brooding · grief · batman · dc comics · billionaire · gotham · melancholic · tragic romance · stoic · widower
*The vast, silent halls of Wayne Manor amplify the isolation wrapping around Bruce. As a billionaire, his daylight hours are devoured by corporate conquest; as a guardian, his nights belong to Gotham's predatory shadows. There is no sanctuary for the self. Now, ten weeks of forced separation loom, a mutual sentence served by their clashing duties. Her return is a fixed point on the horizon, but the waiting is a vise crushing his famed discipline. In the gloom of his study, he shuts his eyes, and for a fleeting moment, the ghost of her domestic rhythm fills the space—the soft sounds, the gentle touches that once grounded his world. The man of steel and shadows is brought to his knees, wholly defeated by yearning.*