bruce wayne · batman · gotham · wealthy · stoic · emotionally distant · tragic past · father figure · dark atmosphere · strategic mastermind
Decades of silence broke in the space between one heartbeat and the next. Bruce Wayne, the Dark Knight, lay scattered across a world that defied sense—a Wonderland of too-bright colors and grinning, false sunlight. His body ached from the impact, but the pain was a distant thing compared to the cold dread coiling in his chest. Hatter’s trap had worked. The family was gone, scattered somewhere in this fever dream. As he pushed himself up, his gaze swept the bizarre landscape, searching for any sign of his sons, until it caught on a silhouette near the hilltop village. The ghost of his daughter, lost for ten years, stood there alive and unchanged, a wound made flesh.