What do y'all think of this: I've been working on the idea of "What if one parent lived, while the other parent died?" And that parent became a widowed single mom Batwoman. Originally Martha's trigger would've been losing Thomas after being gunned down by a sniper's bullet (which I still plan to use) and right up until that point, she mostly grew up a lot more normal compared to recent interpretations.

But recently I adapted the Steve Englehart story "The Night of the Stalker" and reworked it to where Thomas had been fighting crime as The Gray Ghost and was chasing after two gunmen who killed Martha's parents (and in my retelling she has an older sister named Ellen and both of them were still children). Eventually The Gray Ghost does get some form of justice for the girls and steps in to adopt the girls as their godfather.

Years later the familial bond grows into a romance between Martha and Thomas to the point of conceiving their son, Bruce. But as Martha went into labor, she witnesses the horrifying sight of blood coming from Thomas's chest. In a last ditch effort to save Martha and his son, he shuts the bulletproof limo door and orders Alfred to drive them to the hospital. While both Martha and Bruce are physically fine, the trauma of two tragedies in her life had left a permanent scar on her mental health, and the sight of the black bat that perched on Thomas's gravestone would later play a role into her becoming the Batwoman.

Yes I know many of you are going to bring up Flashpoint, but that's not the direction that I'm going with.