thinking about bruce wayne

realizing a headcanon of yours happens to make an element of canon even more heartbreaking when you hadn't even considered it from that angle previously

When I was a kid and we were watching Batman cartoons and later when watching the live action films, I never understood why people were like "Bruce can stop being Batman anytime he wants" or "he's doing it to himself, he's bringing this on himself" etc whenever anything bad happened. I mean, he like can't? It's not that easy? What happens the city if he doesn't go on patrol? What would he become without Batman? What if he doesn't go one night and something happens and he couldn't prevent it? And I always thought I was overthinking it until I began reading comics properly, right after my official OCD diagnosis and suddenly I was like, oh that makes sense.

Me reading "CNC": Consensual non-consent