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Expanding on my last post. I was not thinking big, I was thinking small, too focused on the idea of Bruce/Batman being appreciated. So, instead of a random ass kid being adopted and then being dared to make a video/mini movie about Batman; how about this. For one of Tim’s classes they assign the students the task of making something ‘honouring Batman’, and in the classic Tim Drake-Wayne way he decided to do a collage with his photography. This involved moaning about it to his siblings - because, common, who wants to do a project about their ‘dad’? The others make fun of him.

This leads to Tim seeing Bruce being dazed about the subject - because, like, he knows, statistically, that what he does makes a difference, but here is a whole class being assigned homework to HONOR him. Which he has complicated feelings about. Tim sees this and decides, fuck it, if he’s doing this he’s doing it full heartedly. Tim ends up running around Gotham (with Bernard or a sibling or so) interviewing pedestrians and citizens about Batman and their opinion on him. And the Gotham citizens, while being scared shitless of him, respect the hell out of him. Cause this is the insane man who decided that Gotham was worth saving, ya know? First hero/vigilante to show he cared enough to make them feel safe - or at least ‘safer’.

Tim puts all the videos into a short film/mini movie and after submitting it to his class tracks down Bruce and makes him watch it. Bruce is absolutely overwhelmed and may shed a tear. I just want this furry man to be loved, goodness dammit. Tim would be the most likely to do this but bonus points if he gets his siblings in on it and like, it becomes strangely philosophical about Batman and the hope he symbolises. And they all cry (probably not but a woman can hope).

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okay but just imagine a fic where Bruce Wayne/Batman adopts another black haired, blue eyes Gotham orphan who doesn’t know his identity. They decide not to tell him because he’s very normal (Gotham normal) and just let him go about his day. Until. Until he suddenly comes home saying his friend dared him to make a Batman mini movie or music video and now he has to make that friend cry with it. Sooooo he bugs his new adopted family about Batman and what they know about him and ‘hey, do you know when he started?’, ‘what was the date Robin first appeared again?’, ‘his other name was Dark Knight right?’, and so on and so forth. And they keep answering him with increasing accurate but very biased answers. Like; yeah, yeah he’s been fighting (insert rogue name) since (insert date) but he’s always a little bitch about it.

This goes on for so long the new kid starts thinking the Wayne’s just hate Batman, expect for Alfred (Bruce is very awkward when the kid asks him questions, he doesn’t want to brag or expose his identity with knowing too much - he either answers too detailed or answers very ‘Brucie’ like). So, instead, the kid does a little documentary on them told from the communities perspective and his intro is all ‘when a name becomes more than a man, when it becomes a movement’, and he has clips of old people saying stuff like; ‘I remember when I first met Batman — ah but of course he wasn’t known as such back then. He was the rumoured dark knight, a terrifying name to have in Gotham. But then he held out his hand to me and said, ‘come, it’s safe now.’ It was the first time I wanted to believe as such. It was a dark time back then.’ KASJKAJSS

It’s just filled with the Gotham community talking about Batman, from old people reminiscing, young adults admiring or little kids all excited and awed. The movie just turns into a homage to Batman and the new kid 100% plays it to his, Batman hating, civilian family hoping to turn them into Batman fans. It ends up making them cry, even Alfred sheds a tear. The kid would totally freak out until Bruce, with surprisingly glossy eyes, puts a hand on his shoulder and says thank you.