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or whatever they're called. and i dont mean romantic stuff, just things that could happen in a story, or a sentence.

then he said "in the end they're only fictional characters" and shrugged it off.

the sound that went through my mind was "nobody thinks what i think".

I like to think that he doesn't really have morals, he does what is most efficient. Like yes, he doesn't (directly) kills, but that's because he has rules. And those rules are Batman's morals. He follows them because he admires the man, because he's Robin and has to respect some criteria.

Like, fundamentally, Tim doesn't have any issues with killing, he might even agree with Red Hodd's methods. But he doesn't kill because that's the rule.

But that's still the kid that stalked Batman and Robin for years in secret, who discovered their identity at 9. He is one of the smartest character (maybe the smartest of the family) and was raised as Janet Drake's son, so he knows how to deal with people, and manipulate them. He's technically the most normal one (comically accurate from what i've heard) with the most normal childhood and yet he decided to join this vigilante family, fight crime and get deadly hurt every tuesday.

He's a little shit, but also a genius. He's the robin that was a fighter, smart enough to control Batman's anger at thirteen, a soldier before a son, a detective. He is the robin that solved cases on his own.

He's the kid Ra's is constantly trying to recruit. The one this man actually admires enough to want him to be his heir. More than he admires Bruce.

Tim decided to be on a good side because he admired Batman and Robin.

See, to him, the term would represent complete devotion. It would be the only way he would call his partner (not 'baby', 'honey', 'sweetheart'...) because 'Beloved' has this energy, this aura that just screams you are the only one to and I'll burn the world if you asked me. It's how his mother calls his father, and even though they probably will never be together again, Talia will always love Bruce. What's more, with how he was taught to always speak so refined, well there's nothing better than 'Beloved'.

Now, realisticly, 'Beloved' probably gives him the chills. Growing up that was the best way to love someone, and now he cannot even think about using that word. His mother raised him using this term for his father, and yet she'd stab Bruce in the back if it was useful to her. 'Beloved' reminds him of how his mother is toxic to Bruce, of how she spends her time messing with him, of how Damian wasn't even wanted to begin with (of what his father probably had to go through for Damian to exist...). Damian doesn't want to be anything like his mother or grandfather, and using that term would make him too much like her.