#(Neil Gaiman played a lil bit with the concept in his Batman Is Dead issue…but we could go further…)

[benbamboozled]

Stage-mom!Alfred who is vicariously living through Bruce’s vigilanteism.

[exhausted-pigeon]

#characterization concepts#not really a headcanon—more just playing with possibilities.#i stand by that Alfred should get way more shit in-canon.#just thinking of that Knightfall page where Alfred shames Tim into…not saying that Bruce should be taken to a hospital…#because it would take Batman from Bruce and Bruce LOVES being Batman.#meanwhile before and AFTER Bruce gets his back broken and thrown out the window Bruce’s internal narration is like—#‘MY ENTIRE LIFE IS NOTHING BUT PAIN! EVERYTHING IS AWFUL!!! JASON IS DEAD!!! AGHHHHHH!!!’#i would like to explore the Batman concept as a folie a deux between Bruce and Alfred.#(Neil Gaiman played a lil bit with the concept in his Batman Is Dead issue…but we could go further…)

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Yes yes very interesting take, let Alfred be human disaster like the rest of them, he is the man that raised *Bruce*, something has to be wrong with him.

Stage-mom!Alfred who is vicariously living through Bruce’s vigilanteism.