#brubarry

25/05/24

bw: omg, you saved my life again, barry. i'll never forget-- ba: what? anyways...

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EARTH-52 BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN & EARTH-0 BARRY ALLEN/THE FLASH in BATMAN: RED DEATH (2017)

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He gets most of his calorie intake from liquids. Soups, juices, smoothies. He does eat his fair share of solid foods—A lot of his favorites and every variety of dish imaginable, but he always comes back to liquids because they’re easy to consume and passively sip. Protein shakes are a pretty big one, but he usually sips on juices throughout the day.

His guilty pleasure drink is… drumroll please!

Water.

Which surprises Bruce when Barry’s over at the manor one day. Why water when he can have anything that he wants?

Barry does have a favorite drink, it’s something else, but a guilty pleasure? It’s always going to be water.

He explains that with his powers he needs to consume an ungodly amount of sustenance, that every calorie matters. To maximize efficiency he needs to consume an incredible portion of food at every meal and snack in between to keep up with his metabolism.

Water doesn’t have calories, it would hydrate him, but then Barry would still need to keep in mind consuming other things. A bottle of apple juice or an entire watermelon could easily double as both calories and hydration. Sometimes it’s just easier that way. And sometimes he just wants a drink of water. The sweet sweet taste of water at three in the morning, or a chilled glass of water after a hot day in the city.

I prefer their platonic friendship over a romantic or sexual one, because I feel like Bruce needs more friends in his life who aren’t either basically family or basically love interests.

That said! I think it could work okay. Have some headcanons.

-Barry drops by the Bat Cave to steal kisses. Bruce starts to associate the sound of the Speed Force Detection alarms with quickies. It's a whole thing.

-Bruce makes sure to have lots of Barry's favorite foods on hand, not just snacks. Barry is delighted but then Bruce starts having Impulse, Ace, and Avery show up begging for food, too.

-Wally Does Not Approve.

-It's mostly a friends-with-benefits arrangement. With dates.

-Bruce manages to get even more spoiled by having a lover who can go fetch food from anywhere in the world and bring it back still hot.

Only for Bruce to catch feelings and not know how to deal with it, resulting in a lot of self-sabotaging, much to the dismay of all of his children and the entirety of the Justice League >:)

Additional notes about this because I can't write it right now:

- Barry asked why Bruce can't just fake date Dick if he needs a scandal about dating someone that much younger than him, and Bruce had to explain that Jason would probably kill him if he even thought of it, so it's better to just go with someone else entirely

- Bruce was Barry's celebrity crush when he was younger. Barry was mortified to discover that his childhood crush never went away when Bruce just showed up in his apartment to recruit him for the Justice League that one time

- Barry is very intimidated by Bruce's kids just On Principle, but now that he's practically living with them he finds that Dick's actually pretty cool, Jason and Damian are terrifying, and Tim needs a break