'Jason didn't want to go to Gotham he only went because Damian went and he wanted to keep Damian safe' YES. GOOD. BUT LET ME RAISE YOU: Damian had no interest in going to Gotham, and he only went because Talia pulled the good ol' trick of 'you can only go if you take your little brother' and Jason had to drag Damian along in order to get permission.
"Fine." Talia said, crossing her arms as Jason perked up. "I will fund it, and allow permission for the league to provide assistance with whatever you need to establish a base in Gotham. But," She added, raising an eyebrow. "You have to take your brother with you. I want him to experience Gotham and train under his father's tutelage. You can only go if you take him."
Delighted, Jason grinned and spun around to stare across the room at where Damian was sat, book in hand. Damian made eye contact with him, face blank in the face of his older brother's hopefulness.
"No." He told him dryly. Jason's face collapsed.
"C'mon, Dames! It will be fun! We can go sightseeing!"
"But Talia said I can't go if you don't come!"
"That's not my problem. Gotham is a shithole."
"But you'll get to meet your dad."
"I've gotten this far without Bruce Wayne imposing a curfew on me, I'm not giving that up now."
eventually jason bribes/drags damian along with him and damian is just. supremely pissed off about it. he's not usually Like This, he's actually usually quite an easy-going kid; but he is not happy about being forced to play along as 'son of the bat' just so jason gets to play crime lord and kill the joker, so he's mostly acting up in an attempt to get kicked out and sent back to the league. jason gets weekly voice messages from the poor kid just angrily ranting about how ridiculous it is that they haven't reached their limit with him yet.
"first thing i did when i got there was fully insult their beloved pennyworth and then start treating everybody like they were my servant, and then last night i legitimately tried to murder tim. you know what bruce did akhi? do you? he grounded me for a weekend. like what the fu-"
"i stabbed one of my classmates with a fork and dick took me out for fucking ice cream and told me it was ok to struggle with adjusting like what the fuck do i have to fucking do to get sent back to nanda parbat this is ridiculous. you know tim offered to teach me how to skateboard yesterday? i publicly tried to poison him last week and he does not care. i dunno what the fuck you did to him at titans tower but that little bitch is fucking immune to people trying to kill him. i overheard him and bruce talking about giving me robin. GIVING ME ROBIN- ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!?! WHY AM I BEING PROMOTED HERE? at this point i might just kill myself."
"Have you considered just playing happy family with them?" Jason asked him one night, during a phone call taking place while Damian was actively building a smoke bomb to set off in Dick's bedroom.
"Have you considered killing yourself and this time fucking staying there?"
"Sheesh." He snorted. "You're grumpy tonight."
"They're taking me to a fucking movie premier tomorrow. I'm gonna be on the red carpet."
"THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT."
anyway fuck damian dedicating his life to being bruce's blood son give me damian who absolutely despises everything about this and give me jason who enjoys watching his little brother suffer immensely.
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