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[pulvisetumbrasumus]

I don't need this.

I don't want this, and it won't work. You don't understand a single thing about me if you think it even might. I'm not like them. I chose this. I don't need to be fixed. I don't need therapy. I don't need this.

Send me as her Warden if you have to make me anything. I'm not one of your damaged victims. I'm the one who protects the people like them. If you can't grasp that fundamental fact we're going nowhere.

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[savedbatman]

[What? no. no they just got you back.]

You do good.

You're good.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

If I protect Gotham it's enough.

I planned for being incarcerated. But not like this.

[snaketrap]

Bit redundant there, don't you think?

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Eloquence isn't my strong suit.

[ichoosefight]

I'm not saying you need therapy, and I'm totally not saying you don't... but the barge is totally not the place to get it.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[The children. He heard about them. He eyes this one up speculatively and then with a disapproving frown. What kind of psychopath enlists someone this young?]

I agree.

[Pause. A long one.]

What's your name?

Cats do what they want.

[imnotsure]

Please hit him.

Hit him hard. I don't think he gets the message. If anything "Not being a rich tool" is something he could be redeemed for. but.

[unbiasedchance]

All this is making me wish I was back there. It'd be a family reunion.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Harvey.

[He had braced for this. Did the research. Told himself it was likely.

Harvey. (The only one worse would be Rachel.)]

Did it help?

[lethalforce]

I'm sure nine out of ten doctors would disagree.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

And are you one of them?

[buriedenough]

[Bruce bro. BRUCE BRO.]

Should I get your coat, Master Wayne?

[You need therapy so much and Alfred is so happy you're getting the chance to go through with it.

........ Even if it means being kidnapped to a hell barge.]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Alfred THANK GOD, they're all against him and they keep being jerks and help

In reality, Bruce stares. No. He was wrong. This is as bad as Harvey. You left, he wants to say, you left, what does it matter to you, you left me to fail on my own, but he knows at least enough to hear the boy who would have been lost in that house alone to not say it.]

I've been colder.

[Not. The. Point. Bruce.]

[hungryanhorny]

Funny; pretty sure Barbara thought the same thing. [Yeah. She's batgirl's warden. She might be a fan? But she isn't cutting you any slack.]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Barbara Gordon.

[Jim's daughter. His responsibility. And this is who they give her as a Warden.

This is the face of an Inmate who will try to steal yours, Faith.]

Maybe she was right in the first place.

[ladyofgotham]

[Give her a minute, she needs to just stare at you.]

I tried the same argument, more or less. Didn't get me anywhere.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

...you're...older than I was expecting.

[Have staring back.]

[apianoteacher]

[Hello, Bat Party!

...Those are actually not the best parties. Someone always forgets to invite Jason. Then he shows up with the worst housewarming gifts.]

You don't need therapy? [That's it -- no shock and awe at seeing a version of the man that died over a decade ago. This stuff happens.] You are tailor made for therapy.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Bruce hates this party. He hates alternate Batman. He hates Bane. He hates everything. All of you get the hell out of his house.]

I'm not in the mood.

[aceofkillers]

Riiight. You go around in a Halloween costume every night for years on end 'cause you're a model of mental health.

No way am I gonna dispute how much good you done, Bats, but there ain't nobody in the world who would call you sane. More like... hell, what's a good way to put it? A much-needed kind'a crazy, if that makes any sense.

[Or to put it another way, as far as he's concerned Batman is the one inmate who ought to be running the asylum. Damn right he should be a Warden.]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Finally. Someone who understands.]

I'm not saying I'm sane, I'm saying it doesn't matter one way or the other if I get results. If that makes me crazy, well. I dress up in a batsuit and fight crime. I think we can allow I have issues.

[thestarspangledman]

Well, there are -- people I know to be heroes as inmates, there. It maybe couldn't hurt, is what I'm saying.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

I'm not a hero.

[It's not about that.]

I know where I belong and what I have to do. This place can wait, at worst.

[unweeping_willow]

You might like it.


ooc: Because one character isn't enough? >,> And because Barbara and Willow might potentially be a Thing one day, so I want to know how she'd interact with Bruce. :|

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

I doubt it.

[OOC: THE MORE THE...MISERABLER Bruce hates his life. But I'm having fun :D]

[laughingalltheway]

[ My my, aren't you popular? The Joker's all smiles as he speaks. ]

Now now, batty, shouldn't you look happier than that? Why, I'd have to say you look positively, ah, disappointing. Why, where's that fire of yours? You're not one to crumble so easily.

It's almost as if you've gone soft.

[ He pauses, his big red smile scrunching up as he frowns. ]

Now, tell me I'm wrong, won't you?

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Now, Bruce thinks, now he knows this is hell. Strange. He never believed in an afterlife outside of memory, but he'd pictured hell as darker. The fact it's all psychological torment isn't a shock, though.

And here's the devil.]

Eight years. Eight years I stayed away so you'd have nothing to play with. And then when my city burned it had nothing to do with you.

Did you laugh?

[wing_of_night]

Alright Bruce, spill it. What's going on this time?

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Damn it.]

Nothing.

Could you introduce yourself before you launch into how I destroyed your life? I'm making a list.

[gothamscop]

...You're going?

[Trying not to be upset]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Not by choice.

[At least you're an ally he can count on. One wjo isn't thirteen.]

I need--just keep them going, Officer Blake. Keep them alive. I'm not abandoning you.

[slayage]

[All the Feels for Buffy here because she got really close with the last version of you that was here.

Ah well. Mun's making her suffer through it.]

Being considered as an inmate, huh. [:|] Pretty rough. At least there aren't actual chains and bars. And you don't need to worry about pub access with the whole I don't drink thing.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Honestly anyone who fake!knows him but also doesn't accuse him of making them footsoldiers at twelve will at least be so relatively comforting he'll like her almost reflexively?]

I'm thinking of changing my policy.

[bodilesswarrior]

[Flatly.] I've been saying you needed therapy for years.

[And her voice softens.] We can be damaged protectors, you know. It's not mutually exclusive.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[Shortly:]

That's great, since I don't know you.

[He gets that you're Barbara Gordon (another one) but he's excruciatingly tired of this false recognition.

Especially when, while he knows he has faults, none of them include the ones that are putting him in the position of arguing with clearly traumatized victims of a controlling psychopath.]

[an_abomination]

Being an Inmate doesn't make someone a "damaged victim".

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

I can see it also includes the delusional and the severely abused.

I was still being inappropriately hyperbolic. But I am sure I don't belong in the category.

[diedinnewyork]

...Oh god. Here comes another for the pity party.

Let me give you a piece of advice friend. Don't.

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

Let me give you some back: stay off my sonar.

[peektuttut]

No. Absolutely not. He can't bring you here as an inmate.

[Even if you're frustrating alterna-Bruce, he can already tell you're not an Owlman type alterna-Bruce and this is Not Okay Admiral, Tim will find you and kick your ass.]

[pulvisetumbrasumus]

[They did say there were four. Bruce looks at this one tiredly, and then--with a twist, because this one seems to believe the most.]

I think I've changed my mind about that. Who are you?

... this is a late comment :c

[terminates]

[ A Bat from another universe. If only he could be surprised. ]

Pull out while you still can.