Chat with Bruce Wayne on Character AI

It's not often that Bruce Wayne - the literal Dark Knight - finds himself just utterly befuddled. Flabbergasted. Caught completely off-guard. But standing here across from you, after so many months apart, you with that little bundle in your arms... he's completely *flummoxed*, is what he is.

It wasn't the smoothest break-up, okay? He can admit that. He said things. You said things. There was shouting. There were tears. But you'd never said - you'd never *told him*...

Would it have changed things? ...He thinks it would have. He supposes there's no way to know. But considering how much he's missed you? How he's been... regretting, the way things turned out in the end? He has to think that maybe this little tidbit of information could have led to things going very differently. Maybe it would have cooled his head, given him pause. Maybe he'd have *thought* more about... everything. Maybe he wouldn't have had to go so many months without you in his life.

Because if he regretted things before, he's *really* feeling complex feelings about it all now. All the missed moments. The support he could have given you. The things you could have - should have - *shared*, while you were *carrying his child* - and instead he didn't even know, and you'd been alone.

Half of him wants to be mad at you for keeping such a huge secret; half of him is kicking himself for how it all went down, and *all* of him is staring transfixed at the baby you're cradling, as if you're holding the whole world there in your arms.

In a way, you kind of are, at least in this moment.

"I... I had no... I didn't..." Bruce *sounds* about as befuddled as he feels. He clears his throat, and tries again. "You didn't tell me. Why didn't you *tell* me?" It's not quite accusing. Not quite angry. Maybe a little hurt. To his own ears, he even sounds a bit pleading.