just saw your post about getting bitten by the battinson bug again and I'm gonna need you to get bitten ten more times cause I LOVE ur battinson fics
seriously though battinson fics are SO hard to find cause I feel like no one can really characterise him (cause obviously hes just a very different interpretation of the character and also is just much younger) and I think ur fics kinda nailed it honestly ur totally my favorite battinson writer
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he is a bit hard to characterize this is true, even I struggle a bit. I think part of why I've dwindled a bit in writing him is that I've started approaching uncharted territory in my mind with battinson because a lot of what's carrying him in my writing is my interpretation of the movie and the before the batman novel (and the novel is like. not that strong writing wise so I have to go through that with a fine tooth comb) so sometimes when I start stretching my wings past that boundary, I get nervous. but I also think that's just bc it's been a while since we've seen him on screen!! rewatching with people who are seeing him for the first time with fresh eyes really helped dig up all that love though <3 glad to write him always
NOTHING more erotic than peeling a combat suit off a sad little emo boy 🙂↕️
bonus points if he just stands there watching you do it, not because he doesn't want to help but because you undress him like ritual. muscle-memory routine that you take slowly, that never gets old (because he's got some new bruise to catalog away every night). leaving kisses along his skin as you circle him, until the final piece falls away and you both stand in the middle of it all. he could just sink right into you!!!! and yet it's his own little ritual, holding his fists at his sides while you touch him freely, until he can't take it anymore and pushes you up against the wall—
Also! How much he's involved with the mafia? I think he knows how to deal with them, considering they're very dangerous people.
What do you think?
Sally does drink a little but not too much due to his CAH. Usually limits himself to just one beer
He doesn't smoke, his ma got health issues because of it so he stays away. Plus it would mess w his blood pressure n other stuff anyway
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He used to be quite involved when he was a mechanic. He knows how to deal w them, some knew him from childhood. Tho now he just tries to avoid them since he managed to get away from that life.
Hours- handy, silly, cheeky, lazy, blundering, stupid, dishonest, rude, demanding, irresponsible, cowardly, petty. (Lots of mean things 😔)
Yesterday- Sal wishes he never got involved w the mob. He can no longer work his dream job because of it y'know... He would've never accepted Johnny's offers if he knew what it would lead to. Really chipped away at his wellbeing
Sorry if my answers sound like nonsense lol, I'm tired.
Past- hmm imma say a good one... Maybe when he met his husband y'know, they were at some music festival and met there after Sally sorta lost sight of his friend. Sally was freaking out n stuff so Jackie stuck by him and helped him out... was the first time Sal has actually felt he's been comforted correctly ✌️🥹 also he had just met the love of his life and that would go on to really make life more enjoyable for him... It's something he likes to reminisce about.
Before- Sally has been around for about a couple years now. He looked pretty different lol. Well he looked like a completely different guy 😭... I have a sketch somewhere. He was supposed to be my persona's bf uhh. He's always been called Alessandro tho Sally became his nickname w his current design. Also I just turned my persona into an oc called Malcolm but he and Sally aren't romantically involved. Sally's personality has changed quite a bit as well. Like a lot actually. New Sally thinks old Sally is a dweeb
Young- Sally was a delinquent in school ngl and was rude to other kids, he'd fight w ppl alottt. He's way less violent now though he still struggles w insecurity and attitude. He's a lot more happy now than when he was a kid and he has better support from those around him, he has also leaned more into his faith which provides him comfort. So he's pretty different. He'll always be some silly guy w niche interests tho. Yes he also still has a ton of stickers and they cover everything he owns.
This is not meant to rush you or anything, it is out of pure curiosity. But could you maybe give us an update on "right place, right time"? It's been a while since the last chapter came out and I'd like to know if there's still plans for continuing it. Any idea if it'll be done soon? It is genuinely one of my favsssss
so this is from my faq regarding continuing fics: "I've started including [ongoing], [completed], and [hiatus] next to all series in my masterlists so that it's easier to get an idea of where I'm at with updates. rest assured, if it's been a few months since I last updated, it is due to the fact that I am busy."
rprt is [ongoing], and don't worry, I keep the list updated even when I'm not writing. as it says as well, if it's been a few months since I've updated, it's because I'm busy and boy am I real busy (work is understaffed, I'm moving out soon, and many other life things are going on). I know you don't mean to rush me, and I'm glad you enjoy the story!! but I really just don't have the time I used to have to write now that I work full time. I am chipping away at my wips, but life is... a lot. thank you for checking in on it, it's always nice to hear people are still excited for more :)
Prob, wayyyy too damn specific but I saw posts of Matt and I just rewatched The Batman (2022) and like I had this prompt of:
Reader is pushed away by Matt and decides to not fall with more vigilantes but runs in with Bruce and marries him? Maybe and it becomes some love triangle plot or idk
Idk what you could do with this, pls feel free to ignore it or modify. It’s just a weird ass crossovers of my two husbands.
at first I meant to humor you a bit with my thoughts on bruce and matt as very similar lovers but then it just turned into a throuple. walk with me:
it’s funny because matt and bruce have very similar self-destructive behaviors when it comes to relationships, but I think bruce is a bit more indulgent (whether he’d admit to that or not is another story entirely).
where matt is clearly insecure about if he can protect you—certainly he will fight until his last dying breath to do so but would rather you never be in danger to begin with—bruce is (and I'm especially thinking of an older, more experienced bruce), I think, unwilling to let you know that he’s just as insecure. mainly because failure cannot be an option. bruce also has much more at his disposal to protect you (cough cough money cough) and has backup plans for days. at this point in time, bruce would be more willing to let others in and have a healthier (?) way of maintaining relationships.
matt is, to the best of his ability, an ordinary man who strikes suddenly, sometimes recklessly, and thinks better within the throes of action. matt strikes me as someone who carries too many burdens to ever think a relationship with a civillian would work. he is a martyr like bruce, but I think where matt is in daredevil and where bruce is in my mind (years later, a little less cynical) are different enough to make them stand out.
that being said, I think matt would be hella suspicious of bruce because let’s be honest…. everything about him is a red flag LMAO. I can imagine matt playing mind games with bruce if they ever met, perhaps matt is representing a client who is suing wayne enterprises and oh, look, there’s you and bruce all cuddled up in the courtroom. matt listens for bruce’s heartbeat whenever he asks a particularly pointed question about his life but bruce has trained his heartbeat to be steady, his reactions natural. he gets one past matt.
and you think this man has some NERVE interrogating your new boyfriend when he’s the one who put you out. you almost let him have a piece of your mind but think better of it.
matt wonders if you like being bruce wayne’s. are you even able to still be you? the you that he truly knows?
needless to say, if they cross each other in cowls, matt will know it’s him instantly. I think it would sting matt to know that not only had you moved on to a man of much higher class, you’d also moved onto another nocturnal vigilante. one who, apparently, had no hangups about having you.
bruce also isn’t stupid. he’d done his research into the masked vigilante running around the neighboring borough of hell’s kitchen. it wasn’t apparent to him when he’d first met matt, but a little stalking research down the line and he’d put it together. they don’t reveal this to each other at first.
but later that night, bruce is holding you and wondering… is that your type? if it was by the simple hilarity of the universe that you ended up falling for him, right after leaving a man not too different from himself.
anon, I have a feeling that when you said love triangle, you really meant a love v as in bruce likes reader, matt likes reader, and reader likes both. but if I may talk my shit, I think these two might have a lot to like about each other. two vigilantes who operate by night and shadow, who have similar dedications to justice (matt’s being the idea of righteous and fair law, bruce’s being protecting the weak and innocent and rehabilitating or stopping the corrupt), two men leading double lives, two men as equally charming, and two men in love with you. bruce and matt find it hard not to see what you like in the other.
bruce befriends him. it’s kind of an accident the way he finds a kindred spirit in him, and at first it’s purely to keep an eye on this guy, perhaps to put together a contingency plan just in case. he starts sending nelson, murdock, and page cases in gotham that could use their legal advice, sending business partners and citizens alike to their door for referrals. matt isn’t sure what to do when they start getting a wave of new clients, all suspiciously right up their alley, but foggy and karen don’t mind the extra cash flow and matt struggles to find a way to not be okay with helping those in need.
matt returns the favor and starts training bruce on how to hone his other senses in combat. the two of them will spar for hours, only stopping if alfred were to come yank them apart or, god forbid, you come home early to find your boyfriend pinning your ex to the mat.
and you’re both horrified and fascinated to find that they get along really well. but you can’t just let matt back into your life after he’d all but slammed the door in your face. he’d given up on you. now he was weaseling his way back into your life with bruce—a happy life, might I add, although no less stressful—hanging around you like a dark shadow.
bruce isn’t sure how to feel about it either. he knows how much you loved matt, how much you still love matt, and he can tell matt is not over you no matter how much he waxes poetic about the greater good and why you two couldn’t really work out. bruce gets it, worries that maybe he should get it more and cut you loose too before something happens to you. it had always been their worry: that while they were off protecting the city, there’d be no one there to watch over you. and there was no one there to watch over you. once upon a time.
there is no organized discussion about it. bruce is less hung up about it than matt. it does feel odd, imagining him around you and it being… normal. inviting matt over for dinner with your permission, and sharing wine and heavy goodbyes as bruce pays a taxi to see him home safe. he considers the way you squirm at the table, trying to keep it friendly between you and matt but there is that ache in your chest that remembers this man differently. it feels disrespectful and rude to be friends with him now, having him around gotham. eventually bruce asks you as you wind down for the night, his rings clattering onto the dresser tray as you pull back the sheets, “you love him still.” well, he doesn’t ask.
you freeze, halfway into the sheets, unsure if you’d even heard him right, “I’m sorry?”
“matthew,” he casts a glance over his shoulder, “it didn’t really end between you. not on your end.”
“if you’re trying to accuse me of something-“
“I’m not. I can see it on you.” but bruce’s voice isn’t angry or mocking or blaming. it’s… oddly resolute. thoughtful, even. “I like him.”
“I… what are you saying, bruce?”
he crawls under the sheets, nonchalant, but he finds himself just a little (just a little) unsure. “I’m saying that… maybe the reason why he pushed you away isn’t a problem anymore,” he stares ahead, focused on the fireplace that burns low, “if you wanted him still. I wouldn’t mind it. I wouldn’t mind him.”
you almost can’t believe your ears. “and you like him.”
bruce takes a minute to shrug, as if he needed to roll it around in his mind one more time.
“do you… want us to be together? all of us?” you watch the reflection of the fire in his eyes, waiting with bated breath.
he turns his head to you, “if we can get the usher boy to agree.”
you have to have a long, long talk with matt. there’s tears and a little anger and a whole lot of uncertainty as you talk out your tumultuous parting but then, as matt’s guilt starts slipping in and he says he’ll stay out of gotham so that he doesn’t cause you more pain, you blurt it out. matt isn’t sure he’s heard you right. you have to repeat yourself, a bit more eloquently, “I said… do you want to be with me and bruce?”
he doesn’t immediately say yes. in fact, he takes a day or two to himself to think about it. he’s staunchly sure in the beginning that he will turn you down but the words do not form, the hesitance keeps him from calling. when he gets advice from foggy (who is twice as bewildered but all too excited by the prospect) about how to say he’s not interested, he writes it down and it just. doesn’t feel right. he finds himself rearranging the words in his mind to be softer, more… flexible. less “hard and fast no” and more “I just don’t know”. the more he thinks about it the less inclined he is to even SAY the word no. is it because it’d really, finally cut you out of his life? would he only be saying yes to have you again?
bruce would be there too, that’s the key thing. maybe it could start out as just him being with you and bruce being with you at the same time, but maybe that was too weird for him to think about. sharing you with someone else. he wouldn’t want to. but what would the alternative be?
he calls bruce to meet in hell’s kitchen where he feels safer. bruce is calm, not imposing in the least. he lets matt rant it all out and get his feelings in check. when he’s blown off all the steam, bruce just says, “if it comes down to it, there’ll be no hard feelings if it ends.”
“this is crazy.”
“you can say no.”
“yeah. I know.”
some time passes. bruce comes to stand beside matt sitting on the ledge of the rooftop, keeping his heavy gaze fixed on him. “they still love you.”
“I know.”
the two of them say nothing for a while. matt tries to focus on the city, as loud as it always is, but keeps zeroing in on the steady earnest thumping of the man’s heart right next to him. he is being honest with what remains unsaid, what you’d told matt days ago that he still struggled to believe. he tilts his head so, and bruce has known him long enough now to know that he’s thinking hard about what to say next, “I suppose you’ll have to take me on a date first. just so we’re all even.”
“is pinning you to the mat not courting enough for you?”
