Another Side

First off, you were Dick’s teacher at Gotham Academy, and the most sympathetic to him. You knew how hard the transition was, especially since he had learned on his feet most of his life, so you decided to have most of your classes on their feet at some point, and offered him help with homework

Dick absolutely adored you. He was suspicious at first, but after a little while he grew way more comfortable. The change from the circus way of life to living in a city permanently and having to go to school was astronomical. You were the only teacher who seemed to realize that and try to help him. You threw a ball around for the class to answer things, played games to help people learn, and comforted/defended him when people looked down on him for his background.

People learned very quickly not to complain about you or your class, otherwise they would have to deal with ‘pranks’ like being doxxed, having their things ending up in trees, and their parents deals falling through.

On the first parent teacher night, Dick dragged Bruce over to you. Bruce had already heard of you from Dick and done his own surface level research on you.

The minute this man met you, he understood why Dick loved you so much. You just gave this aura of light and comfort that no one else could ever measure. You were kind and understanding and sweet.

(Note, Bruce isn’t completely yandere yet. He is starting to be, but I like slow burn. Dick is 100% yandere though.)

Dick threw a major tantrum when he learned he would have to leave your class. He was aggressive and started purposefully failing your class. It got to the point where you called a meeting between you and Bruce and Dick where you talked about everything.

You met with them at the manor, and after a few minutes, you managed to get it out of Dick why he was upset. You quietly told Dick that while you would miss him too, you would be very upset if he stayed back for him.

However, Bruce and Alfred managed a solution. With a few bribes to the school, they started a theatre club that you would run(they did research and knew you liked theatre) and that Dick would be your assistant, and he would still have the option after he graduated.

Everything was back to normal for you, besides the fact that all of your dates never lasted anymore. You couldn’t figure out why?

Then, Jason Todd was enrolled in your class

Tim Drake was one of the students who you how to soft spot for he reminded you so much of Dick, and how lonely he had been. While Dick had been full of anger at the world, Tim just seemed sad and disappointed. You loved his work and he was brilliant, but you just wish you could see him smile truly.

You always left comments on his work, praising him. You smile him often and tried to give him what little kindness you could. Nothing really happened until his birthday. You got him before he left class for lunch and awkwardly gave him a gift. It wasn’t much, just a book on photography, but the way he held it to his chest and started to tear up, made your motherly instincts grow.

Tim was already fascinated by you. He knew about Batman and Robin, and had for a long time. He also knew you were oblivious despite being so close to them. Your softness and kindness had always been something that almost blurred him in. You resisted, of course, convincing himself he didn’t need you in the way the other dead, But this? You wishing him a happy birthday when not even his parents had remembered? You giving him something he was interested in for his birthday? The fact that you noticed all of this? That is what makes him go full yandere.

His integration into the family is a lot different this time. It definitely starts off with him helping out with lights during play rehearsals. Then you start mentioning him around Alfred. You start driving him home. After a while, it becomes very obvious that you’ve become attached.

The Jealousy, that Jason and Dick had towards each other, is nothing compared to their jealousy towards Tim. They are very jealous of Tim, right up until the point that you mention at dinner that he reminds you of them in the best ways. You joke how he reminds you of younger dick with his enthusiasm for things and unwillingness to pay attention to things that bore him, But his attention towards his studies is pure Jason. That helps a little, as does Tim’s general competence, and making sure anyone who is mean to you has their life ruined.

It takes about a full year for Tim to really become a part of the family. During this time, do you meet his best friend stuff and offer your home up to her too. Both Jason and Dick have gotten in the habit of going to your house, which you are fine with. Your place isn’t very big, an old house that used to be a warehouse before you fixed it up. Still, it’s yours and has enough room for four rowdy teenagers. Steph view you as a second mom pretty quickly.

What fully integrates into the family, as well as making Bruce aware he is romantically interested in you, is when the Drakes come home. Tim gets the call about his parents coming home and you are a little furious. However, you decide remain calm and you bring him home.

There is a gala the next day, one seemed towards Greek myths,(at Jason‘s request) and you don’t go to these things normally even though you have a standing invite. However, you want to keep an eye on the drakes, so you go for the first time, wearing an outfit that Alfred bought for you.(if you prefer suits, you wear a suit that is loosely similar to a toga. I’m going to say it’s a navy suit with gold trim. If you’re wearing a dress, it is a strapless floor length dress. It is a shimmery gold color, with a cardigan of the same color. The only other important parts of the outfit are a crown of fake flowers on top of your head, and you wearing a golden bracelet.)(if you are like me and do not like how you look in gold, just replace gold with silver for the entirety of the story.)

You get ready and go over with the boys, but Bruce is already there.(both Jason and Dick hype up your outfit.) you deal with the paparazzi pretty well, making small talk of a few and mentioning how you were more of a family friend than anything else. When Bruce pulls his Bruce routine, there are several cameras that catch you smiling at him with reluctant fondness. You are not a socialite, but you are good at customer service, so you smile and nod, and go along with things, even though with every derogatory remark towards one of your boys, you start to lose a little more of your patience.

However, the real show starts when you start looking for Tim, and see him being cornered by an older woman, who is being quite handsy with him, caressing his arm and… Is her hand on his butt?!?!!?

Tim is quite obviously uncomfortable, and you look around for his parents, only to see them staring at Tim with approval. You quickly realize that this woman is acting with Tim’s parents approval to basically harass a boy who is become your son. You get Dick’s attention and ask him about the woman. Dick explains that she’s a wealthy woman who was known for liking younger people. She had never gone after, but she had made a few comments about Jason before. That was enough to make you riled up, even before you found out that her company was doing a merger of sorts with the Drake’s, but no one knew exactly why she was caving.

That’s when you start losing it, and Dick notices what you were staring at. Now, at this point in time has become somewhat accustomed to Tim. He’s basically a part of the family at this point, even if he won’t admit it. More importantly, this is making you upset. So when you tell Dick, you’re going to get Tim out of there, of course he’s coming along.

Your approach and act somewhat meek, trying to de-escalate things before they start. You insert yourself into the conversation and the way Tim looks at you with a flash of relief before putting it behind the mask makes you burn white hot inside, but you keep your composure as much as you can. Then the woman does something stupid.

She tell you to back off because “ his parents already said that Tim and I would be working close together for business.” do you notice Tim‘s parents are getting close, wondering about you.

You smile at her bluntly and tell her that Tim is your student and he is obviously uncomfortable, so you would like her to leave. She slinks away and the Drakes come soon after, and start making a fuss.

The final straw is when you hear Janet reprimand Tim for letting this happen. That is your breaking point and you are fucking furious. You don’t think about the crowd. You don’t think about anything else but your son/student, so you grab his hand and tell him that the two of you are going out for ice cream.

When the drakes attempts to protest, you glare at them. “ Tim and I are going to get ice cream, and once I take him home, we will have a discussion about your parenting methods. Or we can have that discussion right now and I can bring up how little you are home and how many times Tim spent the night at my place. I’m going to give you the choice of if you want this private or public, but if you keep pushing right now, this is only going to be public.” they are silent at that, and you take Tim towards the door. Dick is close behind you, and you can see Jason out of the corner of your eye, as well as Bruce. Bruce is speaking with some socialites, but you can tell he’s glancing at you guys, confused.

You’re almost to the door when that woman tries to grab him. At that point in the night you are done. You are tired and angry. Your temper has been growing steadily shorter throughout the night as you have seen people constantly looking down on your boys, and Tim’s parents were the final straw. You have no patience for this woman, and her attempting to take Tim from you? Finally gives you a target.

“ ma’am,” you channel your best customer service voice, the one you use during parent teacher conferences when parents are complaining about their kids not getting good grades.(though you haven’t had to use that voice since Dick became one of your students) “ you have been harassing a minor this entire night. He has been clearly uncomfortable, and I have intervened on his behalf already. I do not care what promises have been made to you, he is not for the taking. There is no way I would be letting him go anywhere alone with you, especially considering this whole time you’ve been acting like a pedophile.” you’re speaking calmly, trying not to let the boys see your anger, but some of your irritation is leaking into your voice. You’re so upset that you don’t notice the crowd getting a little quiet, or the reporters turning your way.

The woman starts on a rant about how Tim’s parents promised her she could work with him privately and how you were ruining things. It’s obvious this woman has not been told very often in her life. Normally, you would be able to deal with her without raising your voice, but you were running out of patience and restraint.

“ma’am, with all of the respect you deserve, you were literally grabbing this child’s butt!” Your voice escalates as you start yelling at her about her inappropriate actions. You don’t even care you’re in public at this point. You leave the gala in a half with Tim and Dick by your side, and the woman following you out. You don’t listen to anything she says, until she grabs both Dick’s rest, and Tim’s jacket sleeve, saying something about how she deserves respect and will be demanding extra from the drakes for this insult.You turn around and punch this woman clear in the face, knocking her to the ground and tell her to stay the fuck away from your kids. You hear the sleeve of Tim’s jacket rip, as this absolutely leech of a woman tears it in her attempt to hold onto him. Then immediately, you start ringing out your hand and freaking out, because you’ve never punched anyone before, and it isn’t supposed to hurt is it? like, did you break something on accident? Oh God, you’re going to get so much trouble for this.

Bruce sees this and is reminded of all the times that people sexualized him after his parents died and no one was there to defend him. Yet, you stand there, punching a woman for a comment that he would’ve punched her for himself had he been in costume or close enough, calling his son one of your kids. He feels his cheeks warm up a bit and his heart rate increase.The gold shimmer aspect of your outfit makes you look like a vengeful goddess, and he falls hard and just starts realizing that he likes you.(to be fair, he only thinks he has a crush. He will not know he’s fully in love or except that for a little while.) when the reporters come out, it is too, Tim shaking, and you are consoling him as Bruce consoles dick. The woman is on the ground, screaming at them, with a few bruises on her face, and Tim’s jacket is torn. She screams about how Brucie Wayne and his girlfriend beat her up all the way to the jail, even though both of the children and the Drake child say that she tripped while trying to grab on Tim and ripped his jacket, falling onto the stone staircase and injuring herself. Everyone agrees later that she had a mental break, ir was too embarrassed to admit the truth. I mean, she tried to say that Bruce Wayne, and the schoolteacher who he brought as a date punched her. She was clearly delusional.

Bruce end the gala early, and all of you end up going out for ice cream you end up giving Dick your flower crown, and wrapping your shawl around Tim, as his suit jacket had to be kept for evidence. Bruce intern gives you his jacket, and when Jason makes a small joke about not having anything, you laugh and offer him your bracelet, and the five of you have a wonderful night.

under Tim’s request, you don’t end up going after the Drakes legally, but you and Bruce have a conversation that leads to agreement that Tim will spend his time with one of the two of you, and will remain the air, but is essentially a part of the Wayne family.

later, Alfred finds photos of the night from the security camera, and before deleting the footage, he prints out his own picture of the punch you landed on the woman from a camera that captures Bruce’s face as well, saving it in his scrapbook as when Master Bruce realized he was in love with Miss Y/N.

(later on, the three boys have a meeting about the possibility of you marrying Bruce. They all agree that you could do better, but it would make you their mother so they are very happy with matchmaking. Nothing super productive happens towards that, until Damian comes along.)

Barbara meets you first. She hears about you from Dick almost a dozen times before she does, but it’s when she first meets you she understands. She gets slowly more obsessed over the years, viewing you as the mom she never had. She briefly entertained the idea of setting you up with her father, but she quickly realized that you and Bruce are definitely in love, even if you don’t realize it, so she is fine with being your eldest pseudo daughter instead you becoming her step mother

I don’t know a whole lot about how Cass joined the family, but Barbara introduces the two of you and Cass takes to you like a duck to water. Your body language screams safety/love/hope and she soaks that up. You, after being given a watered down version of her early years, are definitely very soft with Cass, and you definitely learn sign language for her, which just adds an extra softness to the relationship. Cass is yandere, but very relaxed with it She knows you are safe and will not leave. She may occasionally shadow you when you are walking home just to make sure you’re safe, but on a whole, she is definitely the most relaxed of the Yanderes.

I mentioned this above, but Steph is introduced by Tim. She is the most open about things out of all the female Yanderes, and after a few months, she definitely starts calling you mama (first initial) ( this leads to the others picking up the habit. To be fair, the boys were just unsure about calling you mom, but after Steph, they had the go ahead.) Steph definitely is very physically affectionate, similar to Dick in the way she hangs off of you. She loves her mom, but her mom, depending on canon, is either always working or a drug addict, so a fully functional and open mother figure? Sign her up!

Alfred started preparing for you to come home the night of the parent teacher Conference, when Bruce came home with that look in his eyes. He knew what that was, that gleam in his charge’s eyes. When he meets you, he’s only further sure that you would be the next Mrs. Wayne. While he’s not completely yandere, he’s definitely complicit in whatever the children do to set you up with Bruce.

Damian definitely comes into a very different family dynamic. Bruce has been strong armed into being better at communicating, all of the kids care about each other, and the big one? They all have a mom they are protective of.

However, Talia does pay attention enough to know what’s going on (let me know if you want me to make a minific about Talia meeting Batmom). So when she sends Damian in, she warns him to view Batmom as an ally, an important ally who is essential to being Batman, despite not being involved in the night life.

I will post a poll later if Batmom should know or not, but no matter what, the batfamily doesn’t think she knows, which means Damian’s quest for Robin is kept from prying eyes.

However, Damian still has distaste for the woman he views as taking his mother’s place, right up until your first meeting.

You are invited over for dinner, and when you walk in to see a boy threatening Tim and the boys not doing anything? Especially Bruce? You lose it.

Damian is more impressed by how you glare his father into submission, and then take him aside to ask his view. I don’t think he will mention Robin, but he definitely says something about taking Tim’s place, which is something you won’t let fly.

However, you work with kids and you’ve seen enough children like him to know what to do. So instead of trying to convince him that he will be cared for without replacing Tim, you instead tell him that replacing Tim would not do him any good, as each member of the family has to carve out their own place.

You don’t go the emotional attachment route, instead making it seem like a test. He has to prove he can fit as both a public member of the Wayne clan and as a private member of the family. You also make sure to bring up the fact that Bruce is very protective of his people, so attacking one of his people will only mess with his place in the family.

That is not to say that Damian’s arrival doesn’t add a level of tension to the family. Whether you realize it or not, you and Bruce are starting to have feelings for each other. Damian’s arrival means that you have to confront the fact of Bruce’s history. Adding the fact that Damian is ten, which means he would’ve been conceived only a year before Jason was adopted, AKA after you entered the picture? That adds a lot of feelings

(I know Damian was basically a test tube baby, but the Batfamily would not think to tell you that, so angst.)

It doesn’t help that you have only just started realizing how much you like Bruce. In your defense, you always knew you had a crush on him, but you didn’t realize it was actual love until after Damian entered the picture. And on Bruce’s side, he already knows he’s in love with you, but he has not communicated it at all.

So emotions are very messy, which make team make Batmom our official mom, a.k.a. all of the kids, have a harder job than usual. Dick ends up recruiting Damian early on, and while he’s less than thrilled in the beginning, he slowly starts getting more into it. (it has nothing to do with your kindness and hugs and calm explanations that are never even slightly condescending. He just finds you useful in his endeavors.)

However, a small complication comes into play, your ex.

You and your ex broke up a few months before Dick was enrolled in your school. The main reason behind your breakup was him needing to move for his job, and you not wanting to move, which culminated into a major fight where he did something unforgivable: He slapped you.

You immediately left him and blocked him, having mutual friends drop his stuff off at his hotel so you could get away with not seeing him. You refused to talk to him, even when he tried to get into your house. It made you thankful he left.

However, him coming back to Gotham made an already tense situation worse. You refused to go to Bruce when things were already awkward, so you just suffered in silence, avoiding your ex as much as you could.

That was until your ex showed up at your school. Luckily, security escorted him off campus after he started yelling. Unluckily, this led to Damian learning about your ex and with the combined pressure between him and Alfred, you moved into the mansion and had to tell everyone else in the family about things.(The only reason they didn’t kill your ex is because he went missing(and you would’ve noticed him dying.))

However, the reason your ex went missing? He was stupid and angry enough to mention you and your job to some exfriends who now worked for the Joker.

Now, the Joker had never quite liked you after your stunt, but you added an excitement to life in Gotham.

You never missed an event of the boys. Even when you had your rare rough patches with Bruce, you never missed a single one of Dick’s mathlete competitions, Jason’s plays (though you were usually the director), Tim’s photography shows, and Cass’s ballet recitals. You never missed it.

So, despite the awkward tension and you avoiding Bruce like the plague, you weren’t going to miss Damian’s art show, the first thing he had really become excited about (aside from animals) since he arrived.

You arrive early to the show, Dick on your arm. None of the kids have left you alone for long after your ex showed up at the school, with Jason even volunteering as your aide in classes.

Still, you gawk at Damian’s art, making sure to praise him, and pretending not to notice the tips of his ears going pink. You mediate between the boys, and for the first time since Damian arrived, you and Bruce aren’t awkward. Both of you forget about the feelings involved and simply act like you used to.

Team Make Batmom Our Mom is very happy with this development, especially Tim and Damian, who planned this together.(they may not like each other, but both of them adore you.) everything was going great.

Then, of course, things went to shit.

Talia came to see her son’s achievements and see Bruce.(And to meet you.) Her flirtatious comments towards Bruce and constant staring at you got on your nerves, but you were dealing with it. You were trying to stay civil, but it was getting harder.

After one too many comments, you decided to take a breather, and went outside. Bruce followed close behind, and an argument ensued. You and Bruce never really argued, but you were in a bad mood, and his emotional constipation didn’t help.

You ended up storming off in a huff, going to your favorite park to calm down.

However, that was exactly what the joker and his men were waiting for. The joker plans to make a big spectacle of you and to show off your death.

However, he didn’t account for them following you. Bruce was being dragged along by Jason and Dick, while Talia followed silently, interested in why they were all so taken with you.

Of course, when the joker saw them, he decided this would be a good time to take out the Waynes. (Depending on which run of the comics you read or what you watch, it is unclear if the Joker knows who Batman is. And they say you, he doesn’t, but he does know that the Wayne’s are connected to the Batman. ) He attempted to shoot Bruce, and that’s when you snap.

You’ve been dealing with a lot recently, especially since you had moved in. You were tired and angry, but despite the argument, you still loved Bruce. That’s why, when you saw the Joker attack your Bruce, you went feral.

You fucking tackle the Joker, and start beating him up.(The boys are watching, and all of them, especially Jason, are thankful Bruce made you go to fighting courses.) The boys fight the goons, and Talia joins in.

Both you and the Joker get some good hits in, but you end up breaking his nose and jaw before you knock him out. You then see your ex who had the fucking audacity to shoot you.

Maybe it was the adrenaline, or maybe you were just so mentally drained that your body wasn’t processing things, but you didn’t feel the bullet. Instead, you end up punching this man in the face.

He got another bullet in you before the boys take him down, but this time you feel the injury.

You end up falling, and Bruce is the one to catch you. I can see that he’s crying and even though you’re getting hazy from blood loss, you don’t wanna see him cry so you try to comfort him before you pass out. (You don’t realize it at the time, but you end up slurring out that you wish you could kiss him, but you’re still a little mad.)

You wake up 72 hours later in a medical wing of Wayne Manor. All of the kids are around you in different chairs, fast asleep, but Bruce is there and still awake. His eyes are red, but you still find him cute. Before either of you say anything, he puts his hands gently on your face and kisses you.

Things are different after that. You don’t move out, instead, he ended up moving into your own bedroom for a while before you feel comfortable sharing one with Bruce. You aren’t alone much after that, but you know the kids are traumatized so you don’t mind.

The Joker was in the hospital with a broken jaw and broken legs that are now irreversibly damaged. Even if they heal, he will have a limp. He’s also currently eating through a feeding tube after you broke his jaw.

You are living a great life.

(You don’t know about the trackers on everything you own and the chip that tracks your vitals that was implanted in your body. You don’t know about how bloody the boys beat the goons, and that the only reason the Joker survived was because it was more important to get you to safety. You don’t know about Bruce’s hidden camera in your room, or the three different hidden cameras in your classroom. You don’t know about how Bruce threatened Talia when she expressed an interest in you. You don’t need to know about what your boys were willing to do for you. You don’t know about how much blood your new family spills for you.)

(You don’t need to know that your ex didn’t die from a joker goon, but from Dick Grayson‘s hand. You don’t need to know that Bruce saw it, but didn’t say anything because that man was the main threat to your relationship.)

You have a happy ending with the man you love and the kids you adore.(And they will ensure it stays that way.)