ok you've got me. what are your thoughts on trans!bruce 👀👀👀👀
Oooooh so I started to answer this but I knew I had a lot of thoughts on it so I saved it as a draft but tumblr ate it and im so sad. But anyway here we are answering this ask (sorry it's been so long I've thought about it every day since receiving it). Tw for mentions of transphobia below the cut (but it's so brief you might miss it)
SO
Bruce is a trans man, right? He realized it pretty early in life, earlier than many, but he was only around 10/11. So his parents were already gone when he realized. He sat on it for a while before telling Alfred bc be was scared, but when he finally told his guardian he was so relieved.
At first Bruce asked to use they/them pronouns while he was figuring everything out. In the meantime Alfred asked local news outlets to start referring to his charge with gender neutral terms. He figured they could update everyone when Bruce decided on pronouns and a new name. Some places respected the request, some places ignored it.
About a year passed and shortly after Bruce turned 13 he came to Alfred with a new name and definite pronouns, but he didn't have a middle name picked out yet. His middle name from his deadname was after a person in his family that his parents respected a lot and wanted to honor. Bruce had issues changing it. He was worried it was disrespectful to do so. Alfred told him it would be disrespectful to himself to keep a name that he had grown out of just because he thought it made a dead person happy. Alfred assured him that his parents would want him to change his name if it made him happy to do so. He suggested that if Bruce still wanted to honor his parents he could take his father's name as his middle name. Bruce agreed and they started the paperwork to legally change his name from [REDACTED] to Bruce Thomas Wayne.
Bruce had always planned to become Batman and he started training before he ever told alfred about it, even if it just meant that he was punching a bag or teaching himself to hack in a lightly used part of the house. He got pretty good considering the fact that he was teaching himself, but his first test was when he made duplicates of every newspaper that mentioned him by deadname or misgendered him and broke into the gotham city public library to swap them out. He ended up being spotted by the security guard but managed to give them the slip and get away without them realizing why he was there.
Eventually he told alfred about his plans to become batman and poor alfred nearly had a heart attack at the thought of his kid endangering himself like that. Of course, Alfred agreed to help Bruce out, preferring to be kept in the loop rather than B hiding things that important out if fear if rejection.
usually i dont like breakup songs but wow. first off the music is so good in this one. it was different and familiar at the same time which is weird but good lol. second, the emotion behind the words and conveyed in their voice was amazing. i felt like i could visualize the singer as they had those thoughts.
