bruce doesn’t trust the food in the manor but he also just doesn’t give a shit anymore. alfred has drugged him so many times to force him to rest or take a break that, at this point, bruce is used to handing off his autonomy to the man. it stopped registering as something he should fight for when he was 10. he knows, abstractly, that he should have ownership of his own body; at least, he knows it well enough to ensure his kids are safe from it even as bruce lives it.
but his training years reinforced the idea that his body is not his own. he gave ownership of his body to whomever he called master, let them command anything if they promised it would make him better. and, well, at least alfred does it out of love, right? or- or some semblance of affection? residual care from when bruce was still tolerable, at the very least. yes, bruce will take it as a form of care from the man. he gets so little others, surely he can have this?
