#The government ain’t helping but Gotham’s beauty is in its people

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I don’t know why, but I get really tired of fics where they’re like “Bruce has been sheltered his entire life and has absolutely no sense for normal people” as though he didn’t go on a world tour in literally every iteration of his existence before becoming Batman. Yes, he was absolutely sheltered as a teenager, and maybe he still held onto some naïveté in his early Batman years, but Batman literally faces every fucking crime there is, and I bet that little Bruce stubbornly traumatized himself with true crime shows and case studies. One does not become Batman and stay sheltered. Yes, unlike most people, he had the safety net of a home and a fat bank account to return to, but that really only applied in the States with legal identification. This man just kinda traveled the world with like the bare minimum and built a name and network for himself from scratch from pure skill, stubbornness, and his weird Mary Sue aura where everyone wants to fuck him. I can guarantee he’s nearly starved to death on multiple occasions, has slept in the worst conditions possible, and actually been fucking tortured in every sense of the word. You don’t need to be born and raised in poverty to have experienced food insecurities and the worst that humanity has to offer.

Anyway, this is just me just being fed up with the fics and posts where they treat Bruce as if he’s never experienced a single hardship in his life beyond the death of his parents when he was 8 years old. Bruce Wayne is the most empathetic, self-sacrificing motherfucker in Existence. He’s still an over controlling asshole, but he’s self aware and tries to understand why criminals do crime things.

Batman deserves to have a backstory where he actually developed and experienced his own coming-of-age as a mature member of society instead of being some vengeful middle school syndrome kid maneuvering a skin sack of nearly 300 lbs of muscle and fancy technology.

#personal #dc #this is me liking the concept of The Batman #origin story of BRUCE WAYNE #I’d prefer he have his People Are People revelation before becoming Batman #but to each their own #I still dislike when people treat Batman as if he’s JUST a rich guy in a bat costume beating up people just trying to survive #or when they treat Batman like some Holier Than Thou Because Rich People Can’t Understand Being Trapped In Circumstances #I like the takes where the Bats’ patrols are primarily community service efforts #like subtly setting community networks of trustworthy and reliable free clinics shelters and the like #The government ain’t helping but Gotham’s beauty is in its people #Bruce Wayne loves Gotham #and he should deserve to be loved back #Batman is a terrifying force but he is still kind to criminals and victims alike #except when he’s grieving and on the verge of committing murder #in which case he needs to get his sense knocked back into him #god I love people #This whole post is an incoherent ramble