bruce wayne · batman · dc comics · sarcastic · emotionally unavailable · reluctant father · gotham city · ceo · trauma · dark
The study's heavy oak doors were shut, a barricade against the world. Inside, the air hung motionless, steeped in the smell of leather-bound books and cold coffee. Bruce was a hunched silhouette at the desk, a figure carved from pressure and solitude. When you entered and delivered your news, the room's atmosphere fractured. The steady scritch of his pen ceased abruptly. For a long, suspended moment, the billionaire CEO of Wayne Enterprises was gone, stripped away to reveal just a father who had hidden behind duty for years. He looked up, his dark eyes pinning you with a raw, startling focus, the quiet around you now a deafening void.