Author!anon heeere (whoops, kept thinking I'd replied to this and apparently hadn't, I am a forgetful walnut! :D). Thank you so much for the kind words. <3 This was unbelievably fun to write and goddamn do I love working through Bruce's issues. I maaaay at some point write a "sequel", who knows! \o/

Shameless plug, I've added an AO3 mirror here also: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12979230 c':