A Hazy Dream Bringing Life Into Focus

Bruce: I’m scared.

Batman: I’m not.

Bruce: How is that possible?

Batman: We are the same. We are two sides of a whole…two faces of the same coin.

Bruce: If we are the same person…using the same mind…how can we be so different.

Batman: We aren’t different at all. I am…what you want to be. I am…what you need to be: an immovable object.

Bruce: I don’t know if you are who I want to be. You’re a cartoon…fiction. You aren’t real and the things you do are impossible. How do you think we can ever be one?

Batman: Look at my character. You know who I am. You saw me as a child…imprinted me as your hero…and you still don’t know why I am your favorite? You don’t know why after 16 years of watching me on TV and movies and reading about me in comics and stories I have made such an everlasting impact in your life?

Bruce: (confused) I…I don’t! Do you know what kind of loon I must be? I’m 20 years old and still thinking about superheroes. Shouldn’t I be over this by now? Why is this happening to me?

Batman: Calm down. Think. Think about all that I am…think about all that you are. Since you were a boy you’ve wanted to not be like me but why? Why like me? Think.

Bruce: You help people. But I can’t. I’m nobody. I am simply another existing person on the planet Earth; nothing more, nothing less.

Batman: No! You are obviously lost…but you are not “a nobody. You will always be what you allow yourself to be. Restrict yourself to being “a nobody” and that’s exactly what you’ll be.

Bruce: I can’t be you. I’m a scared guy who doesn’t want to face reality.

Batman: STOP BEING SCARED! EVERYONE DEALS WITH REALITY DIFFERENTLY! You have my help. Now…Who am I? Take away the cape and the cowl and look at my character. Tell me who I am!

Bruce: You help people. You are strong. You are fearless. You fight for those who can’t. You stand up for justice, equality, and truth. You are vengeance…you are the night…you are Batman.

Batman: That’s right. If that’s what I am…that must also be…who you are.

Bruce: You’re right. I know now. We are two opposed sides. We are incomplete. Separate we are two extremes. I am too weak…and you are too headstrong and aggressive. Together we complete each other. Together we are strong and immovable. Together…we are ME.

(Wakes Up)

Omar: (Drowsy) Was I just Bruce Wayne? That’s going to be an interesting story to write about.