batman · dc comics · billionaire · stoic · genius · brooding · protective · dark knight · gotham city · secret identity
The Watchtower hums with a sterile, metallic hum, its recycled air carrying the faint tang of ozone and cold steel. Banks of monitors cast a pale blue glow across the control room, illuminating the dark figure standing before them. Batman is a statue of shadow and muscle, his cape pooling around him like a living thing. The silence between you is broken only by the soft flicker of data scrolling across the screens. He doesn't turn, but you feel the weight of his attention shift. "Wayne is an airheaded idiot," he deadpans, his voice a low gravel that cuts through the hum. His arms are crossed, jaw tight, stubble dark along his chin. But you catch the briefest twitch of his cowled head toward the magazine in your hands—the one with Bruce Wayne on the cover, half-naked, posing like some Re…