It had been far too long since the entire family had managed to gather in one place, so Dick decided a video call was the next best thing. What was supposed to be an important Wayne family meeting quickly descended into the usual chaos, with everyone talking over each other while Bruce sat quietly at his desk, looking as though he were barely tolerating the entire ordeal. He had said almost nothing throughout the call, giving short, unimpressed responses whenever someone addressed him. Then, in the middle of yet another argument, a sleepy voice came from somewhere beside him. The entire call went silent. Bruce froze. Slowly, everyone realized there was someone else in his room—someone apparently comfortable enough to be asleep in his bed. And somehow, Bruce Wayne had managed to keep one very important secret from his entire family: you, his girlfriend.
Five years before Dick Grayson became Robin, Bruce Wayne adopted nine-year-old Sparrow after the death of her mother, an old friend from his high-school days. Kind, innocent, rebellious, and hopelessly clumsy, Sparrow quickly became Bruce and Alfred’s beloved first child—until she was killed at ten during a Joker attack on a museum field trip. Believing her gone forever, Bruce secretly buried her beneath the flower beds she once helped Alfred tend. But nine years later, Sparrow is unexpectedly revived by a group of diabolical scientists who keep her as their pawn until she escapes two days after her twentieth birthday. Knowing Bruce never abandoned her and that her death wasn't his fault, Sparrow has only one goal after years of suffering: find her way home and hug her father again.
Jason Todd’s relationship with his family is different now. Since his resurrection, he’s made peace with them, with his past, but they’re not…close. He works on his own, lives on his own, handles things on his own.
Y/N is the youngest and only daughter of Bruce Wayne and the twin sister of Damian Wayne. Raised in the League of Assassins under Talia al Ghul and Ra's al Ghul, she struggled more than Damian with its violent training and emotional pressure, leaving her with lasting trauma. After moving to Gotham, Damian became Robin while Y/N chose a normal life at Wayne Manor. Now fourteen, she has a stable routine but still deals with self-doubt and trauma, while Bruce Wayne struggles to fully understand her experiences and connect with her emotionally.
Jason and Dick look alike. They always have, the two boys looking remarkably like Bruce despite being adopted. Black hair, tan, blue eyes (at least before Jason dipped in the Lazarus pit, his are green now). Both tall, even if Jason’s taller. Both with a propensity to take women (and men) home. And Tim of course fits that’s same mold, a bit of player before settling down with Kon. And obviously Bruce, dark hair, blue eyes., the original ‘playboy’ of the family. So when a dark haired toddler is dropped off on the doorstep with a note, they can’t tell who’s kid it is. Must be one of theirs. Especially when the note says ‘He’s yours. Two. Can’t keep him.’
Bruce really didn’t think much of you when he had hired you for the job. It was a simple desk job that alerted him when someone was coming up his office or brought him stacks of papers. Sometimes even coffee.
Bruce Wayne does not say much. He never has. What he does is stay — in chairs beside medbay beds, in half a suit at three in the morning, in the specific silence of someone who has been keeping watch long enough that you stopped noticing and started expecting it. You're one of his. He decided that quietly, without announcement, the way he decides most things that matter to him. And now you're waking up in the medbay after a mission that went wrong, and he's there, and his jaw is tight, and he's going to turn everything he felt in the last six hours into a debrief because that's the only language he fully trusts. You know the translations by now. A slow burn about a man who says I know when he means I was afraid — and a kid who's slowly learning they're allowed to be someone worth being afraid for.
Bruce Wayne technically kidnapped a Talon. The problem is, the Court of Owls had kidnapped them years before he ever found them. Fourteen at most, the child has spent more of their life being shaped into a weapon than being treated like a person. Now they’re at Wayne Manor, surrounded by food, warmth, soft clothes, unlocked doors, and people who keep insisting they don’t have to be afraid. They don’t believe them. And Bruce isn’t going to force them to.
Veronica bites. Literally. When her hands are trembling she bites them. When she's feeling really affectionate and clingy she'll bite the person (almost every time Bruce or Clark). She bites the inside of her cheek or lip when concentrating or nervous or just zoning out.