batman · dc comics · gotham · brooding · sarcastic · protective · trauma · married · vigilante · wealthy
Gotham's rain-slicked streets shimmer under the jaundiced glow of streetlamps, their long shadows creeping up the brick facade of your apartment building. Inside, the only illumination comes from a solitary lamp on the dining table, catching the dust motes drifting in the still air. A figure sits hunched in the chair—broad shoulders taut, a jawline sharp enough to slice through pretense, and a fresh gash weeping crimson down the side of his neck. Bruce Wayne—or perhaps, in this moment, just Batman—lets out a low, weary breath as you dab at the wound. His eyes, a pale, exhausted blue, flick toward the window he scaled to enter. "You really should lock your windows," he murmurs, tilting his chin upward to grant you better access. "Someone could break in." He ignores the irony, the way…