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When I say I ship opposite attracts I don’t mean it in a “pink x black” type of way I mean it in a “they have different personalities and different point of view but can understand each other in a way another person can’t”
you found home right in my soul
Hal found them in the living room. He leaned against the doorway and smiled at the scene.
Bruce, asleep in his favorite recliner, reading glasses askew on his face. Even in his sleep, his arm was firmly in place, holding baby Martha to his chest. She too was asleep, tiny hands grasping at Bruce’s sweater.
Hal had to suppress a laugh of pure joy at the sight. His husband looked like such a grandfather in that moment.
He stood there for a long time, simply watching them breathe.
Eventually Dick joined him in the doorway, giving a soft chuckle at the sight.
“So that’s where they ended up,” he whispered. Hal glanced over at him and smiled.
“You know that your father is already wrapped around her finger right? That child is going to be spoiled by her grandfather,” he said.
“You mean both of her grandfathers?” Dick said. His voice was serious, but he was smiling. Hal struggled not to get choked up. Almost two decades in and it still made him emotional when the kids referred to him as family.
“Yeah, yeah, I get it, I’m old,” Hal said. Dick rolled his eyes and opened his mouth to respond, but a blast of wind cut him off. The fiery red hair of Dick’s husband sagged in relief at the sight of Martha safely asleep in Bruce’s arms.
“There she is, Jesus,” Wally said, out of breath from panicking or searching the entire city, Hal couldn’t tell. They were both new parents, but Dick had grown up around younger siblings. Wally was considerably more nervous. Hal smiled, reminded of his own nerves with Bruce’s children when they first got together. Dick and Wally would be just fine.
“There better not be scorch marks on my carpet,” Bruce mumbled from the recliner, eyes still closed. Hal rolled his eyes. For awhile Bruce’s rule had been “no speed force in the manor,” but trying to tell speedsters not to use the speed force was like telling people not to breathe, so it had turned into “for the love of god please don’t ruin the carpet or Alfred’s ghost will haunt you.”
“Yeah yeah we know dad. Now give me my daughter back, you’ve been hogging her all day.” Dick walked up to the recliner and held his hands out. Bruce glared at him, but it didn’t have much of an effect on Dick anymore. The sleep rumpled hair and old-man sweater didn’t help, either. He reluctantly handed his granddaughter back to her father, careful not to wake her.
“You have to teach me how to do that, it takes us hours to get her to sleep,” Wally said, voice low as Dick walked back to him, Martha in his arms.
“The secret is about a dozen children,” Hal joked, chuckling as Wally’s face turned a little pale.
“Go on you two, Jason is starting on dinner and I’m sure he could use some extra hands,” Hal said. Dick shot him a knowing look, seeing right through Hal’s flimsy excuse to be alone with Bruce, but dragged Wally along behind him anyways.
Hal turned back to Bruce, who was watching him with a smile.
“Hey you,” Hal said, making his way to the recliner.
“Hi,” Bruce murmured back as Hal sat on the arm of the chair. He ran a hand through Bruce’s hair and absentmindedly adjusted his reading glasses. His husband leaned into the motion, practically purring at the attention.
“Did you not get enough sleep last night?” Hal asked. Bruce raised an eyebrow at him.
“You know exactly how much sleep I did not get.”
“Okay, I walked right into that one. You still have to be awake for dinner though,” Hal said, grinning at the pout that was now on his husband’s face.
“Dinner’s not for at least another half hour. Come here,” Bruce grumbled. He tugged Hal onto the recliner, forcing him to lay across his body. Hal huffed and looked up at Bruce, who captured his lips in a soft kiss. Hal pulled back.
“We are not making out in the living room,” Hal stated. Bruce rolled his eyes.
“Of course not, we’re napping.”
Hal sighed and resigned himself to being his grumpy husband’s blanket until someone came to drag them to the dinner table. Not that it was much of a hardship. Laying on top of Bruce would always be one of Hal’s favorite past times, but their family was here, including their first grandchild. And Hal missed their children.
“Baby, I love you so much, but our children are in our house unattended right now. Who knows what kind of chaos they could get up to?”
Bruce cracked one eye open and looked at Hal.
“They’re all adults now, you know,” Bruce said, “and my very warm husband is right here. It’s my birthday, I think I get to nap for a bit with my husband.” With that, Bruce leaned back further and wrapped his arms firmly around Hal.
Hal sighed again, knowing that nothing short of the world ending would get Bruce to move. Just a couple of years ago it would’ve been extremely difficult to get Bruce to willingly nap at any time of day.
“Happy Birthday, you giant toddler,” Hal muttered. Bruce smiled and rubbed a hand across Hal’s back. Maybe napping wasn’t such a bad idea, might even be worth all the old man jokes from Tim and Jason. As long as Bruce continued to look that happy and relaxed, anything would be worth it.
In public it’s “Wayne” or, when Hal’s trying to annoy him, “Brucie.”
In costume it’s “B-Man” or “B” or “Bats.”
Around friends it’s “Babe” or “Asshole.”
In private it’s “Bruce” or “Sweetheart.”
In bed it’s “Baby” or “Beautiful” or, when Hal is in a particular mood and wants to get under Bruce’s skin, “Sir.”
Headcanon: Everyone just assumes that between Bruce and Hal that Bruce is the disciplinarian and Hal’s just there to look pretty. But one of these men was raised in a strict military family and the other one drove his butler wild with his rich kid shenanigans. So the JL are in for a shock when BruceHal are off-world on a mission and the Bat kids have somehow set 2/3 of the Gotham harbour on fire. Like the water’s on actual fire.
Barry: We’re going to tell Batman!
Batkids: *look at each other and shrug*
Batkids: Weird flex but okay.
Superman: And I guess we should tell Green Lantern as well?
Batkids:…disperse!
Okay okay, I understand the identity porn of Hal loving the dashing playboy Bruce Wayne and hating Batman’s guts. By all accounts he and Bruce do not get along as Green Lantern and Batman. But have you considered:
“Spooky there is this rich fuckboy that won’t leave me alone so I’m gonna tell him I’m dating Batman to scare him off. I hope you don’t mind.”
Bruce realizing Hal just called him a fuckboy after what he considered genuine attempts at romancing:
Batman's bi ace you heard it here first folks
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Batc.est shippers dni
A lot of of you followed me bc I write batman stuff but I haven't written a n y t h i n g in too long 😔 so let's change that y'all.
SEND ME A BATMAN/BRUCE WAYNE PROMPT
At this point I'll pretty much write anything so go berserk you funky goblins
Bruce Wayne Week: Day 6: Multiverse
awhile back I made a post or two about the multiverse and one specific universe where Bruce is star sapphire instead of batman
@brucewayneweek
@river9noble gave me this idea, Star Sapphire Bruce being in love with Hal and I couldn't rest until I drew it
Bonus:
Barry, to Hal: how come you get all the hot crazy exes??????
I'm gonna redraw one (or a couple) piece(s) that I've done, so if u want,,,, tell me which ones u want to see re-done
I personally prefer Talia and Khoa, the only version of the Joker I like is Gotham's Jeremiah Valeska. The idea of him staying single is nice too, we need more Bruce worried about his kids.
Okay okay but consider possible batfam fic idea:
so Bruce is in an emergency justice league meeting that got called but because its taking place at night he has a comm on in his ear playing at a low volume because all of the batfam are out on patrol around gotham covering his patrol route for him and because you know B is a paranoid, overprotective fucker he just to make sure everything is going smoothly for his kids but he doesn’t plan on actually letting them know he’s tapped into their network because he can already hear the lecture from Dick about trusting them to take care of the city.
So he’s listening to them quietly while also paying attention to Clark talking about some alien diplomacy issue and his kids are YAPPING away about the stupidest shit to one another cause they don’t have B telling them off for ‘unprofessional unnecessary chatter while on patrol’ and you’re getting a mix of all the dynamics between them all and the longer the meeting is going on the more B’s eye is just TWITCHING because his Dad senses are just going hay wire and he is just here like ‘I cannot say anything in front of the league because they cannot know I have children cause I'm Batman and I work alone blah blah blah’, usual brooding, but Damian and Tim are squabbling with one another about a rescue that took place an hour ago and Dick is challenging Jason to a parkour contest and Steph is challenging the Riddler to a riddle off with riddles she made up and have no answer just to piss him off and his dad sense is just like an alarm going off and then he just cant take it anymore cause Duke (pretend he’s on nightshift to make up for the man down or smth idk shh) says something like ‘I'm going to do my book report in the morning Richard leave me be’ even though Bruce KNOWS he isn't going to do it in the morning, this has happened before they have an AGREEMENT, a CONTRACT god damn it but they don't know Bruce is listening to the comms Duke just goes something like “its fine B won't even find out!” and Bruce just LOSES it there and then and just presses his comm and goes “NO. No, stfu all of you I am taking charge here” and he just starts going off on them all for the different things they were whining about like
“No Signal, go and do your damn book report right now you are not going to be doing it in the morning you always say you will and you never wake up early enough to get it done so then you end up speed doing it in the car while nearly stress crying and I am cannot deal with that while running on 49 hours of no sleep so go and do it right this damn minute. I am TIRED, I am tired boy go. GO. I love you, goodnight.”
“N go and unload the damn dishwasher. I asked you four. FOUR days ago to do it and A is not coming home until next week please I am begging you I have been drinking my coffee out of bowls and a straw for days now. Thank you, I love you goodnight.”
“Red Robin. Put the coffee down. No- I know its in your hand I can feel it. I can feel it in my BONES child you cannot hide from me, down. Now. Good. Get a piece of fruit and go to bed. No I don't give a fuck if- no. I don't care if the pentagon has laughably easy security to bypass right now it has been over 72 hours since you closed your eyes I WILL call A I will, I’ll do it right now. I’m calling him right now- good okay goodnight. I’m sending Dick to check on you to make sure you’re actually sleep. I love you too goodnight”
“Robin I know you're there. Damn right go to bed, Titus can go with you yes you don't have to ask every night baby its going to be the same answer, I love you goodnight.”
“Hood and Spoiler stop trying to goad rogues into fighting each other and go home. Hood will you- thank you. Goodnight I love you both....no S I will not ask Ivy if she’ll make you real life lil shop of horrors plant to leave at your ex’s house please stop asking. Goodnight.”
"C are you- I love you too."
And he just lets out this enormous, patented Dad sigh and looks up after a few moments and realizes the entire justice league is just watching him absolutely GOBSMACKED because oh my god how long has this been going on for?? because like what the fuck this was cold, calculated, ‘they think he's actually a robot’ Batman, who just all of a sudden just went BOOM father mode is activated, this is a patriARCH, you know? Daddy bats alright. And he's just like, his facial expression doesn't so much as twitch but a light blush just appears on his entire face and then Clark is just like HEART EYES and Hal is just like HEARTEYES (??!!) and Barry is suddenly having a sexuality crisis because what the fuck is this, and Diana is just like, speechless but in love and he just mumbles after a few moments “...you can continue your speech Clark I apologize for my lapse in professionalism” and Hal is just like “NAH MOTHERFUCKER YOU ARE NOT BREEZING PAST THAT WHAT THE FUCK SPOOKY??” and then the entire situation just devolves in chaos.
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A Batlantern commission made by @ninalinovna Thanks you so much ! I love it !
Yes Hal is a supportive boyfriend !
My favorite batlantern trope is when the get together because Oliver is bored and wants some drama to happen
NAH YOU ARE SO GOOD ty for the food 🙏
we're heroes bruce, what did you think was gonna happen in the end?
favorite Bruce Wayne hc of the week: you’re allowed to follow him into the Cave to continue your argument, but he’s going to start undressing and pulling off armor while heading for the showers and if you get an eyeful, that’s on you.
It’s an effective tactic and stops a good 60% of those arguments in their tracks. The remaining 40% are usually intense enough to follow Bruce into the showers and yell at him while he’s casually showering off grime and blood.