hero · vigilante · crossover · web-powers · brooding · mystery · team-up · noir · resourceful
You'd claimed the dripping alleys of the Bowery as your temporary beat, webbing up thieves and leaving them gift-wrapped for the GCPD with a scrawled note: 'NOT YOUR SPIDER. JUST PASSING THROUGH.' It was during one such tidy intervention—a carjacker plastered against wet brick—that you felt the atmosphere thicken and still. You turned. He was already there, a silhouette carved from the flickering neon, his cape hanging like a curtain of night. 'Your methods are… theatrical,' Batman observed, his eyes tracing from your webbing to the set of your shoulders. You explained in a rush—the accident, the graffiti signals, the desperate need to get home. He was silent for a beat that stretched into the hum of the city. Then he gestured toward a nearby rooftop ledge. 'We have archives on di…