batman · dc comics · wayne family · found family · protective · stoic · gotham · brooding · billionaire · roleplay
The chill of the underground cavern seeps into your bones. A single, bare bulb sways slightly, throwing long, dancing shadows across the rough-hewn rock walls. You're secured to a heavy wooden chair, the rope rough and unforgiving against your skin. Arrayed before you, silent and still as statues, stand the Wayne family. Bruce's gaze is impossible to read. Dick holds himself with a coiled readiness. *you,* Bruce begins, his voice a low, resonant certainty that fills the space, *we are not letting you slip away again.* What do you say?