This is another one of those rare times I post marvel stuff
Ok so I had this thought that in the ending scene where Tom's Peter put a rose on May's grave he also saw two other graves.
One said Benjamin Parker and the other said Gwen Stacy and I thought that would be rlly cool but anyways
(This happened. This is canon.)
Bruce: Do your homework.
12 Year Old Jason: 'Kay.
Bruce: and get some rest. You did well.
12 Year Old Jason: Okay. Goodnight dad.
Bruce: Goodni-... What did you say?
12 Year Old Jason: ... I didn't say anything. It was a mess up. I-It won't happen again, don't make a big deal out of it.
Bruce: Hm. Okay... Goodnight... Son.
12 Year Old Jason: ... You know what. Thought I liked it. It's weird.
Bruce: That's okay. Whatever you're comfortable with, and if you change your mind, that's okay too.
12 Year Old Jason: Thanks Bruce... You're better than a dad. Goodnight.
this one time when all his kids finally let him have some peace and he’s still not sleeping himself
Bruce is insecure about his position in his family.
The seed was planted from the beginning, when he first met Dick and was turned down as a father.
At that time, he himself didn't think it was a big deal. Dick is a traumatized kid who has yet to know him. But as the time passed, it became something Bruce would lie awake thinking about. Should he ask again? Would Dick be mad if he did?
And then Dick leaves.
That cements it in Bruce's heart. He isn't Dick's father, and his relationship with Dick is dependent on they being Batman and Robin.
Because he was not a good enough Batman, he lost Robin, and with Robin, Dick too is gone.
Next, Jason. Bruce has a new son, one that is legally his. This time I will do everything right, he swore. Then Jason is gone.
When Jason returns, he refuses to return to Bruce because he was such a failure as Batman.
Tim came to Bruce because of Batman. Tim wants Batman and never Bruce.
Even when Tim's parents are being awful. Even when Tim needs a parent, Bruce will never be a choice Tim considers. That much was clear.
Tim admired Batman but never wanted anything to do with Bruce.
Cassandra is his daughter. She even seems to like being his daughter. But with how low the bar for her father's position is, he can't help thinking about how she would want to leave him too when she knows better.
At least there is no way she can find a better Batman, even if she finds a better father.
Damian is his biological son. Damian is proud of that fact. He feels like he should be more secure in his position as Damian's father, but he just can't. Dick is a better father to Damian than he is. He can see it. Everyone can see it. Day after day, he feels like he's losing Damain's respect little by little, each time he can't understand him or be at ease with him like Dick. To make it worse, Damian's Batman is Dick before Bruce. Damian sees Batman as something great, and Bruce is Batman, but he is still not Damian's Batman.
He doesn't know what he would do if one day Damian looked at his version of Batman and found it lacking.
Batman needed to be perfect or he would lose his family.
(If he ever told his children about this, they would scream for hours about how false it was. For years, they have seen Bruce as their father. For years, they desperately wanted Bruce to be a father before Batman. But Bruce doesn't know.)
Hi, Lee! Your AUs have given me many brainworms so I thought I'll share my brainworms in retaliation XD
No capes actor AU
Bruce inherited his love for theater and acting from Alfred. He's usually shy, awkward and a nervous wreck (think Battinson) but once he's behind a camera, he plays his role flawlessly. He can be the confident and gentle prince charming, the suave and flirtatious rogue or the cruel and sadistic monster. It doesn't matter, as long as the camera is rolling, Bruce Wayne is in character.
An important thing to note is that Bruce Wayne is unbelievably attractive. So, you have an attractive actor playing all these hot characters, what do you do? Create thirst traps obviously!
The kids suffer for it. Bruce keeps winning 'The Hottest Man Alive' and they can't even read reviews of movies their dad is acting in because all the comments are about how sexy he is. They're scrolling through twitter and suddenly someone tweets about the veins on Bruce Wayne's arms.
STOP! Their dad is lovable, innocent and sweet. Stop corrupting him with your lust!
Bruce stopped accepting romance roles because his kids begged him to (in an attempt to stop the thirst) but it got worst! They tell him to mention them in every one of his rare interviews (he's very shy so he doesn't do much interviews) to signal that he's a dad and very unavailable and the internet loves a DILF so you can guess what happened. They can't win. No matter what they do, people keep thirsting over their dad.
The kids are suffering and Bruce? Mr 'please don't perceive me' Wayne? He straight up blocked every mention of himself on the internet so he sees none of it. He told the kids to do the same but they wanted to read about how much people love their dad (they're very proud of him) so they endure the daily psychic damage and simply suffer.
I???? THIS IS A MASTERPIECE NEVER A MISTAKE. PERIOD EXCLAMATION MARK YAS MAMA SLAY THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN
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If I may add
BECAUSE he's a highly requested actor who's almost always in the headlines, Bruce can't see his babies as much as he wants to, so all those mother henning instincts can't be bottled up.
Bruce earns himself the reputation of being the Mom Friend to his co-stars.
There's a viral video somewhere of him doing Harley's make up for her because she claims only he can do it right, and a video of him feeding Selina yoghurt, and tying Harvey's shoelaces between takes if they film a project together
Personally, a huge fan of the " actors who play assholes but are in fact the biggest sweethearts " breed, so I'm gonna need the villains being cute as fuck behind the scenes.
If they're doing an intense fight scene, Bane apologizes to Bruce continuesly because the guy insists on doing his own stunts. Bruce always giggles between being patched up and pats his arm
Damian refuses to be left at home, and there's absolutely a viral video of tiny damian wayne jumping to kick and punch at Clark's leg (who plays Gray Ghost's rival in the movie) when he " attacks" Bruce and it made everyone's day
Selina accidentally injures Bruce the MOST and there's compilations of her accidentally kicking him straight in the jaw, or punching him, or dropping stuff on him, and looking impossibly guilty about it. " I'm sorry - I'm so sorry baby" and Bruce of course always is like " It's okay :D"
Bruce's trailer is everyone's hang out spot. He does instagram lives where he talks about theory and lore and technicalities, and there's just someone or someones always there!!
Diana practising sword fighting, Harley doing tik tok dances, Pam watering the flowers he gets everywhere they go in full Mother Nightmare get up, and they're just there to see him blush and mumble at the thirsty comments
Also the batkids are jealous of every single on screen child Bruce films with, because he's so affectionate and loving with them. Jason's twitter is just him dunking on every single child co-star and he's not at all sorry about it
Bruce: *stumbles*
Bruce: it's all Hal's fault
jason wants what hal has (to be the cause behind every major & minor inconvenience in bruce's life)
reblog to beat the joker to death
Police: Mr. Wayne sir, your child has been kidnapped.
Bruce: Which one?
Police: the kidnapper didn’t say. But witnesses claimed to see someone with black hair and lightish eyes. The kidnapper left a note threatening to orphan them for the second time.
Bruce:
bruce didn’t actually care if clark got to eat, he just chose violence for the sake of it
My biggest beef with the Joker is that he isn’t fucking funny.
He’s a level 2 jester performing for a level 10 king. His jokes are basic. There’s no rhythm to his punchlines. His slapstick is poorly timed. He has absolutely no sense of comedic rhythm and it destroys his whole aesthetic. His comedy relies on prior knowledge of his awful unfunny crimes and therefore doesn’t land 99% of the time. He doesn’t understand that fine line between mean and funny. He over-explains his jokes.
Overall, just a cringe wannabe clown who needs to brush his teeth.