History Fanfic / SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts

* TheUnsmile: Bruce Wayne, funnily enough, has ''two''; a [[StepfordSmiler generically pleasant, toothy grin that doesn't quite reach his eyes]] which he trots out for photographers and [[UncannyValley thoroughly unnerves everyone else]], and a crooked half-smirk that looks like his mouth curling at the edges [[BeneathTheMask which is his real smile]].

* ConspiracyTheorist: To Bruce's intense annoyance, one of the scientists in charge of selecting a site for a research station believes a schlocky eighties book proclaiming a shipping freighter was sunk by the Loch Ness Monster because it was carrying its eggs, leading him to put the site on a protected area and invoking Ivy's wrath.

* AscendedFanboy: Kyle Raynor. Notably, the fact that he was a fanboy at all is [[OldShame something he is loath to admit]], largely because it involved a Website/DeviantArt account and lots of embarrassing fanart of Superman.

* DumbIsGood: Discussed in "Wayne Manor". Martha describes Thomas as "straightforward", given to doing the Right Thing without stopping to worry about whether it might have unfortunate consequences. She admires him for it, and also considers it a good thing that he has more complicated people like herself watching his back.

* {{Transgender}}: WordOfGod is that several characters in this version of the DCU are trans, in a proportion appropriate to reality. Two that have appeared in person are Tim Drake (explicitly stated in "Anti-Social", which contrasts how the subject is handled by Bruce and by Tim's father) and Jonathan Kent (hinted at in "Empty Graves" and heavily implicit in various details of "Christmas in Kansas").

* BedsheetGhost: Discussed during a SeinfeldianConversation in "Gone Fishing". Clark claims that they're ghosts who have become trapped under bedsheets because bedlinen is the only thing a ghost can't pass through, which is why (as any child knows) you're safe in bed with the blankets pulled up over your head.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: [[{{AvertedTrope}} Averted]] hard by Bruce in-story. Since he uses his political and financial influence to improve conditions in Gotham, and being seen as having enough free time to be Batman is dangerous, Bruce Wayne is publicly a very busy, if eccentric, man. Since being seen as too incompetent to do his job would mean that no one would ''let'' Bruce Wayne help them or follow his suggestions to improve Gotham, he cultivates the image of a capable, educated, and keen businessman whose massive GuiltComplex drives him to [[StepfordSmiler party hard, take massive risks, and live his off hours like he's flirting with death.]] It's close enough to the truth that he sells it ''very well''.

* BiTheWay: So Bruce claims in "Third Wheel", though he still claims to be only a 1 or 1.4 on the JustForFun/{{Kinsey Scale|OfTropes}}

-->''He was a very particular kind of cynic. He did not think, but ''knew'', that true love was a real and tangible thing. True love looked like bloodless hands trapped together by rigor mortis, true love sounded like a man's will to live escaping through his throat, true love tasted like copper and bile. Anything less was a pale imitation settled for by people who didn't know any better.''

-->''"Happy people can't be murderers?"\\
"Only if they're fake happy." Bruce sounded very sure of himself. "Like clowns."''

--->''Bruce made another face of disgust, sticking out his tongue and scrunching up his nose. Half as a joke, Alfred put a hand in front of Bruce's eyes. He seemed to appreciate it.''

--->''Robin, frustrated, grabbed Batman's hands and pressed them against his ears. "There is an impressionable child present!"''\\
''Ivy squinted. "Is he serious?"''\\
''"I don't know." Batman attempted to reclaim his hands, and lifted Robin off the ground. Robin continued to hold Batman's hands like earmuffs, and kicked furiously at vines with both legs. "I think it's some kind of ironic meme thing."''

-->''"Coretta Lee, you are being ''very'' melodramatic today."\\
"''Oooooh''," Anita said with a wince. "You got full-named."''

-->''[Thomas Wayne] tossed [the pig's head] up enough to catch it by the neck, holding it out to look at its face. "Alas, poor Yoroink."\\

"That's how I know it's a good one," Thomas said''

-->'''Flash:''' Do we finally get to learn his secret identity?\\

-->''One of the many advantages of being Bruce Wayne was a free pass to ignore all rules of polite society.''

Rather than being set in any particular version of the DC Universe, the stories are set in a continuity of their own, which draws elements from the comics as well as adaptations such as the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy, ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', ''Film/SuicideSquad'', and the Series/{{Arrowverse}}.

* PatchworkFic: Rather than being set in any particular version of the DC Universe, the stories are set in a continuity of their own, which draws elements from the comics as well as adaptations such as the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy, ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', ''Film/SuicideSquad'', and the Series/{{Arrowverse}}.

** It's not that Bruce Wayne carries a small camera with a powerful zoom lens around with him, or even that he has a story about birdwatching ready in case he's asked what he needs it for. It's that the camera is loaded with genuine birdwatching photos in case someone calls his bluff. He also wrapped Clark's christmas presents in lead foil to prevent PresentPeeking.

* GadgeteerGenius: Tim has his moments, such as turning an ordinary lawnmower into a remote controlled, ''flying'' lawnmower drone (though the "remote controlled" part still needs work and the "flying" part was an accident), and in "Anti-Social" it's hinted that he stumbled onto the Bat-Cave's signal with just a smartphone in the course of trying to find "the Good Wifi".

* BruceWayneHeldHostage: Several stories have throwaway references to That Time Bruce Wayne Was Abducted By The Joker. "Third Wheel" reveals that he resolved the situation by provoking the Joker into throwing him out a window, enabling the old "Batman just happened to be swinging by and caught me" routine.

* GadgeteerGenius: Tim has his moments, such as turning an ordinary lawnmower into a remote controlled, ''flying'' lawnmower drone (though the "remote controlled" part still needs work and the "flying" part was an accident), and in "Anti-Social" it's hinted that he stumbled onto the Bat-Cave's signal with just a smart phone in the course of trying to find "the Good Wifi".

* RaceLift: Part of Selina Kyle's outsider status is that she has mixed (part-Latina) ancestry.

* AccidentalMisnaming: When Alfred first meets Martha Wayne, she calls him "Shillingsweight" and "Pennywork". An invoked instance, because she's not nearly as bubble-brained as she chooses to appear, and once she decides to let him know it, she never gets his name wrong again.