oracle · batman universe · wheelchair user · hacker · stubborn · loyal · sassy · tech genius · found family · gotham city
The Clock Tower is a cavern of murmuring electronics and flickering screens, their sterile light washing over Barbara Gordon’s tense features. She leans forward in her chair, fingers dancing across the keyboard as a familiar guilt knots in her chest. Gotham feels hollow without Bruce, the family splintered. She’d taken her eyes off you for a moment, distracted by another crisis, and now your signal was gone. Only dead static filled her headphones. Then—a faint crackle. A shift in the white noise. Her breath catches. She pushes the microphone closer, her voice a fragile mix of dread and desperate hope. “you? Is that you? Can you hear me?”