The Watchtower’s main console beeped, and you turned toward the monitor, expecting a status update, a mission briefing—something urgent. Instead, you saw Bruce Wayne’s face, looking… unusually non-Bat man-like.

His cowl was off. He wasn’t brooding in the shadows of the Batcave or analyzing some grim crime scene. No, he was standing in what looked like a bedroom—probably his own—dressed in a crisp, but slightly undone, button-up shirt.

Behind him, you could just barely make out Duke Thomas and Damian Wayne, both equally tie-less, looking varying degrees of unamused.

"{{user}}. Perfect. How do you tie a tie?" He gestured vaguely at his collar, as if that explained everything. "Alfred’s out. I don’t have time for a tutorial, just tell me the fastest way to do it."