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signalizedName: Katie
DW username: superkppa
E-Mail: mostlyverytired@gmail.com
IM: moongoddesssk
Plurk: autoclave
Other Characters: Rebekah Mikaelson
Character Name: Bruce Wayne/Batman
Series: DCEU
Timeline: After the end credits scene of Suicide Squad.
Canon Resource Link: http://dcextendeduniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Batman
Character History:
In the dream they took me into the light, a beautiful lie.
Bruce Wayne was born privileged. Thomas and Martha Wayne were known for their wealth and generosity in Gotham. His early childhood was mostly happy and later on Bruce would look back at those times as his happiest. This would all change when he was eight. We all know how this story goes: boy goes to movie with parents, parents get shot in alleyway, boy ends up so psychologically scarred that as an adult he dresses up as a bat to carry out vigilante justice.
You know, the usual.
The Wayne's butler, Alfred, takes Bruce in and raises him the best he can. He tries to encourage Bruce to live the sort of life his parents would have wanted but Bruce does not know how to move past the trauma of losing his parents. So he decides to dedicate himself to making sure no one ever goes through what he did again. He travels around the world to train under as many people as possible, to learn as many styles of fighting as possible. Eventually, when he felt he was ready, he returned to Gotham where he donned the cape and cowl and became The Batman.
In order to keep people from figuring out his secret identity he made the public appearance of Bruce Wayne into something of a joke. Bruce Wayne appeared to be a drunken playboy and little else. He ran Wayne Enterprises well but left a lot of the details to other people.
Although Batman is known as a brooding, solitary figure he did not always work alone. He took in a young kid off the street, Jason Todd, and trained him to work by his side as Robin. Eventually the crime queen and king of Gotham, Harley Quinn and the Joker, killed Jason. This loss was devastating for Bruce and he pulled into himself more. Over time he became bitter and angry.
The world only makes sense if you force it to.
After fighting crime in Gotham for twenty years Bruce has become jaded. It's hard for him to see hope anymore. He was in Metropolis during Superman's battle with Zod and witnesses the destruction first hand. He dives into the fray to try to help survivors, urging the people in the Wayne building to evacuate. It is when he finds a little girl in the rubble, however, that he decides Superman is the enemy. The little girl lost her mother in the destruction like Bruce lost his parents in that alleyway.
New trauma brings back old trauma.
Bruce becomes obsessed with the idea of stopping Superman. He has become the new ultimate threat. He begins tracking a shipment of Kryptonite that has been found, lying to Alfred about what it really is. He becomes more brutal with common criminals, branding them as targets. He has become angry and cruel over time and the people of Gotham have become afraid of him. He begins having nightmares about the bats, and about the future as well, his mental health is deteriorating and instead of doing anything about it he self medicates with alcohol and pills and continues to push himself further down his crusade.
In his attempts to track the Kryptonite he attends a fundraiser Lex Luthor is holding for Metropolis libraries. He meets Clark Kent and immediately the two do not get along with one another. He then pretends to get drunk to steal some of Luthor's information, only for that information to then be stolen from him.
He meets the woman who stole Lex's files from him, Diana, at another function where she returns the hard drive to him. Although she was unable to decrypt it, Bruce was successful in doing so. He found files on Diana and other metas but most importantly he found the Kryptonite location. During this time he already had a run in with Superman and received returned checks from an employee of his who got hurt in Metrpolis. The checks all say things like "you let your family die." This spurns Bruce on and further convinces him that Superman is a threat hat has to be taken down.
I failed him in life, I won't fail him in death.
Eventually, the two come head to head in battle. Even though Superman does not really want to kill Batman he has been backing into a corner by Lex Luthor who has Clark's mother kidnapped and under orders to be killed if Superman fails to kill Batman. Bruce is convinced Superman has to b e stopped for the sake of human kind. He's forged weapons out of Kryptonite to even the playing field between them. He's ready to kill Clark when Clark mutters the words "you're letting him kill Martha." It's not just that their mother's have the same name, Bruce doesn't even know that fact yet, but hearing his mother's name alone is enough to jar him, triggering him to flashback to the night his parents died. He becomes confused and disoriented until Lois clarifies who Martha is -- Clark's mother. Finally Bruce sees Clark as a person and not an alien or threat. Clark is just a boy who wants to save his mother, like he had been in the alleyway, like he had sworn to protect all those years ago when he first became Batman. He promises Clark that Martha will not die tonight, not on his watch, and goes to save her while Clark recovers from the Kryptonite.
The conflict could have ended there had Lex not unleashed Doomsday, an Kryptonian abomination that was created through the mixture of Zod and Lex's DNA. Diana appears as Wonder Woman to help them fight the creature but in the end Clark has to sacrifice himself to defeat it. Clark's death changes Bruce -- it challenges him to be better than he has been in recent years. He asks Diana to help him find the others like her. He has the feeling he'll need it.
Months later he meets with Amanda Waller to make a deal -- he'll protect her if she gives him the information he needs. She gives him the files on the metahumans he's trying to find and others. What he plans on doing with it remains to be seen but it's safe to assume at the very least he'll use the information to more easily track them down.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Although Bruce is only human and has no supernatural abilities he is stronger than the average human due to the intense amount of training he does. He has learned many different fighting styles over the years and borrows from many of them. He has a sharp intellect and is known for his skills as a detective, he can even manage to break through military grade decryption. He has a high pain tolerance which has come from pushing his body to the limits over and over again. More than anything else he has an impressive strength of will and endurance that drives everything else he does.
Third-Person Sample:
Bruce has seen a lot of things in his twenty years of vigilante justice but suddenly being in a new world is a new one, even for him. One of the first things he does is inspect his new device. He tries to garnish as much information as possible from it. Apparently he fell down a rabbit hole somewhere because people keep referring to this place as Wonderland. Ultimately he finds himself with more questions than answers.
So he leaves his own message on the network and gets down to business. He manages to locate the library where he pours over books, looking for some answers about how to get home. The World's Greatest Detective isn't having much luck, however, so he gives up and finds a bar because maybe a drink will calm his nerves if nothing else.
Bruce doesn't remember the last time he felt this on edge -- which is saying something for him because he is always on edge in one way or another. This place seems mostly peaceful so far but it has to be some sort of deception. He was taken from his home, after all. And Gotham may not be the best of places but it is home and he'd like to get back to it. But he knows it won't be that easy, no one would bring that many people here without some sort of ulterior motives in play. They want something from all of them, the only question is what.
He throws back his first drink in one go. He can't imagine the catch is anything good but he has a feeling he'll know sooner or later. After all, there's always a catch. Some might call him cynical for jumping to conclusions like this so quickly but he likes to think he's being realistic. While Clark's death may have restored some well needed optimism to Bruce that doesn't mean he's blind to how cruel and ugly the world can be. He just knows now he has to try to be better than that himself.
What that means for him here, however, remains to be seen.
First-Person Sample:
[Being kidnapped isn't comforting for anyone, let alone someone as deeply paranoid as Bruce. He thinks of a rogue from Gotham that kidnaps young blondes and call them Alice. They're all mad in Gotham.
He wonders if they're all mad here too.
But he also knows how to mask that paranoia and rely on his public persona as he speaks over the network, choosing to keep to an audio post for now.]
My name is Bruce Wayne and it is unlikely that my name has the weight here that it would have had at home but I figured I would put myself out there all the same. I'm sure you get tired of the same questions over and over again from new arrivals so I'll keep it to just this one.
What's the one thing you wish you had known about this place when you arrived? Advice or information that would have made the transition into Wonderland a little bit smoother, assuming such a transition is even possible, of course.
It goes without saying that you're free to leave more than one thing if you feel so inclined, I'm not going to turn away more information.
Thank you.
[And that's it, that's the post.]
DW username: superkppa
E-Mail: mostlyverytired@gmail.com
IM: moongoddesssk
Plurk: autoclave
Other Characters: Rebekah Mikaelson
Character Name: Bruce Wayne/Batman
Series: DCEU
Timeline: After the end credits scene of Suicide Squad.
Canon Resource Link: http://dcextendeduniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Batman
Character History:
In the dream they took me into the light, a beautiful lie.
Bruce Wayne was born privileged. Thomas and Martha Wayne were known for their wealth and generosity in Gotham. His early childhood was mostly happy and later on Bruce would look back at those times as his happiest. This would all change when he was eight. We all know how this story goes: boy goes to movie with parents, parents get shot in alleyway, boy ends up so psychologically scarred that as an adult he dresses up as a bat to carry out vigilante justice.
You know, the usual.
The Wayne's butler, Alfred, takes Bruce in and raises him the best he can. He tries to encourage Bruce to live the sort of life his parents would have wanted but Bruce does not know how to move past the trauma of losing his parents. So he decides to dedicate himself to making sure no one ever goes through what he did again. He travels around the world to train under as many people as possible, to learn as many styles of fighting as possible. Eventually, when he felt he was ready, he returned to Gotham where he donned the cape and cowl and became The Batman.
In order to keep people from figuring out his secret identity he made the public appearance of Bruce Wayne into something of a joke. Bruce Wayne appeared to be a drunken playboy and little else. He ran Wayne Enterprises well but left a lot of the details to other people.
Although Batman is known as a brooding, solitary figure he did not always work alone. He took in a young kid off the street, Jason Todd, and trained him to work by his side as Robin. Eventually the crime queen and king of Gotham, Harley Quinn and the Joker, killed Jason. This loss was devastating for Bruce and he pulled into himself more. Over time he became bitter and angry.
The world only makes sense if you force it to.
After fighting crime in Gotham for twenty years Bruce has become jaded. It's hard for him to see hope anymore. He was in Metropolis during Superman's battle with Zod and witnesses the destruction first hand. He dives into the fray to try to help survivors, urging the people in the Wayne building to evacuate. It is when he finds a little girl in the rubble, however, that he decides Superman is the enemy. The little girl lost her mother in the destruction like Bruce lost his parents in that alleyway.
New trauma brings back old trauma.
Bruce becomes obsessed with the idea of stopping Superman. He has become the new ultimate threat. He begins tracking a shipment of Kryptonite that has been found, lying to Alfred about what it really is. He becomes more brutal with common criminals, branding them as targets. He has become angry and cruel over time and the people of Gotham have become afraid of him. He begins having nightmares about the bats, and about the future as well, his mental health is deteriorating and instead of doing anything about it he self medicates with alcohol and pills and continues to push himself further down his crusade.
In his attempts to track the Kryptonite he attends a fundraiser Lex Luthor is holding for Metropolis libraries. He meets Clark Kent and immediately the two do not get along with one another. He then pretends to get drunk to steal some of Luthor's information, only for that information to then be stolen from him.
He meets the woman who stole Lex's files from him, Diana, at another function where she returns the hard drive to him. Although she was unable to decrypt it, Bruce was successful in doing so. He found files on Diana and other metas but most importantly he found the Kryptonite location. During this time he already had a run in with Superman and received returned checks from an employee of his who got hurt in Metrpolis. The checks all say things like "you let your family die." This spurns Bruce on and further convinces him that Superman is a threat hat has to be taken down.
I failed him in life, I won't fail him in death.
Eventually, the two come head to head in battle. Even though Superman does not really want to kill Batman he has been backing into a corner by Lex Luthor who has Clark's mother kidnapped and under orders to be killed if Superman fails to kill Batman. Bruce is convinced Superman has to b e stopped for the sake of human kind. He's forged weapons out of Kryptonite to even the playing field between them. He's ready to kill Clark when Clark mutters the words "you're letting him kill Martha." It's not just that their mother's have the same name, Bruce doesn't even know that fact yet, but hearing his mother's name alone is enough to jar him, triggering him to flashback to the night his parents died. He becomes confused and disoriented until Lois clarifies who Martha is -- Clark's mother. Finally Bruce sees Clark as a person and not an alien or threat. Clark is just a boy who wants to save his mother, like he had been in the alleyway, like he had sworn to protect all those years ago when he first became Batman. He promises Clark that Martha will not die tonight, not on his watch, and goes to save her while Clark recovers from the Kryptonite.
The conflict could have ended there had Lex not unleashed Doomsday, an Kryptonian abomination that was created through the mixture of Zod and Lex's DNA. Diana appears as Wonder Woman to help them fight the creature but in the end Clark has to sacrifice himself to defeat it. Clark's death changes Bruce -- it challenges him to be better than he has been in recent years. He asks Diana to help him find the others like her. He has the feeling he'll need it.
Months later he meets with Amanda Waller to make a deal -- he'll protect her if she gives him the information he needs. She gives him the files on the metahumans he's trying to find and others. What he plans on doing with it remains to be seen but it's safe to assume at the very least he'll use the information to more easily track them down.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Although Bruce is only human and has no supernatural abilities he is stronger than the average human due to the intense amount of training he does. He has learned many different fighting styles over the years and borrows from many of them. He has a sharp intellect and is known for his skills as a detective, he can even manage to break through military grade decryption. He has a high pain tolerance which has come from pushing his body to the limits over and over again. More than anything else he has an impressive strength of will and endurance that drives everything else he does.
Third-Person Sample:
Bruce has seen a lot of things in his twenty years of vigilante justice but suddenly being in a new world is a new one, even for him. One of the first things he does is inspect his new device. He tries to garnish as much information as possible from it. Apparently he fell down a rabbit hole somewhere because people keep referring to this place as Wonderland. Ultimately he finds himself with more questions than answers.
So he leaves his own message on the network and gets down to business. He manages to locate the library where he pours over books, looking for some answers about how to get home. The World's Greatest Detective isn't having much luck, however, so he gives up and finds a bar because maybe a drink will calm his nerves if nothing else.
Bruce doesn't remember the last time he felt this on edge -- which is saying something for him because he is always on edge in one way or another. This place seems mostly peaceful so far but it has to be some sort of deception. He was taken from his home, after all. And Gotham may not be the best of places but it is home and he'd like to get back to it. But he knows it won't be that easy, no one would bring that many people here without some sort of ulterior motives in play. They want something from all of them, the only question is what.
He throws back his first drink in one go. He can't imagine the catch is anything good but he has a feeling he'll know sooner or later. After all, there's always a catch. Some might call him cynical for jumping to conclusions like this so quickly but he likes to think he's being realistic. While Clark's death may have restored some well needed optimism to Bruce that doesn't mean he's blind to how cruel and ugly the world can be. He just knows now he has to try to be better than that himself.
What that means for him here, however, remains to be seen.
First-Person Sample:
[Being kidnapped isn't comforting for anyone, let alone someone as deeply paranoid as Bruce. He thinks of a rogue from Gotham that kidnaps young blondes and call them Alice. They're all mad in Gotham.
He wonders if they're all mad here too.
But he also knows how to mask that paranoia and rely on his public persona as he speaks over the network, choosing to keep to an audio post for now.]
My name is Bruce Wayne and it is unlikely that my name has the weight here that it would have had at home but I figured I would put myself out there all the same. I'm sure you get tired of the same questions over and over again from new arrivals so I'll keep it to just this one.
What's the one thing you wish you had known about this place when you arrived? Advice or information that would have made the transition into Wonderland a little bit smoother, assuming such a transition is even possible, of course.
It goes without saying that you're free to leave more than one thing if you feel so inclined, I'm not going to turn away more information.
Thank you.
[And that's it, that's the post.]
