cheers to the “bruce wayne is not batman” tag on ao3
or alternatively, au where dr wayne moonlights at doc thompkins clinic where he keeps meeting these teen vigilantes….. WHOSE kids are these? who let these INFANTS out to fight crime? anyway he uses his sleeper detective skills to track down the vigilantes and…??? be their dad??
omg wait. the drake estate also has a cave system underneath that tim finds and opens it up as a base of operations and thats where the bat theme came from. i TAKE your batcave and i SHIFT it one plot of land to the left.
so to be clear, i am Not writing this fic but if i DID for civilian bruce AU….
5 times bruce could pretend the gotham bats were not his children + 1 time he couldn’t
i have no idea what is happening but this is the drama level im proposing for finale
theres no way the kids are subtle about it and one wolf in me wants pure crack with totally oblivious bruce, and the other wolf wants bruce who Knows But Is In Denial. or, in classic batdad fashion, has no idea how to broach the topic.
#wouldnt it be awful if the kids number 1 rule was dont involve bruce so even after red hood rejoined the family jason did not#bcause how do you explain that. and how does jason explain who he is now to a dad he doesnt blame in this au.#and bruce with his sleeper detective skills figures it out and it kills him. his son. his child is alive. and doesnt want bruce to know#so what can bruce do. if he dives into this he has to contend with all the rest. that his children are out there every night#doing great and terrible things and he feels powerless#what if jason is angry at bruce. for letting him die. and if he knows bruce knows what if he leaves gotham again.#at least. at least he knows where the kids are. or how to find them in the news. knows why theyre bruised...#i just had a thought. bruce wayne is not batman. he might be matches malone tho.





















