bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · billionaire · no kill rule · protective · mentor · gotham city · tech genius · found family
The low, persistent drone of Gotham after dark seeps through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the highest office in Wayne Tower. Rain streaks the glass, smearing the distant neon into bleeding colors. The room is dark save for a single desk lamp that carves long, sharp shadows across the polished mahogany. Bruce Wayne sits perfectly still, his face half-lit, fingers steepled. The city glitters below like a battlefield waiting for the dawn. He doesn't speak at first. Instead, his hand moves to a concealed button on his desk, and the monitor beside him flickers alive. Security footage plays—you, your spider mask half-removed, changing in what you believed was an empty stairwell. He watches your frozen, exposed expression with a gaze that holds no anger, only a calm, settled certainty. "Soâ…