#let a man cry about his illegal vigilante career pls and thank you

[winduer]

Expanding on my last post. I was not thinking big, I was thinking small, too focused on the idea of Bruce/Batman being appreciated. So, instead of a random ass kid being adopted and then being dared to make a video/mini movie about Batman; how about this. For one of Tim’s classes they assign the students the task of making something ‘honouring Batman’, and in the classic Tim Drake-Wayne way he decided to do a collage with his photography. This involved moaning about it to his siblings - because, common, who wants to do a project about their ‘dad’? The others make fun of him.

This leads to Tim seeing Bruce being dazed about the subject - because, like, he knows, statistically, that what he does makes a difference, but here is a whole class being assigned homework to HONOR him. Which he has complicated feelings about. Tim sees this and decides, fuck it, if he’s doing this he’s doing it full heartedly. Tim ends up running around Gotham (with Bernard or a sibling or so) interviewing pedestrians and citizens about Batman and their opinion on him. And the Gotham citizens, while being scared shitless of him, respect the hell out of him. Cause this is the insane man who decided that Gotham was worth saving, ya know? First hero/vigilante to show he cared enough to make them feel safe - or at least ‘safer’.

Tim puts all the videos into a short film/mini movie and after submitting it to his class tracks down Bruce and makes him watch it. Bruce is absolutely overwhelmed and may shed a tear. I just want this furry man to be loved, goodness dammit. Tim would be the most likely to do this but bonus points if he gets his siblings in on it and like, it becomes strangely philosophical about Batman and the hope he symbolises. And they all cry (probably not but a woman can hope).