#Constantine is probably horrified the first time he meets Batman because Gotham has So Many curses

[puppetmaster13u]

Batman Au idea

 Where Bruce becomes the literal spirit of Gotham. Maybe there used to be another spirit that passed it to him, maybe he was always the spirit, maybe he ascended to it as the Bat become near synonymous to the city itself.   He’s gotten injured so many times, in so many ways that should kill him, render him bedridden for weeks, yet it never keeps him down. Something entwined with his very being says he needs to be out on the streets, on the skyline, in the shadows of the alleys and hidden on the roofs of the buildings, that he can’t just lay there and do nothing. So he doesn’t.   He couldn’t deal with Jason’s death, it would break him. He couldn’t, so Jason couldn’t die, he wouldn’t. The Lazarus pits may have been used to heal him, but it wasn’t what brought him back.   The joker has died. Died many, many times, only to be brought back again and again and again. Because death would be too kind to him. Some part of Bruce whispers about how something far worse will happen if the Joker stays dead, because it will no longer be in his control on if they stay that way.   The only reason he appears human is because he still believes himself to be so.