"Let me get that for you, baby."
(Old draft/post) (might be OOC/bad) (not that OOC is bad) (but this might be)
What about a reader/a 'you' who accidentally becomes a sugar daddy/mommy. (Platonically, maybe.) There are so many stories of the reader being neglected and then snatching their independence back from the Waynes out of pure spite, but what about when they're just... normal? Yeah, they make a shit ton of money and use it well but that just means they're gifted.
And we, or 'you', assume that our family members aren't the gift types because they are all surrounded by wealth and we see how many of them recoil from Bruce's money like it had some curse placed on it, so we never really got to explore the part of ourselves that liked to give gifts. That liked to do expensive, grand gestures. That liked to spend money on the people we care about.
Until our inner circle grows of course.
First, it's Kon, whose relationship with Superman has gotten better but they aren't exactly close, so they go to us to complain about not being able to buy all the things he likes and he's certainly not going to go to Tim of all people about it--
Or, maybe it's Conner, Superman's other, more reserved, clone. And he makes an idle comment about not having anything else to wear and how hard it is to get clothes sometimes because losing control of his strength is a little too easy because he's so used to just throwing himself at the enemy that brute force is engrained into him by now.
And then, before we even realize it, we're placing money into their hands. Cash. Actual cash. A wad of hundred-dollar bills and fifties.
(Conner rips one of the bills a little but that's fine. He's quickly given another to replace it.)
They, of course, gape at us. Because no matter how many times he watches Tim throw money around like it's just a thing, and no matter how many times he visits the manor, Kon is still shocked by just how rich these guys are.
And Conner, sweet Conner who awkwardly apologizes for ripping one, is less in touch with how money works but he knows he's holding a lot of money in his hands. It's not hard to figure out that one hundred is a big number and that having multiple hundred-dollar bills will add up to an even bigger number.
(Kon is more embarrassed about having money spent on him than Conner is but only because it is so much money and wow, you're just throwing those clothes into the cart without even glancing at the price tag, aren't you?--)
Eventually, they both cave, though it takes much less effort than it would have taken Bruce to convince Dick that it was okay that the older man was going to buy him something because he wanted to, damn it--
You are not embarrassed in the slightest. And, really, it's just money. It can be replaced, and it will be. And you don't use all that much anyway so why not get a new pair of glasses for Kon?
