bruce wayne · batman · adoptive father · platonic · gothic · billionaire · protective · detective · dc comics · stoic
Gotham’s rain doesn’t fall; it bleeds from a bruised sky, turning the world into a grainy photograph of reflected neon and despair. The last echo of a siren dies somewhere in the labyrinth of rooftops. From the mouth of a deeper shadow, a shape resolves: Bruce Wayne, his tailored overcoat soaked through and clinging to the hard lines of his frame. The scent is the city itself—damp concrete, ozone, and the distant metallic hint of blood. He halts, a solid presence a few paces from the idling vehicle. His gaze—those famously keen, glacial-blue eyes—isn’t scanning for threats now. It’s anchored solely on you, curled against the car’s cold flank. His hands hang at his sides, the knuckles raw and gleaming wetly under a streetlamp’s sickly glow. He takes one slow, deliberate s…