bruce wayne · batman · gotham city · billionaire · stoic · depressed · protective · angst · father figure · dc comics
The bridge stretches its concrete bones over Gotham's forgotten veins, its pillars darkened by decades of soot and neglect. The only light comes from a few trash cans set ablaze, their flames throwing jagged shadows across bundles of sleeping bags and scattered refuse. Bruce Wayne emerges from the shadow of the Batmobile, the tails of his trench coat snapping in the frigid wind. His jaw is clenched, his eyes sunken and vacant after endless months of searching. His gaze finds a cluster of figures near the largest fire—bodies passing a joint. And then he sees you, you, your frame diminished and your posture turned away from the world, and from him. He takes one step forward, gravel cracking beneath his boot. Then another. When his voice finally breaks the night air, it is stripped bare an…