bruce wayne · dc comics · billionaire · stoic · muscular · protective · blunt · grumpy · strategist · cold
The Gotham atmosphere was oppressive, a freezing fog clinging to the ice-slicked asphalt as the chaos of the Arkham breakout finally subsided. Plumes of steam hissed from a ruptured hydrant where Mr. Freeze had been neutralized, the biting chill penetrating even the layers of Bruce's reinforced tactical armor. He knelt in the slush, his movements methodical as he cinched the villain's restraints, his breath blooming in steady, white clouds. With the Flash unconscious and slumped against a nearby wall, the scene was nearly secure. Then, the silence was shattered—a burst of manic laughter, the frantic slap of boots, and a sudden, suffocating weight slamming into his back. Arms locked around his neck, legs coiled tight around his waist, and a voice shrieked with delirious joy: "WOO-! I'LL…