#Alfred and Bruce

[siriusly-dc]

Indomitable human spirit

The only person who I think embodies this 100% is Bruce MF Wayne

He’s been creeping people out with his uncanny intelligence the moment he could open his eyes

He regularly goes toe to toe with aliens, gods, metas and supers

He is THE LIVING BREATHING EMBODIMENT of the Indomitable Human Spirit

Try and tell me I’m wrong I fucking dare you

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Bruce being there for Dick like once Alfred was there for him. I love thia bittersweet parallel:

( from the upcoming nightwing issue)

[not-another-robin]

Trying to make more comics, here's baby Bruce!!

[vwikaartt]

Alfred and Bruce Wayne stuff

There can't be enough father-son dynamics))

Alfred is not just a butler, Alfred is a family ✨

[frogaroundandfindout]

Dick sneaks into the manor and Alfred accidentally pulls a gun on him. Dick apologizes for startling him, but Alfred waves it off saying the manor is just as much Dick’s home as it is his. Dick disagrees and reveals Bruce locked him out of the cave. At dick’s cajoling, Alfred uses his own secret code to enter the cave with Dick. (Nightwing vol 2 #68)

[holstries]

my favourite boys :( literally me & @angelcorics ; she is my alfred <3

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Villain of the week (tm): bla bla bla evil plan bla bla join me or die Batman

Bruce: let me ask my dad first

Villain: ? Ain’t he dead-

Bruce, on the phone with Alfred: he wants me to be evil

Alfred: Unless if you want (insert your safe food) for dinner, go ahead

Bruce, hanging up and turning to Villain: Sorry, he said no

[karnival2]

So I’ve been Thonkin™️

I’ve been thinking over and over about writing a fic where batman gets like. suuuper injured. life threateningly injured. and a recently formed JL takes him back to the watchtower, trying to patch him up.

Meanwhile Alfred has access to the cameras and mics on the watchtower because, batcave, and he sees just how bad it is, and is just BESIDE himself. Barely restraining himself when, then, he hears a few league members not immediately tending to anything musing about who this mysterious “alfie” is that bats kept asking for as he was passing in and out of consciousness. And Alfred is just like. Okay that’s it my boy needs me.

Zetas his ass up to the watchtower, bullies the other members into letting him get into the medbay, and assists with patching batman up. Everybody is confused.

And OF COURSE he sternly states (or snarls, not sure how Unhinged With Worry I want him to be for this) “that is MY SON in there!” as he’s pushing his way into the medbay, leaving the league BAFFLED at this. Like….. batman’s…. dad?????….. like.

I love batfamily meets the justice league but I also want more ALFRED meets the justice league. Especially in the context of Overprotective Father With An Idiot Son Whom He Is Very Proud Of!

And of course, this is far before anybody knows batman’s identity. So now all they know about batman is 1: he claims to be human 2: he knows how to destroy most living creatures and 3: his dad alfie is really scary (maybe scarier than batman himself)

[angstandhappiness]

Adorable, 😂

So we all know Bruce Wayne adopted one (1) kid, because he strongly personally identified with him and his trauma, and he kept adopting more and more as comic creators wanted to introduce new characters and change/age old ones. From this, we can think that Batman having Serial Adopter as a Major Defining Trait, is something of an unintentional side effect that took decades of creation. However, I propose it is more fun to think the problem goes back waaaaay before that.

Imagine a pre-tragedy Bruce Wayne, like, gathering Martha and Thomas at the dinner table that’s typically only used when hosting guests and parties like

Baby Bruce: Mother, Father. I only want one thing this year for my birthday and all other gift giving occasions. 

Baby Bruce: I would like a baby brother.

Martha Wayne: Ahaa… honey… no.

Baby Bruce: I will also accept a baby sister! I know you have little control in the matter.

Thomas Wayne: Chum, a sibling isn’t something you can just ask for for your birthday.

Baby Bruce: I am willing to go up to FIVE birthdays for ONE little brother. 

Martha Wayne: Honey, no

Baby Bruce: Please withhold judgement until I have finished my presentation. Alfred, if you will

Alfred Pennyworth, like 26-ish at the time and is this close 👌 to giving up his acting dreams to make Bruce stop crying every night -andthosefingersaretouching- handing out three copies of a 42-page persuasive essay: Please, masters, he is so lonely 

[mantareidraws]

Giving battinson the big birb hug he so desperately needs 🫂

[siriusly-dc]

Batkids: I’m so much better than Bruce he’s literally an NPC so stuck up he would never do this I’m such a rebel I’m so bad

Bruce: did so much shit from birth to adopting Richard he traumatised himself so bad he became so paranoid to the point he lost his ability to human

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Little Bruce and Alfred in the preview for the Absolute Batman issue #1:

[not-another-robin]

More Alfred and Bruce for my comics workshop! Little Bruce has higher standards for mysteries

[frogaroundandfindout]

“No. Leave it. This doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t change anything at all.”

Bruce tests the samples from redhood and confirms he is Jason Alfred asks if he should take down the memorial and Bruce says no. This doesn’t change anything at all. His Robin is still dead even if Jason is back now (Batman #641)

[lover-never-dies]

What's way more precious is that Alfred is willing to be excluded from the potrait while Bruce reassures him that he is family for now and forever

Damian wanting his dog in the family portrait is making me cry all kinds of tears.

He’s so precious 🥹

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.