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Lmao Damian is so grumpy to be hugged after he didn't die despite getting stabbed in the death parts and yet he is not protesting or pushing Dick off him, I just think the grumpy baby should be hugged more often, he's precious when he's like a spicy kitten first being socialized to human touch.

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Damian: “Father, I’m off to Metropolis to patrol and ‘hang out’ with Jonathan. I will have my phone with me in case of emergencies, though I doubt we I’ll be unable to handle anything the city throws in our way.”

Bruce: “Now hang on a moment, didn’t we say that after last time you and Jon couldn’t patrol together unsupervised? Who is going with you, all your brothers are busy and Clark and I have a meeting in half an hour.”

Damian: “Worry not Father, Jonathan and I have taken the liberty of arranging a suitable chaperone. He will be arriving shortly to escort me to our rendezvous point.”

Captain Marvel: *popping out of the zeta* “Ready to go, champ? Jonny is already waiting! Oh, hi Batman!”

Batman: “Hrrrmmm.”

Robin: “Yes, I will return in time for patrol, and will not cause any unnecessary damage or trouble.”

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Billy: “Yes! We fooled him! Operation ‘Totally Adult Supervised’ is a success!”

Damian: “Indeed! Now, let’s go and egg Lex Luthor’s limousine. Jonathan has requested our assistance in vengeance taking.”

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so in the robin run we see that damian knows what to do to get his siblings to stop fighting. like he hugged jason bc he knew he would freeze up for example. i choose to believe that this means that damian has a psychological profile of his siblings

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Damian blinked, trying at Drake's prompting to reconnect with his body to assess the damnage. "I - yes." His body ached, evidence of a hard fought battle.

They were in the Bowery. He could recognise it now. But Damian had been on the other side of the city. How had he gotten here?

Damian patted his side, wincing only slightly as he felt the shallow cut of what had presumably been a sword against his skin. There were a few other cuts and scrapes, but that seemed to be the worst. His glove had a light smeer of blood as he pulled it away.

"I don't remember..." Damian's voice trailed, trying to recall what had happened. He was trying to be better. Redeem himself. He wasn't- was he?

Open starter.

"I'm a murderer."

Damian spoke quietly, his gaze unfocused. He curled his fingers, palms facing up as though worried he might taint whatever he touched next.

#arobinwithoutabatman #tw blood

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We?

When Drake had lashed out at him on that rooftop. Now he wanted to help? He was worried? Damian scoffed. "He does need practice." He agrees, his tone scathing. "I was able to best him easily enough." Damian adds, as a point of pride, and to add insult.

But Todd was here. And Damian had missed him. The fact that he couldn't seem to remember their time together stung, but he supposed it didn't matter if the intent between them was the same. He hadn't minded when Jason was catatonic after all.

Going to their clocktower, the belfry, would only stir up more of those difficult feelings about his father, though. He didn't like the insinuation that he wouldn't be able to return. Damian eyed the gloved hand warily. "I want to go home." He meant Nanda Parbat, though as much as he fought to keep his voice level, a waver betrayed just how young the boy truly was.

The voice came from closer than anticipated, and Jason tried to seem casual in bracing a hand on one of the supports near his head. Focus. Focus. He had to stay in the present if this was going to have any chance of working - no matter how hard that single form of address gut-punched him with forgotten familiarity.

Taking another long, silent, steadying breath, Jason nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right. I dunno how much this matters, but... I didn't mean to, Damian. My head's been a mess for a while now. I'm still trying to put it all back together, and losing Bruce on top of all that..." A heavy sigh, a small twist of his mouth, and a brief glance aside. "I should've seen them sooner, should've found you sooner. That's nothin' I can get around. But I am here now, and I just wanna make sure you're okay."

It did genuinely tear at him to know Damian's signs had been there for weeks, while Jason had been patrolling and living life as though the kid didn't exist. Fuck, that meant Damian had been huddled up here during last week's snowfall. But, self-recriminations could wait for their usual hour of him trying to get to sleep.

#arobinwithoutbatman #redhxxded

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The thing about Robin meaning redemption for Damian Wayne is that Damian was going to use his talents that he learned for destruction and reformation to then use to fight crime and do good but I still fail to see where in between any of that did Damian truly get asked what he wanted to do.

Talia showed Damian how to survive and Bruce Wayne showed Damian how to live but when is Damian going to be able to let himself live?

Like if Damian really wanted redemption then he’d pave a path for himself and I know that is hard to do when you’re so young but one of this main themes is individualism, I really think that driven and with the correct support systems that Damian may be able to actually make a choice for himself instead of constantly being guided by someone else’s mission.

#//this #//op you cooking #//damian just swapped one set of training rules and expectations for another. his so called destiny to fulfilling a legacy #//let him find out who he is when he doesnt have to be anything. let him paint and love animals and figure out who he wants to be on his own #//away from conflict and training and fighting. #about damian

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Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

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"Clean out your ears, Todd. I won't."

"I promise."

"I won't leave you alone." @the-demons-son (dash commentary)

''And when you do, I won't blame you.''

#dash commentary #jp todd rp #😭

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Nightwing #114 - "Fallen Grayson" (2024)

written by Tom Taylor art by Bruno Redondo & Adriano Lucas

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It really shows why Damian is more close to animals then people because they are probably the first ones to show him kindness and forgiveness for what he’s done

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Hi, new follower who asked about Talia a few days ago here. I don't know if you want to talk about dc, so feel free to ignore this. But can I say just how blatantly racist it is that Damian being trained at all, even in the runs where he isn't abused/tortured, is so bad from the Al Ghul's, but Batman does the same shit.

Bruce took in a traumatized child and taught him how to fight, then had him fighting grown ass adults and murderers and the literal Joker. They're regularly shot at as Robins by people who fully intend to kill them, but the Al Ghuls are the ones going too far.

I definitely think you're onto something here. Like, Damian being trained at such a young age is out of character for Talia IMO. The Talia who lied to Bruce about miscarrying to stop him from putting his life on the line to protect her and the baby, then sent that baby to a safe place to protect him is not the same Talia who had Damian trained to fight at like 6. (racist ass character assassination and its consequences) and him being trained to fight at such a young age is meant to show us the "brutality of the Al Ghuls" in contrast to Robin training which is "safer" because...reasons, there a lot to unpack there that I feel like certain writers and editors would rather not address... Like on the very surface level we know the answer is "These are Batman books, Robin is a popular Batman character, we're meant to suspend our disbelief because it's comics and kid superheroes are fun for kids to read." But on a "These comics are written, drawn, colored, and edited by very real people with clear racist/xenophobic tendencies" level, I feel like there was an unconscious push to write these very...white man's burden-esque comparisons between the Al Ghuls and Bruce to show Bruce in a better light because, in any other context, Bruce would be the bad guy. Just thinking of the way earlier comics paint Damian's behavior as "feral" and "bloodthirsty" even when he and Tim were shown to be pretty much going back and forth with bullying each other in a way I would describe as an extreme depiction of sibling rivalry, there was always this unspoken feeling of "Damian is a wild child because he was raised by his backward, wrongminded mother and grandfather" which we don't get with Tim. After all, Tim is white so none of his behavior carries the same weight (which is why I think the fandom defaulted to painting Tim as some sort of poor wilting flower who can't defend himself against a 10-year-old even though we literally saw him going tit for tat with said 10 year old, just petty as he wanna be but I digress) TLDL; While I personally love Robin as a concept and like Damian as a character, until the very weird and racist double standard that exists in how his time with his mother is depicted and the time with his father is depicted is addressed (I don't mean in that weak ass Damian tells his parents they're equally fucked up way either because to me that feels like a cop-out that doesn't fully address why people have an issue with Damian's upbringing and how it paints Talia), Damian's time as Robin will always make me feel some type of way. Idk if any of that made sense, I'm still really tired. Thanks for the question tho <3

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//kiss//

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A mother and her son.

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Batman - One Bad Day -Ra's Al Ghul