Bruce Wayne

Here is my Bruce Wayne history/biography concept up until Batman is born.

Bruce Wayne was born in Gotham General to Thomas and Martha Wayne. Thomas being the head of a billion dollar company Wayne Industries. Martha being the heir to another wealthy company Kane Chemicals, Making Bruce of course the heir to both of the companies. Bruce as a young man was raised in the Wayne Manor mostly by his parents and when they were working, their family butler Alfred Pennyworth. Through a young age Bruce was trained in all manners of science and theology, with ideals of becoming a cop his father enrolled and trained him with some of the best martial art practices as well as forensic science courses. Considered gifted at a young age Bruce had nearly finished high school studies by the age of 10. Being very close to his father he would accompany his father to work at Wayne Industries, a military contract organization and technology manufacture. By the age of 12 Bruce was fluent in 3 languages and had solved at least two unsolved crimes. Determined as ever to become a detective he began studying psychology, trying to understand the human and criminal mind. Attending an opening act for his twelfth birthday. A new circus performance being funded by his father called "The Flying Grayson's" with his parents, Bruce became very intrigued by the concept that they seemed to have no fear. Bruce himself had been afraid of Bats ever since an event with them since he was a child, after the show Bruce had a new determination to understand the concept of fear, only on the walk home through an alley a mugger appeared. Thomas moving to protect Martha makes the gunman coldly shoot Thomas. The bullet piercing his heart and going through him into Martha causes her to scream and the mugger to run. Bruce left there with his dead father and dying mother experiences true fear and is unable to move. Eventually the cops arrived, A young rookie detective Jim Gordon was assigned the case and promised Bruce that the man would be caught. Returning home now as the sole benefactor of his parents companies, Bruce however has no choice but to keep the ones in power for now until he is eighteen. Staying with Alfred for a year Bruce studied the case trying to find out everything he could about who murdered his parents and why. When Bruce turned 14 he decided to leave the country and ran away, needing to experience the world and other cultures. Bruce travelled the world and every culture he could think of, he studied each one and learned every discipline he could get his mind on. Until a few years later when Bruce was 17 he came across an assassination plot and stopped it, attracting the attention of the one whom planned the hit; Ra's Al Ghul, the leader of an international shadow organization known as the league of assassins. Ra's fascinated by the brilliance of the young man took the young man in and explained to him why the man needed to be assassinated. Bruce intrigued by this man and the reasons behind the assassination. Ra's interested by the boy wanted to teach him exactly what it means to be an assassin, he trained Bruce in more disciplines, for over a year Bruce studied under the tutelage of Ra's. Upon meeting his daughter Talia, Bruce fell in love and came to comfort the idea of being a permanent member of the league. After completing the entire initiation under Ra's in just over a year, the fastest that anyone in the history of the league had completed it. Ra's had come to the conclusion that Bruce would be his successor in the event of his death. Enraging the current successor and fiance of Talia, Antonio Diago. Whom had become a sort of rival of Bruces' through his training begins to plan the young mans downfall. Meanwhile Bruce has grown close to Talia even having her become attached and fall in love with him, enraging Antonio even more as his fiancee distances herelf from him. Ra's decides to have the ceremony dictating Bruce as the successor as soon as his initiation is finished. The assassination of a target, Bruce still hesitent with the idea of killing has doubts and shares his doubts with Antonio. Antonio reassures Bruce it isn't a big deal and offers to accompany him on the hit. Bruce agrees feeling better to have someone watch his back during the ordeal. However when the hit is going to take place Antonio turns on Bruce shooting him with three arrows knocking him off a roof. Antonio thinking that Bruce is dead returns to the guild with the plan to take over. Bruce whom survives his fall and is able to make it back to guild only to find it burning down with bodies and blood everywhere. Seeing Antonio on a tower fighting against Ra's with Talia and Nyssia in the tower with them. Bruce rushes towards the tower only to watch it explode. Making him feel fear all over at the thought of losing Talia the woman he loves and his new father figure. After a short time Bruce begins to head towards home. When he returned home Alfred had something for him. A letter from his father explaining everything he hoped Bruce would become and everything he could do with his life. he knew that his ideal of becoming a police detective was shattered. He needed to make a bigger difference in the city. So he decided that to honour his father he would clean up the city himself using his money and influence he created an alter identity inspired by the English translation of his league name "The Bat." Bruce aspired to create an ideal, something that would strike fear into the hearts of the criminals of Gotham and maybe even the world. He became Batman.

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