Bruce Wayne has been secretly joining all the tea parties thrown by the mothers in Dick's class. He just woke up yesterday with an injured child acrobat in the next room and he needs some guidance. So he's taking this on as part of his new routine. The ladies of the tea party? absolutely adore him.
Linda: Yeah, so I said "No, honey, you can't break the rules we've set. I have to keep my word and you have to keep yours." So I had to ground him for a week.
Bruce, writing down intently: And what did he say?
Linda, fully aware that she is raising the parent in this man: He got upset and slammed doors and threw a bit of a tantrum, but then that evening he apologized for his behavior and we cuddled on the couch and talked about our feelings.
Bruce: Oh.
(Fifteen years later, when Damian enters the academy, he is the head of the tea party and he is the one giving the advice. His children will never know.)
Bruce Wayne calling up his mom friends on the PTA because he just acquired a ten year old child from a dumpster and needs advice on nutrition for a street kid.
Bruce Wayne calling up the tea party ladies and asking for advice on socializing his nine year old neighbor who is about as tame as a raccoon and hasn’t had a hug since he was two years old and it was from Dick.
Bruce Wayne calling up the mother of three daughters who won school pageants and asking how to do a teenage girls hair because he’s got two of them and he wants to be able to do their hair when Barbara isn’t around.
Bruce Wayne calling the mom on the PTA who is a therapist and child psychologist and asking for help to keep his seven year old from stabbing his older brothers with a samurai sword.
Bruce Wayne texting the black mothers in the tea party group chat and asking for advice on hairstyles for his newest foster son.
