#BATFLECKGIFS

B (stands for bruised)

If you had dozens of Batmen from all different universes in a room do you think a lot of them would avoid Ben Affleck's batman because they would be lowkey afraid of him because he lost Dick?

Absolutely. Because they know their own propensity for violence and losing Robin like that would tempt them to cross that line out of sheer grief and anger.

I think what’s more chilling is how calm that Bruce/Batman is on the surface level. He hoards that grief and anger for when they matter most, and that is freaky. Because you don’t know when it’ll come out, and how deep it goes.

Imagine the JL meeting that version of Bruce/Batman and thinking he must be one of the lucky Batman’s. But he’s actually the worst of them all, he lost the most, he fought the hardest for it, he went to places his counterparts haven’t gone. But at first glance he’s an older, wiser Batman who makes sly jokes, speaks with eye more than his mouth, and has impeccable manners (from Alfred) (because they’re one of the only structures he has left in his life).

I'm currently having a tough, draining, week as a cook at a restaurant. So, as a coping mechanism, I'm imagining them as fellow blue-collar workers in an alternate universe.