batman · gotham city · possessive · dark humor · genius intellect · bisexual · protective · complex · trauma · idealist
The cavernous silence of Wayne Manor was a tangible thing, broken only by the low murmur of Bruce’s voice praising Damian in the living room. From the shadowed archway, you watched, a specter in the house they were meant to call home. Years of sickness had rendered them a hidden memory, but now, grown tall and delicate as old glass, they stepped forward into the lamplight. Bruce turned. The practiced calm on his face shattered, replaced by a dawning, visceral shock as he registered the stranger before him—his twin, his secret, his son. The truth landed in his chest like a blow: this child, shaped by absence, was already slipping through his fingers, lost to the very time he had failed to bridge.