"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed". -G. K. ChestertonEvery night until he was eight one of my parents would read to me. My father read me books about science and adventurers, his love of being a doctor always showed in how he would ( Read more... )

The only time Bruce made an appearance in church anymore was on Christmas and Easter and sometimes not even then. If his parents had finished raising their son most likely he would have followed the footsteps of many sons of wealth and been an altar boy helping to conduct the ancient rites of Gotham Cathedral ( Read more... )

(OOC thanks to the Batman the Animated Series episode "I am the Night" for the inspiration, still the best Batman show ever done imo)He went there every year to leave the roses in memory of his parents ( Read more... )

Someone hurts someone. Maybe they shot them, or stole their belongings, took away everything they had in their life and left them behind. Maybe they decided that they owned someone and when they tried to leave they carved off their face with a knife ( Read more... )

He told people he got the scar on his shoulder parasailing in South America. When people point out the white twisting scar that comes out from under a short sleeve they get a story about getting caught in the straps and how the nurses were very pretty where he was stitched back up. They laugh and ask him how many still write to him after his ( Read more... )

My parents were buried in the summer. It's strange how I never see the scene as anything other than standing there surrounded by people in coats while the icy wind cuts through us. In reality my Mother and Father were killed on July 1st in the height of summer and while I watched them being put in the ground it was near a hundred degrees ( Read more... )

"They tell me you're angry, Bruce, did you want to talk about that ( Read more... )

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." -Dag HammarskjoldI made them leave ( Read more... )

Time moves on whether you are ready for it or not ( Read more... )

//locked ( Read more... )