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robin #2: “name’s respawn. i’m the reason you’re going to regret coming here.”

robin #6:

fIatline - let him keep this toy. it’s a crutch. he uses it to fight from a distance... which means he's not confident in his inside game.

d —“huh. you're right."

"…are you making friends? ...flirting?" <- BRO IS JEALOUSSSS and this is just after he yoinked his kusarigama at hawke and/or dami, probably because they both had their attention on each other

"i have waited for this fight all of my life!"

"from the moment you arrived on this island, i watched you. i thought seeing flatline rip your heart out would be satisfying enough... but i was wrong!"

robin #7:

"this is a death tournament, not a library, you entitled brat! you came to lazarus island ot fight and you let yourself get distracted with some old book? this is why you will lose, robin!”

d - "you, ugh... left your ugh, toy! …flatline was right about you. your chain is a crutch!"

"when i'm done killing you, your little girlfriend is next."

"you will pay for what you did to me!"

d - "i don't even know you, fool."

d - “…but let’s fix that!”

“no! no one can see my face! not until…”

d - “you should have worn a domino mask, rookie.”

robin #8 (hawkedami fight):

"they've just been standing there... for an hour. like statues."

rose - "they're waiting, studying... seeing who will go first. the slightest motion could signal the first move and then who leads the fight..."

respawn starts clapping for them as omgggg. lil fanboy. he wants to see damian’s ass get beat (or not… ? 👀)

robin #9:

was rose making the lovebird comment about fIatline and damian? probably. but she isn't a bird and respawn is (more adjacently) so i am choosing to believe it was about respawndami 💕

robin #10:

"if i cut the old witch's head off, would that wake robin then?"

robin #11:

"i've been alone my whole life. only my hate to keep me company." rose - not anymore. follow me. "why should i?" rose - because we need to get you outta here before anyone else finds out.

deathstroke inc #7:

"maybe we should have hid on lazarus island. talked with robin..."

"i'm not that little brat."

"damian is the precious son of talia and batman. while damian got everything he wanted, raised to be a prince... i was a guinea pig."

"my hatred of damian kept me alive. i would watch him and learn from him. i saw how much he didn't appreciate the privilege he was born with... and it got worse when damian left..."

"when i got to the island, i saw him... my revenge. but i wasn't good enough. after i lost... i started to see damian in a new light. i realized how much he was a victim of the al ghuls as well."

"but someday i will face ra's al ghul. and kill him with the very chains i was bound by." <- there’s a thread here about how respawn is so attached to his kusarigama + uses it as a ‘crutch’ and how the chain for it is literally what he was tied up + tortured in, which he chooses to blame damian for

slade - he has my blood in him. he's just as much my family as you are, rose.

batman #122:

b - damian? damian? "sorry, you were saying, father? b - thinking about respawn? "not the first time i've had to deal with a clone of myself. but he... there is something different. i don't want him learning from slade's bad influence. i want to help respawn. like you and the rest of our family helped me."

robin #13:

"back off, robin!" rose - stay out of it!

"now do you get it? this is why i hate you. (i'm you. sort of.) on the island... i started to hate you a bit less, i'll admit. but... nah, mommy dearest never knew about me. no one did. i was created by grandpa. ra's al ghul made me to run his twisted tests on because he knew mother wouldnt let him run them on you."

d - i have a brother…? i have a brother. :) “not for long!"

"you had everything! a mother and a father's love. while i had nothing. and you never appreciated it. you're just some arrogant little bitch! and people still loved you!"

I wanna hear more on respawndami you lowkey cooked :3

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omg this is so sweet... i'm glad you enjoyed the food . i must feed my fellow dami enthusiasts

anyway. respawn who feels entitled to damian's everything-- his body, mind, soul, various paraphernalia, etc because he feels like it could've-should've-would've been all his had damian not existed. (granted he would not be Present without damian but that's all small poatoes) this does mean he fucks-- or at least attempts to fuck-- dami when, wherever and however he wants.

do i think damian would just lay back and take it? no, but to paraphrase a quote from robin 2021 "he's been taking abuse his entire life. what's a little bit more?" However. at the same time, damian can will and does fight back and respawn wouldn't have it any other way but occasionally the best way to get respawn to stop / give up is to not react. which drives respawn craaazy because just like damian he's so goddamn attention starved