I don't know why, but these poses scream ballerino to me.
And now I want to see that AU.
Very young Bruce (before his parents died) being taken to his first "fancy show" with his parents and becoming enamored with the dancers. Immediately deciding he wanted to learn how to move so gracefully. His parents being loving, supportive parents and putting him in classes. He takes to it like a duck to water and loves it twice as much.
That night, the Waynes weren't just coming from any old performance. They were coming from one of Bruce's recitals, the first in which he had the male lead.
Bruce stops taking classes after that, though he never quite loses the habit of the stretches and the poses. On the best of days, Alfred might even catch a glimpse of him dancing around the manor. It doesn't quite bring him the joy it once did, but he does find the motions and repetitions meditative. Those moments grow fewer and farther between as Bruce grows up. And still, he refuses to perform again.
Most of his skills are only truly refined when he begins training for Batman; wherein the ability to move with grace, silence, and efficiency proves incredibly useful.
The most observant and knowledgeable Gothamites see the ballerino in the Bat. Of course few who are not trained in the art themselves are willing to see their macho cryptid vigilante as anything as effeminate as a ballet dancer.
Little Bruce's distant childhood dream is long forgotten by the rest of the world in the face of his new clumsy playboy Brucie persona.
A few years after coming to the manor, Dick finds an old leotard tucked away in storage. It's the right size for him at the circus, but the colors and style are wrong. He asks, but neither Alfred not Bruce seem keen to say more than that it's a relic of the past.
Many years later, Cass decides she wants to be a dancer. Bruce supports her, of course he does, even as a quite part of him still grieves, as it always will. And perhaps sometimes, in soft moments in the studio when Cass requests a partner to help her get the moves right, Bruce can rediscover that old love again.
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