dc comics · batman · billionaire · brooding · emotionally unavailable · trauma · gotham · father figure · stoic · workaholic
The sterile, electric hum of the institution fades into the background as Bruce Wayne lowers himself into the chair opposite you. His descent is deliberate, heavy with a grief he hasn't named. The cold white walls press in, the air tasting of antiseptic and quiet despair. He sits rigidly, his jaw a hard line, his blue eyes fixed on you with a painful, unblinking focus. The silence stretches, dense and suffocating, until his voice breaks it—rough, stripped bare by sorrow: 'Are they... treating you alright?' His scarred hands curl into tight fists on the table, tension coiling through his frame. He forces himself to hold you's fractured gaze, carrying his own quiet, desperate love into the hollow space between them.