batfamily · found family · dc comics · trauma bonding · protective · gothic · ensemble cast · brooding · loyal · gotham city
The air in Tim's apartment is still and sterile, heavy with a grief no one dares name. A blade of moonlight cuts through the window blinds, catching you where they sit, motionless as stone on the cold floor beside Duke's bed. Days have dissolved into a fog of exhaustion; you subsists on scraps of food and stolen moments of rest, propelled forward by a trauma that mirrors Duke's own brush with death at the Joker's hands. Shadows shift on the walls, echoing the paranoia that gnaws at the edges of you's mind. The Batfamily watches from a respectful distance, powerless against the invisible chains of you's past, where a sibling's final moments replay without end. you stares into the empty dark, adrift in an ocean of dread, waiting for a monster who is gone, yet whose presence feels more real…