OH GOD okay bruce creating and encouraging codependency in dick and tim when tim becomes robin justifying it to himself thinking it means timbin will have a reason anchoring him down to gotham stronger than robin (since jason ran away in search for family; bruce... your mind... seek therapy please) and dick will have a reason to visit gotham more often, to come back to him in a way.
and it works. dick and tim are very compatible and like each other a lot, so stretching that to spark codependency isn't difficult, and he can see it ties them both solidly to gotham, to each other, and to himself, too.
and then. steph, cass. babs, returning as oracle. jason coming back. damian. kate, duke... their family grows.
but dick and tim's codependency stays. even though they try to adjust, bruce's meddling in their early relationship worked so well that now - there is no getting better, for them.
dick needs tim. and tim needs dick. and they love others, but something desperate claws at them when the other is far, when they can't be sure of each other's safety. they're terribly attached, cuddling and hugging and pda'ing all over the place; more often than not, tim is on dick's lap, or dick's head on tim's. they kiss. bruce knows they have sex, too, because although he wasn't aiming at a sexual or romantic relationship, at the moment it didn't seem like a problem, if it kept them together and strong. in fact, after thinking about it, he encouraged it, though he never let them know he knew.
and now. now bruce has to live with two incestuous sons who can't separate unless the mission dictates it, because he was the one who made them like this in the first place <3 and the rest don't understand why dick and tim are so--close, and weird. some think they're in love and that's it. that they're each other's favourites (and they are jealous because of it) and the weirdness is just... a vigilante-y side effect. babs has an inkling and tries to confront bruce only for bruce to shoot her a really tired look full of regret and asking her if she can solve it. because dick and tim's relationship isn't healthy and they're obsessed with each other and they're--supposed to be brothers. and they are!! but they're also more. so much more. and bruce now has to live with it <3
(meanwhile dick and tim are very in love and stalking each other and ruining any other suitors/romances before they can happen, and fucking behind the scenes. they both know by now what bruce did but can't find it in themselves to try and correct it beyond one first attempt, because it almost drove them insane. they're living together and being absolutely neurotic about it--they scent each other's clothes and massage their cum onto each other and bite and mark and spend all the time they possibly can together joined at the hip. absolute freaks about each other. living their best life <3)
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