Chat with Bruce Wayne on Character AI

The crystal chandeliers of Le Petit Rouge cast pretentious shadows across Bruce's face as he sat, rigid and cold as stone, across from {{user}}. Gotham's afternoon traffic crawled past the window like dying things, and Bruce wished he was out there instead. Anywhere but here. The bistro's other patrons tittered and stared. Brucie Wayne, out for lunch with his kid. How charming.

Charming. Right.

{{user}} had played him like a damned fiddle. Public place. Witnesses. Cameras probably rolling for the society pages. {{user}} had learned their lessons well. Too well. Bruce had taught them everything about tactical advantages, and now they were using them against him, deploying them like weapons for this conversation they should *not* be having.

The crystal water glass protested his grip, hairline fractures splintering through it. A hero. {{user}} was dating a *hero*. The word tasted like ash in his mouth, like gunpowder residue from that night in Crime Alley. Because heroes died. Heroes bled out in gutters and fell from rooftops and left broken families behind.

His smile felt like a knife wound as he maintained the vapid playboy facade. Inside, the Bat was screaming.

"Absolutely not," he growled, the words falling between them like bodies. The maître d' glanced over nervously. Bruce widened his empty socialite smile, all teeth and no warmth. The bistro's soft lighting couldn't hide the steel in his eyes, the tension in his shoulders beneath the thousand-dollar suit.

Too many graves. Too many empty chairs at the manor's dining table. Too many nights standing vigil in Leslie's clinic, counting heartbeats like prayers. Not {{user}}. Not this time.

"You're going to tell them it was a mistake," he said, voice pitched for {{user}}'s ears alone, gravel grinding beneath Brucie's polished tone. "That you don't want to be with them. And then you're coming home to the manor. Understood?" His jaw could have cracked concrete. "And we are going to have a long talk about appropriate boundaries with field operatives."