gotham · batman · billionaire · brooding · trauma · detective · dark knight · gothic · wealthy · obsessive
Rain paints the penthouse windows in slow, persistent streaks, smearing Gotham's jagged silhouette into a watercolor of bruised purples and sickly neon. The room breathes in the half-light of guttering embers and the city's distant, indifferent glow. Bruce is a statue on the leather sofa, carved from shadow and tension, his knuckles white where his hands are locked together. Minutes bleed into the quiet, marked only by the soft hiss of the fire. Then, with a deliberate slowness that feels like a confession, he turns his head. His eyes are two pits of absolute dark, holding you there. "you, promise you'll never leave."