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Dr Damian is a Japanese Snow Fairy.

I have no argument, I have no reason but Imagine Jon and the Bats seeing Damian in his white coat for the first time and all they see is this -

I haven’t gotten to much of damian comics yet but one of my favorites batfam friendship (siblingship?) is Damian & Stephanie’s.

So we all know that Bruce is at most 16 years older than Dick. Well if the rest of the human JL members are around Bruce's age, then that makes Dick also less than 2 decades younger than them as well. And the other half probably don't have the best grasp of what human 10-year-olds should and shouldn't be doing.

I'm imagining the JL's early years following Robin's introduction are exactly like a fraternity trying to raise one of their member's kid.

They have an idea of what kids need to properly grow up and they all have experience of being a child, so with all of them together this parenting shit should be easy.

Like the Flash is refusing to take Robin to see the new PG-14 film cause of all the implied sex, but is completely willing to take him to investigate STAR Labs' most top secret labs.

Or Arthur putting Robin in a bunch of floaties, before basically water boarding the kid because Robin's chances of drowning should be gone now.

They also take a crap ton of photos of Dick in ridiculous sleeping positions or videos of Robin just bobbing to random club songs, and they do show them off to their sidekicks and protégés. The watch tower basically has a library full of Dick's photo albums and discs.

Need someone to take the joke too seriously? Tim who can’t seem to let go the TT situation that was clearly spurred on by mental illness, mind you he did nearly the same thing for the same reason he just wasn’t talented enough to get any real damage in. Need someone to shame others: TIM, god he’s such a bitch to everyone for literally no reason, I’m sorry you’re rich and white, get over it. Anything else is consequences of his own actions. Need someone to not understand something basic: Tim, who blamed Jason A CHILD for dying and somehow can’t understand how literally anybody except himself is a victim. Need someone for everyone else to laugh at even when he’s being serious? Tim who’s great quality is his ability to use a calculator and vigilante identity just being a knock off robin.

Something that everyone seems to forget that causes fundamental mischaracterizations is that Damian grew up the victim of a cult and a forced killer, Jason grew up on the streets with an abuser in the house, Dick grew up in a new town all the time and then his parents were murdered on Mother’s Day in front of him. All of which had to immediately change everything they’d learned to baby everyone else’s feelings. Damian had new rules nobody explained to him, Jason had new privileges nobody had taught him how to handle and Dick had new lack of love. Each of them became Robin in exchange.

Tim Drake was a rich white man who’s greatest pain was either semi absent parents or a dead mom, both of which are sad but neither were tragic, he had a ton of money and privilege and neither were abusive when home or by the time his mom died he was already deciding he didn’t care about them and wanted to be a Wayne. Sure sure, you can say “but he only became Robin because Batman needed one!” but if that was true he shouldn’t have minded not being Robin and moving on when his Batman, his reason for being Robin, “died” but the truth is, he realized a street kid was Robin and thought it should go to someone “better” (subtext, though so to each their own) and only cared about being replaced because he thought he “earned his place” aka he never became Robin for Bruce, he became Robin to be Robin. Along with that he blamed a CHILD for dying instead of the grown man who should’ve been protecting him.

The worst thing to ever happen to him as a vigilante was losing his spleen, yes traumatic things happened but all in side along comic runs that were fixed. Damian was groomed, went to hell for 55 years, lost a huge part of his family, his spine, his life, Alfred, and more. Jason lost his life, mind, innocence, and freedom. Dick lost his brother and then his father all while being replaced over and over again as the vigilante who’s named after his mama’s nickname for him and he was SA.

I’m not mentioning any of the girls because I don’t believe their comics are done well enough for anything outside of supporting the male characters and they all had terrible things happen to them.

Also, Damian is canonically the most teenagery teen out of all of them, he reads manga, run away with friends, plays video games, and lives in hoodies and sweatpants. Stop making prim and proper Drake into the nonchalant teen when that is canonically Damian.

On top of that Drake has been pouting since the 50s (don’t quote me on that, it’s dramatics) about not being Robin while taking over the Wayne company and then whining because it’s so much work when he literally didn’t have to do either of those things, meanwhile Damian quit Robin and became a healer aka a doctor, breaking a generational cycle which none of the other Robins were able to do.

Damian is the best Robin second only to Stephanie and he’s had the most character development besides Jason, though his was much more positive. Also wtf is up with their shit about him being a bully brat who is mean to children and people saying he’s lgbtq+phobic? He canonically hates bullies, is the least of a brat, and was extremely accepting of nonbinary people specifically and lgbtq+ as a whole.

The point is, the last person who should be used as a joke and plot point is Damian. And let him be an actual teen for goodness point.

Original post by @/Min_tramcam on X/Twitter

How to tell that Mr. Morris doesn't have his OWN children to bother.

Now he has matured more and become less naive. I don't think he would return to the League right away u know, he needs time to rediscover himself, who he is, and what kind of hero he will be now that he has witnessed so much with his aging

I have a draft explaining this much better, but I'm too lazy to correct and elaborate on it, plus I wanted to post this doodle soon

Hes bald bcs they made him shave on prison and he keep it like that since its easier to maintain

He stilll got some shine on his eyes guys hes chill

anyway, i wanted to put this out here without their handle attached in case they'd prefer it to remain anonymous. hopefully they see this. also, i figure there might be other people with similar questions, so this feels like a good question to answer out in the open.

the question:

Ok so this branches from English (and by a little extent Spanish, but they don't do this as much) but you know how in English terms of endearment have a way of getting bastardized into a million other little nicknames? Like you could call someone Honey Bun, or Honey, or Bun, which could then become Bunny, or Bean, or something equally as endearing blah blah blah Do you know of any examples of this in Arabic? I'll give you what I'm thinking of in my fic: I know Habibi is a good term of endearment in Arabic, so I'm sticking with that (and a few others you mentioned in that post), but would Habibi devolve into the nickname Bibi or is that too anglicized a transition? Like, is the nickname thing mostly an English thing or does that happen in Arabic as well?

super interesting question! i've never really thought about this before, but i'll give it my best shot.

to my knowledge, this is just unfortunately not how habibi works.

to be blunt, habibi is the nickname.

i've never really heard anyone shorten it and bibi actually has an entirely different meaning and function from habibi (i know some people use it for their grandmothers). without getting bogged down in the intricacies of word structure in Arabic script, shortening habibi to bibi could read as the first person possessive form of bib which...sadly, isn't a word.

much like akhi, habibi isn't really a solitary noun on its own the way “honey bun” or “darling” are in English. the noun is actually just habib and the -i is a modifying suffix you add at the end to denote possession. the -i is part of the word, yes, but it adds a dimension to it that is not there in the standalone noun.

habib = "beloved". -i = "my" (that's an oversimplification but we're just gonna roll with it). habib + -i = habibi = "my beloved".

and there are different suffixes for each form of possession. for instance, if i were talking about Damian's habib or habiba, i would call them habibhu or habibathu ("his beloved", masculine and feminine forms respectively).

now, to get bogged down in the intricacies of word structure in Arabic script i mentioned earlier...

in Arabic, words have what we call a جذر (jidhr), a tri-letter root. this isn't true of absolutely every word, because obviously, some are shorter than three letters, but it is pertinent to this question. a word's jidhr is essential to the structural meaning attached to the word. it forms the building blocks of a word. kind of like how Latin roots operate in the Romance languages, it tells you something about the word.

for instance:

ك - ت - ب is the jidhr for the word كتاب (kitaab), which is the word for book. those three letters can also be found in words like مكتبة (maktaba, library) and يكتب (yaktub, to write). each of these words share the same jidhr because they are all linked in meaning. where is a place where books are kept? the library. how do you make books? you write them.

habibi's jidhr is ح - ب - ب and the word itself is written in Arabic script as حبيبي.

the ح corresponds to the ha. the first ب corresponds to the first bi and the second ب corresponds to the second bi. the short and long vowels (ي) in between essentially round out the word into its full form and meaning. Arabic, unlike (some of) the Romance languages, also has a phonetic alphabet. what you see is what you get. no funky letter combinations that don't sound anything like you think they should and no dropping entire halves of words (i'm looking at you, French). to remove any part of the jidhr or to change or shorten any of the vowels would change the meaning of the word entirely. which is why bibi is fundamentally different from habibi, even though it sounds similar - they don't have the same jidhr. and it's why it's also not really intuitive to do that with other terms of endearment, either.

hopefully all of that made at least a little bit of sense? long story short, i'm not aware of any ways to shorten Arabic terms of endearment the way we do in English, at least not in the way you suggested. you could maybe shorten habibi to hubbi, meaning "my love" or sometimes "my lover". but again, that would change the endearment to a different word with a different meaning. i think the best equivalents i can come up with are when family members just call each other random nouns. for instance, my family likes to call kids benadourati, "my tomato".

fellow Arabic speakers, please feel free to elaborate/correct/add anything because most of this is all just based off of my experience with the language and i'm not sure if there's anything i missed.