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He tries to keep himself composed but yoy can see his excitement in the way he moves his hands a bit more and how he smiles as he speaks and it's just so stinking cute because his voice just gets a bit higher when he speaks. It isn't really noticeable to the regular ear but since the people he is talking to are trained professionals and/or metas, it's very obvious.

And obviously the Batfam is looming close behind, unsure whether to take Damian away because the others look just a bit too comfortable finding their youngest adorable (which is true and should be admired but like from a distance and definitely not a sinister smiles that screams I want to kidnap this cute child) but that would mean he could stop talking and they can't have that.

Colin: Why'd you say that?

Damian: *arrives on the back of a horse Jon's never seen before* Rouhi! This is Blackjack! They were going to kill him for losing too many races. He's ours now.

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.

Like they literally hated each other the first time they met and for some reason they kept sneaking out to fight crime together while constantly fighting and bickering and making fun of the other.

The funniest part of their dynamic to me is that no one was forcing them to work together to begin with. They were like "Ugh, I can't stand this idiot, I can't believe I have to go on missions with him." While at the same time, choosing to hang out with each other.