Wayne Family Personas!!! (PART 2)
Adorable and shy animal lover that sticks by his older siblings. If anyone has ever seen Damian Wayne at a gala, itâs often by his siblingsâ sides, hiding behind their coattails or beneath their arms. Despite many attempts, no one has succeeded in disallowing Damian to bring animals into galas. Most notably, one time, Damian brought in a huge snake that scared some patrons to death. However, there is an⊠Outlier. Damian Wayne is reported to be a snarky and sly little brat when teamed up with Cass, Duke, and Tim, usually with the goal of irritating the fuck out of some socialite or Roman Sionis.
Damian is appalled by the personas that Bruce and Dick put on most of the time, and finds great pleasure in threatening people with a cat in his arms as Tim easily picks up from the threat with his sharp tongue.
He also likes to gaslight people that all the cats he brings to the galas are actually one in the same. They're all named 'Alfred' and no one dares to correct him.
Cullen: "And... No one asks you where you got all the cats from...?"
Damian: "Of course not. My status strikes fear into those below me, they wouldn't dare question me."
Cullen: "I see."
Bland, unassuming, middle class boy that doesn't know what to do with himself. Duke goes the 'invisible boy' route and plays the boring normal kid that got adopted by Bruce out of either pity or convenience. Duke is all too happy to use his 'invisible boy' persona to listen into conversations for Tim or ditching galas with Damian, and sometimes, when he's extra bored and either Lex Luthor or Vicki Vale or some idiot businessman or whatnot is at the gala, never let it be said that Duke doesn't know how to cause chaos and freak out rich people at the same time, eat the rich baby~
Duke has most definitely spiked the alcohol. No for real, he mixes alcohol with more alcohol just to laugh when rich people's composures break.
Duke doesn't often stick by Bruce, Dick, or Jason during galas. He prefers the chaos of blackmailing rich people with Tim, Cass, and occasionally Damian.
Izzy: "Wait, wait. What do you mean you managed to expose a rich person for moving and doing drugs??"
Duke: "How was I supposed to know that he avoided drinking more than one drink cause he knew he was a nasty talker??"
Izzy: "And you... Spiked his drink with what??"
Duke: "Nothing! Just vodka, and spirit, and some gin, and.... This isn't looking good for me is it?"
Izzy: "I still love you for it."
Is she a family friend? Or a personal bodyguard? Harper doesn't often go to Wayne galas, especially since she actually isn't adopted legally by Bruce. But she can't say no when Dick begs for assistance covering for him when the guy is too tired to attend the galas. While gala people try to insult her appearance and obvious Bowery accent, she single handedly shows how much she doesn't give a fuck with a raised brow and laughter. They may try to hate on Harper, but she abuses and takes advantage of her statue as an honorary Wayne, it doesn't go well.
Harper also makes use of this persona of hers to find out who she should hate and who she should at least respect a little bit. She reports this to Dick.
She and Jason 100% gossip on the idiots at the galas, and teases the other Wayne family members and their personas.
Harper: "If I asked nicely, could I get some jewellery from Imens?"
Harper: "Called me and Jayce sewer rats, I'd like to sell off his stuff and watch him weep."
Selina: "... Yeah, sure."
Snobby Gotham Academy brat who is too smart for her own good. Mia doesn't often go to galas, because she doesn't want to dabble in all the politics and subtleties of Gotham's high society. But she does occasionally do Tim some favours at galas, acting the cute but completely spoiled child with Damian in order to get information out of people. Mia's persona is that kid who takes pictures in the bathroom and purchases expensive shit to bring to school just to brag, and accuses any one scholarship kid for stealing them when they go missing.
Maps sometimes brings her friends to galas just to promote the persona she has, and learnt a LOT of slang in the span of two hours.
Maps has definitely joined DIck before on his little Instagram model bullshit, probably obsessively going through filters for 30 whole minutes while Dick talks to people.
Duke: "Why are you so committed to this persona?"
Maps: "I thought you of all people would appreciate the art of deception."
Duke: "... Yeah you're right I dig it."
So I'm sure you've noticed a bit (a lot of) mentions of Tim, and that's because I've kind of mentally split the family in terms of the goofy, not so serious personas (Bruce, Dick, Jason, Harper, Damian), and the High Society tea and biscuits (Tim, Cass, Duke, Mia)
Basically, Bruce's team does it for appearances, and Tim's side does it to gather information and to serve a purpose other than appearing 'normal'. He's at the head of this 'operation', which is why I defaulted to mentioning Tim.
Some of you might start stabbing me for not mentioning Steph, but I see her as a more separate persona and figure unaffiliated with Bruce's brood other than being Tim's ex and his go-to date before 'Conner Luthor'
