#im so scared for bruce

[roseworth]

ok i made it. rate my chart.

#im open to criticism. tentatively. as long as you guys behave. #i moved dick tim and duke around bc they were originally too close together that it was hard to see the differences #it also originally said 'sees bruce as a father' but i figured dad was more accurate #batfam #dc #(<- tags for my own organization purposes but im so scared someones gonna see this in the main tag fhdaskjfhasd)

[whumpypepsigal]

so i found a new blorbo CHARLES SUN and…

you would have to sedate me i’m sorry

*feral* the show is so good, excellently paced and well-acted…. plus, it has all the stuff we enjoy the most:

whump, crime family, family drama, daddy issues (MAJOR!), mommy issues (MAJOR!), well-done action sequences, trauma, “protect the family” sense of duty mindset, lots of baking (by my poor blorbo charles as a coping mechanism), sibling issues, oldest son vs youngest son dynamic (- two brothers, who have both spent their lives competing for attention, approval, and freedom; in their own different ways -), conflicted tortured oldest son, did i mention major daddy/mommy issues and PLENTY OF THE GOOD OL’ EMOTIONAL WHUMP.

and oh their troubled mother is played by THEE MICHELLE YEOH !!!!!!! ✨MOTHER✨

ahhhh charles, his father brainwashed him, turned him into a ruthless killer and put him through so much trauma. my man just wants to have a normal life, bake pastries etc and reconnect with his mother and brother. like look at him (HE NEEDS A HUG AND SEVERAL CHURROS)

i am a sucker for this type of genre. 10/10 no notes. HIGHLY RECOMMEND MY FRIENDS, GO WATCH IT 🎉.

#🚨made some gifs so will post it soon-ish🚨 #i have again fallen deep in love with another netflix show so now gotta get worried if they will renew it or not FML #the brothers sun spoilers #the brothers sun #the brothers sun netflix #eileen sun #charles sun #bruce sun #michelle yeoh #justin chien #sam song li #yeah my first 2024 hyperfixation started off good lol #im on my second rewatch at the moment #obsessed!!!!! #the way charles turns into a scared little puppy whenever he sees his ruthless triad leader father #the scenes with the brothers and their mother are my fav acting scenes… so full of angst heartbreak palpable emotional pain ahhhhhh #plus the soundtracks in the series are absolute bangers #my rants #my posts

[antrunner]

idc if you think drawing fat people is hard. get better

#this doesnt just apply to him it applies to every canonically fat character #people who draw ted kord skinny scare me so bad #let characters be FAT!!!! ITS NOT A BAD WORD!! IT ISNT SCARY!! ITS NATURAL #im making this after seeing so much scary fanart #trolls #trolls 3 #bruce trolls #his happiness is reflected in his body and its so wonderful!!!!!!!!!!

[hauntingblue]

Genuinely, what the hell is this

#did they get talia and selina confused or something??????? #and jason.... god.... from nearly killing criminals with his hands to being carried by bruce bc he is so scared he cant run.... #and yeah they are different writers but???? did they even talk before writing all this???? #and then STILL talia didnt train jason.... she just sent him to teachers. im just ahdkahdk #talking tag #reading gotham war

[mamawasatesttube]

that last post reminds me of how, similarly, it drives me up the wall whenever fandom (esp with regards to timkon) portrays kon as completely and utterly spineless and intimidated when it comes to bruce. (i mean, i'm not surprised, bc this comes from the same place as the content where tim is a fainting victorian maiden who needs to be protected by her strong stoic owner i mean father, which is definitely not a homophobic trope rooted in misogyny at all, but. that's a complaint for a different post.)

like, bruce's relationship with kon has admittedly been done differently by different writers and all, but at no point has kon ever backed down to him. during hypertime arc, bruce is cordial and even warm, in his way, as they send kon off:

later, towards the end of superboy '94, when kon and cass get into trouble and nearly get themselves killed, kon sees bruce being harsh on cass about it and inserts himself to demand he get half the blame and half the punishment, because it wasn't all on her. (i personally think the way bruce talks here is extremely cringefail and shitty, like... let's not make batman parrot racist rhetoric thanks, but. i blame that on writers moreso than the character.)

like, sure, he's a little hesitant (the "s-sir..." gets me.) but not enough to hold back an ounce in telling batman he's being unfair and an ass. he's not a shrinking violet just bc batman is ooo scary.

also coming to mind are:

a) the panels from batgirl (2000) where bruce is being an extremely overprotective and controlling figure over the idea of cass and kon being friends and clark tells him off for this (it's not directly kon interacting with bruce, but feels... relevant, lol, to the topic of bruce threatening kon and trying to scare him off in that possessive, steeped-in-misogyny way), as well as

b) the ones from tt03 where kon goes to gotham looking for tim, runs into bruce and steph-as-robin, and flips out like WHERE is tim, and bruce is just like. use your superhearing and figure it out. (note that he doesn't try to kick him out of gotham just for being there, either.)

i didn't include those last two bc i don't have them saved and frankly this post is long enough as is, but. you get the idea. kon isn't scared of batman. batman even likes him sometimes. and batman trying to intimidate him on purpose is something clark gets mad about.

#kon #bruce #timkon #rimi talks #maybe at this point i need to accept sometimes i write lil mini essays and i need a meta tag :/ #anyway im just saying. the shovel talk trope is fucking stupid on so many counts like #kon tells bruce to stop being an asshole. he will never be scared by any of the others lol #also the boy literally hands out a kryptonite stake to anyone he dates like ''oh just in case you need to kill me!'' #try to shovel talk that and he'll be like oh yes if you think it's better if i'm dead actually i super get that #and if you get to that point tim is going on the warpath i think. against you . #but. i also think any of the bats doing a shovel talk over tim is ooc to begin with #anyway

[bruciemilf]

Whatever you do, don't imagine little Bruce Wayne trying to shake his parents awake; Don't picture him trying to restart their hearts while their blood is drying on his face. Don't think about little hands drenched with red. Don't think about Bruce laying on Thomas' corpse to be held for the last time before they go in the ground.

#im so. fucking. emo. do you ever think that he was ALONE with his parents' bodies until the GCPD arrived. do you think that he must've #tried so hard to save them. because they're not dead. they cant be. they're just SLEEPING. he just has to wait and they'll wake up #and he'll tell alfred on them for scaring him #bruce wayne #dc #dc comics #text #batman #im. god.

[ghostlyleech]

me when i get a utrh angst edit on my fyp and the comments are filled with jason haters:

(i hate when people hate on jason or bruce for what happened during utrh like they both had their reasons and were both valid for them it doesn't make one more right then the other tho and definitely doesn't warrant hate for either of them)

#like im not saying that he's a saint or anything lots of the things he did was terrible and even with the whole pit rage thing #and talia's manipulating him he still did bad things #but the comments were acting like bruce was completely right like yeah it was bad that jason taunted him with dick's(supposed) death #but he was also angry and scared and grieving #they both were #they both made mistakes but it doesnt make one or the other right or wrong they both had their reasons for doing the things they did #just the comments calling jason an idiot and saying he was making it about himself like yeah?? it was literally HIS death #like yeah bruce suffered from grief for so long but like he wasn't the one who died and came back to see his murderer still alive #rant #batfam #jason todd #rant post #batman #bruce wayne #batman and robin #under the red hood

[blackbatcass]

No man’s land issue #0 had it ALL. Talia was there. Helena kicked ass and Bruce actually approved of & respected her for once. Bruce had to wrestle with losing gotham and what that meant for Batman. ‘I’ve been Bruce Wayne for a week. I HATE THIS.’

#batman #bruce wayne #talia al ghul #helena bertinelli #it’s been a while so i think im remembering it correctly. but regardless WHAT a banger of an issue #if you’re too scared to read nml in its entirety at LEAST read this issue

[emerdoodls]

If clark kent doesn't look and sound like he goes to culvers for fun i don't want it

#dc comics #clark kent #superman #kal el #dc universe #the midwesterners love their culvers i promise clark kent goes once a week #im tipsy so i am not even thinking about what im saying but hey im RIGHT #this is brought to u by superman in lego batman #he's not midwestern enough #Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is the MOST midwestern superman ever i love him #my adventures with superman clark is also very very midwestern #why is dc scared of making him more midwestern #dc are cowards tbh #clark kent loves cheese curds #i can feel it in my bones #i think about this a lot #like it haunts me #why isn't he midwestern he deserves it #he probably takes bruce to culvers #midwestern-ifying clark kent

[aeirithgainsborough]

ppl who don’t think tlou2 was a game built purely around shock value, pls pls tell me why they’d have joel and ellie not speaking for two years (soooooooooooooooo ooc lmao) and then kill him off the day after they finally start to make amends/she comes out to him if not for shock value??

#i can’t understand how ppl don’t see it #that is a clear indication they prioritised shock over characters/narrative #ur telling me ellie williams who told joel she’d be more scared without him because everyone else in her life has died or left her #wouldn’t speak to him for 2 years lmaooooo??? be mad he lied sure! but not #not speaking to him looool #they chose that for shock. they chose the timing of everything for shock #gross gross bad rubbish #bruce they should have kept you on and kept neil away im so sorry to you and ellie and joel #anti tlou2 #the last of us spoilers

[martyrbat]

the man who falls – secret origins (1989)

[ID: Two cropped comic pages of Bruce Wayne as a child after falling into a cave and being ambushed by a swarm of bats. There's multiple narration boxes over the pages:

Page One: a three panel sequence of Bruce being rescued by his father. In the first panel, Bruce is screaming with his eyes squeezed shut in fear. He has his fists clenched in front of him and is wearing a reddish pink turtleneck sweater. The narration says, ‘Again, he shrieked — not in terror, but in despair...’ In the second panel, Thomas Wayne is shown from behind in a low angle. He's wearing a red sweater similar to Bruce and is holding a flashlight as he jerks Bruce into him. Above them is bats surrounding them and the broken wood floors that Bruce fell through. The narration continues, ‘The arm curled around him, muffling his voice, and his cheek rubbed against the rough wool of his father's jacket... He squeezed his eyes shut, willing himself to be away from here—’. In the third panel, they're standing outside. The narration reads, ‘When he opened them, he was in the area behind the mansion, in the pale light of the autumn afternoon, and his father's words pounded at him—’. Thomas is kneeling down in front of Bruce in front of the hole he fell in. He's gripping the child's shoulders as he scolds him, “Idiot! I told you never, never to go off alone. Didn't I? Didn't I?” Martha Wayne is behind them with her hand on the side of her face as she looks at them with relief that Bruce is okay.

Page Two: Martha is defending Bruce as Bruce has his head down. Thomas is still squeezing Bruce's shoulders as Martha tells him, “Thomas, he's frightened.” Thomas replies, “He damn well ought to be. He could have been killed.” Martha replaces Thomas's spot in front of Bruce, kneeling to gently place a hand on his upper arm and using a handkerchief to wipe his forehead. Bruce is standing with his fist still clenched and grimacing as Thomas angrily says, “He's got to learn.” Bruce is shown in a low angle, looking up at his mother with wide eyes. The narration continues, ‘He listened to his father's boots crushing the dead grass, and when he could no longer hear them, he dared to ask:’ “Mommy, was I in hell?” Martha soothes, “No, baby, that was just some old cave. You're safe now,” as she hugs him. His cheek is pressed against hers and she has her eyes closed as Bruce still looks uncertain. END ID]

#once again pushing my 'thomas wayne was a piece of shit' propaganda #tied in with the panel of him hitting bruce #and then the alt timeline where they live and martha expresses concern that her eight year old has an obsession with criminology now #and stopped being talkative or wanting to see some train (his special interest) and thomas says good and that it was worth the scare #and ! being autistic. for me when im emotional all sound is so much louder and more overwhelming #the fact that he waited until he couldnt hear his father walking away before asking his mother if he was in hell.... #and being no older than 8 and still waiting. just tensed and taking the verbal lashing and them fighting before speaking up?? yeah. #also think it'll be interesting in the 'bruce is constantly seeing the best in people even shitty people that dont 'deserve' a second #chance or for someone to fully believe they can change. that you do bad things but aren't a bad person. that you can do good and not #be a good person. that its making a choice and that anyone can choose and decide to do better than they were yesterday' #sorta deal yknow? #just the conditioning of forgiveness for something theyre not sorry for and wanting to believe everyone is capable of being good #that traumatized 'mommy was i in hell' like god sorry brucie for the trauma but itll have a payoff in a decade or so trust me kid #also martha?? love her. hes the biggest mama's boy you cant change my mind. #bruce wayne #thomas wayne #martha wayne #baby brucie #crypt's panels #c: secret origins | the man who falls #bruce & martha #bruce's childhood

[asingularstar]

BATMAN: Are you really that scared of me?

ROBIN: Yeah. In a God-fearing way.

#dick grayson #bruce wayne #batfam #hiiii im back on my bullshit #they make me INSANE and yeah the family jewels are the number one dick grayson album ever #i really think more people should play into the fact that dick's canonically scared of bruce #like hes so scared of not meeting his expectations that it warps into a fear of batman itself in a way #not to mention his fear of becoming bruce #honestly the saddest part about this is that i have EVEN MORE panels of bruce calling dick a child soilder #ik that robin and batman is intentionally a darker take but like. man. #dick really goes through it okay

[elms-art-gallery]

DISCLAIMER I AM A SYSTEM DONT EVEN TRY TO START SHIT WITH ME

its MY interpretation of media and I GET TO CHOOSE HOW I PROJECT.

hello i decided to self indulge today. i like playing around with the idea that bruce is a median system (like me hi im part of a median system) and has specific facets for the main parts of his life that work in percentages (as in instead of there being a host they are all fronting all the time and its just different percentages of them fronting which make up “bruce wayne”). 

spades is in charge of the batman/vengeance thing, clubs in internal organization/caretaking along with knowledge retrieval, hearts being the “face” or “normalsona” of the group and in charge of seeking pleasure/fun, and diamonds being a trauma holder and experiences negative emotions for the system.

dont worry he’ll learn.

#im a little scared to main tag this #but i have balls lets go #batman #batman fanart #bruce wayne fanart #bruce wayne #batman headcanon #hal jordan #hes here too #so is jonn and spectre but im not gonna tag them #my art

[rigels-nigels]

Feel like pure shit, just want him back 😩

#thor #anti thor ragnarok #anti taika waititi #the fact i actually kinda hated him when i was younger but still gave his character more respect than tw🤩 #anyway i miss the more shakespearean thor that clearly loved his brother #and wasnt the kind to be intentionally cruel #or lying or manipulative #bruce too 😔 #The way he and hulk were treated and talked abt #iirc hulk is basically like bruces hurt inner child. all the anger and pain and fear given physical (and sentient) form #so when bruce is hurt or scared or angry (in a way that goes past his window of tolerance) that's when hulk tends to (try to) come out #''they're boring characters'' u just dont understand their character!!! their motivations their history!! #(re: bruce and hulk; dont quote me on that im not 100% lol) #anyway brb gotta watch all the thor movies (plus avengers) again to dissect the hell outta them

[terracyte]

ive unfortunately decided that im going to be posting whatever i want from now on im going to be very insufferable mwah mwah i hope you all understand 💌

#ive been basically on hiatus cause of school #but also because i was a little bit scared of posting stuff cause most people follow me for atla or jjk- #im so sorry you guys i am in dc hell #completely understand if you want me off the dash after this but yup yup im gonna be here now <33 #can i interest you in my one and only THE bruce wayne he is very damaged but hes cool and i love him #terrables

[max-the-hecker]

saw your tags on my post and heck yeah I share the same feelings! and if you ever want to rant or talk about jason or any of the batfam then I'm all ears!

(really I wanna learn all about them but I can not for the life of me focus on the comics rn)

WEIDODNDD8EN HELLO

I honestly barely know anything I just know I like turning them in my head like a piece of fried chicken ♡♡♡

And I can't focus on the comics either 😭😭😭😭😭😭

My brain has been so fried lately that I can't read anything not even fanfics and it sucks☹️☹️

#and im always to scared to talk abt anything BAHEJEHFFJ #but im literally obsessed with tim and bernard i WHWUSBDID #but also tim and kon so i am so torn #someone on this website also said they all start dating and i was like YES PLS #anyways thats just kinda random srry😭😭😭 #im not the person to go to since its not my main fandom☹️☹️☹️ #like theres not alot i know from canon BWUEDHDIDJ i only know what ppl say😭😭😭 #like bruce and clark being boyfriends i like that #anyways srry for spouting all this #actually wait no not sorry this is my post🤔 #well sorry abyways BGAUDRHDI #IM NERVOUS #HEDCANONS AND SHIPS THEYRE CALLED HEADCANONS AND SHIPS I WASNT THINKING AT THE TIME OF THOSE TAGS^^^^^ #okok srry #i hope my tags dont get messed up