Damian Desmond

* Anime
* Manga
* Coloring

### Alias(es)

* Boss-man, Lord Damian (ダミアンさま, *Damian-sama*?) (By Emile Elman and Ewen Egeburg)
* Sy-on Boy (じなん, *Jinan*?, lit. "Second son") (By Anya Forger)
* Master Damian (ダミーお坊ちゃま, *Damī Obocchama*?) (By Jeeves)

## Characteristics

### Hair Color

* Dark Brown (Manga)
* Greenish Brown (Anime)

## Professional Information

### Affiliation

Desmond Family
Eden Academy
Cecile Hall

## Relationships

### Family

Donovan Desmond (Father)
Melinda Desmond (Mother)
Demetrius Desmond (Older Brother)
Unnamed Maternal Grandparents
Max  (Pet Dog)

### Other

Jeeves (Family Butler)
Emile Elman (Follower, Friend)
Ewen Egeburg (Follower, Friend)
Anya Forger (On-Off Friend, Love Interest)
Becky Blackbell (Former Rival, Friend)

## Portrayal

### English VA

Caitlin Glass

**Damian Desmond** (ダミアン・デズモンド, *Damian Dezumondo*?) is one of the main characters of the *SPY x FAMILY* series. He is the second son of Donovan Desmond and a first-year student at Eden Academy, being part of Cecile Hall, Group 3.

## Appearance

Damian is a young boy with short dark brown (sometimes blackish-brown) hair and hazel eyes with light skin. Similar to his mother, Damian's eyes are narrowed and slightly drooping, with visibly long lower eyelashes and short, thin eyebrows above them. In the anime, his hair periodically has a greenish tinge. He often wears a condescending expression. In Anya's perspective, he gains a more stupider appearance with round, wide eyes.

Like other students, he is usually seen wearing Eden Academy's uniform. He wears socks with vertical lines and black shoes.

## Personality

Due to his upbringing as a child of an important and powerful man, Damian gained a highly-respected status among his peers by default, making him grow incredibly arrogant, assuming Anya gained a crush on him when she stared at him. He is shown to prefer being called Lord Damian when spoken to. He gets angry when he is looked down upon by Anya's smug smile, quickly resorting to insulting her with his limited vocabulary and harassing Anya.

After taking a punch from Anya, he becomes very embarrassed around her. After Anya's tear-filled apology, Damian develops a crush on her that he does not want to acknowledge, denying it at every opportunity he gets.

Later, it is hinted that a possible reason for Damian's behavior can be attributed to his brother's success as an Imperial Scholar and his father's influence which has set high expectations for him to strive and become part of the Imperial Scholars. Damian believes that getting a high status and achieving success will encourage his honored father to finally pay attention to him. This causes him to look down on others beneath his social class for if they are not a benefit to him, they only slow him down from becoming an Imperial Scholar and in turn, slow down his progress in getting his father's attention. A rare exception is when he protects Anya from a ball in a dodgeball game, willingly getting himself eliminated. Though it did not help their class win the game, Anya recognized Damian's good nature. Another rare moment was in their classroom when a girl from their class was spreading a rude rumor about how Anya got her first Stella, Damian stood up for her. During the bus hijacking, he showed bravery and selflessness when he tried to save Anya, demanding that the terrorists hang a bomb on him instead of her.

Behind his cocky, self-absorbed, snobby behavior is a sweet, insecure boy desperate for his parents' love and approval. After the bus hijacking incident, Damian is surprised and tearfully relieved that his mother came to pick him up. However, the boy tries to hide his weaknesses from his father and, not wanting to make him worry, asks his mother not to tell him that he cried.

## Abilities and Skills

As Damian is still a child, most of his known abilities are limited.

**Physical Ability:** Although his strength as a child is limited, he is able to be one of the few that nearly survive to the end of the dodgeball match, despite having Bill Watkins as an opponent.

**Endurance:** Damian has shown to be quite tough, being able to block a shot from Bill Watkins, a kid who is much bigger than the size of an average 6-year-old.

**Intelligence:** As it's shown in his grades, Damian is a very studious and intelligent student, always striving for high grades and good scores. His discipline and responsibility made him have one of the highest grades in his class, and for this, he managed to get a Stella for being in the top 2 highest grades in the History midterm.

### Special Moves

* Other special moves include:
	+ **Lightning Note-Taking (ライトニング 筆記, *Raitoningu Hikki*?)**
	+ **Imperial Scholar Cape Flap (インペリアル・スカラー ばさばさ, *Inperiaru Sukarā Basabasa*?)**

## Trivia

* Anya's nickname for Damian, "Sy-on Boy," is a mispronunciation of "Scion." Anya calls him "Jinan" (じなん, *Jinan*?) in Japanese, which means "second son" (次男, *jinan*?).
	+ The anime's English dub translates Anya's nickname for Damian as "Second son" instead of following the English manga's "Sy-on boy."
* Damian stays in the school dormitories of Eden Academy, with Emile and Ewen.
* Damian has a German Shepherd named Max, who he leaves at home in the care of his house servant, Jeeves.
* Jeeves calls Damian by his short name, **"Dammy"** (ダミー, *Damī*?).
* Damian has a fear of worms.
* Damian's shoe size is 17 cm.
* Damian's favorite things are football, cartoons, and Stella Stars.
* Damian's disliked things are earthworms, peppers, and the national language.
* Damian's chair, featured on the seventh volume cover, is a Willow Chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

## Quotes

* (To himself): *"I gotta be the MVP in this game so I can score a Star. I need to become an Imperial Scholar like my brother did. Otherwise... Dad won't pay attention to me at all."*
* (To himself, referring to Donovan): *"I know father couldn't care less about me. If I want to please him... If I want to earn his respect... I have to be perfect. I have to become an Imperial Scholar!"*

## References

*SPY x FAMILY* Manga: Chapter 71.
*SPY x FAMILY Official Fanbook: EYES ONLY* (p. 102).
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga: Chapter 91.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 29, and Episode 19.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 25 (p. 22), and Episode 17.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 39 (p. 14), and Episode 27.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 15 (pp. 6-7), and Episode 10.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 25 (pp. 24–25), and Episode 17.