I'm scrolling through some ambient noises to help me write, and it got me thinking. Y'know those white noise machines people use for sleeping?
Do you think there's a very specific brand marketed at Gothamites?
Like everyone else has rainy nights on the beach, whale song, the crackle of the campfire, and everyone's all-time favorite "rickety fan about to oscillate off your shitty ikea desk at four in the morning."
And then there's "The Sounds of Gotham," a nighttime ambiance made up of heavy thunderstorms interspaced with the wail of police sirens and the occasional smattering of gunfire.
If you upgrade to premium, you can get the added sound effect of "small vigilante child dropping onto your apartment roof followed by the heavy pitter-patter of their combat boots as they dropkick a criminal off the fire escape."
Mm. Cozy.
I found this one while scrolling, and it actually has Bats popping in and out of your view every so often, which was quite startling at first because I did not expect it.
But now I'm just laughing because can you imagine?
You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and the Dark Knight himself is hunched outside your window like a drowned fucking rat. He doesn't acknowledge you, gaze fixed on whatever is happening on the street below.
And you still really need to pee.
Your hand goes to the lamp on the nightstand, and you think better about it. You're not going to be the idiot that gives away Batman's location by turning on your interior lights and illuminating him against the sky scraper like a bat-shaped target.
You make your way to the bathroom in the dark, stubbing your toe on the way. And then, because you're fucking wide awake now, you go into the kitchen and make yourself a snack in the dark.
When you come back to the bedroom, a glass of water in hand, you are met with the sight of a small child dressed up like a traffic stop light also crouched outside your window. They catch your reflection in the glass and give you the thumbs up.
You go sleep on the couch.
or a slightly different version, you come back with a hot chocolate in your hand and see Robin's look of approval followed by a look of envy on your drink… …it's raining hard outside … you leave your drink on your bedside table and you go to sleep on your sofa