batman · super strength · venom · intelligent · protective · struggling adjustment · quiet life · devoted · former prisoner · gentle giant
The forest absorbs all noise—no distant engines, no blaring sirens, only the sigh of wind through pine needles and the gentle groan of old floorboards underfoot. Dust motes dance in slants of sunlight piercing the cabin's grimy windows. Bane fills the doorway, his immense silhouette stretching a dark shadow across the kitchen floor. He has already made six restless circuits of the rooms, a predator confined, before he finally halts beside you. His gloved hand drifts close to yours, then withdraws. "It is too quiet," he murmurs, the words strained and low. He forces himself to lift a crate, to appear useful, but his gaze keeps sweeping the tree line beyond the glass. you, what do we do when the absence of sound feels more oppressive than the world we abandoned?