BRUCE & PAIN
Migraines
These started in his 20s, though at the time he experienced them far less frequently as he does now in his 30s. Bruce often has difficulty anticipating an attack, due to the fact that his body is in a near constant state of fight/flight or in a substantial amount of pain otherwise from his nightly vigilante antics. When a migraine does hit him, he can be disoriented and nauseous, and it's typically very obvious that he is unwell despite his seemingly 'natural' sickly veneer.
Photophobia
Bruce's photophobia is a direct symptom of his migraines; that is, this is when his photophobia is at its most extreme. However, it is a persistent ailment that he experiences even when he is not amidst a migraine attack. He works far too often with screens though they give him the most trouble when it comes to this pain.
Tinnitus
Ringing in his ears comes and goes as a result of various injuries and proximity to gunfire and other explosives sustained throughout his years as the Batman.
Chronic pain
Bruce is a textbook case of fibromyalgia if he were to allow himself the diagnosis. As it is, he doesn't allow it; also, he has a very high pain tolerance and most days simply pops an Excedrin at the behest of his big brother or, of course, jabs himself with some adrenaline.
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The Suit blocks out the wet chill coming off the water, but beneath all that leather and weight, something still cools and dampens. Later, when Bruce peels out of his self - employed uniform, he’ll have to unstick himself from the first layer beneath sitting against his skin. Sokol isn’t the only one due for a chafing. The Detective isn’t concerned by the grime though; it’ll be the bruising underneath that’ll really do him in.
Abel keeps a watchful eye on Cain, somehow all at once wary and trusting. No one’s coming up here tonight; sirens are cacophonous and echoing around them, but Arthur’s little brother doesn’t stray for the sake of justice. The Batman’s milk - lensed gaze is unflinching even in spite of Joker’s own flighty stare. The misting wind at this height shunts all carcinogenic smoke from that hacking laugh, though it’s a drop in the bucket for the air quality in this city.
Sharp pain is blooming at the base of Bruce’s skull. He’s stopped looking at the Bat Signal for fear of exacerbating that hurt and wetting his tongue with a coat of nausea - induced saliva. Instead, he angles naturally closer to Arthur, what with his big brother’s imploring grip. That’s good; Joker’s words have the anticipated effect on the Batman.
❝ Don’t– ❞ Heat unfurls behind those contact lenses. If he wasn’t already menacing enough in all his brood and gloom, he might have loosened more fury with how his face darkens. Even with the cowl and Snazaroo Black caked around his eyes, Shakespeare in the Park can’t hold a candle to his glower. Denial sits behind his teeth, which he bares for his brother to scold, and Bruce only barely manages to keep it there. Cain’s on a warpath; Abel’s left to bleed in the dust.
Joker makes little attempt to pander to an audience and Bruce won’t dish out a laugh track for him either. His headache worsens with Arthur's declared sentencing of them both. ❝ You know she’ll drive me off the cliff herself with or without the motivation. ❞ He doesn’t even try to shape that one with humor. Bruce doesn’t know he’s trembling beneath his brother’s hold, but if he did, he’d hope the Suit takes the brunt of the movement that Joker won’t notice. His luck isn’t that great though. ❝ And, ❞ his stare is pained and accompanied by a mirrored grip of his own to Arthur’s opposite arm, ❝ of course I will. You– You don’t have to ask me that. I want you to know that you don’t– You don’t have to ask me that. Ever. ❞ Bruce grimaces. ❝ Even if she will inevitably blow me up. ❞
Joker doesn’t realize it’s begun to rain until a sinister sizzling acoustic of those little bullets bouncing off the Bat-Signal alerts him. He keeps his face turned from that jaundiced beacon that projects a muddy wash that, maybe if one tilts their head, vaguely forms the outline of some sad bat against the clouds. The same beads that slip in fine rivulets down the Bat-suit cling to Werewolf’s mane and polyester suit.
Keeping his head angled proffers Tragedy to the elements. Precipitation will likely snag the crying diamond under his left eye and further dilute it.
The Batman retains his older brother’s fingertips so they can continue threading his theme together before his eyes, but Sokol’s freed to trot under scaffolding near the elevator shaft to keep dry. Faint traces of diffidence dissuade the hybrid from leaving his charge, but Werewolf emits a hissing sound to let the hulking wolf-dog know he has permission to head for the makeshift awning and sit so his harness and coat don’t soak through to his skin and chafe him. It will on the way home anyway unless his little brother offers a lift to the nearest subway station…or door to door service. Gotham can wait. Crime doesn’t care for the weather, but if this city truly came first his younger brother would’ve bolted for the nearest armed robbery already.
It’s a matter of seconds before his cigarette’s saturated. One final exaggerated drag fills Joker’s lungs, though his ribcage doesn’t bloat as well as it should, leading into an unproductive cough. Werewolf hides his diluting face behind his wrist, hacks into it, then checks Sokol to ensure the animal’s still parked. Sleet-like pellets strike him in the face. Anything off the Bay will cut to the bone, but Joker's clothing is secondhand from the seventies. It wasn’t sewn for durability.
His filthy death rattle of a laugh doesn’t sate how fast his heart beats anymore than it stills his shaking leg. Gordon is even less likely to intrude upon them now unless Bruce has been generous enough to dole out a Bat-Frogg Togg to his favorite cop.
“You do know…” Joker's green eyes flash like road flares in the dark toward his little brother, though he hasn’t physically turned his face. Those lanterns beckon-call The Batman’s clouded gaze in the darkness. “I still belong in there, don’t you? Me and my Nixie.” Rainfall stubs his cigarette for him. Joker keeps the stick for its bitter taste, though he adds, “Entering my rat era,” as if he’d ever left. “But uh…I won’t…let them send her back,” droplets drag the scarlet brows painted on his forehead into twenty narrow rivers that seep into his real set, “When I am locked back up,” he anticipates a fist with all the power of a steam engine landing on the bridge of his nose, his eye socket, throat, or chest. Joker squares his shoulders and prepares shifting from foot to foot in a subtle oscillation to take such impact. His hand remains locked on Bruce’s arm for now. As long as his little brother keeps it there. “And it’ll always be a when…you’re not that naive…I need you to look after my wife and kids. I don't care if she tells you to drive off a cliff, you support her.”
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guys…
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PENGU PENGU PENGU
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thinking very much about all the upgrades to the batcave bruce is working on. and also. car garage.
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❝ I could go out with a bang. ❞
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ—ㅤTRENCH ( accepting! )
Bruce’s big brother might’ve wiped his fingers for him with a disinfectant wipe if he’d been quick enough. As it were, Bruce is two mouthfuls into his cheeseburger and he thinks he might have been too hasty if the wad of paper wrapping caught between his teeth is anything to go by. Bruce swallows it anyway, sparing Arthur the displeasure of his chewed up food had he elected to spit it out. He doesn't even grimace.
The youngest Wayne currently plays passenger princess. On his side, he’s hunched his shoulders like some sort of wild animal and not at all the finely bred billionaire prince he is. He’s never had to hunt for his food in his life, but he looks like he’s wary of @jokethur stealing one of the fries in his lap. Bruce isn’t even aware that he’s doing it; he’s onto his second cheeseburger now.
❝ Maybe don’t, ❞ Bruce suggests between one handful of fries and the next. There’s grease in the corner of his mouth, which he thumbs away at last with a measure of delicate finesse. Beside him in the driver’s seat, Arthur is looking equal parts disgusted and fond. Bruce isn’t bothered. He snares his brother’s attention further with uncomfortably held eye contact when he takes his next too - large bite and grins stupidly around his chewing. After he swallows, he elaborates drily, ❝ Nix is already out to get me. I’m not giving her another reason to hang my head on the mantle. ❞
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🐦⬛ 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐇, 𝚙𝚝. 𝟷 —quotes taken from the album of the same name by twenty one pilots. some edits have been made to allow for rp purposes. feel free to adjust for pronouns/names/etc.
❝ Cover me. ❞
❝ I can't believe how much I hate. ❞
❝ I'll be right here. ❞
❝ You'll have to grab my throat and lift me in the air. ❞
❝ If you need anyone, I'll stop my plans. ❞
❝ You'll have to tie me down and then break both my hands. ❞
❝ Cowards only come through when the hour's late. ❞
❝ Everyone's asleep. ❞
❝ I know I shouldn't say this. ❞
❝ I probably shouldn't show you, but it's way too late. ❞
❝ This is not enough. ❞
❝ Don't feed me to the vultures. ❞
❝ I am a vulture who feeds on pain. ❞
❝ Please keep me down from the ledges. ❞
❝ Can't stop thinking about if and when I die. ❞
❝ We're surrounded. ❞
❝ Are we still in love and is it possible we feel the same? ❞
❝ If I keep moving, they won't know. ❞
❝ What they throw at me's too slow. ❞
❝ I'm just a ghost. ❞
❝ Anybody listening? ❞
❝ I'll morph to someone else. ❞
❝ When everyone you thought you knew deserts your fight, I'll go with you. ❞
❝ I'll go with you. ❞
❝ Stay with me. ❞
❝ You don't need to run. ❞
❝ They're callin' for your head and they're callin' for your name. ❞
❝ Did you know I was grown with you? ❞
❝ If you find yourself in a lion's den, I'll jump right in and pull my pin and go with you. ❞
❝ I'll be back when it's all complete. ❞
❝ I'm runnin' for my life. ❞
❝ I felt I was invincible. ❞
❝ I despise you sometimes. ❞
❝ I'm so sorry I forgot you. ❞
❝ Can you build my house with pieces? ❞
❝ I've always been collected, calm, and chill. ❞
❝ I never look for conflict for the thrill. ❞
❝ For you, I would get beat to smithereens. ❞
❝ What's my problem? ❞
❝ I want you to follow me down to the bottom. ❞
❝ Keep your wits about you while you got 'em. ❞
❝ I could give up and boost up my reputation. ❞
❝ I could go out with a bang. ❞
❝ They would know my name. ❞
❝ Our words are loud, but now I'm talking action. ❞
❝ How could he go if he's got everything? ❞
❝ I'll mourn for a kid, but won't cry for a king. ❞
❝ Promise me this: if I lose to myself, you won't mourn a day. ❞
❝ Move onto someone else. ❞
❝ Can we give this some room for a new point of view? ❞
❝ Well, I'm refusing the weapon. ❞
❝ I'm not disrespecting what was left behind. ❞
❝ Maybe we swap out what it is that we hold so high. ❞
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new top album in may. new single in less than two hours. watch this space.
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i think if you showed bruce some kpop, he'd be really into it
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Lilac is fully aware that the extremely rare left-hand drive 1964 Aston Martin DB5 waits for her only living uncle with a big purple — at her insistence — bow on its hood, yet gasps for Bruce and drops her jaw once the crypt that is Wayne Terminal illuminates. Her platinum blonde pigtails swing as she clasps her hands over her mouth and shouts, “Grandpa’s! Car!” with such zeal, the bat colony wrenches from their slumber and swarms the abandoned station’s ceiling. Joker preemptively ducks should one fly too low and smack him in the head.
“Irinka!” before his three-year-old bolts toward the parked vehicle that Nix spent the past three months fighting with a Belgian collector to repossess for a small fee of thirteen-thousand dollars to ship it back to the states, Joker slides his cigarette between his lips and scoops Lilac off the concrete by her waist. She giggles and swings her feet as if it were gymnastics practice as he flips and shelves her on his hip. Lilac loops an arm across the backs of her father’s uneven shoulders and rests her crown against his. He’s regretting giving her pigtails. The elastic cleaves a trench in his scalp.
Now that his toddler’s bulldozed what should’ve been a surprise, Joker pivots on one heel and adjusts his hold on Lilac so she bumps higher up his right hip. A red polyester curtain falls behind her as she waits for her father to sashay backwards without a sound across the concrete that took him, by him he means Gary, an obscene amount of time to coordinate logistics so it’d arrive unspoiled.
“There’s…” Joker pauses to lower Lilac.
She sprints toward the DB5 and wrenches the passenger door open. Its bright red leather interior pops even under the cave’s scarce light. The child disappears inside the passenger seat and waits for her father and uncle to approach. In the meantime, her iPhone slips from her coat pocket so she can set the PopSocket on its dashboard and track their Grubbs delivery.
Joker tosses a glance over his shoulder to ensure his little daughter’s staying put, then plucks the cigarette from his mouth so he, still walking backward like a tour guide, can punctuate with it, “Only 899 of the model left on Earth…so…” he clears his throat, “Naturally…” Werewolf gestures inside the vehicle once he stands parallel to it, “Your three-year-old birthday twin carved the dashboard with a rock she found on the way in.”
Lilac points out a very long, sad horizontal line that she’s hashed out at the end. Venting a plume of smoke from his nostrils, Joker lifts his eyebrows so the false comma-like pair painted on his forehead vanish.
He clarifies, “She says it’s you.” Another feature catches his eye. Joker throws a finger toward the gearbox on Lilac’s left and further explains, “Apparently Dad swapped the automatic out for a manual. It’s um…” his mouth quirks, “Road-ready, though…” out the side of his mouth he adds, “Not the way you drive. I…”
The placard on the dashboard spells, ‘Thomas Alan Wayne.’ Joker’s hands go up, tossing a smoky thread between the brothers.
As he says, “I-I’m not…exactly…the president of Dad’s fan club either,” Joker’s free hand, though trembling beyond his control, slips a long dark strand behind his little brother’s ear, “But…” His eyes avert, tracking the concrete as if any stagnant shadow might somehow lunge and tear what remains of his throat apart. When no such respite arrives, he blinks until he can feel Melpomene’s elongated diamond begin bleeding blue down his cheek. He shifts his torso and shoulders in a subtle oscillation that ripples from his trunk to his nape and reinvigorates him enough to admit, “He gave me you. And for that, I can’t hate him.” The cigarette returns to his lips. Joker’s thumb roves the slope of his little brother’s cheek as his fingers burrow deeper in his scalp. “I won’t.”
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ—ㅤHAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROOSE!
Bruce clocks the model just as soon as he’s got the whip in his sights; Lilac takes precedence, of course, and her uncle anticipates a launch in his direction with all the steady foundation of a base gymnast prepared for his flyer to somersault in the air above his head. She’s not exactly interested in practicing her parkour so much as she’s proud to show off her vandalism, but Bruce stays ready on the very high chance that she’ll change her mind.
Arthur swings into focus next, though it’s difficult for Bruce, a steadfast gearhead, to listen so intently when he’s more hands - on than he is interested in an instruction manual. Or a lecture. @jokethur probably knows it, but if he’s put off by Bruce’s split attentions, he doesn’t ever show it. Maybe that’s the wound of brotherhood, particularly the eldest’s. Or maybe that’s just Arthur. Bruce wouldn’t know either way; he only knows what’s being taught to him now.
The coupé is pristine barring his niece’s artistic upgrade. Bruce can see that without having to pop the hood or get under the chassis. He’d like to, though. For now, he settles for following his big brother’s lead in this orchestrated dance and forgets to ask how he got away with getting it here without his notice. He’ll remember later when his eyes don’t burn.
Bruce came in on his bike. Removing his helmet reveals the caked black caught in his lashes and smeared past his eye sockets. He drops his utility pack somewhere along the path he tracks along behind Arthur and continues to eye the DB5 like he’s half caught in a dream. It isn’t suspicion, but his veneer is too tempered with emotion to parse it one way or the other. Either way, he doesn’t sniffle because he’s allergic to anything in the Cave.
❝ Did you drive it in? ❞ Bruce poses this question to Lilac when he ducks down to admire the interior. His graffiti - style portrait plucks a wince from him prominent enough to dry his eyes for a moment. ❝ Nice, ❞ is all he offers. And then, his mouth quirking, ❝ Thanks. I like my, uh, hair. ❞
If he looks at Arthur, he knows his throat will close up again. He doesn’t need the excuse, but he gives it to himself as he straightens from his fold into the car and wheels toward his brother without warning. Bruce has nearly half a foot on Arthur; he still tucks his face into the eldest Wayne’s shoulder and curves his both of own until he can lock his arms around his more - than - willing captive. ❝ This is– ❞ His laugh is wet and hacking, as if he’s the one that smokes a pack a day. Bruce squeezes, and then pulls back to reflect his brother’s misty gaze back at him. ❝ You won’t really keep me from test driving it now, will you? ❞
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happy late birthday broosebat you’re okay i guess
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while you’re waking up, remember that bruce may or may not be just now crawling into bed
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clarice lispector why this world: a biography of clarice lispector \\ fernando pessoa i have more souls than one: i see boats moving (tr. jonathan griffin)
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the way robert behaved with suki at the met gala last year is exactly how bruce would be with selina if she'd give him a chance!!!!
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paul spotted
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