Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24099946-20131201223438/@comment-220364-20131202014308

Which is back to the "Been there, done that" situation. The only difference would be that under the OP's premise, DC bites the bullet and Bruce is dead for reals. (Don't hold your breath for that one...)

If the writers turn to Jason as the next Batman (or Damian without a hell of a lot of character development for my money) there are three routes:
 * 1) Shelve the character as unworkable,
 * 2) An arc culminating in Dick taking the mantle away from him, or
 * 3) Massive character derailment for Jason.