hi again occa, are u tired of me yet😅
since my other asks were super long + max angsty, a v short and more crackish idea, for the bird omegaverse au: actually now that i think about it someone might have already sent an ask like this but — courting bowers? maybe im misremembering (in which case this will be a little embarrassing lol) but iirc bowers are like fancy nests that usually male birds of some species will make but also specifically decorate to attract a mate? anyways, idea (a) the batcave + bat-trophies as bruce’s bower
following on, (b) in my mind palace there is totally a world-spanning gc for all bruce’s “ex”-/on-again, off-again situationships, mostly used for everybody to snitch on each other abt who’s currently actually in an “on” phase so that that person can then be thumbs-down-reacted by every single other person in the group [shhhh i told u this was gonna be crack-ish] — BUT you don’t get added for just exchanging vaguely-erotic glances and cheek touches w batman on a rooftop, bc then like literally 95% of the entire caped community would be there: the entry criteria is to have been invited back to the cave i.e. into his bower at least once
(b) part 2: manyyyyy of the “lower-ranking” members of said gc are particularly jealous of selina, bc him letting her take shiny things from His City (…aka his larger bower) clearly Means Something even if ppl can’t figure out What
(c) SUPERBAT BOWER SHENANIGANS:
i. bruce felt Some Typa Way when he was invited to the Fortress of Solitude for the first time, though he could never quite figure out why…
ii. anything krypton-related bruce finds in his wider investigations he will make sure is delivered to the Fortress ASAP; and for any joint superbat investigations (about half of which end up being krypton-related) clark will make sure at least 1 artifact (tooooootally not a souvenir guys) per case stays at the batcave
iii. at some point in their well-established partnership bruce and clark for SOME reason start comparing their bowers’ (neither using that word, but) inventory and the convo 100% has ended up becoming a little oddly sexually charged by the time they’re done
(d) and for a last dash of angst: the display cases with his kids’ current uniforms is generally always the highlight of his Collection of Good Things — except for one. one that’s given an almost grotesque spotlight, bc bruce isn’t actually displaying it for to fulfill that urge. no, it’s simply a brutal reminder to himself of his greatest failure.
Skies this is so fucking cool
Selina purring with satisfaction every time Bruce lets her slip away with a new trinket in her pocket, pulling out her phone to brag to the others and it practically explodes with a surge of pissed off reactions and debates about whether this counts or whether it's Bruce's sense of justice that let her go so she could return it to its rightful owner.
It being practice when you reenter Bruce's bower that you pay proper respects, and there's something of a tradition to nod towards the cases housing his children's suits. A silent agreement that if you find Bruce in front of Jason's bloody suit, you don't pull him away. You stand shoulder to shoulder with him, and you wait for him to be ready.
Superbat feeling Something about showing each other around their homes. Clark whose dynamic isn't based on wolves but what is essentially the Kryptonian equivalent, and has some quirks of his own, so showing Bruce the Fortress means just as much to him as showing Clark the Batcave does to Bruce.
Being possessive over each other's spaces, keeping them meticulously clean in each other's absence, and leaving a sign of their own presence there before they leave, something to warn other visitors that they're taken.