#definitely beat me on batdevil already

[rev-wrath]

He is very pretty. I have no clue how far you are into the fic but that sounds relatively early.

Matt wonders. He’ll never actually know what he could have done differently to change it. If anything. Maybe R was just like that. Lord knows Matt’s like that sometimes. Bruce certainly is. (Excellent names, beloved)

Bruce worries and calls Matt, hoping he’ll pick up. He probably wants to drop everything and be there as soon as he can. Even for a day or two. People who know Bruce know it’s more similar to the tone he uses for his family, maybe even Clark. And the kids are clocking his weird behavior and almost familiarity with the small New York hero. They’re also just competitive, nosy, and like being right.

R teaches Damian, guides him. Taking him along on small “errands” before eventually letting him go out on his own. Bruce can do shared. Damian, who I think is smaller and younger than when first introduced in canon, is piping up. After everything with R and then Matt, Bruce gets even more concerned and wants his lovers closer. Plus one of them has been raising his kid! It makes sense to talk to them about moving into the same city at least.

Beloved, I am pushing the idea further into you, don’t worry.

Foggy talks about Matt’s original outfit and Alfred is nodding along, so Foggy asks if Bruce had a similar thing in the beginning. It’s good to keep each other updated so they have a better idea of what’s going on there. Helpful if one is also out of town or in desperate need of help their vigilantes won’t ask for. Matt only has shitty beer and Tim considers restocking Matt’s kitchen. Dick brings fancy food that’s nice. Just something the trio probably wouldn’t ever consider or receive otherwise. Matt calls Bruce and tells him it’s fine, they’re Bruce’s kids, so he can’t be too upset. Matt just wanted to know and to tell Bruce to maybe ask the kids to not do it too much. But they’re welcomed if they need something. Maybe just call ahead if they can. For Spidey, I guess part of that is dynamics, but the main thing is personality honestly.

The magpie is crashing into your theatre, to throw the fic idea at you.

So, the first part would consist of Batdevil + R who are all not into the vigilante/violence of stuff yet. R works at a bartender in a bar at NYC. Bruce is there as part of a training thing or a business thing (this depends on if I want to lean more into Battinson or not). On a Friday R meets Matt (and Foggy) and Matt and R hit it off. On a Monday, R meets Bruce and they too, hit it off. This continues for several weeks until Matt and Bruce come into the bar at the same time. And the three of them most likely went to wherever the hell Bruce is staying to have a wild night.

It starts off like that, but they're very blurred lines. Bruce prolongs his stay at NYC because he feels as though these two can understand him. And like. all three of them have experience in sparring, so it's not a stretch to have them release some pent up energy through spars, even if R doesn't particularly love to do it.

They all end things amicably bc Matt's going to be busy doing lawyer stuff, Bruce has to go back to Gotham, and R doesn't do attachment. Matt does promise R that he would visit often. And they all still exchange phone numbers.

The second part starts up with a time skip. (Ten years? fifteen? depends on how long Bruce is going to be training + when he's going to be Batman). It's R and their weird-ass Assassin ancestors talking to each other and convincing them to go to the League of Assassins. Thoughts of Bruce and Matt are the furthest thing from their mind, but Bruce and Matt think of R + each other often. Maybe they think more about R because they seemingly disappeared. Kidnapped. Maybe they spent years secretly searching for a trace of them?

Anyways, R goes to the League, sees that it is absolutely not a Brotherhood they/their ancestors built, and kind of. Steam rolls through. Half-adopts Damian on the way bc this tiny child reminds their ancestors of their own children??? And then the two of them go to Gotham (bc after the whole activating the Isu device to save the earth from a huge solar flare but in return releasing an evil Isu woman named Juno, I assume the JL and whatever big name Marvel superhero group tidied everything up and got rid of Juno and had a Piece of Eden/Apple of Eden somewhere) bc their fucked up arm told them that that's where the Apple is. Surprise, surprise, it's in the Batcave. Somewhere here, R kills someone in front of Batman.

For Matt's part, R drops back to NYC after not having been there for years (in case anyone recognises them) bc they've been hearing stuff about Abstergo/the Templars being there and having the shroud of Eden in their hands. So they go off to intercept it before it can get to Abstergo at the docks. Daredevil is there, and recognises R in an instant. (Damian is there? Maybe?). R assassinates the guards/men without a hesitating or breaking a sweat.

I guess the end of the second part would be the three of them meeting? Maybe Bruce chases after this mysterious assassin to NYC and steps into the Devil's territory?

And then the third part would be the three of them sorting things out? (God, this has devolved into a three part series AND an epilogue.)

This is your fic so very much your nest still, birdie. But welcomed nonetheless.

I was about to say how specific the days are for the first meeting of Matt and Bruce but it’s nearly back to back so that’s probably the reason. The several weeks of Matt and Bruce coming in separately sounds so fun. Plus Matt and Bruce finally meeting and interacting. And then there’s the after obviously.

That’s fair. But does Matt ever actually follow up on that promise?

It’s funny, cause technically if they ever wanted to, Matt and Bruce could have just, visited each other. It’s not like they don’t know who the other is or where to find them. Bruce, at least, would probably try to secretly find them.

R’s ancestors are what brings them to Damian and sort of back to Bruce. So they just tear apart the League? Or they rebuild it after? Bruce would try to keep the Apple. For whatever reason. Does R know who Bruce/Batman is in relation to Damian and leave him with Bruce? Does R know that Bruce is Batman?

I don’t have much to add other than Matt realizing who’s at docks will be fun!

That would make the most sense for Bruce to follow. At least in that time frame. Otherwise he would probably have to figure out it’s R and/or what R was doing, Apple/Eden stuff, and follow for information.

Sorting things out with themselves and everything R was doing. (I don’t think this was the short fic I had in mind but close enough?)