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*Jon and Damian walking on the sidewalk when they come across a huge puddle in the middle of the road*
Jon: Alright, up ya get. *picks damian up bridal style and starts trudging through the puddle*
Damian: Jon!? What are you doing? It's just water!
Jon: Listen, babe. I don't know how much your shoes cost but mine were thirty bucks at Walmart. They can be sacrificed.
Damian: You are ridiculous *is charmed as hell*
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Damian's Grief
Love him or hate him, I think it can be generally agreed that Alfred Pennyworth is the glue that holds the Batfamily together. And with him dead, things pretty quickly fall apart.
Much like his parents, Bruce chooses to ignore his grief. He shuts down, he shuts people out. He throws himself into Batman in a way he hasn't since Jason died. But somehow this time it's even worse because at least when Jason was dead he had Alfred to lean on. Now he feels he has no one.
Dick tries to be there for him at first. But Bruce just won't budge. He won't open up even the slightest bit. He freezes Dick out in a way he never has before. And Dick just doesn't have the energy to keep pushing. Alfred, again, was always someone Dick could turn to when he couldn't get through to Bruce. But without that backup he burns himself out until he's got nothing left. He leaves. He's not proud of it. But Kori is pregnant and needs to go back to Tamaran to settle some things there and Dick... Decides to go with her. He needs space. He's grieving too. And so he goes.
Jason gets angry. Because of course he does. That's all he is, at the end of the day. Or so he thinks. His anger... Fizzles out pretty quickly. He wants to blame Bruce. Batman. A dark part of him wants to blame Damian too. But this time the anger just doesn't have the sticking power. And he finds for the first time since he came back from the dead that he's not angry... he's sad. He's so overwhelmingly sad. He's sad for Alfred, he's sad for his family he's sad for himself. It's as if Alfred's death has opened the flood gates and all the sadness and grief and mourning he didn't do for himself when he died comes rushing in full force. Roy is what helps him in the end. He comes into Jason's apartment, sees his best friend lying in bed just... Drifting. He picks up the mess that's been left around, helps clean him up. And tells Jason he's taking him back to Star City to stay with him and Lian for a while. And Jason doesn't fight him.
Tim throws himself into WE. Because much like Bruce he buries his grief under work. But unlike Bruce, when his friends come by to offer him help and support, get takes it. He lets Bernard hold him while he cries. He lets Kon, Cassie and Bart hang off of him like barnacles. He lets Tamara schedule him breaks and actually takes them. And when Bernard tells him that he got into a collage outside of Gotham... Tim follows him. He's the CEO of WE. He can work remotely if he wants to. He takes the break from Red Robin and Gotham that he should have taken years ago and runs away with his boyfriend.
Cass asks Stephanie to go to Hong Kong with her. The two of them have been tip-toeing around each other for years now and Cass has had enough. She loves Stephanie and wants her to be in her life. She wants to show her the life she's built for herself in Hong Kong. Wants to share the parts of her that she's discovered outside the mask, outside of Gotham. Not forever. Gotham is her home, it's where her family is, and vigilantism is her calling in a way that nothing ever has been. But she can read the signs that her family needs space. They need to heal on their own terms. As much as she loves when they are all together, sometimes all their hurts do nothing more than hurt each other when they get too close. Despite what they would have you think, Cass has always found her family to be co-dependent to some degree. No matter how far any of them goes she knows they will come together again eventually. And until then they need to go their separate ways and mourn.
In all of this, Damian gets lost. It's no secret that when Damian came to the Manor, Bruce was none too pleased. With all the years of heartache and loss, that part of him that was capable of being a parent to a young child had been burnt out of him. He just didn't have it in him anymore. A part of Damian still resented him for this, but another part of him understood. He was the unwanted one. He was the child that was forced onto his father when he clearly didn't have any more space for one in is life. Add onto that the fact that Damian, at least in the beginning, was a representation of everything his father stood against. Arrogant to the point of belittling others, seeming to lack any kind of empathy or kindness, and worst of all- a murderer. He was basically his father's worst nightmare.
So it was understandable that Bruce spent as little time with Damian as possible. And then he supposedly died, and Damian felt guilty about the relief he felt. Richard had been hard to get along with at first, but at least he didn't look at Damien like he was a monster. But than father came back and Richard went away... He said it was so he wouldn't get in between the relationship that Bruce and Damian needed to forage... But Damian wonders if he had just had enough of Damian, and Father's return was the perfect excuse to gain his freedom back.
Regardless, the one constant person who had been there by Damian's side since he had been left in Gotham was Alfred. Alfred was the parent that Damian needed. He's the one who showed Damian kindness regardless of the situation. Always listened to him. Never forgot his birthday. Taught him how to be the person his is today. And without him, Damian doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't want to go with father. The two of them can hardly stand each other on a good day. They love each other, that much Damian knows. But they don't get along. They never have. And the idea of being stuck with his father alone, with no one there to as a buffer between them while they're both mourning Alfred's loss? It scares him. His father is a good man, he knows. But by the nature of being Batman he's also a violent man. And Damian doesn't want to know what would happen if they were truly left to their own devices.
He knows he could go with Richard. His brother would take Damian with him to Tamaran without hesitation. It could even be fun to visit an alien planet. Damian hasn't actually done that yet. But... Richard and Koriand'r is expecting a child. They're starting their own family. And a part of Damian doesn't want to get in the middle of that for his brother's sake... And another part of him doesn't want to risk that Richard will start to view him as an unwanted child to be burdened with like father.
So Damian decides to do neither. He tells father that he's going to Tamaran with Richard, and he tells Richard that he is staying in Wayne Tower with father... And he goes back to the Manor by himself.
It's been closed off. All the furniture is covered with dust cloths. Alfred's garden has been left to overgrow, or wither. Damian's various pets had been moved to an animal sanctuary temporarily until things could be figured out and father has moved all the equipment that he needs out of the Batcave to the cave under Wayne Tower. The Manor is completely empty and devoid of life.
And this is what breaks him, finally. Since he had watched Alfred be killed in front of him Damian had been experiencing the world through a thick fog of shock and apathy. He had barely spoken to anyone let alone shown any type of grief or trauma. But this... Seeing the home to that Alfred had poured so many years of love and care into locked away and allowed to rot. This breaks him. He collapses to the floor and cries harder than he thinks he's ever cried in his whole life.
And then he gets to work. Alfred might be gone. But Damian refuses to let his legacy die with him. This was his home. This is their family's home. And it will not be allowed to fall to ruin like this. Not on Damian's watch.
not she berry or he berry but no berry
and that is berry good
i do like the concept of Jason being so used to living around Damian that he's just... conformed to Damian's way of life without noticing.
Dick notices that Damian's morning training routine is exactly the same as Jason's. he assumes Damian picked it up from Jason. "...no," Jason tells him, slightly embarrassed. "he just refused to change schedules and it was easier for us to do it together in the league."
Tim catches Jason reorganising one of the manor's bookshelves into alphabetical order and when he asks why Jason just absently goes "oh, Damian always does this, he doesn't like it the wrong way round."
"...Damian isn't here right now...?" and Jason freezes like he's questioning his entire life. funniest occasion was when Steph tagged along on a grocery shop Jason was going on for his own apartment and she got confused when she noticed everything Jason was picking out was vegetarian.
"Since when did you go veggie?"
and Jason looks at her all confused, snorting like "what are you talking about?" and then he glances at all the stuff in his basket and he just stills. smile slowly drops. he throws the tofu burgers he'd just picked up directly into the side of the wall and storms out the store angrily yelling about how 'that fucking brat has fucking brainwashed him and it's fucking bullshit-'
Damian literally has no idea any of this is happening.
The makings of Yuffy:
I began his creation... In January. It is now June. Happy pride. ššš
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My baby brother is graduating from college today so I made him a doll of his favourite anime character. Behold: Yuffy (Yarn Luffy).
Damian: What doesn't kill me should run, because now I'm pissed.
everyone shut da fuck up this is the only thing that matters
actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.
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big BIG fan of hardened hero/vigilante types having regular but non-negotiable fears. especially when those hardened hero/vigilante types are the batfamily. because as much as those guys are seen as cryptids and unbeatable legends that somehow manage to beat every meta around them without breaking a sweat, they are just. a group of guys. and i think thatās very fucking funny and people should be reminded of that more often.
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*the JLA holding a super important strategy meeting in the batcave*
Batman: -the main priority is to ensure the safety of the surrounding area even in the case of a fight, so weāll have people stationed around the perimeter just in case. Hood, can you grab me the signal flares from the store room? youāre closest.
Red Hood, walking over: *grunts*
Batman: *continues to explain his plan as in the background Jason walks into the store room, pauses, and then promptly walks right back out*
Red Hood: *sweetly, from the doorway* Robin?
Robin: mm?
Red Hood: would you like to go into the store room for me? my darling, favourite brother-mine?
Robin:
Robin, eyes half-lidded: is there a spider in there?
Red Hood: maybe.
Robin, sighing in exasperation as he starts walking over: you really need to start trying to deal with these yourself, Hood. you canāt call me every time-
The Flash, watching Damian emerge with a small spider in the palm of his hand while Jason refuses to come out of the corner of the cave: doesnāt that guy chop peoples heads off sometimesā¦?
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*Aquaman, on a mission with Nightwing and Batman, on a platform in the middle of the ocean*
Aquaman: if you have your rebreathers then you can follow me down, itās not too deep a dive to the site.
Nightwing: *staring into the water* mhm.
Batman: *watching Nightwing in amusement*
Aquaman: ā¦Nightwing, are you ok?
Nightwing, still staring: oh- hm? yep. yep, iām good. iām- yeah. lets go. lets do this.
Aquaman:
Batman: he has thalassophobia. he doesnāt like deep, empty waters.
Aquaman:
Nightwing: *staring down*
Batman: *faux shoves Dick forward, as if to push him in*
Nightwing, shrieking and jumping back: bRUCE- I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT-
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Superman: the victimās in that room, if you need to examine the body.
Red Robin: got it, thanks.
Red Hood: so what actually happened to the guy?
Superman, as Tim leaves: well, it seems like the virus infects the mind and causes intense delusions. we think he was driven crazy and ended his own life. itāsā¦ not pretty in there. he stabbed himself in the eye with a pencil.
Red Hood: *whistles* *pauses* wait. in the eye?
Superman: yeah. why?
Red Hood:
Red Robin: *slams out of the other room, falls to his knees vomiting*
Superman:
Red Hood, watching Tim calmly: yeah heās got this thing about things in peoples eyes?
Superman:
Superman: really?
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Green Arrow: shit, thatās a nasty scratch you got there, Bats. right across the eye, too.
Batman: *grunt*
Green Arrow: whoād you fight to get it?
Batman: Robin.
Green Arrow:
Green Arrow: Damian did that?
Batman: hn.
Green Arrow: ā¦why?
Batman: he had a cavity and i had to take him to the dentist.
Green Arrow:
Batman: heās scared of the dentist.
Green Arrow: wasnāt he raised by the league of assassins?
Batman: heās scared of the dentist.
Green Arrow:
damian heard about bruceās fear of bats ending in him deciding to become batman, went to the dentist once, and instantly decided he needed to go to medical school.
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The family...going to be selling these at the con this weekend (ignore the ones with umbilical cords I still need to weave them in š)
They're perfect.
Jondami dynamic is even more beautiful when you realize its an enemies to bestfriends story and not "puppy-sunshine Jon clinging to a grumpy Damian".
Like they literally hated each other the first time they met and for some reason they kept sneaking out to fight crime together while constantly fighting and bickering and making fun of the other.
The funniest part of their dynamic to me is that no one was forcing them to work together to begin with. They were like "Ugh, I can't stand this idiot, I can't believe I have to go on missions with him." While at the same time, choosing to hang out with each other.
So basically it's just forced proximity trope but they were the ones enforcing the forced proximity lol
Jon/Damian: I can't believe I have to work with this idiot!
Everyone: you don't tho....
Jon/Damian: No, I'm gonna!
Damian: I don't "have PTSD," it's all just the wizard's curse.
Damian: The wizard is my grandfather but that's not relevant.
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reverse robin damian could be such a fucking tragic child if you think about it. like, it completely takes away bruce's choice to be a parent. in the original universe when he takes in dick first, he does it because he watches dick go through exactly what HE did, and he sympathised enough that he didn't want dick to be alone. with damian being the oldest instead, bruce is just a stupid twenty-something year old who had a fling with talia and now has no choice but to live with this kid because he has a biological responsibility.
i want to see an eldest son damian who grew up smart enough to know that bruce never wanted him, and that learned to be batman's partner not to serve justice, but to try and make up for his own presence in gotham. who fights simply to make himself useful to his father who is far too obsessed with his mission to give a damn about getting to know his biological son.
it would get even worse when bruce grows up a little; when he matures and realises how much he fucked up with damian. because you can't take back those early years, and bruce can't fix what he broke. even worse, he doesn't even try. he's too ashamed and emotionally constipated to try and muddle through the emotions needed to try and show damian that he DOES want to be his father, so he just... awkwardly brushes past it. as damian grows bruce treats him as a friend, which sure, is better than the whole soldier/ignored-unless-needed deal damian had when he was little, but still isn't good. he relies on damian too much while not providing an ounce of parental support because hey! as long as they aren't actively screaming at each other then they must be doing ok, right? bruce just tries to crack an occasional joke and have a beer with him every now and then to try to prove to himself that he can't have fucked up that badly; because if he had then why did damian still stick around???
but damian didn't stick around for bruce, he stuck around for his little brothers. i think it's universal that every first-child of bruce wayne will have eldest daughter syndrome no matter who it is, and i think with reverse robin damian it could be STRONG.
the thing about damian is that at his core, he is kind. the league and the life he was born into fucked up his morals and understanding of some things at first, yes, but even then it bleeds out of him in the way he cares for things. his love and eternal protection of animals, creatures supposedly lesser than him; and the way that regardless of his upbringing, when given the choice between what he learns from bruce about protecting people and what he learnt from ra's about the opposite, he always chooses to follow his father.
reverse robin damian grows up disillusioned to his father's merits of being, well, a father; but he's still kind. so when tim drake's parents die and bruce takes him in, damian decides he needs to be there for tim when he knows bruce wont. the most painful part would probably be that damian has to watch bruce be better at parenting tim that he was damian; because by the time tim comes along bruce is older, wiser, and again--he has that shared sympathy with what tim's been through. it was his choice to take tim in. so although he's still far from being considered a paternal person he does give it his all this time, and damian has to watch as his father casts him aside only to later apparently deem a collection of other random kids more worth his effort than damian ever was.
but bruce still isn't a perfect man, and damian is still so kind. so he steps in where bruce falters and sticks around even as he gets old enough to leave. when tim is adopted, then jason, then dick; damian stays so he can be for them what bruce never was for him.
to his brothers and to bruce, damian is an amazingly patient, forgiving, loving, and powerful person. he's bruce's first true partner, the golden child, the prince of gotham who will always help out if you ask for it. he picks his brothers up whenever they call, no matter the time or inconvenience. he cleans up after them on patrol, protects them, works himself to the bone, and still manages to show up in their personal lives as well. to them, damian is perfect.
but to damian? to damian, he is just the biological defect that bruce didn't want. the one who was needed as a soldier, not a son; and the one who will always work himself 10x harder than the others so that he can prove himself to be nothing like his father; the man who somehow managed to be a deadbeat while still sleeping in the bedroom right down the hall.
Bruce: Here *sets down jar on kitchen table*
The whole room stops, and Tim stares wide-eyed at the jar before backing away in slight disgust
Tim: What is that? Arenāt you supposed to be on bed rest?
Bruce: Your spleeeennnn
Tim: What?
Dick: What.
Bruce: You got sick last month, and it was badā¦ I felt badā¦ spleenā¦
Jason: *turning to Tim* You were missing your spleen? When the hell were you gonna tell anyone?!
Tim: Slipped my mind, anyway, how did you find out?
Bruce: I go into the League of Assassins servers and whatnot from time to time ever since Damian came into the family, no biggie
Duke: And you...?
Bruce: Infiltrated them about two hours ago to steal back your brother's spleen?
Bruce: Yes
Steph: Are you on drugs? You sound like youāre on drugs. What did Alfred give you?
Bruce: I donāt remember, something for my broken ribs
Cass: *standing up and leading Bruce to sit down in a chair* How many?
Bruce: Three, not a big deal. Anyways, spleen. *grins widely*
Jason: Wait... you infiltrated the League of Assassins while high
Bruce: *looks confused* What, like it's hard?
Damian: *had left the room earlier, is now back with a glass of cold water* Baba, please drink
Bruce: *takes glass and ruffles Damianās hair* Thank you, baby, youāre so good to me. I love you so much *starts kissing his cheeks while Damian weakly tries to escape*
Dick: ā¦ *only slightly jealous* Iām calling Alfred
Duke: *poking Bruceās forehead only to get a blinding smile back* Bruce is kinda cute like this, all dopey and stuff
