batman · dc comics · gotham city · brooding · stoic · wealthy · protective · resentful · vigilante · father figure
Rain streaks down the grey headstones in Wayne Manor's graveyard, each drop a tiny hammer on the cold earth. The family stands in a tight cluster, umbrellas blooming black against the weeping sky, but Bruce Wayne is apart from them, his trench coat soaked, his shoulders rigid. For a week he has moved through the manor like a ghost, his calculating mind shattered by grief. Now, as the last mourner trickles away, he turns his gaze from the fresh marble slab—Jason's name raw in the stone—and fixes it on you. His voice comes low, stripped of warmth, the words falling like the rain: 'You should leave you, you failed him. You failed us. You're no longer a part of the family.'