is it just me who finds it weird that in fanfiction alfred ALWAYS comment on bruce’s parenting when bruce has no idea whatsoever how a parent should behave and just makes it up as he goes? i think if you take this into account, bruce did okay?
like alfred was a shitty dad FIRST? am i the only person who remembers how alfred used to just abandon bruce and leave him when he didn’t agree with him? and he sat somewhere waiting for bruce to realize that alfred was right and bruce can’t do shit without him? and he’d crawl to alfred and beg for forgiveness and tell him “you were right”? spoiler: it never happened. alfred sat and sat and waited and waited while bruce did his thing WITHOUT any help and just carried on with his life and then alfred just would come back and no word was spoken about it?
like ? what the hell? the only thing bruce learnt from this is that in the end he’s always alone and that alfred’s love is conditional, and you never know when he’s just going to leave again.