One of two possible reasons I would say 1 . It would kill the pacing if they put the story on hold to have Gladion AndOr Lillie do a monologue about their dead father 2 . It ' s part of the allegory to the relationship between mother and child . I was talking about an allegory , not a literal reflection Though Gladion do that when he tells you about his father <| sep |> Every action has an equal and opposite reaction . <| sep |> The theory on another sub is that pilgray deleted her account but has reappeared with a new modname with full permissions on PR , thepolitcalrev . I am not sure if this rumor is accurate or not . Perhaps the mods here , in an effort at transparency , will let us know . <| sep |> Slade and Adeline had two sons together , Grant and Joey . However , Slade was an absentee father who spent most of his time abroad carrying on missions with Wintergreen as Deathstroke . In the times when he returned home , he was abusive , especially towards Grant , who ended up running away and getting himself killed . Some time later , Deathstroke ' s enemies kidnapped Joey and slashed his throat out of revenge . Upon learning about all of this , Adeline shot Slade in the back of the head , taking out his eye but failing to kill him . Slade also has a daughter named Rose , whom he fathered with a Hmong woman . When Joey was kidnapped , Slade was in Cambodia extracting Rose and her mother . Now flash forward to a year before present time . Wintergreen retired by faking his death . Slade , in a rather preposterous attempt to flush out his enemies and lure his daughter into spending time with him , puts out an open contract out on the dark web . Wintergreen was supposed to remove the contract , but was kidnapped after being sold out by one of Slade and Wintergreen ' s former colleagues . Now flash foward again to present time . Slade ' s working with Matthew Bland , a dictator of an African nation . Slade uses Bland ' s money to rig an election so that the US would not intervene with Bland ' s genocide . During this time , Slade gets word that Wintergreen ' s alive , and rescues him , while also obtaining a suit made by Dr . Ikon another former colleague , and ditching his old one . Slade also backstabs Bland by blackmailing the reelected politician into suicide , resulting in the US taking action in Bland ' s nation , resulting in a civil war . Bland finds Slade ' s old suit , and refurbishes it for his own use . Meanwhile , Rose is working as a bouncer and as a smalltime mercenary . She ' s also in a relationship with Richard , who is actually Luis , the son of a woman that Slade was sleeping with . It turns out that someone had approached Luis to arrange a hit on Rose . Joey aka Jericho is still alive and well , but mute . He communicates either through electronic devices or by possessing other people . He ' s engaged to his interpreter Etienne . It ' s later revealed that Joey had a secret affair with Dr . Ikon , who threatens to reveal it upon hearing about Joey ' s engagement . Joey kills Ikon , and takes his suit . Now , with the latest issue , it ' s revealed that Adeline was behind everything all along . She had Wintergreen kidnappped , approached Luis about the contract on Rose , and convinced Bland to hire Deathstroke in the first place . And it was all apparently done to lure Slade into joining HIVE , the organization that Adeline works for . TLDR Slade is a shitty father .