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Has anyone ever looked at Jean-Luc LaCroix (Forever Knight) and Batman, and seen a slightly freaky similarity? Not in looks, not even so much in outlook, but in... personality?

I really desperately need better access to Forever Knight canon before I could even start to talk about this, because barring one episode, I only know them from fanfic, and that's not a good enough starting point, but... I had a random thought involving one of [info]gryphonrhi 's fanfics, where Nick (LaCroix's childe) asks him why he's doing something which involves a great deal of work to help a mere mortal, and LaCroix replies that it will amuse him, and Nick asks him to be careful, because the person involved is important to Nick, and LaCroix says, "That is the other reason." Nick is just floored by this, and my random thought told me that that was the same kind of conversation that might happen between Bruce and Dick.

Two very complicated, mutually frustrating relationships between two sets of terribly strong willed men, the younger two so often conflicted and torn by 'he doesn't love me, or he wouldn't act like this' (w/re: to about Nick, this is what I have seen written) while the older two do, desperately, love their children, they just don't show it well, or often...

Also two relationships with the serious possibility of that father/lover twist in the relationship, as neither pair is actually genetically related--ok, yes, I'm a slash fan, so that statement is utterly biased.

But anyway, anyone that knows the characters better want to weigh in? Or not, as you choose.