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It’s somehow become a tradition to play Fnaf VR during the side effects. Bruce was against it at first, thinking they weren’t taking it seriously, but after observing, he realized how it probably helps with trying to keep calm and aware of your surroundings when panicked.

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Tim at bat burger with Bernard and Dami after school: Uh, yeah, three fries, two jokerized,

Damian, fixing his backpack strap:

Bernard, holding his free hand: And a ten piece of the Night-wings.

Tim: That, and a Bat burger, no ketchup, extra onions, uh... Dami, what do you want?

Damian: . . .

Tim, sighing and leaning down:

Damian, whispering in his ear:

Tim, standing back up: The Ivy salad with Harlequin dressing, thanks.

Cashier: Aaalright, it'll be ready shortly... And can I just say you're such good Father's? ^^

Bernard:

Tim:

Bernard: Thank you—

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Stephanie, who thought it a good idea to take Damian to a park:

Damian: BROWN! THAT CRETIN THREW SAND IN MY EYES!

Stephanie: Cretin..? Alright, alright, c'mere. Just gotta put some water in 'em.

Random Mom: Aw, you're such a good Mom!

Stephanie, who gave her baby up for adoption last she checked: Thanks..?

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Jason, arguing with Tim during patrol:

Tim, storming off, middle finger raised:

Random goon: Teenagers, amiright?

Jason, who's nineteen:

Goon: Don't worry, boss. You're doin' good with 'im.

Jason: ???

Jason: Damn right I am!

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Cassandra, out shopping with Duke: You'd look good with braids.

Duke: You think? I dunno, I'm messin' 'round with hairstyles.

Cashier: Aw, are you his Mom? That's so adorable, I wish my boys took my out shopping.

Cass:

Duke:

Cass: Be nice—

Duke: I am! I am...

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Dick, picking Damian up from school: Dami!

One of Damian's friends: Oh, Damian! Is this your Dad?

Dick: What?

Damian, no hesitation: One of many.

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BONUS

Random aristocrat: And these must be your brothers and sister!

Bruce:

Dick:

Jason:

Tim:

Damian:

Duke:

Cassandra:

Bruce, actually hurt: These are my children :(

Dick: It's okay, B—

Duke: Foster child. I'm his— was his foster child. I have parents. I live with my cousin now. Please, he's not my Dad—

Tim: I would literally die if I was Bruce's brother.

Jason: I would literally die if I was Bruce's son.

Cassandra: Jason, stop or I will lobotomize you. That's not above my morals.

Damian: Nor mine.

Bruce: I adopted five of them, I have papers! I got to put my last name on them and everything, here let me get their birth certificates, I have those—

Jason: Bruce, no, I will pull out my death certificate!

Bruce: That also has our last name on it, that's fine—

Damian: Father, no, I have three separate birth certificates from being born and adopted twice!

Jason: Same.

*Tim appears in front of Dick*

Tim: Dick, where do you have more toothpaste?

Dick, confused: Wait, what? Tim? What are you doing in my apartment? When did you even get here?

Tim: Same time as the others did. But that doesn't matter. Where do you store the toothpaste?

Dick: The other? what others? And what do you need toothpaste for?

Tim: I just ne-

Damian,*Walking into the living room*: tt, Grayson I demand you to tell me where there are more pillows?

Stephanie,*Beside Damian*: Dickkk, Cass wanna know if you have any candles, and I wanna know where you store bleach.

Dick: Steph, Dami your also here?

Stephanie: Cass and Duke too

Dick: CASS AND DUKE TOO!! WHAT? ARE THERE MORE PEOPLE IN MY APARTMENT THAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT!?

Jason,*Coming into the living room*: Yo Dick, you're out of food. When will you order takeout?

Dick: JASON TOO

Stephanie: To be fair, we didn't know Jason was here.

Damian: tt, What are you doing here Todd you said, you had something really important to do.

Jason having his priorities straight fr

(Also how his loved ones feel in regards to his slow mental deterioration, and by loved ones i mean Clark because c’monnn)

My opinion is that most people don't understand Batman's "no kill rule" and how fundamentally important it is to his character and to him as a person.

The typical answer most people get to this question is the fear of Bruce "that if I cross this line once then where do I stop?" Or "if I took a life of a murder then I change nothing but become a murder myself" and that are the reasons that he tries to convince him, to make himself believe in his rule.

But I think it's far more nuanced than that. See trauma is a very fickle thing, it's not something that only makes someone depressed or gets triggered by specific actions or words, it sticks to one's brain, especially if one goes through something traumatizing early in their life.

For example Bruce, he saw his parents getting murdered in front of him with his own eyes, he saw the life leaving their eyes and leaving behind nothing but shells of a body, he saw how someone's carelessness and disregard for mortal life and how it affected his own to the points of irrevocable ruins. And the thing is that it stuck with Bruce, permanently.

The thing is that trauma leads people to do things differently, it affects the person's entire life, it controls their moods, their mental attributes, their thought process, their everything. Especially in Bruce's case, who shaped how whole life because of what happened to his parents.

Bruce encountered something so deeply traumatic when he was just a kid, something that his mind didn't have the strength to witness or process in any remotely healthy way and it broke some part of him forever. Trauma is never shallow, and it's not visible easily. Even when the individual knows that they have trauma they don't sometimes see how deeply it affects them and their life.

So the answer is not Bruce will not kill people, the answer is that he can't, he physically cannot take a life. In Bruce's case, witnessing his parents death created this pathological obsession, this compulsion in his brain to preserve life at any costs.

Bruce couldn't kill someone even if he tried, the incident left such a harrowing trauma on his young brain that it put a mental block inside his subconscious against taking human life.

I believe that if Bruce were a non-traumatized person and a parent then there is a chance that Bruce would have killed the joker for killing Jason but he is not, he is a deeply traumatized individual,and preserving human life is not a matter of if for him, it's a matter of must.

And if there's a day when Bruce has to break this rule of his, he will kill himself along with it, he would not survive it. It's just not possible.

Part 20

In Detective Comics #982, after Duke survives an explosion, but the one he was trying to save dies, Bruce comforts him: “Steady, son… You’re going to be all right.”

In Batman and Robin Eternal #10, Azrael calls Tim and Jason “two brothers in red”.

In the same issue, Jason calls Tim “kid”.

Truth and Justice #18 features Ra’s offering Damian immortality. Babs tells Damian they are all his family and Bruce supports him.

In Batman & Robin Eternal #2, Dick refers to Tim and Jason as “two men I know like brothers”.

In Batman & Robin Eternal #16, Jason says in a message to Dick: “We started as an army. We chose to be a family.”

Duke refers to Cass as “sis” in Batman and the Outsiders #11: