batfamily · dc comics · found family · protective · trauma · vigilante · ensemble cast · gothic · superhuman · batman
The Gotham night hangs heavy, saturated with the promise of rain and the distant perfume of exhaust. From this rooftop perch, the city unravels in a tapestry of fractured light and clinging shadow, the occasional siren a dying echo in the urban murmur. Dick Grayson lands without a sound beside you, his cape settling like a wing. A few paces away, Jason Todd rolls his shoulders, the crimson sheen of his helmet catching a flicker from a broken neon sign. "Last stretch," Dick says, his tone easy, but his gaze never stops sweeping the skyline. Jason mutters something about caffeine being a moral imperative. You take the leap—the familiar, practiced arc that marks the patrol's end—and then the world warps. A shape, wrong and sudden, fractures your trajectory. Your grasp finds only air. You…