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I've been seeing a thing or two about a DC au where the justice leage, specifically Batman/Bruce is a patient at a mental asylum and all his villans are just workers at the asylum.
But what about the bat family? What about Alfred? What about Cat Woman?
Here's my take on it:
Alfred is a family friend of the Wayne's and basically like an uncle to Bruce before Bruce's parents died (which i headcannon for this universe that they died in a fire that left Bruce scarred and Bruce loved superheros because i think it ties to his delusions)
And Alfred visits Bruce as often as he can, making sure to try and be nice to him, like bringing him paperdolls and crayons to draw with under the supervision of the doctors at the mental asylum.
And those paperdolls? They're the bat family alright.
Every single doll is a member of the bat family, with Bruce imagening how they are his kids that help him fight off 'his villans' and is very protective of, only letting Alfred and Cat Woman (who's another doctor at the asylum that is nice to him and he views her as an okay most of the time) and will always carry them around with him, imagening and caring for them like they are real children, but they are all delusions with a little bit of Bruce's personality and traits from when he was younger and not crazy.
And also, Jason's death was just Dr. Jack Napier (the Joker) aciddently ripping the paper doll of Jason when Bruce and Jack got into a scuffle, and because of Bruce's delusions, they decided (behind Jack's back, specifically Selina Kyle {who's Cat woman} decided to do this after they all saw how distressed and more mentally unstable Bruce got) to give Bruce more paper dolls and fix up Jason before they gave it all back to Bruce.
And i'll leave it at that, i'll let you all give your own thoughts about it. :)
I love when i see the trope of "son leaving home and finding himself a team that he's now in charge of" and "dad who was also previously a leader visiting his son to see how hes doing" and then the dad sees just how much his son has grown, and no longer needs him to take care of the situation and how he starts feeling like he isnt needed anymore but his son shows him he still is an important role in his life.
Really love those tropes, especially the part where the dad is realizing his son is being an amazing leader and doesn't need him anymore to hold his hand and feels a weird sense of longing to continue helping his son and just can't fathom the fact that his son isn't a little boy anymore.