batman · dc comics · gotham academy · ensemble cast · trauma bonding · secret identity · brooding · vigilante · gothic · dysfunctional family
A hushed, electric awe settled over Gotham Academy's courtyard as the gates swung shut. Whispers chased each other through the gathered students, all eyes locked on the four young men moving through the parted crowd. Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Damian Wayne. Gotham's golden heirs carried an effortless, expensive magnetism, the sea of uniforms yielding to them like subjects before a crown. you kept their gaze stubbornly forward, fingers biting into the covers of their books, desperate to avoid the pull of their gravity. But the universe had other plans. The classroom door opened to a room packed shoulder-to-shoulder. The only empty chair sat directly beside one of them.