The Bat Monster Under Gotham's Shadow Is Watching Him [Western Crossover]

Also known as: A Bizarre Tale About Watching a Bat, Raising a Bat, Seeing a Bat and Someone Else Love and Hate Each Other, Personally Getting Involved in a Love-Hate Relationship with a Bat, Making Peace with the Bat, and Eventually Burying It; and A Strange Story About a Bat Giving It One Secret Identity, Then Two, Then Three New Secret Identities, Until It's Nearly Smothered by Them and Finally Throws a Fit and Quits [Updates daily at midnight] [It's a very strange kind of coming-of-age story...] [Going premium on August 23, with chapters up to 27 becoming paid] He once had a life of his own, a path mired in misery. Now, a hand with unnaturally long, slender fingers reaches out from the darkness and catches the bat in flight. "I remember that every generation of Waynes leaves behind a gargoyle," a low, hoarse voice says in the shadows of Gotham. "I remember every gargoyle." "What about you?" "Where's your gargoyle?" "Wayne." The newly born bat wakes from a nightmare. He falls through the rainy night, landing in the embrace of long, cold limbs beneath a black curtain woven like a spiderweb. In the rain, a faceless man lowers his pale head. His overly long body and limbs bend at unnatural angles as he watches the bat cocooned in tendrils. "Don't worry." "You can sleep on me." "Forever." When the bat comes to, his mind is completely blank. He stands on a gargoyle called "Bruce," watching Gotham at night, with no memory of the strange little incident. While recovering from his injuries, the bat accesses nearby surveillance footage and sees himself suddenly hanging motionless in midair. "Slender." An unsolved mystery of Gotham, a terrifying shadow, and one of the bat's targets. After Bruce returns to Gotham, as he tries to become a bat, he can't understand why strange things and strange people keep appearing around him. Until one day... Bat: So you're Gotham. Gotham: Yes. Bat: So how many identities do you have? Gotham: ...I thought it was your tradition. Bat: ... Bat: Fuck off! [Notice] [This story is different in style from my previous works. If it makes you uncomfortable, please get out quickly.] [There is no pairing. The protagonist is nonhuman and has no human emotions. There are no romantic scenes in this story.] [The ending will be a happy ending.] [At least, a happy ending in some sense.] [Original title: He Was Supposed to Be Human] [Saving this upcoming work] Should I Go Easy on the Boss When I Kill Him? [Infinite] - Original danmei ID: 4565587 This is a story about an unidentified creature wearing human skin, who hacks its way through the whole world in Infinite dungeons. Theme: One light in one home is enough to outshine the stars across the sky. Keep moving forward through the mud, because you deserve a life full of sunshine.