Damian being an Anime fan is so funny to me, because he's the one people would expect it from the least.
Bruce is at an event and gets asked about his kids interests, and he is like "Oh, where to start! One of my boys, he loves those Japanese caricatures, you know. He buys these comic books that are backwards... He's always reading them."
And everyone turns to look at Tim.
Tim, resident cool skater boy, with his vintage cameras and old school Vans is like "??"
Then Bruce goes, "And another one of them. Oh, how he likes likes classic literature. Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, you name it."
And everyone turns to Damian.
Damian, who radiates old money and talks like a Victorian child stuck in the 21st century. Yet spends his time kicking his feet to Shoujo Manga and drawing OCs, is like "??"
And somewhere in Crime Alley Jason feels a disturbance in the force
.
Damian getting pissed off at Bruce shortly after coming to the manor and in a fit of childish anger yells ‘you can’t tell me what to do, YOU AREN’T MY FATHER!’
what he meant was in an emotional sense, because he didn’t know the man for the first decade of his life, but paranoid-Bruce-Wayne immediately starts to wonder if Talia’s fucking with him in some way. Damian, still pissed off and wanting to make Bruce suffer in any way he can, takes all the information he has at his disposal regarding his mother and father and decides in a brilliant moment of childish stupidity to do this:
Damian: no, you are not my father. but being as my biological father trained under you, mother decided you would still be the best option to guide me.
Bruce, eyeing Dick: i TRAINED your father?
Dick, incredulously: I DIDN’T-!?!
Damian: No. Jason Todd however, after he was revived via Lazarus Pit, did.
Bruce:
Dick:
Tim, quietly from the sidelines, popcorn in hand: holy shit…
~later~
Damian, climbing through the window of Jason’s safe house: Ahki! three things. one, i told father, Grayson, and Drake that you are alive-
Jason, sat with a mouthful of pasta: wh-
Damian: -two, i told them your identity as the Red Hood, and three, i told them you are my biological father.
Jason:
Jason:
Jason: why would you-
Damian: i was mad and impulsive.
Jason:
Jason, taking a deep breath: well that tracks if we’re pretending you’re my kid.
Damian: i knew i could count on you.
Jason: to freak those idiots out? always.
Here’s more of them because they are the ultimate dynamic duo, literally it’s the ultimate life form and ultimate warrior.
love my test tube children (kon too…might do another him later) also i forgot to give Damian a helmet and elbow pads…but he’ll be fine….probably
I literally never considered the whole Batman being called 'B' and then reporting back to 'A' but now that you've mentioned it, I'm obsessed with the idea. I mean, imagine meeting Batman, seeing him in the field, how hard he fights, only for him to report back to 'A'. Especially if you hear how people who've met A talk about him, like:
Batman: I'll give you each 10k if you don't tell A that I busted my shoulder
Nightwing: Sorry B, you're on your own
Red Hood: Hell no cheapskate, I wouldn't do it for 100k
Superman: I don't want to get on A's bad side :(
there's things that the JL have "heard" about A that only make him even scarier (some of these I compiled from the other post):
uses lethal force even when B won't
never leaves Gotham, like some kind of mafia don
has the ability to punish B and/or remove him from active field service
A's urgent requests take priority, even above the JL. B zetas down to Gotham without asking a single follow up question, he just goes
"You think B is bad about [thing], A is even worse." -- a sentence said jokingly by many a Batkid, over the years
Sketches!
Turns out, Damian can be very clingy
Yk when a cat is all affectionate one sec, and when u try to pet it again like it literally hisses and acts like it hates you? Yeah, feel like he would act like that with Tim
Yk when a cat doesn’t want you to go?
Yk when cats climb everywhere?
Yeah…
what if Damian wasn’t sent to Bruce by Talia and instead decided to do a bit of early child-rebellion by running away to him himself. Talia, pissed off but too busy dealing with uprisings in the league to go track him down herself, calls up the person Damian is most likely to listen to other than her; his brother, who she trusts to keep him safe.
the thing is, Jason is 1: busy with his own missions atm 2: was also once a rebellious little asshole who liked to run away from home. he was Damian’s tutor once, he knows the kid can handle himself and he also knows if he CAN’T handle something he’ll contact Jason for help. he knows this because about a week before Talia called him, Damian called him.
Jason, phone balanced between his ear and shoulder: what do you want, i’m undercover
Damian: i require money for a fake passport.
Jason:
Jason, letting go of the guy he was beating up: alright you have my attention.
Damian: i am running away from home. i wish to do something ‘for the lore’ like the stories you used to tell me as a child.
Jason:
Jason ‘i’m going to ethiopia’ Todd: there’s some stuff in the fake panel under my bed. don’t tell me where you’re going, i don’t want to be complicit when Talia calls. also don’t die, because if you do i’m gonna make you eat dirt once you get out of the pit.
Damian: understood. if i am about to die, i shall call again.
Jason: have fun kiddo.
so Jason tells Talia he’ll ‘keep an eye out for any leads’ and then goes back to his normal business. league missions, his own missions, some outlaw shit, and eventually he ends up crime lording it up in Gotham. he’s a little confused when Tim Drake is seen swinging around as Red Robin rather than just Robin, but he got over his obsession with the Robin shit a while ago, so he ignores it.
until he runs into Batman and Robin. and there isn’t a mask in the fucking world that could hide his kid brother’s face from him.
Red Hood:
Robin:
Red Hood:
Robin:
Batman: why are you two staring at each other like that. what’s happening.
Robin:
Red Hood: *deep sigh*
Robin: are you going to tell mother-
Red Hood: -when you said ‘like the stories i used to tell you’.
Robin: *looks at the floor*
Red Hood: i did NOT think you meant running to a different country to find your birth parent. you fucking COPIER.
Robin:
Robin: …but you made being Robin sound so cool…
Batman: what the fuck are you two talking about?
Red Hood, pointing: you stay out of this, this is family business.
Batman: ????
Sir you are pushing 30, you don't get to meow
What do you mean this isn't how it happened.
catboy Damian i will miss you 🥺
Cork ‘im Daisuke‼️‼️‼️‼️
Yumehara: Don’t be embarrassed to do things for your crush!
Aiura: Yeah! Whenever Kusuo wants attention he stands around looking clueless until Kuboyasu comes to mansplain to him.
Saiki: I will fucking kill you.