Batman was something, alright?
The way these criminals would be laughing to themselves as the night swallow the city, crime leaving its trace to the surface of Gotham. It's almost pathetic, really.
People needs to understand how the crime in this city works. If you're just a robber, a thug, any sort of cliche crimes, compared to the crime the Rogues Gallery had done, was something to be called unfair.
If anyone from outside Gotham thinks that being a criminal in Gotham was easier, then they're loud and wrong.
It's a common knowledge that whoever decided to be crazy enough to challenge this cursed city, must be out of their mind. I mean, look at the famous criminals here. All of them was either a madman, depressed people, or just straight up psychopath.
Because no one, none, would have the balls to face someone—something—made out of the shadow and despair of the city; Batman.
He's the hope. But at the same time, he's something much more unpredictable. Like a loyal knight who knows no boundaries, and only blindly do what Lady Gotham wished him to do.
The children—Robins—too was something. It was said that these children was Batman's own children. He birthed them, metaphorically and literally. No one knows how. They just know the fact that somehow, their Dark Knight was able to reproduce without any mate.
They just saw a fully grown child, and assumed that Batman birthed them.
The knowledge of this had increased after Red Hood and Nightwing. The vigilante of Blüdhaven had been calling Batman "mother" in Romanian language multiple times. Whilst Red Hood would just said the word "mum" before Batman appears behind him.
When Red Robin was out, he had also began calling Batman that terms. Almost every Robins, or the closest ones of Batman, calls him "mother". Something like that. Maybe except for the angry little new Robin and his sharp teeth.
They're not sure about the Batman. Who he is, or what he is. He was something. Crawling through the shadow of the skyscrapers, disappearing in the midst of darkness. Something else. Almost human, but not at the same time.
His gender was fluid. Something they couldn't decipher. Whilst his appearance was unique, almost otherworldly. With his strong physique that could easily be assumed to be someone who had give birth to more than five children. No eyes beneath the cowl. Maybe the white thing was his eyes.
But who knows? He's strange.
Very... Gothamite, per say.
