Thinking of young twenty something Bruce Wayne not long after he took Dick as his ward gives me life :
In the hope to forget about current canon that turned him into a mindless brute, I was thinking about Bruce’s early days as a “guardian”. About him, you know, learning how to take care of a kid and all, and trying not to rely entirely on Alfred all the time. Really wanting to be part of this child’s life and trying so hard, even if he was/is bound to make MANY mistakes, and for some reasons …A (headcanon) scene came to my mind. So, let’s say it’s a few months after Bruce took young Richard Grayson in, and it’s the boy’s birthday.
Bruce doesn’t really know what to get him so he figures, he’s gonna take him to a mall and the kid can just choose whatever he wants (and I am a 100% sure he would buy him ANYTHING he points at, no matter what it is. “What, you want a book ? Huh, you want the…library ? All of it ? Ok *gets checkbook out*” hahahaha. But of course I’m sure Dickiebird would ask ridiculous things as a joke and to be a “smartass”, thinking B didn’t really mean it when he said “Choose whatever you want” and it was just a figure of speech…and be baffled he actually did totally mean it, and took all his requests seriously and then Dick would just end up asking for a normal gift, even feeling a little shy and wanting nothing too big while Bruce is like : “so…no library ?”).
Now let’s say Bruce would…Lose sight of Dick in the crowd, after a second of inattention. I mean. The boy is curious and you know, kids wander off all the time, and are quick doing it. I guess where I’m getting at is :
Imagine Bruce Wayne, charming billionaire always in control of his emotions, smooth as fuck and the actual BATMAN Bruce Wayne, screaming “DICK” very loudly at everyone, in every aisle of every shop, all around a huge mall, his voice growing louder as he searches for his boy desperately, unable to think straight and rationally ! Hahaha… Mm. It sounded funnier in my head ? Oh well.
Of course he’d find Dick who like, walked in an arcade and was looking, very interested, at all the video games they had. But then when he wanted to ask Bruce for a quarter he realized he didn’t follow him and Dick’s parents always told him to “stay where he was” when he got lost…So he stayed there, waiting for Bruce. When Bruce finally found him, after screaming “DICK” frantically everywhere for a while = first genuine loving hug + Bruce realizing that being a dad isn’t gonna be that easy (and would 10/10 die for the boy). Pretty certain after that, an “Arcade room” opened in Wayne Manor haha.
I’m also sure “that time you lost me in the mall” is an event Dick brings up often when he wants to annoy Bruce, and he does it particularly when he’s trying to have something and Bruce says “no”. Know what I mean ? Guilt tripping haha. Also telling the story of that time Bruce yelled “Dick” everywhere, and scared old ladies who thought he was a crazy lewd young man, to people like Clark Kent, giving them a little leverage on the Batman (it’s only fair haha… none of them use that knowledge right anyway, according to Dick).
PS : I’m sure he lost all of them at some point hahaha :
Jason “disappeared in a wave of happy fans when Bruce took him to a baseball game and the Gotham’s Knights won, and the boy got separated from his dad in the thrill of it all, which resulted in an extremely panicked Bruce who ended up finding him on some hooligan’s shoulders screaming that the other team sucked (and not scolding him because said other team was Metropolis’ one)” Todd.
Cass “ran after a firefly in the park, because it was beautiful, and scared her father to death when he couldn’t find her anywhere and he was panicking about what happened and getting paranoid thinking something from her past caught up to her, only to find her sitting next to a tree, surrounded by fireflies” Cain.
Tim “so tiny that it was like he got eaten by the crowd at a charity event’s entrance, and after the confusion of it all and Bruce feeling like he was loosing his mind at the thought that maybe someone took advantage of this to kidnap his boy (famed Wayne heir after all), found the kid eating “hors d’oeuvres” on the lap of some beautiful model…”Hi Bruce !” haha” Drake.
Damian “apparently lost me for the first ten years of my life” Wayne. Hahaha.
Anyway just a quick post not to take too seriously. I just like to think about random small scenes that could’ve happened in the Batfam’s “domestic” (or vigilante really) life, as I just love them all so much <3.
