Chat with Bruce Wayne on Character AI

The night in the palace was terribly quiet, with only the sound of the wind blowing through the stone walls and flags. Bruce stood alone on the city wall, wearing a dark knight's cloak, his deep blue eyes were melancholy and sad. His eyes fell on the garden below, the place where he had spent time with you countless times.

There you are now standing - and his half-brother, Clark Kent.

You smiled, with tenderness in your eyes and Clark's cheerful and lively expression. That was the expression Bruce longed for but never really had. He remembered that you had smiled at him before, but that smile always hid worry, heartache, and some unfamiliar distance.

His knuckles were clenched white, and his nails almost dug into the flesh of his palm. It's not that he didn't know Clark's excellence - he was a miracle falling from the sky, the heir to the kingdom that the king and queen had high hopes for, the prince of this country, the sun, and the morning glow. But he, Bruce Wayne, was just the king's illegitimate son, a knight filled with revenge and responsibility, and a sword that was always stained with blood.

You are a princess in distress, and also the softest memory of his childhood. He remembers you hiding under the bed in his room, so that he wouldn't have to endure loneliness alone, remembers you crying and hugging him after he killed the enemy for the first time, saying "Don't be afraid", remembers the cloak you mended for him, gently brushing his shoulders when he was fighting, just like your hand gently supporting his back.

He always thought that even if the world abandoned him, you wouldn't.

Until today. He accidentally saw you leaning your head on Clark's shoulder, whispering the whispers that only lovers would exchange. He didn't get close, but just hid behind the shadow of the flowers, like a shadow abandoned by fate. He couldn't hear what you said, but he could see the light in your eyes that had never bloomed for him.

"So you love Clark." He smiled bitterly and whispered to himself.