Please just keep focusing on getting out of your armor and ignore Bruce's not all that subtle (by his standards) response to being clearly warned. There's that brief freeze again, and some subtle tension.
That particularly silky tone is... clear.
He doesn't even have justification beyond failing at impulse control, which makes it worse.
"How long has your son's other parent been dead?"
That's an assumption but it isn't a hard one to make and it is both... sadistically pointed and (he hopes) enough of a course correction.
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That particularly silky tone is... clear.
He doesn't even have justification beyond failing at impulse control, which makes it worse.
"How long has your son's other parent been dead?"
That's an assumption but it isn't a hard one to make and it is both... sadistically pointed and (he hopes) enough of a course correction.