does bruce go to extreme lengths to continue the “bruce is dating batman” charade (like changing between bruce and batman several times during a dinner bc the kids prepared it as a father’s day gift or do the batkids just continue to assume things (like bruce comes out of a shower (is there a shower? lol) in the batcave and dick is just like “why did u shower here bru—oh god. ew! i can never use that shower ever again”) and bruce just rolls with it? lmao i love your manor-dad fic so much
Anon: I love Manor-Dad lets me drive the batmobile! On “date nights”, is Bruce ever forced to change multiple times between “Bruce Wayne” and Batman for his kids’ sakes when they check to see how the romantic evening is going?
Short answer? Because the long answer is still in the works just haven’t had time to write properly because of exam times
No because Bruce is resigned to his fate but he’s not going this far to keep up his kids’ make believe once he wanted them to know
But that’s fine cause his kids don’t need to see him together with his alter ego, they know they don’t have much time together and everything runs on a strict schedule
Stuff like father’s day? Bruce gets the late mornings, moons and afternoons. Batman gets the evenings and nights and early mornings
Father’s day presents are wild. Bruce gets arts ‘n’ crafts. It’s “””forbidden””” to buy something for him
Actually Dick just set the gift bar way to high in his first year by making a cake from the recipe book of Bruce’s mother
Jason, 12 years old: “What the hell, Dick? Couldn’t you have just bought a tie? Isn’t that what you regularly do?”
Dick, 17: “You habe no idea what to get him, do you.”
Jason: “No, I’ve never done Father’s day before, but I’ll outdo you.”
Jason recited Shakespeare.
The following kids all found their own niche of gifts to give Bruce
Batman also gets handmade stuff but more along the lines of
Dick & Barbara, age 14 and 16 respectively: “We solves your case for you, Old man.”
Bruce, 28, thinking off the high profile gruesome child murders he hadn’t even told them about: “You dID WHAT?!”
Dick and Babs meant the stolen cars on Main Street case
Ever since there is a “safe case” filing system for the kids to pick cases from
Other gifts include: new gadgets, cleaning up safe houses, outshining all the other JL side kicks and making Bruce very smug.
Also dinner. They get dinner in the Batcave.
They sat on the floor in the first year because there wasn’t a table yet. The only table Bruce needed were his desk and the one to cut up bodies on
Alfred threw a fit and ever since there’s a table
That keeps getting bigger
Jason starts calling it The Round Table by the once Cass joins. He also additionally makes Batman a glittery crown together with Cass that year. It’s pink and has plastic diamonds and it usually sits on the first Batman outfit in one of the cases
Romantic evenings Bruce spends by himself sleeping or working
Bruce: “Where exactly would we go for a romantic evening? It’s Batman.”
Dick, 10 and dedicated to his new parents and also 10/10 convinced Clark should be the best man at the #BatWayne wedding: “Fortress of Solitude”
So whenever the kids make time for Bruce and Batman, Bruce goes over to Clark’s or one of the safe houses the kids don’t monitor and relaxes for a few hours
Clark: “What are you working on?”
Bruce, without looking up: “Jack the Ripper copy cat case.”
Or works the cases he doesn’t want the kids to see
And yes, the older Dick gets, the less uuuh personally invested he gets in Bruce’s and Batman’s relationship
Batman’s nocturnal. He knows that because he could always sneak into Bruce’s bed as a kid and nobody was there
But honestly? Nowadays he doesn’t want to know why Bruce looks like he ran a marathon after Batman and Robin came back from patrol
Or what he was doing in the showers
It’s gross enough when Batman smiles whenever he sees the Wayne name on some project in the city
How can two people be so in love with each other?
Barbara: “Relationship goals right there.”
Super happy to hear you like this story! Updates will have two wait a few weeks rn because I have exams coming up in the next two weeks. Joy.
