#bruce wayne is mentally ill
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bruce wayne fans watching him be reduced to a shitty abusive emotionless father/mentor and retaining little to none of his personality traits and morals for the 6372737282 time in a row (they’re running out of ways to defend him)

#bruce fans work overtime to defend that little weirdo and it gets harder everyday#mentally ill people in DC get treated like shit and unfortunately batman/bruce isn’t an exception#batman#bruce wayne#dc comics#batfam
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Dick, describing his happy place: I'm in a cabin, in the middle of nowhere. Inside it's just me and that stupid slimey clown, Joker, and I'm beating the hell out of him. I break a dining room table over his head. Then I rip off his arm and shove it where the sun don't shine. Then, I reach down his throat and shake his hand.
Bruce: Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and schedule you for a psych eval.
#source: brooklyn nine nine#dick grayson#nightwing#bruce wayne#batman#batfamily#batfam#batboys#batbros#batkids#batsiblings#batman family#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect quotes#incorrect dc quotes#joker#gotham rogues#dc comics#tw violence#tw swearing#tw mental illness
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dc injustice is messed up because they write such refreshing yet disgustingly awful takes on every single relationship and person. like how do u misunderstand the core of every character?? can only be consumed when removed from the context of all canon
anyway take 2 people make em obsessed yada yada hand in unlovable hand or whatever
#dc#dc injustice#batman#superman#bruce wayne#brucellosis wayne#clark kent#kal el#i wanna tag:#superbat#but like in the worst way#i hate it#like genuinely#but such thought intrigues#hand in unlovable hand#and i hope you die#i hope we both die#banjo interlude#actually no not superbat#just mental illnesses previously unknown to men
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The thing is that if Jason was a ghost, Bruce would absolutely see him. I think there's enough canon that's established that Bruce can see and talk to ghosts at this point. The only question is whether or not he'd actually realize that Jason's ghost is a ghost and in fact not a hallucination, because Bruce also happens to hallucinate dead people pretty often.
#the horrors of being mentally ill in a universe where magic and shit is real#bruce wayne#jason todd#vintagerobin.txt#bruce & jason
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I was in silly little mood again.
#does it makes sense?#and if I say that Jason here doesn't ask for Bruce's death#just his morals#“if I kill it would be the end of me” that what it is#but Bruce *did* take his death in a way to the point the ghost of his son become not a memory to look back to but a punishment#even if the son himself is alive again#DO YOU UNDERSTAND??? *shrieking of mentally ill person*#jason todd#red hood#batman#dcu#dcu comics#dc universe#batfamily#bruce wayne#batfam
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Jason: I fight crime the way god intended, with a t-shirt jeans and a dream
Dick: shut the fuck up jason you’re literally more pain killers than human right now, you’re literally so riddled with bullet holes you’d make a sieve jealous.
#Dick: Also you ARE the crime. just shut the fuck up and eat your food#by dream he means a truck load of daddy issues#mommy issues#anger issues#death issues#everything isses#untreated mental illness#oh and two guns :3#no cause peak Jason fit is just t shirt jeans and maybe a leather jacket#armour? I hardly know her!#batman#dc comics#bruce wayne#dcu#batfam#batfamily#dc robin#jason todd#dick grayson#nightwing#red hood#incorrect dc quotes#incorrect batman quotes#incorrect batfamily quotes#incorrect batkids
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There is something so satisfying about when yall write Clark the reporter interviewing ‘Brucie’ Wayne, and how Bruce is expecting the routine nosy questions journalists always ask. But here comes Clark, handsome, in this fucking Banana Republic suit asking zero questions for the gossip rags. No, he wants to know about those random company projects that have produced no tangible results, yet the money spent on them is actually to-the-dollar amount provided to the school system in Gotham, donated “anonymously”. And are these “anonymous” donations one-offs, or will the school system regularly receive resources to continue supporting the students and faculty?? If so, will there be any “anonymous” donations to the city to improve infrastructure in the school zones as well, so that students and faculty can have safer commutes???
And Bruce has got to figure out WHO the fuck he’s gonna be in the next 3 seconds to determine HOW he’s going to answer because this is a good question but who the hell is this guy and how did he figure this out? He put those donations under the most ridiculous project names he could think of that were still somewhat believable, and made sure those donations were not tied to him in any way. So WHO is going to answer? Brucie, or Bruce? Because it can’t be Batman, that’s not allowed. He came to this event for the optics and now he’s getting figuratively backed into a corner by a sexy man in tweed.
#build a bruce#superbat#Bruce’s mental illness#Clark may not be Lois in terms of commanding a room#because obviously the defeats the purpose#but don’t sleep on his investigative skills#he’s been looking into corporations since he was back in Smallville#Clark’s hair curl#Bruce is no amateur at schooling his expressions but he is suspicious of this journalist#and you KNOW he’s turned on#when he finds out that Clark is Superman he’s gonna be PISSED#Bruce Wayne#Brucie Wayne#Clark Kent#Clark said i know your secret 🙂↕️#and Brucie said….#and Clark said i know you’re a good person Mr Wayne#and Brucie said you can’t prove that 😌#that shit is HOT#Bruce is struggling for a hot second
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Batman having low self esteem is actually kind of funny in an absurdist level, like what do you MEAN you're the richest most disputable bachelor of the entire Gotham and part of the United States for actually more than twenty years, you raised pretty much more or less two functioning adults you trained eight competent fighters, you're best friend with SUPER MAN and WONDER WOMAN. You're one of the leaders of the fucking justice league, you got literally aliens and people in power from the government shutting their mouths to listen to you, you're so good at training people that your oldest also is able to do the same and your two youngest, you saved the world more times the world can count, you save the city every single fucking day, you bagged Talia Al Ghul and Catwoman and fumbled imensiously, you have no wrinkles, no one knows your age, you're 6'0, blue eyes, rich, cis het (allegedly) and yet you still come home and say to your self you're not enough ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
#what else does this man want#Batman self loathing complex is exhasperating if he were more competent I fear we would die of boredom reading him#My guy is so competent and so diabolical good in everything he does that the devil had to nerf him giving him the worst and most#disregulated mental illness's#Batman#Bruce Wayne
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*gives Tim all of my mental and physical illnesses because it's midnight and I'm bored*
The second one is lowkey nsfw by the by.
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Tim, eating breakfast with the family when all of a sudden his ribs decide to feel like they're folding in on themselves:
Tim: Damn, I really gotta kms
Bruce, not looking up from his morning paper: Your therapist said not to say that.
Tim: Damn, I really gotta... eat.... cookies?
Bruce: *Approving hmm*
Dick: Someone in this family goes to therapy?
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Tim's body deciding to simultaneously cramp and set itself on fire mid getting his back blown out:
Tim, reaching behind him: Shit, stop, pull out...
Bernard: OhmyGod, sorry, are you okay?
Tim: I'll live, just let me...
Tim: *lies face down on a pillow.*
Tim: Roll me over if I run out of oxygen.
Bernard: Okay :(
Bernard: I'm sorry :(
Tim: I'm okay, Bear, promise. Could you just like, grab painkillers and stuff?
Bernard: And heating pad, and snacks?
Tim: Yes. I love you
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Tim, staring at the suspiciously ballerina-shaped figure that keeps whispering to him and changing:
Tim: Yo, chat, you seeing this?
Damian, glancing in his direction: Hm. No.
Tim, who just needed confirmation he was hallucinating: Cool, thanks.
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Tim, still sitting at the batcomputer after 6 uninterrupted hours: Man, I'm hungry...
Jason: Eat then.
Tim: Nah, I'm good, I haven't earned it yet.
Jason: Fym earned it? If you're hungry, go eat.
Tim: No, it's cool, I haven't even gotten the shakes yet.
Jason: THE SHAKES?? GO EAT!
Tim: No, it's cool, I don't even have a headache yet.
Jason: TIM!
Tim: No, it's cool, I'm not even hungry anymore.
Jason: GO FEED YOURSELF.
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Tim, through comms, on patrol: I'm gonna head over to Main Street real quick.
Babs: What? Why? That's not on your route tonight.
Tim: Yeah, but if I don't my head will explode and my whole family will die.
Babs: I see... Well, tell Bruce hi if you run into him.
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Tim: I'm glad my addiction genes went to caffine instead of alcohol, I could've been fucked up.
Jason: Real.
Bruce: Are you both prone to addiction?? And you didn't tell me?? :((
Tim, with a full-size fridge full of energy drinks in his room:
Tim: You didn't know?
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#tim drake#bruce wayne#bernard dowd#timbern#batfam#damian wayne#dick grayson#barbra gordon#jason todd#chronic illness#mental illness#hes literally me#cw ed implied#its no longer midnight when im posting this but I'm still bored and tired#dc
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Could you please do Bruce calming Tim from a panic attack or nightmare please? 🙏



#Bruce wayne#tim drake#red robin tim#batman#batdad#prompt response#nga mihi!!#fic rec#the way it goes by pennneminem#mental illness
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Not a hallucination
Jason todd Post
So we all know that Bruce and Dick had hallucinations of Jason after he died right? It being canon or fanon either way, well i present to you the short time Jason was dead, he was a little ghost spirit and cue: they weren’t actually hallucinations, it was just his ghost spirit being a menace.
And haunting them:
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Dick is upset with Bruce, they were arguing and since Jason’s death he’s had nothing shouting matches with his father, he didn’t even think a new robin was a good idea and watch him be right (he had come to love Jason as a little brother anyway)
He’s not sure about continuing nightwing.
Staring at the mirror with dark eye circles he hides and a chewed lip.
“God that mullet still looks awful.”
He hears from behind him and he swivels around to find a very transparent dead Jason Todd staring at him, he does nothing but take a shaky inhale because what?
“Jason.” Dick mutters weak.
“You heard me.” Jason huffs out, sat on the bathtub, arms crossed. “Aren’chu gonna cut it?”
Dick looks back to the mirror and then a pair of scissors he keeps nearby and maybe it’s not a good idea to listen to a hallucination which is telling him to grab something sharp.
But he does and he ends up cutting his hair as short as possible and it ends up curling again around his face like it did when he was robin and when he looks back the mini-Jason is gone, his breath is even shakier but-
(A part of him feels like he’s let something go.)
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“Dad.”
“Dad.”
“Daaaaad.”
“Daaaaaaaaaaaad.”
And Bruce is trying to ignore what he’s sure is this ghostly slight of Jason in full armoured robin suit right before he died, his smile adorning his face as he pokes at the suit, his eyebrows furrow under the cowl staring at the newest case, pin- pointing all the dots together and-
“Dad!”
And.
“Dad!”
And…
“Dad why won’t you listen to me?!”
Bruce’s shoulders tense together, his head snaps to where the ghost is and his jaw tenses but when he looks nothing is there, when he looks back at the case, the monitor screen is turned off and he’s reminded his cup of coffee (his third cup?) has gone cold and perhaps it’s time to go to bed.
He stands up and pushes the chair back, ignoring the feeling of eyes on him (they were in fact very real.)
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“Hmm now where did i…”
And when Alfred turns around he can suddenly find the missing pasta batter for tonights dinner, yes there is a large percent it will go untouched but it’s nice.
He gives a silent smile in understanding.
and a silent.
“Thank you master Jason.”
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Sometimes at night Bruce swears to himself he can feel a silent weight pressing against his side, a young child.
This is a better hallucination, it’s a better one then Jason screaming at him, blood dripping down the side of his face, his head beat in, his teeth crooked and his eye halfway closed with burn marks creeping down his side, screaming he did nothing to save him.
That he was useless.
It’s a better option.
He presses his hand around the weight and snuggles in, it gets him to sleep easy and maybe he can hear silent snickering like Jason has just snuck in and hidden something in his room, a rubber duck? A small bat? Or maybe the cuddle, the idea of Bruce cuddling back is funny.
He loves his sons.
He just doesn’t know how to communicate that.
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When Dick is lonely and crying hard, so hard his throat is sore and he’s bitten into his tongue hard enough to draw blood he might see his little brother, whose hands reach out for him.
He reaches back and sobs into the robin suit begging for forgiveness, he begs until he has no tears left and until he feels absolutely numb and dry and his hands are shaking so hard they could hurt him.
But he doesn’t deserve forgiveness.
Dick knows this, his little brother was dead because of him and he knew this.
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When Tim becomes robin the ghost disappears but that doesn’t mean the hallucinations stop, they push themselves to believe the wavy haired boy is tim, it’s unhealthy and perhaps Jason’s Ghost is frowning upon them. (He does, he is one last time before his resurrection.)
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“Jason, jason i’m so sorry.” Dick sobs, remorse.
Timothy, new to robin but not new to their grief just lets himself be held by dick for a few moments, his hands are awkward not wanting to hold Dick back because he’s not actually his brother.
Tears seep into his hair.
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“Jason- i mean, tim, careful.” Bruce’s voice comes out on the com.
Tim bites on his cheek.
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“Going to bed already ja-tim?”
Tim just lets out a little hum in return for Bruce.
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“Jaso…tim, wanna go batburger?”
“sure.” His response was.
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“Jason.”
Tim waits for Bruce to correct himself, he doesn’t this time.
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A repeated cycle that didn’t exactly end until red hood or Jason’s return, even then Bruce was still remorseful.
(Eventually Tim found his place in the family but there are some days where two souls find themselves regretting.)
A ghost and a person who became a Ghost of themself.
(Guys i promise i actually do know how tim became robin STOOOP)
#angst#no happy ending#dcu#dc comics#dc universe#jason todd#red hood#red robin#tim drake#bruce wayne#dick grayson#alfred pennyworth#tw death#mental illness#actually obsessive#actually mentally ill#mentally fucked#angst prompts#batfam#batfamily#trying to be a good dad#trying to cope
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Can be read as a continuation of this
.・゜-: ✧ :-
It's been a few weeks, really, since the day he met his biological father.
The oversized hoodie drowned him, a perfect haven while he waits near the entrance to arkham asylum.
The whole week rushed by after the event. His mom, wonderful, black belt, kickass mom had fretted over him the whole time, messaging his therapist not long after and getting an appointment.
His dad had been clingy, giving him bear hugs left and right, it felt nice. Jazz hadn't let him out of her sight for one moment, always searching, always studying.
Man, he loved his family.
"Are you going to visit him?" The gruff voice of Batman asks, and danny shrieks, jumping away as he looks at the vigilante with wide eyes.
"Oh Ancients—! Don't scare me like that!" Danny scolds, hand over his chest and breathing hard.
He can feel the amusement wafting off of Batman. Or something.
Huffing, the child leans against the brickstone pillar holding the gate again.
"No," he ends up answering. "I'm not here to visit... him."
Batman listens quietly, simply standing next to him. He doesn't pressure nor demand anything. If danny thinks more of it, he might get a headache.
"My sister is an intern in Arkham, we're gonna have dinner with Harley and Ivy today." A shrug, and the wind lovingly pushes him.
"Good." The man states, he hesitates a moment before he stretches his arm out towards danny, opening his hand and showcasing the items.
First is a lollipop, famous for being handed over to children after being saved by the bat himself. Second is a pin, in the shape of Batman's signature bat, it had a red button on the other side however.
"It's an emergency alert, in case anything like this happens again." Is quickly explained and Danny takes them, if not a bit tense.
He is unused to the trust the man shows him despite how short their time was spent together. Danny wonders if the bat already snooped around.
"Thanks—"
"Danny!"
His head snaps to the gate opening, brightening up as Jazz runs through and hugs him.
"Jazz!" He eagerly hugs back, thank looks up at her.
"You gotta meet Bat—" He trails off when they turn to the empty spot next to the pair, wind rustling leaves just as he finished. "man..."
Damn batman.
Danny huffs and tugs at Jazz's jacket. "Nevermind then, c'mon let's get a nice present before we visit harley."
Simply bringing her up seems to have Jazz excited. "I still can't believe we're having dinner with THE Dr. Harleen Quinzel!!!"
"And her wife."
"aND THE Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley!!!"
Her enthusiasm is rubbing off on him, he grins, hooking up his arm around hers, and they're skipping towards town, laughing like maniacs.
#dcxdp#dpxdc#dp x dc crossover#look batman is paranoid#danny “i went from two mentally ill villains to crazy scientists” fenton: im fine#batman: are u sure#he was legot concerned when he got the notif that danny was at arkham#its alr now tho#just his sister#look he gave danny a emergency alarm button thing cuz he holds harley as a dear friend#even if he and her will never be mother and son#the least he can do is give him a hand if he ever needs it#jazz will and would've broke jokers neck if arkham crew wasnt aware shes the sister of jokers kid and shes hella protective#THIS IS ALL PRE-ACCIDENT#Danny is TODDLER shaped#10-13 years#he still got few months before hell#if harley was aware he was back in gotham she would have killed the joker before he knew of his son#bruce alr knows everything abt danny#the moment danny hits 15 hes sending the internship to wayne enterprises in the astronomy wing
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sick little thing im trying to draw in the midst of a panic attack
[ progress in reblogs! ]
#superbat#clark kent x bruce wayne#dcu#dc fanart#batman#bruce wayne#dc universe#dc comics#clark kent#the voices tell me i cant draw but they cant hold back my thirst for big burly men having a big ol time together#i cant find references jelp me#wip#digital art#ginuhitnimisso#rough sketch#like EXTREMELY rough#trying to fight the mental illness kinda rough
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[Original post here, but I felt this deserved it's own @bloodyentrails]
IT DOES!!

Batman #138 preview
I was talking to @thekangarou last night about how Bruce's insistence here that Jason move away and find a "normal" life and fall in love and it's not a punishment, Jason, even if I'm not actually giving you a choice in any of it feels almost like forced heteronormativity too, like.
This is the asylum for hysterical women; this is the convertion therapy for the queer kid you can't accept; this is lobotomising your mentally ill son because you can't learn to handle his PTSD symptoms.
#gotham war#gotham war spoilers#jason todd#bruce wayne#bruce wayne critical#jason is female coded and queer coded and mentally ill coded and i am LIVING
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Blood
Fandom: DC
Yandere!batfamily x Male!reader
Description: Being a l/n has always been your thing but finding out your a fucking Wayne sucks especially how shitty and mentally ill your new family is.
Warning!: Angst, death, blood, neglect, curse words, made by a MINOR, not proof read, m/n going a little mental guys, anger issues (if you can call it ig)
A/n: I've reader neglected reader as a strong yet weak person getting easily manipulated and kidnapped with not that great with there mental health. But...what if we got reader who has anger issues but doesn't show them that often and is mentally not okay after the death of his mother? And on top of that being neglected only to be babied once being remembered.
Words: Who do you take me for? 🗿🗿
Welcome to blood series!- 1-Mother oh mother
Next ->
There was a once a time where you lived with your mother. Your oh so sweet mother the one who raised you from the slums of Gotham. The women with that soft smile everytime she enjoyed or saw something she liked. With those soft yet delicate hands that always helped you when you got injured from riding a bike or tripping on thin air.
As you grew older you noticed how tired she always was coming home from work with dark bags that clung to her soft pale like skin yet she always smiled. God how you wanted to help your mother that time but you were just 10 doing nothing but helping keep the run down apartment decent for when she comes home from work and going to elementary school trying to get good scores and good reports so your mother doesn't stress on anything and doing activities to get you by while your mother worked.
Yet here you are 16 and staring down at the stone which engraved your mother name and last name with the dates of her birth and death. The rain poured heavily down on you not caring about the umbrella. Your eyes didn't move and glance at the movements you heard behind you. You didn't flinch when a hand larger than your mother's hand gently placed on your shoulder.
Your fists dripped with blood for how hard you clenched how you wanted to slap the man's hand away. You hated being touched it made you sick it made you angry it wasn't your mother's soft touch no. It was some random stranger talking that you couldn't hear because your ears rung like when your tv goes static.
Why?
Why?
WHY?!
Why couldn't she stayed home that day? Why couldn't she waited until morning to get you that stupid cake for your birthday?
"It's your fault you know" The voice whispered it was agonizing hearing that awful voice that annoying child like voice. You wanted to bang your head on something, anything. You wanted to claw your brains out just so you could get rid of that voice.
"If you hadn't asked her for a cake she wouldn't have died that day." The voice giggles whispering it to your ear like a soft melody. Gods how that voice annoys you breaking you down bit by bit.
"ki-"
Who was that?
"k-"
Huh?
"Kid!" The sound of the man says making you snap out of your thoughts. Turning your gaze downward to the shorter man his glasses glimmered under the lightning that flashed his hands still on your shoulder. The umbrella covered both him and you under the heavy rain.
"There you are lost you there for a moment." The man chuckles softly putting his hand down though you didn't relax just stared at the man. "Ehem has I was saying we gotta take you to the station see if you have any family members that is willing to take you in." The man says which you now concluded it's a detective with his brown coat and hat.
You swallowed thickly your hands unclenching as you nod your head weakly to tired and worn out to fight or speak you just wanted sleep. The detective smiles and gestures to you to follow which you obey and follow the man but not without giving the grave where your mother was buried one last look and turned away going in the man's car.
Fuck being in a police station sucks.
The food is disgusting with now weird smelling the food it that they offer you. You rather eat the shitty school meals.
Your phone almost on low battery. The detectives ad Police officers refusing to drive you to get your things even your damn charger and they didn't have the charger you need.
This shit sucks the couches absolutely are uncomfortable they don't have enough fluffed cushions. Oh how you missed your bed and your cheek 5 dollar blanket your ma bought at 5 below when she got her paychecks.
Your leg bounced up and down looking up at the clock checking the time then down at the floor counting the different patterned carpet. Got how annoying that tucking of the clock sounded you just wanted to bash it until it stopped making that aggravating ticking noise. One more fucking hour enduring this shit your gonna loose it.
You leg bounced even more your hand tapping against your arm waiting for that damn door to open to have some news anything. Your head snapped to the sound of the door opening cringing at the small creaking sound it made. Your eyes landing on the same man that took you away from the graveyard and.....
No way....
This can't be happening...
Why is Bruce fucking Wayne here??
"Kid I want you to meet Bruce Wayne or should I say your father.."
SON OF A FUCKING BITCH
#yandere batfamily x reader#bruce wayne#male reader#made by a minor#batfamily#batfamily x reader#batbro#mentally ill reader#slightly insane reader#╰┈➤feral childs work
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And Bruce is also smiling because he agrees and thinks Hetty is so right for saying that 🙂↕️
Batman/Superman: World’s Finest Issue 6
#build a bruce#superbat#bruce wayne#batman#clark kent#superman#kal el#clark's hair curl#bruce’s mental illness#batman/superman: world's finest#issue 6#doing a reread because life is actually piecing me up#and i need joy#they are so fuckin MARRIED in this series#once again i am distracted by Clark’s nips#Dan the man#Dan mora#dick grayson#robin#boy wonder
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