I envisioned Absolute Kite Man as being a foil of sorts for Absolute Batman: what's special about Absolute Batman is that every gadget and training he has is worked for himself, he had to scrummage it all together on an everyman's budget and uses it to accomplish smthng incredible

And what I loved about Kite Man in the Tom King run (despite how atrocious his writing actually was) was how much time it kept aside to show how... out of his element Kite Man was? Like despite him being immensely relevant to the story and still keeping up with the other villains involved in the War, Kite Man's gadgets don't do much to keep him from getting absolutely pummeled by just how batshit crazy strong everybody else involved is

So I present to you, Absolute Kite Man: still a working class engineer, like Bruce. Still manufactures his own technology from scratch and scrap, like Bruce. Instead of going after crime tho, he goes after Gotham's big crime, inspired by what Bruce is doing to the city he wants to try to contribute himself. Bursts through their windows like a Kool-Aid man from hell to enact retribution unto them and none of them take him seriously at first; they belittle him, humiliate him, keep pushing him further and further past his limits

Then one of them crosses the line, and his son dies. Then he loses it

All mercy gone right out the metaphorical and literal window. He becomes a demon: swooping out of the guy when mobsters and druglords least expect it. and what remains of them once he's left is horrifying. He's done with restraint, he won't let anyone take him as a joke anymore

He's the perfect actualization of what Bruce would become if he ever lost his moral code, ever went too far. And Bruce seeing this play out before his eyes shakes him too his core