#i really hope they don't go the playboy route in reeves' batman

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i cant stop thinking about 2022 bruce wayne becoming almost a meme in gotham city because of how Fucking Done™️ he is with everything and everyone when he's forced to leave the tower and turn up to a function. there's pictures circulating facebook of him with the deadest look behind his eyes while he's talking to some politician with top text bottom text captions. there's videos of him literally jumping out of his skin whenever someone tries to approach him making their rounds on twitter (like how he fucking jumped when bella reál approached him at the funeral). and there's clips circulating tiktok of him giving the most unhinged, out of pocket responses to interviewers because he has no filter and his mouth runs faster than the cogs in his head can turn sometimes. and i feel like he would hate it at first, and he would try his hardest to Be Normal when he's in public but because he's trying too hard to Be Normal he just ends up becoming even more of a meme. and everyone just ends up falling in love with him even more because they find him relatable.

like okay yes, he's bruce wayne. yes, he has money and wealth. but he's not one of THOSE rich assholes. he's just a guy. he's awkward and tired and unintentionally funny and he embarrasses himself sometimes and it's kinda endearing to the public.

there's also an online forum dedicated to him smiling in public. people go on there to document rare instances of a bruce wayne smile. when, why, where, etc. but everyone calls bullshit on the claims because no one ever seems to have a picture of it because let's be honest, in public it's kind of a blink and you'll miss it event. the first time someone manages to take a picture of him grinning the whole internet blows up and the pic spreads like wildfire. it gets posted on every social media platform, every newspaper plasters it on the front page, everyone in gotham has bruce wayne smiling as their twitter pfps.

i just love the idea of gotham adopting him as their own little meme and Favourite Rich Guy. like when they talk about the rich assholes that run the city they have to add "not you, bruce wayne. never you".

and like, thinking about him downloading tiktok one night just to see what people are saying about him or the batman (and to anonymously argue in batman's defence, he doesn't care what they say about bruce wayne but batman ... he's gonna defend). he's scrolling and liking the occasional video and then he stumbles across one of those 'sing if you find them attractive' videos and he sees his face. so then he finds another one. and he's on there again. and again. and again. and again. until he's throwing his phone across the room and staring at it like it's just bit him. he'd be freaked out, because WHY is he in the same video as like.... IDRIS ELBA. but he'd also he kinda flattered, and he'll take the self esteem boost.

(also thinking about him going out to the store as bruce wayne, dressed in the most hideous outfit known to man, just to see what people say about it. just to see whether it gets a smash or a pass on tiktok)

also you cant tell me people wouldn't thirst over the batman. the first time bruce sees a 'sing if you find them attractive' with a picture of the batman he deletes tiktok, turns his phone off and doesn't touch it for 3 whole weeks.

anyway. just a thought. i don't know. i just really love the idea of Public Figure Bruce Wayne.