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𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 ◞ 「un」 fair — yan!platonic!batfam x meta!neglected!fem!reader.

Yandere Damian Wayne

The word that defines Damian, without a doubt, is loyalty. A loyalty so intense that not even death could weaken it.

Damian has gone through a lot during his development. He’s barely a teenager, yet life has already treated him horribly. He doesn’t talk about it often because he was raised to deal with vulnerability through either avoidance or aggression. He doesn’t directly acknowledge how much his past still affects him, so most of his growth happens quietly — through actions rather than words.

Damian is far more emotional than people think. He just doesn’t express those emotions openly or directly. Sometimes he comes across as erratic, but honestly, that’s because he feels things too deeply and doesn’t fully know how to handle them.

Not to mention Bruce, Talia, and even Ra’s are absolutely terrible examples of emotional responsibility.

As a yandere, he’d fall into a level of confusion and inner conflict that he may or may not be prepared for, depending on what stage of life you catch him in.

If he’s younger — around 10 to his late teens, maybe even early twenties — he’d probably react similarly to Bruce at first: denial. Complete denial.

Damian doesn’t see himself as normal, so the fact that he becomes a yandere for someone means he sees something in you that he cannot find in anyone else. Maybe it’s because he sees you as his equal. Maybe you share his interests, or his worldview. Or maybe it’s the opposite — maybe you complement him instead. Maybe it’s the fact that you’re more emotionally expressive, or the way you see art differently, or maybe you remind him of the people he loves most: Jon and Grayson.

Damian has always connected best with people who balance him out rather than mirror him completely.

But one thing is certain: Damian cannot love someone he doesn’t admire first.

To love you, he has to admire you.

So there’s something about you — whether it’s a trait he relates to or one he secretly envies — that makes him deeply interested in you as a person.

At first, he tries learning more about you almost unconsciously. But the second he realizes what he’s feeling, he tries to deny it.

He denies that he loves spending time with you. He denies that whenever he enters a room, he looks for you first. And he’ll deny until the day he dies that there’s a sketch of you hidden somewhere in his notebook.

Still, Damian knows actions speak louder than words. Unlike Bruce, he accepts much faster that you matter to him — and that it’s not the end of the world.

Now personally? I think once Damian is older, past his twenties, he becomes far more receptive to these feelings and acts on them much faster.

At that point in his life, he’s starving for affection. Genuine, consistent affection. Especially physical affection.

Being deprived of that for most of his childhood and adolescence leaves him touch-starved in a way that runs frighteningly deep. He wants to be vulnerable with someone. He wants to love and be loved.

Damian is an extremely protective yandere. Especially after Alfred’s death — he becomes almost paranoid. He’s terrified of loss, and even more terrified if you are the one he could lose.

You can expect him to stalk and monitor you from the very beginning, because in his mind, it’s “for your safety.” That’s what he keeps telling himself, anyway.

Out of all the yanderes, he’s probably the most patient. His perception of family is deeply warped, which honestly makes sense considering how he was raised. To Damian, family hurts. Love hurts. But it’s still worth it in the end.

So even after kidnapping you, even if you lash out at him or intentionally try to hurt him emotionally, he rarely takes it personally. To him, your reaction is logical. Maybe you just don’t understand the intensity of his love yet — but he genuinely believes that someday you will, and that eventually you’ll love him back.

And not only is he patient, he’s resilient.

Damian has been a survivor since childhood. He’s endured almost every horrible thing life has thrown at him, and to him, this is simply another trial. A test of devotion.

And once Damian loves someone, that love is the most loyal thing they will ever have in their life.

Even when you think his guard is down, it never truly is. Before he was a child, he was an assassin. His senses are incredibly sharp and refined. There’s a reason he was the only Robin allowed to wear a hood — he can practically fight blindfolded.

That same skill lets him understand you before you even fully understand yourself.

And just like Bruce, he’s deeply indulgent with the person he loves. Damian doesn’t believe there should be limits when it comes to showing his love, so the first thing he does is spoil you. He doesn’t even expect anything in return at first — making you happy genuinely makes him happy. He likes the idea of you associating him with comfort, safety, and the things you enjoy.

For Damian, there’s a minimum level of luxury you will be provided with. It’s not really materialism — it’s just that he’s completely devoted to giving the person he loves the absolute best. You basically live like royalty. And you’re definitely protected like it too.

He’s also one of the few yanderes who genuinely believes you should continue growing intellectually even while confined.

That mindset was drilled into him by the League. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’ll force you into anything, but if you show interest in a subject, art form, or skill, Damian will enthusiastically find the best teachers possible so you can master it. And if you refuse outside teachers, he’ll simply teach you himself.

And this is obvious, but out of the entire Batfamily, Damian is one of the few who would genuinely be willing to kill for you. For both of you.

He doesn’t want to abandon Batman’s teachings, but Damian has already lost too much at such a young age. The idea of losing you too is simply intolerable to him.

And out of all the Batfam yanderes, he’s the one least likely to hesitate when it comes to using the Lazarus Pit if necessary.

He just cannot lose you.

He knows it may take months — maybe even years — before you show the same kind of love toward him. But if you show even the slightest interest in him as a person? In what he likes or dislikes? If you genuinely try to understand him?

Damian honestly believes you’re the best thing that will ever happen to him.

And that only makes him greedier for your attention.

Once you start showing interest in him, he becomes terrified of losing it. He wants your focus entirely on him. Under the right circumstances, I genuinely think he could develop an anxious attachment toward you.

And after a year of confinement?

He can’t wait anymore.

He wants to make your bond official. Maybe even legal.

Because Damian has absolutely no intention of ever letting you go.

My rating for him is probably a 7/10. Even though he’s a yandere fully willing to kill for you, his love isn’t entirely selfish. He stays patient and gentle with you no matter what.

More than anyone else, Damian understands that growing up through violence or being “taught lessons” through pain only leaves scars behind. He would rather cut off his own hands than ever do something like that to you.

Out of all of them, his love is probably the purest.

Available Batfamily yandere concepts: Batman ; Nightwing ; Robin ; Red Hood coming soon...

It took me way longer to do this analysis than I expected. Damian is a much more complex character than people give him credit for, and honestly, I wasn’t satisfied with the first analysis I wrote for him. The deeper I dug into his story, the more it hit me emotionally. I even cried at one point.

My goat… they hurt that boy so badly ever since he was a baby. He deserved so much better than the parents he got. 😭😭😭

God, you caught me off guard with this one 😭

Mmm, I haven’t thought that deeply about it yet, so I’m just gonna say whatever comes to mind right now.

One concept I have thought about before is a neglected reader!child actor. Especially if one of their shows is something Disney-like, since that really emphasizes their childish and youthful side. Right now the show I’m picturing is Violetta (probably because I’m listening to one of the songs right now LMAO). Or maybe something less childish and more teen-oriented, like Skins.

I can totally imagine the Batfam realizing that other people got to watch you grow up. An entire film set watched you become who you are, while they — your actual family — missed all of it. The closest thing they have are the episodes of the show you star in, or co-star in.

It’d hurt so much watching interviews where you’re sitting with the actors who play your family, seeing how naturally close you are with them. The bloopers, the inside jokes, the little knowing looks. They realize you’re part of an entire world they lost access to a long time ago.

Now—

Whenever I think about the isekai trope, I always picture this OC.

Someone who’s given a second chance at life — the chance to eventually return to their original world — in exchange for completing a mission in the DC universe. Whether they’re experienced in combat or not is up to each person, but personally I think it adds SO much drama when the Batfam sees a child casually walk out of Professor Pyg’s hideout completely unharmed… while Pyg himself is trapped inside one of his own cages. Nobody suspects it was you, because like… who would suspect a kid?

Let’s say they temporarily adopt you until they can find you a proper family. What was supposed to be one or two months turns permanent for one reason or another. Of course, you assume the entity that gave you the mission is subtly manipulating things to increase your chances of success.

Now imagine this OC is already a yandere. A yandere for someone — or several people — back in their original world. So they genuinely could not care less about the Batfam or anyone in the DC universe. They just want to go home. Back to their yanderes, back to the people they love obsessively.

So they grow up patiently. Quietly. Training, waiting, preparing for the moment they’ll finally have to act. And if the family neglects them during that time? They don’t care. Their eyes are fixed entirely on the mission.

Even when the family eventually feels guilty for neglecting them — for adopting them and still failing to give them even a shred of affection — the OC genuinely does not care. The mission date gets closer, and eventually the Batfam realizes this kid isn’t normal at all, especially if they have superhuman abilities.

And if the Batfam tries to detain them? Whether out of suspicion, guilt, or fear?

The OC is fully prepared to fight back.

Actually, now that I think about it, this concept has insane crossover fic potential. Literally any action anime, comic, or series could fit into this setup.

"God, if she ever found out from the outside just how badly her leaving destabilized the whole family, she’d be rolling around in satisfaction seeing them all that delulu"

That picture appeared in my head.

We better run as fast as we can

GOD, I SERIOUSLY WANNA TELL YOU GUYS EVERYTHING because even I get insanely excited whenever I think about that moment 😭😭😭

Look okay they are funny and we need more memes to lighten the mood

YES—.

God, if she ever found out from the outside just how badly her leaving destabilized the whole family, she’d be rolling around in satisfaction seeing them all that delulu

I see it more like this:

PAKSJA THANK YOUUU 😭💕💕 I’d genuinely love that. Lately I’ve been trying to find fanfics that break away a little from the usual stuff, so if you think it’s something I’d enjoy, I’d absolutely love for you to tag me 🙂‍↕️💕💕

I just know we gonna throw hands with him lolz and hed probably take it in stride.

LMAOOO I swear to god this is literally the first time I’ve ever heard of or seen this meme 😭 The different versions of it are so insanely good, I was laughing for a solid while.

Thank you so much!!! I really do try to stick to canon as much as I possibly can.

Welllll, there’s not really a strict order to how I do my analyses. I think the very first step is honestly to forget everything you think you know about the character. Like, everything you’ve seen online or in fandom spaces, because most of the time those are personal interpretations and not really objective takes (especially in fanfics or headcanons).

Then I try to look for official sources first. Maybe the character’s wiki, and if it’s a comic character and you have no idea where to even start (which was literally me at first), you can look up recommended comics for beginners to understand the character better. For Batman, the comics that kept showing up over and over again were stuff like Batman: Year One, Batman and Robin: Year One, The Long Halloween, The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, and a bunch of others.

And when you read comics, I think it’s important to look a little deeper than just what’s directly shown and question everything. Why did they make this decision? Why did they choose that solution when there were other options? How do they react under stress? How do they handle trauma? How does it affect their relationships and the way they interact with the people closest to them?

Of course, unless you have an actual psychology degree, our interpretations are rarely gonna be 100% perfectly canon-accurate 😭 so it also helps a lot if you can find videos from actual psychologists analyzing the character and explaining certain disorders or behaviors in a more grounded way and how those traits would realistically affect their daily life.

On the other hand, if comics really aren’t your thing, I’d say try following adaptations that are generally considered faithful to the character. For Batman, most fans tend to agree that Batman: The Animated Series and Batman: Caped Crusader are really faithful to Bruce’s core characterization.

And honestly, the more time you dedicate to researching and analyzing, the more accurate your interpretation will probably become. You also have to remember that canon material contradicts itself constantly. These characters have existed for over 50 years, they’ve been rebooted, rewritten, and reinterpreted a million times. But humans contradict themselves all the time too, so you kinda have two choices:

Either you try to follow absolutely everything DC currently says is canon (which changes every five business days 😭), or you build your own understanding of the character based on your research and accept all parts of them — the good, the bad, and even the contradictions — and treat those contradictions as opportunities to analyze the character even more deeply. And if you’re writing a fanfic, those contradictions can even become opportunities for character growth.

I honestly think a good fanfic isn’t just about how “accurate” the characterization is, but about how well the character develops throughout the story. Especially if the story explores a more flawed or complicated side of them and actually allows them to grow from it.

Anyway, I’m still pretty new to doing super in-depth character analysis myself. I literally only started doing this kind of detailed breakdown with the Nightwing yandere concept. Before writing fanfics I always made little psychological profiles for characters, but I’d never done research this intense or detailed before this past week.

So maybe my analysis process still needs some refining, but this is basically what I do right now when I’m writing these character concepts.

(I really missed your writing!!!!!)

Omg thank you so much pookieee 😭💕 I genuinely put a lot of effort into trying to cover Bruce’s whole psychological profile because there’s seriously SO much to analyze and even theorize about when it comes to that man.

He has so many issues, and also a bunch of symptoms from disorders that were never really “confirmed” canonically, but you can absolutely build theories around them. Plus there are so many tiny canon details that contribute to both his personality and his yandere tendencies.

Right now I’m working on Damian’s analysis, but there’s been so much new content for him over the past few years. Stuff that really adds to the person Damian has become today, and honestly it changed my perspective on him a little.

You must be like the fourth person to tell me this in my askbox already, and honestly I’m really flattered 😭💕💕💕

I genuinely don’t think my writing is that good to the point where people would actually pay for it, but the fact that you guys even consider the idea means a lot to me.

Maybe someday I’ll actually do it, if only for the laughs and because I’m really curious whether ko-fi even works in my country 😭 but for now I haven’t taken the idea too seriously.

This ask is from like two days ago and now that things have finally calmed down a little, I can actually answer it properly: yeah, I did see the list 😭 (it’s literally been almost everything I’ve read these past few days in the yan batfam tag).

I didn’t really say anything about it because this isn’t the first time something like this has happened in the fandom, and honestly, just like the occasional hate comments I get, I’d rather not give attention to people who are clearly looking for it. This one was painfully obvious ragebait too, which made me want to talk about it even less 😭

What is funny though is how much more active the yandere batfam tag has gotten now. Writers and stories I hadn’t seen in forever suddenly came back because of this whole thing, and even authors who got hit with negative criticism started posting for their stories again. Instead of getting discouraged, they came back even more motivated to create for the fandom. Lmao I love you all so much, seriously keep going.

Yandere Bruce Wayne

God, where do I even start with this guy?

I think the word that defines Batman the most is fear. Fear is his ally whenever he patrols Gotham, but at the same time, it’s also his worst enemy and most loyal companion ever since he was eight years old.

I think people seriously underestimate just how deeply Bruce was scarred by what happened in Crime Alley. Even he says Bruce Wayne died that night and Batman was born; someone who didn’t just want justice for his parents, but someone who wanted to make sure nobody else would ever go through what he did.