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[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

#damian wayne #dick grayson #talia al ghul

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The potential of a decade(s) long DickBatman and DamianRobin era literally haunts me at night.

Don’t get me wrong, one of the most interesting things about the Robins imo is how baked into each other they are. I know it’s a joke that Bruce will just adopt any random orphan in reach, but the truth is, especially for the boys, their entrance into the Batman world is predicated on the one before; Jason is only taken in because Bruce misses Dick, Tim only because Jason dies. (Steph becoming Robin is even more of a story choice, and not one I particularly like, but a narrative nonetheless.) Their narrative is tight in a way that “replaced sidekicks” aren’t usually. Somehow, they made a pure narrative choice (Dick needs to move on, readers wanted to see a dead Robin) into a very compelling character choice for Bruce too.

But Damian takes us back to the heart and soul of the dynamic duo. A young boy with a dead family, and a young man with a mission that’s too big for him.

Despite the differences, Dick is working to help Damian in the same way that Bruce worked to help him. And Damian, a wildly different person than Dick, still has really wonderful moments of giving Dick exactly the advice he needs to hear. Their partnership isn’t quite the same as Bruce and Dick’s (Dick and Damian are honestly much less damaged, comparably), but it’s closer than the others imo.

Damian and Dick purposefully take the original duo and flip it directly on its head. The exact opposite inside the same frame. They really felt like a new era. The perfect circle. If only we got a little more time before the close.

#damian wayne #batman reborn era my beloved… #love how the damian dick dynamic both continues and destroys the cycle #in the sense that it fractures the al ghul cycle of abuse #but obviously parallels the compassion that allowed bruce to begin the cycle of giving tragic kids another chance

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i was originally gonna draw my ocs but i have way too many aro ocs lol

aroace damian ftw...

#damian wayne #nothing against flatline personally but I simply do not believe that child has ever felt romantic attraction in his life

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gay cow 🐮

#damian wayne #batcow

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Not really caught up with current comics, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but is Damian seriously being written to be the only one dumb enough to think this is Bruce?

I know Zdarsky said he likes Damian, but his writing doesn't really show it. His Damian always comes of as a child too naive to question their parent and while Damian is quite loyal to his father in most comics he's also usually questioning Bruce quite a lot. So writing him as the only one too loyal/dumb to recognize that his father is not acting like he should is weird.

#damian wayne #no one is reading Batman because they love unflawed paragon heroes anyway #it’s not like zdarsky is conservative about examining Bruce’s flaws either #I think this is just the consequences of writers demonising damian and blaming him for his upbringing in the league #if that makes sense

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trans rights!

#cassandra cain #love the goon dialogue here #be gay do crime and be gay solve crime solidarity

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"superman is overrated" "no batman is overrated" they both are. and with your help, we can finally kill them ! by signing up for just a small monthly donation to me, Lex Luthor,

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Guys… pls… we’re in the middle of a mission

#young ​justice #help I love them so much #one of my favourite functional dysfunctional superhero teams

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tim after snooping into someone's private life, heinously and irreparably betraying their trust, and destroying property:

tim after something mildly unpleasant and entirely out of his control happens: hoooly fuck. The Guilt

#tim drake #reading his thoughts is a TREAT but not in the conventional sense

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these are so fun actually lol

#damian wayne #love the freckles on my little guy

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i love cassie <3333

#cassandra cain #love how she’s covered in scars op

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random question but i'd love to hear your analysis of damian's speech patterns/cadence! ik it's changed over time a bit but i'd love to hear ur take on it

I kept saving this in my inbox trying to be like "i'll think of a good response sometime and dedicate time to it" but I could not ;_;

In general, when he just starts in the comic, Batman and Son, we see a lot more focus on him having like "spoiled kid" vibes (at least how people conceptualize that) in dialogue, with stuff that it's hard to imagine him saying later (like yelling 'why can't I have a laptop').

He also curses freely in Batman and Son, I can't remember level of cursing later.

IIRC he doesn't start calling people mostly by their last names until at least batman and robin 2009 (possibly 2011?) but he does speak notably different in batman and robin 2009. He takes himself seriously. We see later comics indicate he doesn't use slang a long (like when he says something sucks, dick is like "i'm proud you're finally using youthful colloquialisms").

Damian in general sounds pretty confident when he speaks, and does not readily admit fault. He likes trash-talking people as he's fighting. we see this multiple times in Robin: Son of Batman (in his fight with Talia in a flashback, in the preview comic, etc) and in Batman and Robin 2011.

Williamson kind of bland-ified his voice so much I don't count it as evolution of Damian's speech patterns but Williamson just failing as a writer.

like IDK for some reason this bit

Batman and Robin #2

just seemed so un-damian-like to me? like I get him being concerned about the animals, that's not OOC. But him pleading immediately is super weird. Williamson's probably like "oh the reader's too stupid to tell he cares about animals if he doesn't" but like.. in general, in pre-Williamson writing, Damian can obviously care about people or animals without immediately coming across as pleading or desperate

I will keep in mind how his speech is portrayed as I continue my Damian re-read! Hopefully then I'll have a more defined answer for you :P

#damian wayne #his overly verbose tendencies are very dear to my heart because I too make sparse use of slang #also the ‘blandification’ of his dialogue/speech pattern is absolutely something that bothered me with williamson #one of my biggest gripes about his writing personally

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think about it

#damian wayne #sometimes I miss this design…. #even if I associate it with the rebirth dark ages for the most part

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whenever I see someone say that Tim is still 17 I take like 30 psychic damage

#tim drake #i say this as a joke but some people take this sincerely #I truly have no idea where this misconception came from #his boyfriend is in college guys lol

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timmay my son

#tim drake #the oil pastels!!! #he’s so vibrant here

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When you’re drowning but you think of a good pun

#tim’s thoughts are my favourite >>> so true op #I still think about that insane line where he’s like ‘hmm well I can’t lobotomise her #about tam during rr

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messy but sweet

#ted kord #booster gold #they’re so silly #dumb and dumber <3