Everything comes full circle

while cisco has his cute fun shirts, i feel like reverb's got those gift shop shirts haha (alt versions under the cut!)

There's a dry spot in the Gotham crime wave and Dick goes 'hey I found all your cool trainsets, can I put them all together and make one giant railway?' and Bruce is immediately like 'only if I get to do it with you'.

They spend all day putting together one giant railway together and talk about their railway over dinner and afterwards Dick gets tired and Alfred sends him to bed.

Then Alfred sort of pulls him aside and Bruce is only thinking about asking if he can buy them more train tracks and they can make it even BIGGER tomorrow when Alfred calls him a good parent and Bruce just...snaps out of it hard enough to hurt.

Alfred gives him a few words of praise about how good it was that he was looking after the boy by humoring his interests and spending time with him and Bruce just...wasn't thinking about that.

He wanted to play trains with Dick because playing trains is fun and playing with trains with his friend is even more fun and they made a cool big railway and he had fun. At no point was he thinking 'ah yes, as the responsible adult here I will do this childish activity that is beneath me to entertain this child', he just wanted to play trains with his friend. At no point did he consider himself as the adult all day. At most he thought of himself as the taller eight year old.

𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘺. 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘦'𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘮 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘯, 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺... 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘱! 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯: 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘻. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘨𝘭𝘺... 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥.

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He’s so old… so frail. I didn’t think he could hurt me anymore. I figured we could bury our differences… before it was too late.

He gave me a gift… a silver dollar. He tried to make it better. I honestly believe he tried. But he only made it worse.

Literally can’t stop drawing them and every time I finish a doodle I need to make 30 more 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️😭😭