#i have seen some supernatural batfam fics but i haven't seen this specific idea yet

[magicpiano]

Batfam AU where Bruce really leans into the supernatural/eldritch entity thing when creating the Batman persona. But he really is just a completely normal human. As a mater of fact, when he started he didn't even believe in the supernatural.

Which was fine at first. But see, Dick secretly really is a supernatural creature. He only felt comfortable being taken in by Bruce because he was Batman, and everyone knows the bat is a supernatural being!

So now in order to make Dick feel safe, Bruce is forced to keep up the supernatural creature act in his own home.

(What type of supernatural creature? IDK haven't decided. Any of them? That isn't the point of this AU lol.)

Dick does eventually find out the truth, but by that point he already trusts Bruce, so it is whatever. You would think that would be the end of it, right? But no, as it turns out there are a lot of supernatural kids who only trust him because he "isn't human too."

At some point Gotham gets a reputation for being a safe haven for supernatural beings even though it really really isn't. (Of course at the rate Bruce is picking up supernatural children, he might have to make it one...)

Essentially, human father to many supernatural beings who believe he is one of them AU.