got himself killed by instantly trying to walk from a reasonable deal instead of trying to negotiate, plus Tzsivik being stupidly trigger happy - that one's not really on Orca despite what Bruce says. odds are Salman also volunteered just like the second guy tried to.
everything else i pretty much agree with you on.
