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I still like the idea of Bruce Wayne making a point to take each of his kids individually out to movies, even though there’s a movie theater in his house, because he needs all of them to experience a joy that’s permanently beyond him which is “going to the movies with dad and having him still be alive when you get home” and it usually isn’t until they get home and talk to their other siblings that they realize why he was white-knuckling a blackjack for the whole 20-foot walk from the movie theater doors to the back of Alfred’s towncar

Bruce, taking a 13-year-old Dick Grayson to his first concert (Britney Spears, 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour at the Wachovia Center with backstage passes) and paying off the whole security staff to let his butler keep the car idling directly outside the stage door so they can leave quickly after the show. Alfred’s already bought one of everything in Dick’s size from the merch table because it’s very important that they all get in the armored Lincoln Continental with bulletproof windows as quickly as possible after the show, so this can stay a happy memory for Dick as an adult that doesn’t constantly compel him to do anything

Bruce takes Damian to see Detective Pikachu because he knows Damian loves animals and they both love detective work, but he isn’t aware ahead of time that it’s an emotional story about a father whose presumed death makes his son realize he should’ve been more open to a relationship with his father, and their eventual heart-warming reunion and decision to go into detective work together. It’s an incredibly meaningful night for both of them. Neither of them ever directly mentions this to the other or realizes that the other read into it as deeply as they did