I can‘t really phrase it as a coherent thought, but I had this idea about how Bruce is treated. Just vaguely how in the JL he is this looming force. Someone who can stand next to gods through the sheer power of his vibes, and then how (especially in fandom) he is treated as the family‘s punching bag.
(You got me reading patriarch rn and it hurts a lot)
DOESNT IT???
theres sometimes a bleed through where the JL starts treating Bruce like a punching bag and its like no no those are his friends those are his buddies they like him!!! let them just like their weird kind of assholey friend-ally!! leave it alone!!!
The contrast can be fun and endearing though, you can have the JL where Bruce is this respected leader who is part of the founders trinity and has been doing this for years, vs the batfam where he’s their kind of dorky dad that makes bad jokes and curses when he spills hot coffee. One where he has to be bigger then he is and one where he can just. Be. And then the overlap of the two is where the crack happens.
You can get the vibes of it without going to far into not being fun (for bruce), imo.
