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[lord-misrule]

I like to imagine that the batkids aren’t actually horrified by seeing Bruce flirt, but they’re going to be dramatic anyway just to give their dad a hard time.

Dick and Steph mime throwing up. Jason tells Bruce that there are children present, how could he do this to those small innocent minds? One time Bruce flirts at a public event and Cass fake passes out onto Dick. Tim pretends to be scandalized every time he sees it, berating Bruce about the importance of public image (but only when in public). Bruce knows that they are just teasing him, and is more Tired Dad™ about it than anything.

The only one who’s actually serious is Damian, who isn’t traumatized or anything by seeing his dad flirt, but is deeply embarrassed that he has to be seen, in public, with a man who behaves like this, in public. And his classmates know that they’re biologically related. It’s terrible for his reputation of being a scary loner at school, and he begs Bruce to stop embarrassing him in public.

Bruce, being a Dad™, starts flirting even more.

Any time I see a hc about how any of the other Bats would gag or otherwise be scandalized by any of Bruce's escapades I am hit full in the face with the incredibly vivid memory of the scene in Gotham Knights where they're all sitting on a couch placidly watching a news clip of him doing a striptease on a giant penguin ice sculpture.

Afterwards Dick happily explains how this is a perfect cover because Bruce has done this so many times that no one would be able to corroborate whether he was actually there on this one specific night or not.

I really don't think the knowledge that he sends spicy texts or whatever is gonna shock these guys

[lord-misrule]

Jason is the type of person who says “no” while actively doing exactly what was asked of him because he thinks it’s amusing. I firmly believe this. I also firmly believe that he is autistic. These two things are related.

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