Audrey Hepburn by Mark Shaw, 1953
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Audrey Hepburn by Mark Shaw, 1953
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Yandere Alpha Bruce Wayne
Warning: financial abuse, Stalking, Kidnapping, Omegaverse, Yandere themes, Possessiveness, obsessiveness
Authors note: I haven't uploaded in a bit Cause I'm on holiday from uni but now that the next term is starting, I'll procrastinate studying and start writing :D
The first time Bruce Wayne smelled you, the entire gala blurred into background noise.
Champagne, politicians, models—none of it mattered.
Omega.
His omega.
The realization struck the alpha part of him like lightning, ancient and absolute. For a man who controlled everything, who was control, the sudden primal certainty felt almost offensive. He did not lose composure. He did not react without calculation.
And then you walked right past him.
No curtsy. No nervous glance. No subtle attempt to linger in his orbit like everyone else in Gotham. You didn’t even look at him, and that was what followed him long after the gala lights dimmed.
By the time the last guest had gone home, he knew your name.
He knew where you worked, where you lived, the route you took each morning, your favorite café, your friends, your medical history, your heat cycle schedule.
Not because he didn’t trust you.
Because he didn’t trust the world with something that belonged to him.
The Batcave screens glowed with your face while Alfred stood behind him in weighted silence. Even the hum of the computers seemed quieter than usual.
“Sir,” Alfred said carefully, “you’ve monitored heads of state with less intensity.”
Bruce didn’t look away from the screen.
“They aren’t my mate.”
A week later, Wayne Enterprises sponsored the community center where you worked, and he met you properly under fluorescent lights instead of chandeliers.
You were polite. Professional. Distant.
The bond flared the moment he stepped close. Your pulse jumped. Your breath caught. He smelled it—the recognition, the instinct.
Instead of leaning into it, you straightened like someone bracing against a wall.
“I’d prefer if you didn’t use that tone with me,” you said when his voice softened into something too intimate for strangers.
“Which tone?” Bruce asked, though he knew.
“The one that assumes I’m already yours.”
Something cold slid under his ribs. You weren’t supposed to resist. The bond was supposed to pull you to him. That was how it worked.
“You are,” he said quietly.
Your eyes hardened. “I’m not a company acquisition, Mr. Wayne.”
After that conversation, Gotham began to shift in ways that were difficult to call coincidence.
Streetlights near your apartment never flickered again. Crime in your neighborhood dropped sharply. Your rent was quietly lowered. A mugger who grabbed your wrist one night didn’t make it halfway down the block before Batman himself intercepted him.
It didn’t take you long to notice the pattern.
“You’re watching me,” you accused the next time Bruce appeared at the center, blocking your office door with tailored precision.
“I’m protecting you.”
“I didn’t ask for protection.”
“You shouldn’t have to.”
Your scent sharpened—anger layered over the involuntary reaction of an omega standing too close to a powerful alpha. Bruce’s control thinned at the edges.
“You walk home alone. Your building’s security is inadequate. Your heat is in nine days and you don’t have a bonded alpha. Do you have any idea how many predators live in this city?”
Your eyes widened. “You tracked my—”
“You’re my mate,” he said, voice dark and unyielding. “Of course I did.”
“That’s not romantic,” you snapped. “That’s fucking creepy, you weirdo.”
He had been called worse. The word should have meant nothing.
From you, it landed like rejection.
Bruce went very still. The air in the office grew heavy, charged like Gotham before a storm.
“You think this is a game,” he said at last, voice too calm. “You think you’re looking at a man who doesn’t understand boundaries.”
“I think I’m looking at a man who broke into my medical records and timed my heat like it’s a board meeting.”
Your pulse was racing. He could hear it. Smell the fear threading through your anger.
It didn’t push him back. It drew him closer.
“You live in a city where people disappear every night,” he said. “Where monsters wear human faces. Where omegas are trafficked, hunted, sold. And you’re angry because the one person who can make sure that never happens to you is paying attention?”
“I’m angry because you don’t see me as a person,” you shot back. “You see me as something you own.”
Something shifted in his expression then.
Not softness.
Understanding.
“Of course I see you as a person,” Bruce said quietly. “You’re the only person I see.”
After that, the coincidences stopped pretending to be subtle.
The café you liked switched suppliers with Wayne funding. Your landlord was replaced by a Wayne subsidiary. Your best friend received a sudden, life-changing job offer in another city.
Two weeks later, fury carried you up the steps of Wayne Manor unannounced.
Alfred opened the door as though he had been expecting you all along. “Mr. Wayne is in the study.”
Bruce stood by the window when you stormed in, Gotham stretched beneath him like something he personally sustained.
“You moved my friend.”
“She was offered an opportunity.”
“You bought my building.”
“It was structurally unsound.”
“You're meddling with my life.”
He turned slowly, and your breath caught despite yourself.
He looked relieved.
“You’re safer now,” he said.
“I don’t want to be safe if this is the price!”
“You don’t know what the price is,” Bruce replied, stepping closer. “You don’t see what I see. The threats. The probability charts. The names of people who’ve already noticed you because of me.”
Your anger faltered. “What?”
“I tried to let you stay separate from my world,” he continued, something raw threading beneath the control. “I tried to give you distance. But you’re already on the radar. Anyone who watches me long enough will find you.”
Your stomach dropped.
“I am the most dangerous man in this city to be connected to,” he said softly. “Which means you are the most valuable target.”
The room felt smaller.
“So this is protection?” you whispered. “You isolate me? You take away every choice I have?”
He reached for you slowly this time, giving you space to retreat.
You didn’t.
His gloved hand closed around your wrist, not tight, but unbreakable.
“I am removing variables,” he said. “You still have choices.”
“Like what?”
His thumb brushed your pulse point where the bond throbbed.
“You can keep fighting me,” Bruce said, eyes dark and unshakably sincere. “Keep calling me names. Keep pretending you don’t feel this.”
Your breath hitched.
“Or you can come upstairs. There’s a room that’s been yours for weeks. Clothes in your size. Your books. Your tea. The view you stop to look at every morning on your way to work.”
Your heart stuttered.
“You’ve been in my apartment.”
“Of course I have.”
The certainty in his voice sent a chill down your spine.
“You’re insane.”
“No,” Bruce said gently. “I’m prepared.”
He lifted your hand and pressed it flat against his chest. His heartbeat was steady, unshakable.
“Everything in my life is built on contingency plans,” he murmured. “Every outcome accounted for. Every threat neutralized.”
Your fingers trembled.
“What happens if I still say no?”
For the first time, Bruce smiled without charm. It wasn’t the public playboy grin. It was private. Possessive.
“Then you’ll stay in your apartment,” he said. “With the upgraded security. The surveillance. The patrol routes I’ve already altered. The people watching you from every rooftop. The systems in your phone. The trackers in your bag.”
Your blood went cold.
“I told you,” he continued, stepping closer until retreat was impossible, “you’re the only person I see.”
His hand rose to cup your neck, thumb resting over your scent gland.
“You think this is about control,” he said. “It isn’t.”
“Then what is it?”
His forehead lowered until it nearly touched yours.
“Permanence.”
The word settled around you like a locked door.
“You can hate me. You can call me creepy. You can refuse to stand beside me in public.”
His grip tightened just enough to be felt.
“But you are not living a single day in this city without me knowing where you are, if you’re breathing, if you’re safe.”
Your scent spiked—fear, bond, something dangerously close to surrender.
“And one day,” he said with absolute certainty, “you’re going to realize that there is nowhere in this world where I am not already waiting for you.”
When he finally let go, it didn’t feel like freedom.
Because as you stepped back, the truth settled heavy in your chest.
Your life hadn’t been taken from you.
It had been absorbed into his.
And there was no shadow in Gotham, no street corner, no locked door
where you could exist without Bruce already being there first.
Ugh yandere alpha Simon Riley I miss you......
The Sky That Watches
The air was still over the city. No wind dared disturb the clouds that hung like bruises in the sky, and the streets below echoed with distant life. But to you, none of that mattered. Your apartment was too quiet. Again.
You sat on the edge of your bed, phone in your lap, staring at the latest message:
“You didn’t respond again. Are you safe? I'm worried about you :( you know you can tell me anything, right? -M”
The sixth message that week.
You hadn’t replied to the last five.
Your fingers hovered over the keyboard. Just tell him to stop, you thought. Tell him you’re not interested. That it’s over, if it ever even started. But you didn’t type anything. Not yet.
You couldn’t.
Because it wasn’t just Mark Grayson texting you.
It was Invincible.
You’d known Mark before the world did—before the blood, the headlines, the gods-fighting-in-the-sky kind of violence. You met at Upstate U. Sophomore year. You weren’t even in his orbit, not really. You had one class together—Comparative Literature. He sat near the window. Always late. Always charming.
You remembered the first time he asked if you wanted to grab coffee.
You hadn’t known he could fly back then.
Now, it felt like he was always watching.
You stood and crossed the room to shut the blinds, heart beating just a little faster. You didn’t want to admit it out loud, but it didn’t matter if the blinds were open or closed. If he wanted to see you—he would.
Your roommate, Kay, used to laugh off your worries. “Girl, if Invincible had a crush on me, I’d be out there flexing on rooftops. Just tell him to chill.”
That was before Kay vanished.
A week ago.
No calls. No texts. No goodbye. Just…gone.
And the same day Kay disappeared, Mark showed up.
It had been late. Past midnight. You’d been in the kitchen pouring tea when the knock came.
Not the door. The window.
You turned, and there he was—hovering outside your fourth-floor apartment. Hands behind his back. That blue and yellow suit glowing faintly in the city lights. His face unreadable behind the blood-streaked goggles.
You remembered how your hand trembled, spilling tea on the counter.
Mark had smiled.
“Sorry for the surprise visit,” he said, as if it were normal. As if gravity meant nothing and boundaries were suggestions. “I just… I wanted to see if you were okay. You’ve been quiet lately.”
You didn’t answer.
He drifted closer to the glass, eyes searching yours.
“I know it’s hard to trust people. But you can trust me. I’m not like the others.”
You lied then. Nodded. Said you were tired. Promised to call tomorrow.
He left.
Kay never came back.
Now, standing in the half-dark of your bedroom, you knew you had to do something. Anything. You opened your drawer and pulled out a burner phone. One you hadn’t touched in weeks.
You typed:
“We need to meet. Somewhere public. Tomorrow. Noon.”
You didn’t send it to Mark.
You sent it to Cecil.
Yandere Bruce Wayne almost feels bad when he watches you throw and break things, screaming at him to let you go.
“What.the.FUCK, you creepy sonovabitch!!” Your chest heaves from all the screaming. “You fucking d-dick—what do you want from me?! You wanna take me to your weird sex dungeon, don’t you?!”
Your eyes are red, your cheeks tear-stained, your lips raw from biting them. When you reach for another vase to throw at his stupid, dumb face, you cut your palm—and that’s when he decides. No. You need him. Without him, you’ll just keep getting hurt. Gotham isn’t safe for you.
So he’ll keep you here.
He’ll stay.
He’ll protect you.
Yandere Damian Wayne
Warnings: gn!reader, Stalking, implied kidnapping/confinement, possessive behaviour, financial abuse (TL;DR: general yandere things)
note: This is not proofread I wrote this on a 2 hour flight back home, sorry if it's bad!!!
My favourite yandere in the Batfamily is my pretty boy Dami. Plus, he’s the best member to get stuck with, in my opinion (aside from Jason Todd, but that’s for another post). Damian has the basic characteristics of a yandere: possessive, protective, obsessive, and insanely lovesick; however, his most overpowering trait is his protectiveness.
And I don’t mean cute protective. I mean suffocating. He’s protective to the point of completely smothering his darling. When — not if — when they finally look past their rose-coloured glasses and realise how deep they’re in, it’s already too late. There’s nothing they can do about it.
Like… how are you supposed to escape Gotham’s head bitch-in-charge’s son and the heir to the League of Assassins?
But I digress.
Usually, I like to have a general outline of the type of darling the yandere would fall for, but I honestly think Damian doesn’t really have a type. He’s surprisingly versatile; he can interact and have a connection with many different people and personalities. Don’t get me wrong, he isn’t a social butterfly by any means, but we can see in the comics that while he starts out apathetic and blunt, he softens over time. Growing under Bruce and forming friendships with the other characters transforms his initial characterisation. He tries to appear apathetic, but c’mon, look at how he treats animals — he’s just a big’ol softie.
So I like to imagine darling as just… normal, middle class, struggling through Gotham like everyone else — because let’s be real, nobody “lives” in Gotham; you survive it. Unfortunately, they end up on the future Demon Head’s radar. Maybe it’s school, maybe university, maybe Robin notices them while he’s out on patrol. Either way, they catch his eye, and he proceeds to lose his goddamn mind — heart.
Damian’s descent into obsession is gradual. He doesn’t fall fast, but he falls hard — like, exceptionally hard (the only other people I see rivalling him are Clark and Jon, but that’s just because their brand of love is freakily pathetic). His love is all-consuming but subtle. It sounds like an oxymoron, but Damian isn’t the type to show his cards too easily.
Even he’s confused about what he’s feeling. Like, what do you mean I love them? I’m cold. I’m ruthless. I don’t have a heart. I’m the Dark Knight’s right hand, the Demon Head’s heir, the big bad — so why does one glance from this person weaken my heart and twist my tongue into elementary sentences?
Don’t get me wrong, love isn’t new to him, but this? This sick, desperate need to keep someone close — to keep them within his grasp so badly he’d rip open his ribs and lock them inside — is new. Because we’re not talking about normal love; we’re talking about a person losing all sense of reason, all sense of who they are or who they ever will be, just to breathe in the same air as the object of their desire. The word love doesn’t measure up to the overwhelming need Damian has to keep his darling safe and healthy within his grasp.
Speaking of crazy, yandere Damian is such a stalker. Like, he’s obsessive. There won’t be a single thing this obsessive freak won’t know about his darling. He has them memorised. He knows every tiny, minuscule detail there is to know about them, because Damian doesn’t just watch them — no, no, no — he studies them like they’re a damn textbook. There isn’t one piece of information he won’t greedily inhale. He knows everything down to which shoe they put on first, what temperature their fridge is set to, how long they take between each sneeze, what route they take home.
This man will not deny himself the pleasure of knowing the ins and outs of his one and only. And if that isn’t bad enough? He will “ensure their safety” (controlling their life)ehhhh ensuring their safety, using all his resources to gently steer darling in the right direction because they’re too naïve to make the right decisions, too biased to make choices about their own life and the people in it. No, no — they need him to make those decisions for them. He’s smarter, more experienced, and unbiased; anyone would be grateful to have him fix their life like he fixes yours (never mind that you didn’t ask for his intrusion or his “help”). Gotham and its people are too dangerous; you can’t deal with them unsupervised — they’ll gobble you up. You need his guidance, his helping hand. You don’t need to know about it, though. You don’t need to know every scholarship, job offer, or happy coincidence is a result of his love for you. He wants you to think it’s all a result of your hard work. You’ll be none the wiser, and he’ll make sure of it.
And when he finally decides to step into their life for real? Let’s face it, darling — you’ll fall for it. He’s Damian freaking Wayne; how can you not? He’s charming (in his own grumpy way), tall, rich, smart, strong, stupidly handsome — and completely devoted to you. Did I mention he’s filthy rich?
Which is great… until it isn’t.
Because it’s his money, darling, not yours. And you know what a sick, deeply obsessive man does with unlimited money? He abuses it. Don’t misunderstand — Damian isn’t stingy. He won’t hesitate to spend every last penny on you if it makes your eyes light up and the corner of your lips quirk into a smile. But when the time comes and you feel too suffocated, too trapped, too confined, when you look around and realise the luxury surrounding you is nothing but an illusion disguising a gilded cage, by then you’re already too late.
Light Falloff
This artwork is a tribute to nostalgia— a gentle reflection of a time and place that shaped a golden childhood.
This old building holds the soul of simpler days, where laughter echoed through cozy rooms and the scent of home-cooked meals drifted from the kitchen. It was a world filled with video games, board games, and birthday candles glowing with joy.
Homework felt like a shared adventure, not a chore, and the hum of the TV, with its clunky antenna, was the soundtrack of peaceful evenings.
Neighbors were more like extended family, and safety was so deeply felt that locked doors were almost an afterthought—only discovered to be broken the day we were leaving town.
This is more than a building; it is a memory made of warmth, innocence, and the quiet magic of being home.