Part 30! I'm with Duke ngl
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damian wayne would totally be a fan of the sonic the hedgehog franchise
more specifically, he would be a fan of shadow.
hearme out on this please
ok but like, i dont have anything to back this up, but like
just trust me on this
tell me that this little kid, who was told from birth that he is genetically perfect, who eventually learns to chill out with the killing:
would not look at the ultimate lifeform, all broody n shit:
and not start learning the lore reasons for why shadow is cool as fuck
Damian is de-aged to a baby and lost in Gotham. A magic user hit him with some kind of spell. His legs donât work as well and he has trouble walking. Thatâs when a man appears and squats down with a tilt of his head.
âYea, you are definitely not supposed to be out here, little guy.â
Damian glares at the man, early twenties, stubble along his jaw, ragged clothes, and dark bags under his eyes.
The man turns his head to look at the brick wall.
âAre you sure?â
And now he was talking to a wall. Curses. Of course he would be found by a crazy person.
The man suddenly hangs his head with a deep sigh. He regains himself quickly and stands. Moving closer to put his hands under Damian arms to lift him to perch on his hip.
Damian squirms to get down but refuses to make a sound. The last time he opened his mouth like this it was a pathetic baby sound. He couldnât let this man see him like this.
âLooks like youâre coming home with me, little guy. I can tell youâve got some spirit in you. Good, youâll need it.â
Not ominous at all.
Damian stays with the man, mostly because he couldnât physically drive a car, but also because he was almost always with him. The man would talk to air at the most random times. Obviously a schizophrenic. But Damian had to admit this man, Danny he comes to find out through a neighbor baby talking at him, has been genuinely trying to take care of him and take care of him well. Well, to the best of his abilities anyway. ïżŒ
He feeds him organic purĂ©es that donât taste half bad, except the carrots, that one was unacceptable. Danny cleans him regularly despite his crappy apartment and makes sure he is dressed appropriately for the weather. He makes an effort to take him out to the park to play in the sandbox or just walk around discovering ânewâ things.
Damian doesnât need a parent, he outgrew the concept when he was five and technically he already had one, but he could tell Danny would make an excellent father. Some mistakes can be overlooked compared to the effort he was putting in.
The only concerning thing was the talking to thin air. It took Damian an embarrassing amount of time to figure out the reason Danny was visiting all these random people and the graveyard. (Sometimes he will set Damian down to âplayâ in the grass at the cemetery. It was quite odd.)
He was talking to ghosts. It wasnât thin air or imaginary friends, no it was actually dead people. The reason Damian actually believes this is for two reasons.
One, Danny shows true results. Damian observes closely whenever they visit a âclientâ and Danny always has accurate information despite never looking up or researching anything going in.
Two, he never calls himself a medium or psychic. He doesnât boast about his ability to see ghosts. He does what he does to help the ghosts move on to the other side. Closure is what Danny always says. Closure for the family and the victim. In Gotham, there are a lot of victims.
Damian adjusts to his new life with Danny. Itâs been five months and heâs getting used to being small and vulnerable. Heâs allowed to be messy and whiny and childish. Danny never scolds him like Mother did. The man has never hit him or raised his voice at him and never expects anything from him. He encourages his progression to speak and walk, but doesnât expect the best out of him.
Itâs⊠nice. A good break if anything.
They are at the park when one of the bats spot him and pauses. Danny is blowing bubbles into the air and Damian tries to pop as many as he can. Itâs a silly game with no clear rules, but Damian finds it entertaining nonetheless.
âHi there! Is he yours?â
Dick Grayson wears a bright smile, but Damian can see the tightness around his eyes.
âHuh? Oh, yea, this is Damian,â Danny answers.
He had written it with the wooden blocks Danny had given him one week in. Danny took one look at the name on the ground, laughed loudly and ran with it.
âDo you mind if I say hi? Heâs so cute.â
Danny looks puzzled by the request but ends up shrugging his shoulders, not seeing a problem with letting a stranger get close to Damian. (Damian knew Dannyâs intense eyes were watching Dickâs every move. He was very protective like that.)
âSure.â
Dick squats down to search Damianâs green eyes. Damian stares back just as intensely.
âHey there, Damian. My name is Dick.â
Damian gives him a flat look at Dickâs terrible introduction.
âGrayson.â
Although with his little baby teeth not fully in it sounds more like âway-shahâ.
Relief flashes across Dickâs face and he gives Damian a reassuring smile. Itâs not as reassuring at he thinks it is. It promises to bring him home and restore him to his original age. Damian doesnât know if thatâs what he wants anymore.
Dick stands and gives Danny some imaginary excuse to leave quickly. Damian watches him go and so does Danny.
âFunny guy, huh Dami?â
Damian doesnât respond and Danny notices his change in mood.
âCome here, little guy.â
He knows what Danny is going to do and willingly goes. He is pulled up into the manâs lap and held between two surprisingly muscular arms. Dannyâs hugs are nice and warm. They arenât too tight like Dickâs nor are they stiff like Bruceâs. He never thought he could enjoy human contact, but Danny has been showing him things about himself he didnât ever know. Turns out he does like hugs and playing airplane and when Danny runs his fingers through his hair when heâs really sleepy.
âLetâs go home a little early today, huh? Iâll make spaghetti and you can be as messy as you want,â Danny promises.
Damian hums. Yes, that sounds nice.
That night Batman comes in through the window. Damian is waiting.
âDamian,â Batman whispers.
âBah-mun.â
The flat, unamused stare is what gives him away.
Batman lets out a breath silently and reaches into the crib Danny had gotten him.
âI wouldnât do that if I were you.â
Batman jerks into action, twisting to face Danny who had appeared suddenly. The door behind him is still closed.
Batman stays quiet, silently studying the man before him dressed in pajama pants and a worn t-shirt.
Danny tilts his head as he does the same. Damian has never seen the man so serious. He silently worries for the man. He didnât want him getting hurt to unnecessarily protecting him from his father.
âIâd have to break your arm if you tried to do what it looks like youâre doing.â
Danny says it so plainly. So simple.
Batman straightens.
âHe isnât yours.â
He doesnât say Damian is his. He doesnât claim him as his own. Just that Danny shouldnât have him.
Damian silently agrees because technically heâs right. He doesnât deserve Danny. He canât keep playing house like heâs an actual baby. But Damian is also selfish and over the last few months has been taught that itâs okay to ask for things he wants even if itâs not inherently beneficial. The stuffed dog he sleeps with every night is proof of that.
So Damian says nothing.
âHe is now,â Danny answers simply like there was no other answer to such a statement.
âHe needs to go back to where he belongs.â
âOver my dead body,â is the immediate response.
They stare each other down until Danny scoffs.
âDonât think Iâm not petty enough to fight you, Batman. Iâll fight anyone who wants to take him from me. Damian is mine.â
When Batman tries to forcibly take him, he ends up with a concussion, a blood nose, and two broken arms. Red Robin finds him in a dumpster the next morning.
The story continues with Damian learning how to be a child his age, Danny protecting him and doting on his brilliant son, and the Batfamâs frequent failed attempts to kidnap Damian back to them.
these loverboys
Damian is 8 years old when he first comes to live with his father. Heâs all harsh glares, standoffish arm folding, and clever barbs aimed at everyoneâs vulnerable points. Heâs also adorable. Small enough for Bruce to pick up with little to no effort, with big green eyes and baby fat still in his cheeks.
Bruce is overwhelmed with emotions heâs terrible at expressing; shock at the fact that he has a biological child, furious that said child was kept from him for 8 years, devastated that the child was robbed of a normal upbringing and instead raised in a cult of death and devout loyalty to a madman, and overjoyed that this little boy has his nose, his eyebrows, and the same black curls he got from Martha Wayne. He mourns the moments and milestones heâs missed. First steps, first word, potty training, learning to read and write. He doesnât even know if Damian can ride a bike.
Then, six months into living with Bruce, Damian loses a tooth. A lateral incisor, by the looks of it. Not because of a hit to the face or a Robin-related incidentâno, itâs just the natural, logical conclusion to a loose baby tooth Damian hadnât mentioned having until he bit into an apple at breakfast and pop! Out comes the tooth, stuck to the apple, leaving the boy with a gap just left of center in his smile.
This hasnât happened since Dick. Jason and Tim had lost all their baby teeth before Bruce took them in, but Dick had been so young. Bruce remembers the angry 9 year old who just wanted revenge marching to the Cave, presenting him with a molar and pouting silently for hours. It had taken a mug of hot chocolate to get him to admit that Mary Grayson always sang him a special song when he lost a baby tooth, to congratulate him for being one step closer to adulthood, but he couldnât remember all the words and Bruce, my mamaâs not here, who do I give my teeth to? What do I do now?
Bruce has no idea what Talia did when Damian lost baby teeth. All he knows is that heâs on his feet and rushing toward the boy and getting his arms around him andâ
âFather!â Damian will never admit to the indignant squawk that escapes him when Bruce plucks him from his seat and holds him close. âAre youââ
Bruce settles Damian on his hip with one arm and cards his other hand through the boyâs soft curls. He breathes in the scent of apple shampoo and oatmeal soap while peppering his forehead with kisses.
âI will get you a new pet,â he says softly, resting his cheek atop his sonâs head. âA kitten, a puppy, anything you want. JustâŠlet me have this, baby boy.â
Damian instantly stops protesting. He huffs and poutsâwhich, oh my fucking God, how is he so precious?âas he wraps his arms around his fatherâs neck.
âThat isâŠacceptable,â he grumbles. Bruce kisses his cheek and smiles into his hair.
Thatâs how Damian gets Titus.
Batkids calling Bruce when they need him.
Dick gets arrested for underage drinking call my dad now he's not in the slightest scared but he wants his dad. Bruce who already got bail done and is wrapping Dick in a blanket.
Jason crashes a car already on the phone with Bruce who is speeding to him.
Tim is falling asleep at the office and wants to go home dad please pick me up. Waking up tucked in Bruce's bed.
Damian gets in a fight at school you call my father right now. He suspended but Bruce hugs him on the way out.
Cass standing face to face with David Cain the man who should have been her father but isn't but before she can scream for Bruce she's wrapped in his cape.
Duke calling Bruce because the kids at school have never been nice to a kid from the wrong side of the tracks and getting ice cream just because.
Stephanie just calling Bruce to talk knowing no matter how busy he is there will be time for her.
Babs who even though Jim Gordon is a great man after a nightmare about the joker only wants one man. Bruce running in the middle of the night to her door. Wrapping his batgirl in his arms.
Kids who aren't afraid to call Dad. He wont be mad he wants them to call. To know he will drop everything to get to his boys, or his girls. Scared birds shouting for the big bad bat and he comes running.
u may think this is a joke (which it is) but also jon has managed to literally forgive damian for everything hes done in every single universe hes been in and no one else
He was a punk she did ballet: â
He and she are both punks and have a crush on a same art baby: â