Author's Note: This isn't going to be some major project I'll be working on. Its just something to help me get through writing other pieces like Big Hero Evangelion or Bad Idea due to how hard it is to write them sometimes.

This is essentially one shots of shitty decisions made by DC Characters throughout the DC universe and potential consequences that follow. I got this idea from The Days of Reckoning Are Upon Us by Anafandom on Archive of Our Own regarding consequences following Captain America and the others (not a fan of the constant Steve bashing, to be honest, though).

Feel free to drop suggestions through PMs and reviews for any crappy moment in the DC universe you feel needs to be addressed, cause I know I haven't read them all.

Enjoy!


1. Bruce Wayne was eight years old when he lost his parents.

He could remember only that dreadful moment, the rest of the night lost in the wind.

Walking down an alley…Father talking about how people should be able to walk safely wherever they go. Mother gently telling Bruce to stop running ahead as the boy fenced with an imaginary foe, using his rolled-up playbill as an improvised sword.

Then the man appeared, holding up a gun.

Father got in front of Bruce fast and pulled him behind. Mother then pulled Bruce behind her. The man noticed her pearl necklace and demanded them. She didn't take them off fast enough to his liking and Bruce watched her fall to the sound of a thunderclap.

Father fell a moment later, too stunned to move, as the next thunderclap took him too.

Bruce could only watch as the puddles of red pooled together and stained his shoes.


"Mister Pennyworth, is there anything you can tell this court about why you should maintain guardianship of Bruce Wayne?"

"I've worked for his family for the past five years," Alfred answered with stiff mannerism, the upper crust of his English roots showing, "Master Bruce has thrived under my care and I would insist that he stay with people familiar with him."

The social worker did not look impressed and frowned, "Mister Pennyworth, I've been visiting Bruce every month to check on his progress and he is behaving in ways unnatural for a child his age."

Bruce looked on, his face neutral. The social worker had caught him scaling the walls of the Manor several times and had been completely terrified.

"He is working through the trauma to the best of his ability," Alfred replied in the same stiffness, but Bruce could see his face, for just a moment, waver and show doubt. He could hear the uncertainty in the butler's voice.

The social worker looked down at the clipboard in their hand and read out loud, "April 25th of this year, Bruce was taken to a clinic for a broken arm, result from scaling the walls of the house with no supervision or protective gear."

Murmurs from the audience. The few words that Bruce could pick out were not pleasant: Careless, negligent, poor guardian.

They couldn't understand. Bruce didn't need anyone. Alfred might be his guardian, but he wasn't his father.

Apparently, to the social worker and Child Services, those two were supposed to go hand in hand. The social worker continued, pointing out that Bruce had not been taken to see a psychologist to help him with the trauma nor has the boy shown any signs of care for the butler.

In the eyes of the court, Alfred Pennyworth was deemed an unfit parent, despite his protests that he was just doing his job. When the court stated that there was more to parenting than just the physical care, the butler's stiffness broke and he sobbed loudly for his failure.

Bruce Wayne was nine years old when he was adopted by Jonathon and Martha Kent, no connection to Martha Wayne, his mother. Between their support, words, even warmth that Bruce had no idea he was missing, the pain subsided but never faded away. It helped that his foster brother, Clark, managed to be his support of sorts and pull him back to reality when neither of their parents were able to do so.

Bruce Kent was twenty-five years old when he returned to Gotham and joined the GCPD with Captain Gordon and the new hero in blue, the one that people claimed came from the stars. Together, along with Assistant DA Harvey Dent, they worked to make Gotham a better place to live.


Author's Note: It has been implied in Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb (which I adore) that Alfred kept his distance from Bruce emotionally during his childhood despite being his legal guardian. So why didn't Child Services try to intervene sooner in this situation before the problem got out of hand?!