#this is a huge maybe. treading very lightly here. amen

[gretahayes]

Damian elseworlds?

elseworlds in the loosest definition ever here cause it’s literally canon but to the left heavily. but like elseworld where talia dropped off her kid because “he wanted to meet his father” (and also she felt like causing problems. sue her.) and he’s just the chillest kid ever. he holds his own amazingly in a spar (“mother taught me the basics,” he says, as tim picks himself off the floor groaning.) and is trained, definitely, but. he isn’t particularly violent. give the kid a sketchbook and some headphones and you won’t see him for the rest of the day. it’s a struggle getting him to come to dinner because nobody can find him because he doesn’t want to be found. he would rather avoid you all unless he’s seeking you out. he’ll eat when he’s hungry. he’s fairly pleasant, if incredibly antisocial, and is hypercompetent. they aren’t sure if the fact he walks on silent feet and doesn’t announce his presence in a room if not to give an unwanted comment on what you’re doing is how he is or just him trying to freak them out. (not cass though.) he lights up like a kid on christmas when bruce compliments him or pays him any special attention and when he sticks around, pokes at bruce to get it. and they get him in the cave, sure. he’s in the batchair flipping through a textbook he stole from bruce’s study and glancing up periodically at the monitors to critique their form or insult criminals. he eyes robin with an air of heavy judgement.

^ this would be funny to me but only if we get a segment of like. why he’s this way as opposed to canon. if they keep his backstory the same it won’t work cause it’s like. they’ll be weird about abuse survivors. but if they show us his backstory changes, talia raising him away from the league and what that looked like, made it clear the differences. then it would be cool. and this would be mostly an elseworld on damian and how he adjusts. wouldn’t follow the canon timeline religiously as it’s not about whatever is going on around him, it’s about this kid's upheaval of his entire life and how he learns to...be. to live with them. it starts with talia dropping him off with an “i’ll visit you” as her final goodbye, and ends with her, months later, visiting. and he’s adjusted, is happy.

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