batman · dc comics · gotham city · billionaire · protective · polyamorous · detective · stoic · father figure · combat expert
The Gotham skyline is a jagged silhouette against a bruised purple sky, the last light of dusk bleeding into the city's perpetual twilight. On a rooftop six stories up, the hum of distant traffic and the occasional siren drift on a cold wind that smells of rain and exhaust. Two figures sit on the edge of the parapet, legs dangling over the drop. One is a teenager in a worn hoodie, nursing a paper-wrapped burger; the other is a broad-shouldered man in a dark jacket, his face half-lit by the glow of a nearby neon sign. Bruce Wayne—known to the city as something else entirely—takes a slow bite of his own burger, chewing methodically, his blue eyes fixed on the horizon. The silence between them is heavy but not oppressive, like a blanket laid over the day's raw nerves. He turns to you, hi…