*⁠.⁠✧ 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙'𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩

Imagine the batfam are facing off a new villain who sends send them to an alternative universe. Everyone is pissed off, they are lost in another universe, Bruce is injured and can’t fight, and they aren’t even in a Gotham. They family walks around, trying to find safe shelter, before an older man finds them injured, and the family is shocked to see Alfred in causal clothing, asking if they want his help.

The batfam see that this alternative Alfred so happy, chuckling at their jokes in a way their Alfred never does. Sure, he often ignores Bruce, but Bruce wasn’t the best conversationalist. Plus, this Alfred is fun with the kids, so it is cool to see a new side of Alfred. The kids and Bruce are wondering, why is this Alfred so happy? Also, why is he in England and not Gotham, how come he doesn’t recognize the kids? Alternative Alfred diminishes it and says he worked in Gotham for a while, before deciding he wanted new horizons.

Alternative universes often have a critical event that determines the change in the new timeline. So, the kids think the critical event was him never accepting a job with the Waynes and experiencing the trauma of losing them. Bruce doesn’t think so, because the way this Alfred is acting, he seems to be hiding something. But his kids think he is overanalyzing things again.

They have to go to the alternative Gotham, so they say goodbye to Alfred who gives the kids a warm smile and Bruce a neutral look.

They go to alternative Gotham and are surprised that crime is at an all-time high and that there is no Batman. They go to the mansion, only to meet alternative Bruce. This Bruce lets them into the mansion, a cold, silent and empty house. This Bruce smiles at the kids as he grabs the cart with drinks, his legs shaking from excess use. His arms shake as he hands each person a tray of tea, muttering apologies for spilling all over the floor, He looks at the younger bats in wonder, his one eye never strawing far from them.

Soon, the curiosity is too strong and one of the kids ask how he got those injuries. Alternative Bruce just shrugs. “When I was moved to the orphanage,” he starts “I was one of the smallest boys, so I was picked on a lot. Before I knew it, I was getting punched every day. One day, they decided it be fun to dangle me from the roof, just to scare me, nothing more.” He stops talking, looking down at his tea with an empty look. “You know how kids are. They don’t have the strength to hold someone by the legs for long.”

The room is silent, everyone processing the story as they watched the other Bruce shrug it away, as if it was a normal occurrence. As it was inevitable.

Before they can argue, their alarms go off, and the villain who sent them to this universe is here. The kids run ahead, and Bruce is just stuck. He watches his other self-stare at him. He didn’t know wat to do, too injured to join the fight.

“Why?” Bruce said after minutes of deadly silence. “Why were you in an orphanage?”

“Well, you know it is. When the family learned there was no way of them getting the inheritance by adopting me, no one seemed interested.”

“Bullshit!” Bruce yelled, standing up from the chair and ignoring the pain in his back. “What about Leslie? She was supposed to be our guardian!”

Alternative Bruce looked at him like he was insane. “Why are you surprised? We were always difficult children. It was a matter of time before she gave us to CPS.”

Bruce looked at the man all come and collected, while his own breathing increased in speed. “But she never had to worry! She didn’t even come to the manor, she had Alfred!”

Alternative Bruce looked down, his body stiffening after hearing the butler’s name. “Well, the bullies at school always messed with us and we didn’t stop the fights. Alfred always got mad.”

He remembered it, Alfred looking at him with irritation every time he came home with bruises around his body, blood on his uniform, and a detention slip on his hand.

“The school has called me a third time this month, and we aren’t even halfway through it.” Alfred stated, patience all gone after two years of living with the young boy. “I swear, Master Bruce, if I get one more call I am leaving!”

Bruce remembered that argument, the same fear he felt after losing his parents returning. The next time he saw the bullies, the next time he heard them insult him and his parents’ death in front of class, he didn’t yell back and put a target on his back… he stayed silent. He continued to stay silent for the next few years, until the bully’s family moved away from Gotham.

“That’s the difference between you and I.” Alternative Bruce said. “You learned to stop, but I never did. I thought Alfred was joking.”

Also, here are 10 pictures of him from the many I have saved on my phone:

Teenage Bruce who tells Alfred that he'll never bring children into this world and that he doesn't want or need a family of his own.

Young adult Bruce, who secretly longs for someone special to come home to but chooses to focus solely on Batman.

Mid twenties Bruce suddenly deciding to take in a child because he doesn't want anyone else to end up like him.

"Which Batman character?" Batman.

"Which one?" I like Batman.

"Which Batfamily member-" Batman is a part of the batfamily.

"Whatever, I'm asking which batkid-" 8 year old Bruce Wayne.

Been searching the whole day and I only found one

The Hunt - part 4.5

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batman was never meant to be cold, ruthless, heartless. his symbol is made from fear - an emotion in itself. especially in silver/bronze age comics, he’s clearly an emotional man. in one of his older runs (probably detective comics or batman), he hides his face to cry because two orphans told him that they didn’t want to be separated. there are so many more examples of these emotional moments.

he’s even built on trust, despite him being such a skeptic. trust that the world can get better and that all people can be good. without idealism, batman as a character fails completely. he relies on the hope that people can reform and “get better”. that’s why he’s canonically against the death penalty and murder (other than the fact that his parents were murdered).

Follow me and my journeys of rereading Batman cannon! I have the memory of a goldfish so this is a great way for me to remember everything going on. I have read a large amount of cannon comics but I wanted to read them all + some extra's for fun. This would be good for anyone that wants run downs of comics they don't want to read or if someone wants to have a reading list (That I will post the full thing if you guys want).

I find this panel to be kinda funny because I think it shows how Bruce thinks about emotions. Bruce thinks that because he is no longer crying about something or having the feelings of 'sadness' that he is no longer sad. His anger is now his sadness but he can't see than in himself.

Bruce being an angry teen... yeah. I lowkey wished that more fics would make him put his sadness into angry instead of just making him wimpy.

Loving the early showing of Bruce's hero mentality here.

I understand Alfred not wanting to deal with Bruce causing trouble but highkey, you could have stopped this a long time ago. I don't like him mentioning Thomas and Martha like this as well.

It is interesting to me that Hugo is talking like this, honestly, it seems like he wants Bruce to work with him. Pointing out things that Bruce sees as problems but not really thinking that they are. Pretty cool for his introduction. Honestly I forgot that this is where he first shows up in Batman.

Bruce still suffering from Nightmares, oh my goooooddddddd. I love him dearly. Also Hugo starting up his bullshit with the hypnotherapy is well loved.

Bruce taking things into his own hands and harassing the bully. Once again showing how he doesn't like to believe that someone else will get it done and that he needs to go out and do it instead of being comfortable with doing nothing.

Love this panel for no reason.

Couple things that I noticed is that Bruce remembers Joe Chills face, in almost 4D texture. This high key supports my photographic memory headcanon. Also noticed that the bed doesn't look like one that Bruce would get/have, honestly I think this is his parents room and that makes the nightmare soo much worst I love it.

Bruce's heavy love for Gotham has a special in my heart.

This is a large impovement compared to the bullshit cop things some writers love to put Batman comics. Loving it, honestly don't really remember the girlfriend that much but I like the fact that she has a really strong effect on him even later in life.

Just like this panel, I like how it sets up Hugo as a villain even if its later off.

Bruce already having the bad habits that plague his early life as Batman. The lack of care for anything that isn't working on himself as a weapon, hurting himself physically while doing it, shitty mental health. This shit is organic, nothing new people.

The talk of Bruce's anger and how it pushes him to do things that he would never do is so cool.

Honestly, I kinda agree with Alfred here. It is privileged to go fight for the fun of it/to get anger out, when the other people there are doing it to make money that they need to live/for their families that Bruce already has.

BUT. I think that him saying this, almost saying that the love that Alfred gave him was conditional, based on Bruce being a model figure and bring up Joe chill is some low shit. Hate this part but do think that he had a point overall.

Natural detective over here, like the way it was done. Doesn't feel overly hyped up, but just enough to feel really and cool.

They’re waiting for him to awkwardly say something, but Bruce is just chilling, going about his day like it’s any other day

They think he knows that they’re planning a party, which is why he looks normal, so they take it a step further to catch him off guard and end up not doing the party, so the entire day passes without mention of Bruce’s birthday aside from some acknowledgement from Alfred

Bruce just thinks that his kids hate him, and of course, they wouldn’t want to celebrate him, and his kids are just confused about why he doesn’t seem surprised

Or instead of thinking that the kids hate him, he just genuinely believes they have more important things to do

He knows their lives can be chaotic and crazy, so he would never hold it against them if something as menial as his birthday slipped through the cracks. In the grand scheme of things, Bruce is nothing but a speck of dust in his kids' lives

It’s not like they haven’t missed his birthday before or any other holiday that would require celebrating him. He’s not put out, he’s not sad, he’s genuinely indifferent because it’s not a big deal in his eyes. He’s heard them say that his birthday was unimportant before; he's heard them say it would feel like betraying their parents. He's heard it all, spanning multiple years

After it's been a week of pretending to forget his birthday and they sheepishly hand him some gifts over breakfast, they ask if he was sad that they didn't celebrate his birthday (they're feeling guilty); he just shrugs

Clark: …its funnier in kryptonian

Bruce: ...

Bruce: you do know I can speak kryptonian, right

Clark: :D