AU where Damian finds out he has a biological older brother, meaning the child Talia lied to Bruce about having miscarried and gave up to be raised by a normal family, while Damian himself was created shortly afterwards as a compromise between Ra's and Talia to prevent Ra's from going after the original child.
Realising he was created not as a heir, but a replacement sends him spiraling, but also makes a certain about of sense, because while he knows his mother loves him in her way, she has made clones of him before to replace him, one of which killed him.
Damian ends up being the one to tell his father about it, maybe looking for reassurance that Damian is still his son too, but Bruce has never been good at reading his needs and instead the shock of another surprise son sends him into pure detective mode, trying to find out everything he can about the kid.
Damian's older brother is, by all conceivable metrics, happy. He grew up in a loving normal home, has never had to fear for his life, and is using his considerable intellect on his personal interests. His parents are divorced but have a functional co-parenting relationship and partners that spoil him. He had a dog at his mother's house and a cat at his father's. He has plenty of friends and a girlfriend and gets into trouble for staying out too late on school nights.
Damian has never in his life been so jealous of anyone. But he asks his father to leave the kid where he is, and not drag him into their world. In a way, Damian agrees with his mother's original decision. A part of him just wishes she could have done the same for him, too.
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Characters tend to get mischaracterised in fandom, because thatโs probably the first thing we do when we get our hands them, but I think that the general reading of Travis specifically is so bewildering in the Sally Face fandom that it kinda irks me?
Now, donโt get me wrong, Iโm a Travis fan, I love him as much as the next depressed person with religious guilt, and I even ship Salvis pretty openly round these parts- but I think the point of his character whizzed past at lot of peopleโs heads, which is okay (Iโm sure Iโve done this before) but i needed to talk about it:
Travis is not a โUwU soft boyโ who picks on Sal because he has feelings for him. Even if it were so, the gang has something that he will never have- freedom. They might be considered the weird kids of the school but they do whatever they want, theyโre open about who they are, and they feel free to do it. They dress how they want, they talk how they want- Larry being a metalhead who listens to unconventional music , Sal being a crossdresser who doesnโt adhere to typical notions of gender expression, and Todd being openly gay.
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Travis wants what they have, even subconsciously. When he is constantly tripping over himself to fit into a tightly bound box, they seem to completely ignore it. So he revolts instead. I hate to say โheโs just jealousโ but.. to my interpretation, thatโs where his hatred and anger boil over. Theyโre already there, groomed into him from a young age, and where else can he get it out? If he even tried to stand up to his father, the results would be bloody.
Even if he gets out of the situation that heโs in which is likely not possible in canon, because of the fact his dad basically implements the cult into every aspect of Nockfell, Travis probably wonโt get to a place with himself that allows him to do this anytime soon. Not after a lifetime of being abused by his father and growing up in the cult disguised as a church. That leaves a scar (yk what else leaves a scar? Kennethโs gu-)
I grew up in the church myself. In a very religious country, in a very religious area, and in an even more religious family. And though my personal level of torment was NOT at the level Travis experienced, and Iโm sure others have experienced worse then me, my faith did irreversible damage to my psyche. I believed I was being constantly under surveillance, that even the smallest sin would condemn me. I believed that I was a sin myself, because I just couldnโt understand, and I worked and thought differently to others. I was terrified of doubting my religion to any degree. Learning about other religions was a genuine risk to me because I could feel a slither of possibility God was not real. God hates the sin, not the sinner- but there is nothing pure about me, so I am the sin itself.
My point is, I was operating out of guilt, fear and shame- and so is Travis, to an insane extent. His father was pushing it onto him, so he was pushing it onto others. We all know Travis is gay and the we like to joke about it and how pathetic he is, but he was really being fed on constant hatred. That is what heโd been taught. Heโs not just โafraid to accept itโ but he genuinely, genuinely believes that he is condemned. He genuinely trusts that there is a hell after death, and that because he is in love/likes someone that is where he doomed to go.
But thatโs not to necessarily make his behaviour okay, because heโs starting the cycle again. Spewing hate -> spewing hate -> spewing hate. But for him he has no other option because nobody has ever taught him that he doesnโt need to keep the cycle going and because all that heโs come victim to is genueily horrendous.
His behaviour is a trauma response. It doesnโt make his behaviour any better, but itโs a trauma response. REASON, NOT EXCUSE.
Travis is a masterfully written character, he has so much depth that I havenโt even discussed here and His character serves as a reminder as to how religion can push children into a system of fear and shame, and how if theyโre not taught any better, they will carry on to do the same to others.
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