#batman!reader

General thoughts related to Batman!Reader:

While the "Brucie" persona is still a thing- it'll not have the same freedom as Bruce actually had. We live in a society that sadly sees women who are sexually loud as evil and deserving of death- Now I'm not saying you're a prude, no, but I am saying that you're scandals are more based on being sighted holding a man's arm and leaning too much into him, being a bimbo on live TV, being overly clumsy and creating chaos rather than sex scandals and getting topless and dancing on the Ice sculptures in the Iceberg Lounge.

Honestly, you could be friendly with someone and I'm sure there'll be someone to go crazy and think there's something there, resulting in a scandal and/or rumours that may end a relationship.

But all that is an extra precaution to make it much harder to connect the dots. Another precaution would definitely be for Batman to be a man rather than a woman. So, while the normal Batman costume is quite light and tight, yours is fully masked, voice changer always on, and on the bulkier side around the chest plate. (I do imagine this version of Reader is built like a fridge, like Bruce is, but I won't really comment on it beyond this)

The experience of living as a woman would heavily influence that decision. While being underestimated as a woman would give you an advantage, Batman was created to induce fear in criminals, most would only get angrier, more unhinged, if they knew a woman beat them up due to pure misogyny.

But also imagine if it was by pure accident- like the voice changer was to keep your identity secret, and the breast plate was because you didn't want to get stabbed as easily in a death zone, and everyone just assumed Batman was a man. You had zero intentions of making another fake identity, but once the public did, you just rolled with it.

I do, however, think that Two-Face and Catwoman know. Catwoman because Batsy slipped and said an exact phrase her dear, klutzy friend said to her a while back, and started connecting the dots from there. And Harvey knows you and already had theories, he connected them when you slipped into old habits and threw fake punches, hiding real ones. He always fell for them with you out of costume, he still fell for them in costume.

Harley may have found out via Dick or Jason slipping and calling out for mom. (You don't let them live this one down even now, when they're grown adults)

Thoughts on the Marvel Universe:

I don't really have an original way for how you get there- similar to the Loki and Eddie ask probably.

Tony Stark is a pure menace- He's flirting. No matter if you are playing the fake persona or the vigilante persona, he's flirting, and if it annoys you, it brings him even more joy. He'll still be the first to console you when missing the kids becomes too much.

Peter Parker, no matter if it's college or high school Peter, is becoming your favorite, secretly. Everyone suspects it, but they have no proof. Peter doesn't mention it when you slip and call him Richard.

You find Wade as much of a menace as Tony, but he does make you laugh- well, puff out air- so he gets fewer glares. Professor X is a menace for different reasons, you really don't appreciate him trying to read your mind.

Natasha, Bucky, and Steve are fun as a group, they, especially Steve, get flustered when you catch them on your own. Natasha and Bucky, mainly because despite everything that's been essentially brainwashed into them, they still have a hard time picking up your footsteps.

The way you get back is by your kids finding you(maybe by bullying John into helping and by pulling at Zatanna's heart strings to also help bully John- Tony would have tried to make something, but after getting attached, he kept "failing" aka messing it up on purpose. You would be fine here, you made friends, Peter likes you- he's fine with adopting kids to make up for the ones you lost.

The kids hated him on the spot. Maybe Dick tried to be nice but that was soon washed away when Tony was too touchy with you and that was a nono even for Harvey, and he's known the man long before he was Two-Face.

Alas, he lets you leave. What could he possibly do? Take you by force? His mind on that changes very quickly when he finds out what Wanda has done, and just for a second, he thinks that he would have done the same. You just may see him again.

Thoughts on the Creepypasta Universe:

I think it'll be very hard to meet a Creepypasta even in their universe, unless you were deliberately thrown in their backyard, or so to speak. And to some degree I like the Mansion head canon, but not in the "Slenderman is a single father, working two jobs" way, but in the "unwilling allies because I need a place to rest you lanky bitch."

I like dad Slendy as much as the average fan, but to me, Slenderman is a pure master manipulator, will act as whoever you need most in that moment if fear and the usual mind manipulation don't work.

I'm very much mixing the Observator and Slenderman here, I'm also a big fan of the Slenderman is a Tulpa/Egregore story line, so I strongly believe he hunts kids because of how easy they believe what they see BUT I do not think he kills/eats them, the kids going missing/dying is a correlation to him but he's not the cause. He needs his victims alive to spread the stories and fears; killing them all won't do him any good. And also imagine if this gives him access to other universes, simply by one person knowing him.

Like if Reader goes back, Slenderman will have a glimpse in that universe, nothing more, because it's just MC that knows about him, and she refuses to spread word about him even in mission debriefs. He needs a strong line of belief to be able to travel between universes.

ANYWAY- coming back to the reader- I think it'll be really easy for her to survive people like Masky, Hoodie, Jeff, Jane, etc, because, sure,e they may have more strength/agility/whatever, she's Batman.

Laughing Jack, The Puppeteer, Jason the Toymaker, etc, creepypastas that rely on mental manipulation of some kind, but that aren't Slenderman or Zalgo(I think they were my first monster crushes) level would also be easy to deal with, considering how easy Batman survives Scarecrow's toxic gas in the Arkham games.

More monster and less human creepypastas like the Rake, the seed eater, smile dog, etc, would put up a good physical fight, but from what I remember, only Ragface has the mental capacity to like foil traps and understand to be careful when hunting.

I don't think there's surviving Slenderman and Zalgo- maybe living for long enough to be saved, but if they don't play games, I strongly believe they'd be able to kill anyone. Now- if Slenderman wanted to add you to his roster of mindless soldiers, he'd definitely use Sally to guilt-trip you and manipulate you.

And for a while, it'll work, but as soon as you can, you will go back to your world. She was dead, it was Dark JL territory that you couldn't really tread without the possibility of angering the poor spirit. You had your own kids to worry about. Really, you'd be more of a trophy rather than a soldier to Slenderman.