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Hey! I think the one you're asking for is:

I still don't know a lot about comics so I was wondering your opinion!

I agree with your takes! I feel like if Damian really cares for someone or likes being around them, he will make it noticable and not at all subtle. His relationship with Alfred and Jon really strike me in that particular sense.

I don't percieve him as a very touchy/clingy type of person, BUT when his emotions are high, he will become a lot more tactile and physical with his affection. Like that example you gave with Dick, when Damian jumped into his arms after finding out that Dick was alive.

Or your other example when he hugged Bruce that time when he came back to life or the other time when Damian was almost killed by Memento.

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So, if you want to fully know about all of his lore, I suggest you to read all of Damian's comics in chronological order (you can find the reading order on google) but if you do that, you will definitely have to suffer through some bad/racist writing unfortunately lol.

Not to mention that fact that Damian's concieveing, birth and growing up has been basically retconned 3 times.

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Their relationship is complicated, but hate?! Never!

Part of Damien is that he's loved by two different worlds, and this love is what makes him who he is. At the same time, this love scares him terribly because what if he lets them down? What if it's not enough?

What if their love isn't enough? What if Damien isn't enough?

Also the fandom needs to stop reducing Talia's character to just being a mother! Please, being a mother is part of her personality, but not her entire personality. Please make her a complex character with many layers.

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Since replacing a whole spine is a very risky surgery, instead the doctors create a metal spine that wraps around Damian's damaged one.

Hello, that's an interesting question!

I honestly don't think him being the heir situation would get impacted by his gender. So he could've still been an heir after Talia (if she wanted to) seeing that apart from Dusan, there aren't a potential male heir.

But, I do think that Damian, as a girl, would experience far more sexism by his trainers and would've been expected to be more perfect than he already is. I think that would give Damian a negative light towards male fighters in general and he'd be even more cutting with his insults towards them and definitely less tolerable at their sexist actions.

I think the Bats would've been a little softer to Damian at first, but because of his trauma from especially the male figures in his life, he'd treat most of the fam a lot worse than compared to his first arrival at Gotham.

Fandom wise, if Damian had been a girl, he'd be hated even more and a lot of people in the fandom would want him to die. Because we all know female characters always gets a thousand times more hate compared to a male character.

'Damian doesn't think of his siblings as his actual brothers because he isn't blood related to them'

Loud and incorrect! Even back in the League, he literally referred to his fellow assassins as his brothers.

'Bruce doesn't trust Damian to be his Robin.'

Wrong again! Bruce literally had a mental breakdown when Damian told him that he'd quit Robin so that he could volunteer more at a hospital.

'Damian hates Talia.'

Where did this even come from? They both love each other probably more than they love anyone else. Plus, Talia has been the only family member in Damian's life that has constantly loved him from the start, instead of trying to 'fix' or judge him because of his flaws.

Damian isn't a 10 year old boy anymore, he's a teenager who suffers from severe childhood abuse and trauma. Just because he isn't your 'perfect' victim, doesn't mean you can invalidate his struggles and growth.

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So, in most of my canon compliant AUs, Damian ends up temporarily using the mantle 'Heretic' when he's about 16-17. It's a phase where he's trying to come to terms with his past and, in a way, reclaim the trauma. His family really doesn't like the choice of name, but they keep quiet most of the time.

When he's an adult, I don't like the idea of him taking over someone else's mantle (like Nightwing or Batman) because I want him to settle down as his own hero.

I really like the name Khaos for him as an adult vigilante, inspired by the Ancient Greek mythology, just like his name. A force of nature that can't be stopped, just like he is.

But when another batkid's relationship with the Al-Ghuls are a discussed, it suddenly becomes a very complex thought out topic, going as far as creating non-existent relationships with the Al-Ghul and the other batkid that coincidentally does not happen to exist between Damian and that Al-Ghul in their little fanon world.

Ra's Al-Ghul is Damian's grandfather, and he is a centuries old assassin who used to be a healer, and then became the leader of the biggest assassin organization.

So, no, Ra's isn't obsessed with a white boy.

Talia Al-Ghul is Damian's mother and has always loved him, perhaps even more than anyone has ever loved and cared for Damian. She is a person who has been stuck between two worlds and decided to choose her own path. She has a certain tie to the Lazarus Pits that no other has.

So again, no, Talia doesn't like or care for that white boy more than she does her own son.

It's kind of evident how some people purposefully simple down the Al-Ghul's (including Damian) characters and their canonical complexities just to make their own favorite character more interesting and more 'badass'.

But the thing is, being the villain doesn't automatically mean they're 'bad' characters. In fact, I can argue that most Al-Ghuls are even more interesting than some of the heroes in DC.

What's more maddening to witness, as a Damian fan, is people literally taking certain things that happened to him and give it to another batkid while completely disregarding Damian's canonical personality and traits, reducing him into a spoiled child that does nothing but threaten to maim people all day. Meanwhile the other batkid is suffering from a trauma caused by the 'Al-Ghuls' or the 'League of Assassins' that never actually happened to them in the canon.

Damian was the one trained under the League of Assassins from birth.

Damian was the one able to take down assassins three times his size while at the same time getting taught advanced sciences.

Damian is the one who was so smart as a child that he could be able to get a PhD in certain topics.

Damian was the one going on numerous missions for the League of Assassins as a child.

Damian was the one affected and traumatized by the pressure and abuse of his childhood.

Damian was the one objectified as a 'vessel'.

Damian was the one who had a lab full of cloned inner organs for him to use whenever he got fatally injured.

Damian was the one stuck in between two legacies.

Damian was the one who constantly sacrificed himself to save the people he loved.

Damian was the one who suffered from self-worth issues so severely to the point of being suicidal.

Damian was the one who constantly witnessed his guardian/parental figures dying. (Bruce, Ra's, Alfred, Dr. Bashar)

Damian was the one constantly stalked and attacked by assassins after coming to Gotham.

Damian was the one able to empathize with the villains when other people couldn't.