#. / vis bruce wayne

[violent138]

Bruce usually has to translate Clark's official and self-invented journalist shorthand when it crops up in their mission reports.

Clark often doesn't realize he'd done it, and it's not a bother for Bruce to find the shorthand in the otherwise well-written reports. If he ever leaves it in though, inevitably someone comes looking to get him to interpret it.

[ofc-vi-writes-too]

so all ive been able to think about is gotham for the past several days, and more specifically how gothamite culture has to be SO drastically different and jarring to literally anywhere else in the world. Like even other super cities like metropolis, or central city, or wherever else are at least KINDA normal. Like yea u have superman or wonderwoman or the flash but they dont really have to deal with the same level of bs as Gotham.

That being said here are a list of things that I think are extremely normal to Gotham, and other things that happen in thay horrible little city:

• the episode of Hot Ones with Brucie Wayne where no one thinks he’ll even be able to stand the 2nd or 3rd wing but he eats all of them with no reaction, and Sean Evans (or the in universe equivalent) just sits there like “wow no one has ever had literally no reaction before this is really crazy, and Bruce Wayne of all people?” Afterwards Bruce has second thoughts and realizes that maybe he should have played up his reaction to the spice a bit more. People Inside of Gotham are a little shocked because everytime he eats in public it is the most boring, bland, flavorless food imaginable. (he handled the spice so well because Batman is ready for all potential threats and forms of torture. Ridiculous levels of spice included)

• Gotham schools offer courses in self defense. In some school districts its actually mandatory, thats usually in old gotham or downtown gotham. In more affluent areas, self defense is still taught in schools, but most kids are sent to some ritzy trainer to make sure they can defend themselves.

• No one even blinks when theres a new vigilante by the time Damian comes around. Theres still a little buzz but by the time Duke shows up, people are like “Oh cool another one. HEY BRO WHATS YOUR NAME.” I saw someone post here about how when the Wayne kids get mad at Bruce, they go to Selina and make public appearances as Stray, Catwomans sidekick. I personally believe that Tim was the first one to do it but Dick does it the most, and gothamites didnt even need to get used to Stray showing up sometimes, nor did people really care that Stray was always wildly different heights, shapes, colors, etc. the additude is kinda like “I have taxes and job security to worry about. If a new vigilante is what were doing then so be it.”

• People tend to think that Gothamites aren’t smart, but that city is home to the Richest, smartest, most creative people alive. They mostly just lack morals. Like Dr. Freeze, Harley Quinn, hell even The Riddler are all insanely intelligent. Half of Gothams Villains have at minimum 2 Doctorates in something or other. Gotham generates a lot of cash as a whole, and small businesses thrive there. They have high employment rates, and most citizens have their associates despite everything happening around them. People who have never been to Gotham before expect to have to talk down to the citizens but Gothamites just kinda roll their eyes at them and carry on about their merriment.

• Gothamites CONSTANTLY says “because I’m Batman” when they don’t want to explain themselves. Kids hear it a lot from parents and they also get “If you don’t go to sleep, Condiment Man i gonna come and cover you in stinky relish.” Because truly what else is condiment man good for.

• Gothamites who work at BatBurger and typically work the night shift are used to visits from Batman, Robin, Red Hood, Cat Woman, Harley Quinn, etc. Sometimes they remember the workers and ask about their family, and how life is, and other things like that. Theres some barely 18 y/o who just graduated high school who worls at Bat Burger, and asked Red Hood to help him impress his gf by saying theyre friends. He like fuck it why not and tells the gf that the kid helped him save an old lady’s cat in a tree and now theyre bffs. She totally believes it. Score.

• I see the Gotham thinks Batman is Bruce Wayne’s boyfriend theories and raise you: Its pretty common knowledge that Bruce Wayne is Batman, just no one has the heart to tell him. Also theyre scared he will quit if anyone brings it up. So from this Gothamites created the joke that BW and batman are dating and when asked about it in an interview, dick grayson is like “……yes! My adoptive father is dating the guy who dressed up like a bat every night…!”

• this cuased and arguement between Bruce and Dick because no! Bruce isnt dating Batman! (stray was seen again that week) HE IS BATMAN! But fuck now the public thinks theyre a couple so now bruce gets asked about it and hes like “haha yes my spooky bat bf is who i love very dearly!” As punishment He makes Dick bring him flowers in the batsuit because “as far as he is concerned, this is his shithead son’s fault.” Thats a direct quote btw. Little does he know this somehow ties back to Tim Drake before they met.

[purple-crusader]

WAAAAAIT

I know what else Vi's pit fighter look from the trailer reminds me of 👀👀

[leoleolovesdc]

Everytime Tim fucks up he will point out something worse about the other Robins:

Bruce: You did what?!

Tim [muttering]: Went off against the Ivy on my own…

Bruce: Tim, you have a broken arm, two broken ribs, got poisoned and barely made it to the cave in time to get an antidote! You should have listened to me!

Tim: Well, at least I didn’t start a gang war just to prove my self worth like Stephanie…

Dick: Tim, you can’t punch a nine year old. I know he’s annoying and you’re hurting, but-

Tim: At least I didn’t beat him to bloody pulp and miserably failed when trying to destroy all of his accomplishments and sense of security in life, may I remind you, just because I was mad at my father.

Cass: You were being too violent. Get a hold of yourself, Tim.

Tim: Since the topic is violence, should I talk about that time Carrie a stuffed stick of dynamite in a woman’s pants? Oh, or maybe when Damian cut off a guy’s head and put a grenade inside his mouth!

Damian: You’re not good enough for the mantle of Robin, Drake. You’re the worst in between all of us. This is my destiny, you were just a place holder until father found someone better.

Tim: Sure, because I certainly am way worse than the two idiots that managed to get themselves killed wearing this costume.

Duke: Dude, I’m just saying that I don’t think that’s safe, alright?

Tim: Oh, because “Mister-I-constantly-jump-out-of-bridges-and-moving-cars" certainly is very qualified to give advice on safety of all things!

(He refuses to do this with Dick’s Robin, because in his head Richard Grayson is perfect)

[adultemophase]

pls tell me i’m not the only person who saw this picture come out and immediately thought of the 2022 batman movie bc i’ve seen no one say it and i NEED validation

[babygirl-but-a-boy]

Your first parent, a lesson in wanting and being wanted. You were never quite what they wanted you to be. You'll spend the rest of your life proving you are worth being loved.

The second is a lesson in expectations. This one was supposed to be better, they were supposed to be worse. Did they make you feel wanted? Does loving them feel like betraying the first?

...and the third, the older sibling filling a role. Sibling-to-sibling, a closed system. How tragic neither one will get what they want.

There is never enough time.

[sh4-rkz]

Do you ever have a character that’s you can tell if you wanna be them, wanna be friends with them, wanna be their sibling/child or wanna fuck them?

[damian-lil-babybat]

So what do DC fans do when they are six-feet down frustrated with DC's decisions..they make fix-it headcanons and fanarts! (Only Wayne Family Adventures can save us, apparently...huhuhu, I was so hopeful for DC Dawn but it has to happen)

Sooooo, here's a suggestion, one major problem of DC is the Robin Mantle.

We have Tim Drake, who with the ambiguous ending of his Robin run '(2022) Tim Drake: Robin', he said he doesn't want to be Batman, nor Robin?? So is this a call out of his possible new path? But come on, he is still very active in Batman donning his Robin Suit, so maybe it's just the usual 'finding your own path' narrative of a Robin while still doing the status quo.

Aand Damian Wayne has just finished his Lazarus Tournament Arc phase on the '(2021) Robin' series, and has made up with Batman (in Lazarus Planet Event), and has rightfullly refused the offer of both his mother and father to follow their footsteps.

So now having known what we know...it is simple. DC should just hammered in the difference of the two, coz they are very very different strengths and flaws NOW. (It has always been, but their skillsets were practically interchangeable, with Tim having the edge of experience, wholistically-trained with a cool head but is insecure, and Dami having talent for the job but is overconfident and has a temper and trust issues).

But now, Dami has been hinted heavily to have 'magic' in his blood. This should be a big deal.

I mean, what is stopping DC in making Damian the Robin who focuses on the magical and voodoo cases of Gotham?

It would not only let the two Robins continue to operate with Batman, it would make them have separate jurisdiction on Batman's case files, with Tim helping Batman on his usual detective work, and Damian learning more of his powers, building immunity (coz how many times has been that he was used by demons, devils, and dark forces of the multiverses, like srsl? Batman, this is a literal threat to everyone and this is not even a discussion in your training book?). Also different specialization makes it easier for the two to find and ground themselves again. Like, it has been high-time to have one resident-batfam who focuses mainly on THAT, aside from Azrael. And with Azrael being the Angel of Death, and Dami being the grandson of the Demon Head, the tandem and potential is there?? Hopefully, it is still Michael Lane, coz having an underground trained-to-be-Batman's-replacement who eventually got insance and became Bat-Devil only to convert into a lliteral incarnation of an Angel....the parallel>>>to DAMI? So good. The resurrection and salvation bit for the two would be so nice to put in comics.

Hecck, Dami training under Constantine and Zatanna woould be sick.

And it doesn't have to make Damian more OP with magic on his arsenal. It could simply just his magical powers are limited to immunity from the dark arts (coz he trained the fuck out of it, *intro, training montage). So he is still a badass mini-Batman but just highly trained against the supernatural. (IF this happened, please don't let this be his whole personality coz it'll boxed Dami in a one-trick pony, that's why it should be just immunity/dispell skills...or a one-off channeling of his superpowers when he resurrected before...the possibilities are nice to play with. Just give him a flaw...like he can study on academic levels the magics but he cannot sense them the way a magically-gifted person could).

And this is only until Tim Drake finds his own superhero-persona. Coz 'til now, there's no organic way for Tim to move forward to.

So we have the colorful Robin, and the monochromed Robin. I say, let's return Red Robin to Tim, and make Damian the White Robin...

...or Dark Robin, or Bat Robin...but they all sound like the DC Metalverse Robin Versions, so I still lean in to 'White Robin' coz they are rare and is good call-out when he got resurrected and was in all white clothes.

Also when Damian first appeared, he was in a black and white overall which could easilly be interpreted how he is blanced on the weighing scale on good and bad. Now, he is good, just that, he does not let his father, or anyone at that matter, dictate the colors he would wear...he is still figuring it out, after all.

[arkhameirs]

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[daedalusdavinci]

30 with SuperBats?

30. things I wish you’d said

oh i went somewhere with this one. tw for child death

“You could have told me.” Clark’s arms were folded over his chest, the set of his shoulders that Superman immovable. Framed against the Gotham skyline, bright and perfect and everything Bruce wasn’t, it felt hard to believe that Clark couldn’t see why Bruce hadn’t told him.

Bruce’s shoulders hunched around his ears, curling further into his crouch as he peered over the edge of the roof. He didn’t want to come off as emotional. He knew that was how Clark saw him anyway. “It’s over, now.”

“But it still matters. Bruce.” Clark unfolded his arms, and bent, folding into something smaller as he crouched at Bruce’s level. The stubbornness peeled back to show the concern that was really underneath, the furrow of his brows and the downturn of his lips. His eyes could look so soft, so blue, like a lake on a clear day. There was enough love built into that concern to drown Bruce, and somehow that made it all worse, knowing he was pressing the point because he cared. “Did you not think I’d come? That I’d care? It was your son’s funeral, Bruce.”

It felt hard to breathe, like the concern was suffocating him, pushing him toward the edge of the roof. He couldn’t deal with this. He couldn’t talk about it. Not with Clark. Not right now. He wanted to pull away, to move further from those blue, blue eyes until everything just faded. But he couldn’t let Clark believe that he didn’t know he cared. He fastened his eyes on a couple far below, making their way home in the dark, and forced the words out of his chest. “I know. I know you would have.”

“Then why didn’t you ask me?” Clark’s hand was like a furnace on Bruce’s forearm, the touch familiar and pleading and comforting like a knife against his back and the crack of a fist across his cheek. “You have people who would be there for you. You don’t have to go through this alone.” The again went unspoken. Bruce didn’t know how to say he hadn’t been alone then, either. It felt simultaneously important and irrelevant.

Bruce shut his eyes and forced himself to take a slow breath. The fragile feeling in his chest ebbed, just a little, and his face felt a little less hot. “I needed to do it on my own.”

“Don’t punish yourself like this. Bruce-”

“Kal,” Bruce interrupted, sharp and brittle. Something sharp hovered in his chest, keeping him from inhaling all the way for fear of what he might exhale. The heat of Clark’s shoulder just an inch away from his own was like an axe swinging into his last support, and he knew that if he leaned into it, he wouldn’t be able to keep holding himself up much longer. His voice came out halting and strained, not quite steady, but thankfully not shaky, either. “I didn’t invite you because... if you were there...”

Unbidden, he could see the gray skies that had hovered over the funeral in his mind. He saw Alfred desperately avoiding his gaze, nose turned to the sky so that he might keep the tears from falling. He saw Jason’s tiny coffin, too small to be lowered into the ground so soon, and he knew that if even one person had been there to try and comfort him, if one person had allowed him to acknowledge his feelings, he never would’ve been able to get it into the ground.

His mouth opened and closed silently, the words refusing to come.

Clark’s shoulder pressed into his own, his hand carefully pulling Bruce’s away from the concrete, fingers slipping between Bruce’s own.

Bruce exhaled like he’d been hit. His eyes burned and his vision swam, and suddenly, it felt hard to stay upright. When he started to lean, Clark was already moving, a leg swinging over the edge of the roof and another folding behind Bruce’s back as he sat down, arms open to take the weight.

He was so warm. His embrace was like nothing else Bruce had ever known, sturdy and safe in a way that just made it so easy to trust him, to relax, to feel everything Bruce had been trying not to feel at all. His lips pressed against Bruce’s shoulder, his arms crossing over Bruce’s stomach like he could keep him secure no matter how far he fell.

Bruce tugged his cowl and gloves off irritably, slumping back into Clark and swiping at his eyes. “This is why. This is why, you goddamn-”

“Oh, Bruce.” Clark’s voice was so soft, but Bruce was thankful for the teasing edge to it, thankful he didn’t sound pitying. His lips were warm against Bruce’s jaw. “Only you would try not to cry at a funeral.”

“Shut up.” Bruce hated the way his voice cracked, and the petulance in his tone. He hated how easy it was to twist into Clark, to press his forehead against Clark’s temple and just trust him.

“It’s okay to feel things. Especially right now. You’re allowed to need support. You’re allowed to be weak. You’re allowed to be a mess at your son’s funeral all over a reporter you barely know.” At Bruce’s light touch, Clark’s fingers found his own, twisting into his. The squeeze he gave him was so gentle and affectionate, it felt right. It felt like safety. “You should have asked, Bruce.”

[irisatakoyuncu]

[violent138]

I think Clark’s just goofy enough and grounded enough that he just goes with the craziest stuff sometimes. So when Bruce, him and a new, slightly obsequious JL member go out on a stakeout and Bruce orders Clark to be ditzy and stupid, Clark agrees without a second thought, even if the new recruit thinks Superman deserves a more distinguished disguise. Clark engages in the most batshit crazy stuff and the new member is aghast like we have statues of these people?! while Bruce is remembering all the reasons he loves his lying asshole alien who just squirted hot sauce into the eyes of the man trying to grope Brucie Wayne.

[ofc-vi-writes-too]

Batfam members and what they’d get cancelled for/their apology

Just watched ItalianBach’s youtuber apology tier list video and inspiration STRUCK.

𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹𖦹

Bruce: there are SOOOOOO many things. So so so many things. He has been cancelled so many times that there is a blog dedicated to keeping track of BW apologies. the user is probs something like bruceissosorryagain. Personal favorite was when he ruined a pretty popular and well liked socialite by knocking over a champagne tower directly onto her great grandmother’s wedding gown. For some god foresaken reason the champagne had been dyed red to match the victorian vampire aesthetic of the wedding?? The hashtag “BWmeetscarrie” will forever haunt wayne manor.

Dick: He was literally a cop in 2020. his goose was GOT. He was trying to prove that not all cops are bad by posting to that macklemore song with the little black fist painted on his cheek and BLM on the other. u know the one. It didn’t go over very well. Even macklemore commented “c’mon bro..” This was followed by a 45 minute long apology video explaining how he now understands the harm it can cause to lump all marginalized groups into one category and how he regrets his action severely and yada yada yada hes so sorry, at the end there was a 2 minute long acrobatic performance to the song Nina Cried Power by Hozier. He also donated to several black charities following the whole ordeal. Didn’t leave his house for a week.

Jason: Ran a rage bait account on tiktok when he was like 13-15 where he posted cringe alpha sigma male mogging content, and someone somehow found out it was him, and his apology wasn’t so much an apology as much as it was “I’m sorry you were stupid enough to believe the bs I was posting, and I’m sorry i got caught. Fuck you guys btw now I have to find a new hobby 👎🏽.” The videos are still saved to his phone when he needs a good chuckle.

Tim: Said BTS was ass and BP was even worse (he tweeted it out of boredom, knowing it was gonna be bad, but not knowing exactly how bad). Armies and blinks tried to dox him MUTIPLE times but tim keeps it on lock so his info was safe. There was a boycott for WE so Bruce made him post and official apology. It was half assed and there are kpop accounts to this day that say “Fuck tim drake” in their bio. Either that or he got “cancelled” on some Jynxzi stuff. Like the whole situation to a T. Maybe both are true. He also had a ukelele in his apology vid.

Damian: called an old lady a “stupid ugly stinky bitch” on national television because she “asked father too many questions.” (it was an interview) Jaws were dropped. Nay, jaws were dislocated. Damian was too young at the time to have social media, let alone post his own apology, so bruce did it for him and sent that poor old lady a lot of cash.

Duke: Unironically said “if it’s snowing I’m not going.” the dudebros thought that shit was hilarious. No one else laughed. Duke was serious, but he felt so bad about offending people that there were tears in the apology. At least thats the story he’s currently running with.

Cass: A video of her saying the F slur surfaced. Her apology was her coming out.

Steph: Said something offensive without realizing it and didnt know what she did until she tweeted saying “why is everyone being so wierd around me?? did I do something wrong??” everyones response is either “girl please bffr” or genuine actually helpful input. She apologized less than a day later in a quick and concise apology vid.

Barbara: compared herself to marsha P johnson in an interview and when she was asked to elaborate she simply could not. The truth is, she had no idea who that woman was other than the fact that she was a good, cool woman so she was like yea omg im so her. Her apology was also a mini documentary about Marsha P Johnsons life.

[fifiophobia]

Who’s the finest duo?

[bombusbombus]

So much free real estate in earth 19.... Here's Clark "literally raised by cowboys" Kent.

(referenced from real pic of Dmytro Khaladzhi)

[batfall-a]

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