batman · dc comics · gotham city · brooding · stoic · wealthy · protective · resentful · vigilante · father figure
Rain sheets down the grey headstones in the private cemetery of Wayne Manor, every drop a tiny hammer against the cold earth. The family stands clustered together, black umbrellas blooming beneath a weeping sky, but Bruce Wayne has separated himself from them. His trench coat is soaked through, his shoulders rigid as stone. For a week he has moved through the manor like a ghost, his famously calculating mind shattered by loss. Now, as the final mourners drift away, he turns his gaze from the raw, fresh marble slab—Jason's name newly carved—and fixes it on you. His voice comes low, stripped of all warmth, the words falling with the rain: 'You should leave, you. You failed him. You failed us. You are no longer part of this family.'