bouncing off my last post, obviously none of the waynes would want to attend the met gala. so, i think they have a yearly betting or competition (different every year), and the loser has to attend.

they go the whole nine yards. expensive designers, over the top costumes. if they're going, they're going all out. they're all just waiting for the year that the theme will warrant sending one lucky family member in a bedazzled batman suit.

back home they play the night as a bingo game. they spend weeks curating a custom bingo sheet that best fits how they believe the 'chosen one' is going to act, and use it as they watch the event live. but as the kids get older (by the time tim is 16ish), it morphs into a drinking game as well, in 'take a shot when (family member) does _____' format, for the younger kids the shot is some disgusting exotic fruit juice that hits just as badly as what the older kids have.

the longer the tradition goes on, the more friends/co-workers/partners get roped into it. (they also start to send a +1 with the wayne kid, so they can involve everyone, but still get the same media attention their games require).

bruce opts himself out of the whole thing by the time all members of his kids respective teams (+ diana and clark) are over at the manor once a year to participate.

it becomes frankly disturbing how involved everyone gets, and how freakily vigilant of the media they all become in the days after the event (keeping in mind typically NONE of them, even the external participants who aren't in the wayne family, are active on social media whatsoever.)