#platonically tho

Michelle wheeler in a pretty nightgown. She probably just woke up next to him in the middle of the night. With her head in her hands, she's nothing more than his wife. And when she thought about Willow, all of those years ago, she's standing face to face with "I told you so"

and khoa, halfway, grins and makes eye contact with bruce. he doesn't particularly want to defend the kids, but he does want to tease bruce.

"hypocritical to lecture them like this, don't you think? I seem to recall a string of cases in Algeria when we were 14..."

khoa doesn't get to finish his sentence because Bruce already shot up out of his seat, laughing and embarrassed, and is covering khoa's mouth with one palm, the other arm hooked around khoa's shoulder.

bruce’s momentum has him stumbling into khoa’s arms, a graceless move he allows because he knows khoa will keep him upright. and he does; khoa’s hands find themselves around bruce’s waist, just above his hips, in an instant.

"I would like to maintain some dignity among my kids," he huffs, but there's a twinkle in his eyes and a fondness to his gaze as he looks at khoa and thinks of their past.

and, god, the JEALOUSY emanating from behind bruce. dick especially hates that he doesn't know about the string of cases, didn't know bruce when he was 14, that he's left out of the loop like this. every robin is possessive of batman, it's built into the love and trust and partnership of the dynamic. but dick prided himself on being the oldest, the first, the trailblazer. khoa is a painful reminder that he's not.

but bruce looks so fond, and his eyes are curved in that delighted way and there's a flush on his cheeks and the back of his neck. bruce is leaning his body into khoa's, still covering his mouth as he murmurs something, and dick hates that the lightness in his shoulders was caused by someone else.

jason is making fake retching sounds, but dick can tell he's jealous too, they all are, at ghostmaker knowing a version of bruce they'll never meet. gritting his teeth beneath a performer's smile, dick calls out, "you can't just leave us high and dry like that, B! What happened when you were 14?"

"you don't have to tell us," tim adds, "but we'll find out anyways. so it's best if we just hear it from you."

bruce groans and finally removes his hand from khoa's mouth, glaring at the man while he wipes his palm on his shirt.

I was rewatching Twisted while working on some projects and this scene reminded me of them lol

So they're definitely platonic (to me at least, it's perfectly fine if you ship them) but can we all agree that they'd be affectionate?

Like- they'd cuddle, but platonically ya know? And you know when someone hugs you and that person would give you a lil smooch on the top of your head? They'd do that, I think