#aaaaaah i love it
Basic Premise: Alfred after suffering from another dizzy spell relises that he will not be able to be the Wanye Manor Butler for much longer. He gets the idea that hiring, training a handful of promising footmen that would later be tested and judge to become the new Wayne Manor Butler.
After much arguing with Burce that he cannot simply pick up Alfred’s slack (Alfred does a lot more than just cook and clean) and an agreement that the new trainees are on a very strict need to know basis about all aspects of the Wayne Family and no know policy about the Batfam. Alfred is giving permission to conduct his side project.
Alfred proceeds to pick five people from various work backgrounds:
Booker - A former highly skilled and acclaimed bulter who use to love the service industry but after being blacklisted by Gothman elites he used to work for Has become bitter and hateful to his former passion and is currently an accountant.
Luciana - A recently laid off maid who’s worked in all forms of service: concierge, cook, housekeeping, childcare, uber driver ect. She’s never had the money to take butlering courses but has always wanted to.
Jeremy - A clumsy, mess of a very nice busboy who was a beat cop but after an attack left out of fear and lingering trauma.
Kevin - Freelancer has no experience with service but has tons of expertise in more under the table services hacking, martial arts, weapons, (All things more on the Batman side of things)
Andrews- Former henchwomen for many B-list Gotham villains who deiced to change her life around after an encounter with one of the Batfam (I never figured out who) now works for a nonprofit organization helping people leave or keep out of falling into violent crime groups.
The comic is mainly focused on what Alfred does which is taking care of the Manor, planning parties, dealing with nosy gossip reporters, gardening, cooking, social media, serving at parties, wardrobe management, schedule keeping, car maintenance, setting a table, bulter stuff ect.
Later on in the 2nd and 3rd act of the comic, it starts to slide into more of what Alfred does as Batman’s butler. Like how to buy weapons-grade supplies without drawing the attention of police enforcement, hacking, surgery, weapon training, and light self-defense. (Tho this comic never becomes a superhero fighting group it’s strickly a slice of life kind of comic)
Over the course of the comic, the Footmen slowly meet the Wayne Family first as their alter egos and later on as their superhero egos and during these times each footman start a bond with a specific bat family member. As time goes on that bond becomes stronger in till in the final act.
When each footman is being been pitted against each other for their various skills for the title of Wayne Bulter. (Very much in a tournament setting lol) Where mid-test they realize they don’t want or not really need to be the Wanye bulter they want to be in service to that specific batfamily member and they drop out of the competition.
Whereby at the end of the comic there are no footmen left to take the mantle of Batman’s Bulter but Alfred but by that time Burce (after his own character growth in this comic) has accepted that the batfamily and support butlers can take care of Gotham and he can finally rest and retire releasing Alfred from having to be a bulter himself.
They’re a lot more little ideas fleshing out this main premise that I might post about later but this was pretty long so end with just the main points.
@jedda-martele gave to the fountain fundraiser and requested: Something in the same universe as It’s a Very Distinctive Family Resemblance. Maybe the teams meeting?
Title: Getting The Grandkid To Do The Chores
Rating: General
Notes: I’m not sure how far I fulfilled the spirit of the request (as you can see I pared it down a bit) but hopefully it will be super amusing to make up for it :D
