It's a transitional space, [ he says mildly, which will either make sense or it won't. Batman is out all night, and this is a continuation of it - but quiet, and safe, and relaxing. A gear change before peeling back the curtain to scathing sunlight and bleak reality. Nothing he does down here relates to his civilian persona. Above, things are a little different. (But only a little.)
Barry leaves a cartoon outline of empty clothes and reappears naked in the shower, but Bruce has to take a second. Removing things and setting them aside, he is in the other half of the Justice League Body Hair Spread, with nearly everything waxed off. Do he and Arthur get it done professionally or do they each do it themselves??? Must be An Ordeal either way, if the hair they leave behind is anything to go by. But the thing of note with him fully nude isn't the hair or no hair, but the potentially nauseating map of scars. Between good armor and an inexhaustible budget for care, it's not as bad as it could be (and not as bad as it has been, in some stages), but still significant. ]
Makes up for the one upstairs. [ His voice only echoes a little inside the broad shower cubicle, standard bathroom acoustics slightly dampened by the strange depth of the chamber. He reaches out, runs a hand from Barry's elbow to the back of his neck, rubbing for a moment before moving to get fancy soap of some kind. ]
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Barry leaves a cartoon outline of empty clothes and reappears naked in the shower, but Bruce has to take a second. Removing things and setting them aside, he is in the other half of the Justice League Body Hair Spread, with nearly everything waxed off. Do he and Arthur get it done professionally or do they each do it themselves??? Must be An Ordeal either way, if the hair they leave behind is anything to go by. But the thing of note with him fully nude isn't the hair or no hair, but the potentially nauseating map of scars. Between good armor and an inexhaustible budget for care, it's not as bad as it could be (and not as bad as it has been, in some stages), but still significant. ]
Makes up for the one upstairs. [ His voice only echoes a little inside the broad shower cubicle, standard bathroom acoustics slightly dampened by the strange depth of the chamber. He reaches out, runs a hand from Barry's elbow to the back of his neck, rubbing for a moment before moving to get fancy soap of some kind. ]