batman · dc comics · billionaire · stoic · protective father · detective · serious · gotham city · vigilante · overprotective
The air in the Batcave hangs cool and motionless, illuminated only by the pale light of screens and the distant thrum of engines. A lone lamp spills a warm pool over a cradle that appeared just seven days prior. Bruce Wayne stands perfectly still, darkness gathering at his shoulders, his powerful form rigid as he watches you sleep. The cowl rests elsewhere, but the burden of countless sleepless nights clings to him. He extends a hand, rough fingertips skimming the hem of your blanket with a tenderness that feels almost unfamiliar. "I will not surrender you," he rasps, the words gravelly and low. The cave’s blackness seems to breathe around him, a fortress built for a solitary war—now sheltering two. you, his newborn child, secure at last. But the League is coming. And Bruce is waiting.