Damian Wayne

## Bio

Damian is the son of Bruce and Talia. Bruce did not know Damian existed until he was 10 before he met his father he was raised within the league as an heir to Ra's Al Ghul. He has since turned his back on the League's teachings and did his best to make up for the atrocities he committed while under the influence of his mother and maternal grandfather. The person he is closest to is likely Dick Grayson, they have a strong bond, and Damian is best friends with Jonathan Kent. Damian is a vegetarian due to his love for animals and has many pets, such as a cow cat dog turkey and whatever Goliath is. He is easily the most skilled Robin, however, this does not mean he can beat Jason and Dick in a fight, those two have not been Robin for a while, it simply means that he is more skilled at 13 than any other Robin has been. Damian is typically not one for nicknames. He even refers to people by their last name until he feels close enough for a full first name. A notable exception would be Tim Drake. Damian views him as a brother, but as is the nature of their relationship, he calls him Drake. This habit is primarily for those older than him, he calls Jonathan Kent Jon like everyone else and calls Colin Wilkes Colin. Damian has formed a very close bond with Stephanie Brown, he even lets her call him Dami, and calls her Steph. He has started a romantic relationship with Kes. He calls Dick Richard since Steph is an exception to his lack of nicknames, Dick was the first person he referred to by their first name. The second was Barbara, she is like an older sister to him, like how Steph is, but it is a different relationship. Barbara is more like the older sister that helped raised you once you lose a parent, Steph is closer in age and they bonded over their traumas. Steph has overtaken Dick to become the one he is closest to. Damian can speak 6 languages: English, Mandarin, Urdu, Greek, Arabic, Turkish.

## History

### Meeting Stephanie and a Talon

Dick woke up one day to find a monocle outside his apartment, left for him. It had an owl on it, which made Damian think they might know who he is, owls do eat bats. Bruce disagreed, but did agree to warn allies that there might be a threat. He also warned them about military-grade hardware, which means people patrol in pairs, nobody goes alone.

Because of that rule, Damian was paired with Spoiler. While on patrol she treats Damian to some pizza, but then they notice that the warehouse that seemed to have been a party spot was dark and quiet. So they investigate and find a Talon. The Talon (Snow) had killed the teens and was arranging, and playing with their bodies, and drawing something. They try sneaking up on him, but he senses them coming. Damian attacks, lands a batarang, but he does not seem bothered, dodges the attack, and leaves saying he is not allowed to play with them. Stephanie recognizes that the drawing is an owl, and remembers the legend of the Court of Owls. She tells Damian about this, and they return to the Cave.

Once there they report to Bruce, and Damian notices how traumatized Steph is. He is bothered by this because he knows why he is not so traumatized, he has caused rather similar scenes in terms of body count. He starts to fear how she will react if she ever learns about his past. Tim and Kate arrive in the cave after patrol and are filled in on what happened. Then Damian and Steph are sent off to shower.

After the shower is ice cream, Bruce announcing Steph has to stay in the manor for now (mostly due to the fact he is quite sure she is being abused). Assigning Damian as her trainer, and letting Damian and Steph know they are grounded.

### First Day of Training Stephanie

Damian starts their first day with a jog around the manor grounds. On the run, they first run into Barns, who asks if they are together. Damian, like a 13-year-old, says no, rudely. Steph, being a teenager with self-esteem issues, is hurt by this. Barns points it out, Damian apologizes, and files that away as something not to joke about. Barns then unnerves Stephanie by suddenly grabbing her face. After that is all done they continue the run, and hear a scream. Kes tried to sneak up on Tito and failed, so as punishment he is hugging her, they are playing. Steph does not know any of this, so she rushes in to defend Kes. Damian calls out to her to stop, calling her Brown as is his way. She hates being called that, something Damian notices. Kes is excited to see Damian, and after a brief talk explaining what happened, they resume the run. Before they do, Steph sees Tito's eyes change, and they look like the Talon from last night. This really freaks her out, Damian catches that as well.

Once they are far enough away Damian stops the run to ask Steph what is going on. So, she tells him, and he listens. He thinks to a lot of oddities over the 3 years that back Steph's claim that they could be Talons. He decides to speak with Father about that later. Speaking of fathers, Stephs texts her. Steph reveals her bruises, and Damian opens up as well. He tells her he was raised by the league, and his mother killed him. He also confesses to having done bad things. Fearing Steph would be horrified and leave, but does so anyway because she opened up to him. Instead, she hugs him. After this conversation, Damian makes the decision to call her Stephanie, and not Brown.

Once inside there is more training, Tim is teaching Steph how to use the grapnel gun. After some of that Steph tries to talk to Tim. Damian stays out of it, once the conversation is done, Damian asks to talk to Stephanie. During all this Damian did poke fun at Stephanie, he was happy to learn he can insinuate that Steph and Tim cannot be alone together and she would take it in good fun, instead of to heart. Damian tells Steph he is going to talk to Father, about her father, and the Hydes (Talons).

### Learning the Truth

Damian asks Father about the Hydes first. And he learns that they are Talons, and have been with the manor for a long time. Damian understands why Father kept it from him, although he would have liked if he was told sooner. He also tells Father about Steph's father. Steph is invited into the room, but she is apprehensive, so Damian offers to let her hug him briefly, which she does. Bruce tells Stephanie about the Hydes and offers her a place in the mansion. She accepts the offer to stay. Bruce then offers her a choice, the Bat, where they will take her father down that way. Or the Owl, where the Talons will kill him. She makes the choice while looking at Damian. "Bats don't kill." Damian is glad she made that decision and knows that he factored into it.

### "Family" Dinner

Damian owed Steph dinner, and she promised to make dessert. What was originally just them turned into the whole household. Kate, Tim, Cass, Jason, Steph, and Damian were all in the kitchen while Damian cooked dinner, and Steph made muffins. Damian did not consider Jason Kate or Cass family, especially not Jason. Once done they ate together, also with Bruce. During the meal Jason spoke of his past, revealing to Damian that Jason trained with Talia for a year. Damian escalated things by taking shots at Jason (who had spent most of the time with Cass, she seems to calm him, he appears to have a fragile mental state). Jason escalates further by losing his temper and yelling at Damian. Damian does not escalate further, and does not yell, but does offer some harsh words bringing up Jason's past (the super recent one where months ago he tried to kill the batfam and himself). Jason gets upset that someone is bringing it up while he is trying to be better, and storms out. Steph runs off because of the fighting, and Tim follows. Damian leaves while Bruce makes it clear they need to talk about it tomorrow.

### A Nice Night With Kes

After dinner Damian goes for a walk outside and runs into Kes. He had not seen her since he learned she is a Talon. They spoke for quite a while, she at first pretended not to know he knew the truth. She then told him more about what it is like to be a Talon, and showed her other self. The light changes a lot about how she looks, not just her eyes, and she shows Damian that. She then explains how she got her name, and talks about how the Court trained her, and some of how it conditioned her. The Court taught her she is not a person, but Damian insists that she is. He also relates to the test she had to undergo to earn her name, bringing up the Year of Blood that was a year of daily tests to ready him to lead the League. Kes asks about whether he does not kill because he does not want to, or because Father does not want to. He says he does not like killing, and does not want to do so again. Kes brings up the food she makes, and then reveals Talons cannot eat most foods. Kes brings up the Courts Talons, and how Damian will fight them, asking if he will kill. Damian, now that he knows more about them from Kes, says you cannot kill what cannot die. And in regards to the puppets, cannot kill what was never alive. He also learns that severe cold is a weakness of the Talons, and that Kes fears being frozen. The talk ends with Kes kissing Damian, and Damian then kissing Kes. After that the outside lights go out signifying it is late, so they go their separate ways.

### Day Two of Training

Damian sets up an AR test for Stephanie to gauge her combat skill level. She is better than expected, but has a few areas she needs to improve at. One of which is flexibility, kicks are her main move, but they can be better. So that is the focus of the day and she does stretches on machines in the training room. During this they talk a bit about dinner, she explained why she left, which Damian already knew. She says she told Tim, but Tim's reaction to hearing about her father was lacking, and they broke up. She tells him about how she ran into the Talons, and Barns used some kind of ability to make a noise that forcibly relaxed her. Damian does not like the idea of him using this unknown ability on her, and theorizes that maybe it worked because she was rather distressed at the time. Stephanie says she knows about Kes because before she ran into the Talons she went to his room looking for him, and he was not there. The conversation shifts as Stephanie asks Damian if he has faced his mother. Damian said he had done so while atoning for the year of blood. Things were complicated because at the time something was done to her that removed her darkness. Ultimately, Damian had the chance to kill her, to return the favor, he decided not to. He then said that he made that decision even though he still remembers. He does not specify what he remembers. To comfort him Stephanie put her arm around him and he leaned into it. She then said to him if he went back there (to hell) she will come and get him. In response, he hugs her and silently cries. He extends the same offer, and also an offer to always be there for her. After this Stephanie has a new nickname for Damian, Dami; and Damian also gives Stephanie a nickname, Steph. As of this moment she is the only person in his family that he will refer to by a nickname.

### Talking to Father

Damian goes to the study to speak with Father about a couple of things, including last night. Damian states he does regret escalating things, but he will not apologize. He explains why he said what he had said, and Bruce understands. Bruce tries to explain Jasons side a bit, and also states he is not asking Damian to apologize. Damian then tells Bruce about how training with Stephanie went, and he does. But only about the training part, not the part afterwards. Damian then asks for permission to go on a patrol, and Bruce says light patrol in stealth suits. Next Damian brings up the noise Barns made that had a powerful effect on Steph. Bruce was not familiar with such an effect. Bruce also warns Damian about how dangerous the Talons are, and he does so rather harshly. Damian understands they are dangerous, but he does not believe they are a threat to him. Damian asks about how Talons cannot eat most foods, if there is a way to fix that, and if there is a way to make them human again. Bruce says he knows of no way to fix that Talons cannot eat most foods, and that if there were a cure, it could kill them. Damian then asks again about any calming abilities, he is concerned for Steph, she seemed rather distressed by it. Bruce says he is not aware of any such abilitiy, and that is essentially the end of the conversation.

### The Deadly Duo

Damian picks a random somewhat low crime area for patrol. Light patrol means do not take on named villains and move slowly in a small area. It is typically done when recovering from an injury. The random area happens to be where Steph lives. She seems uneasy, but shakes it off, leading Damian somewhere. He follows her, and she actually gets the drop on him, showing him she is better at the sneaking around aspect than he assumed. She then gets him to follow her and he quickly learned that the building they are in houses a dog fighting ring. They take it down, brutally. Damian only holds back in that he does not kill. Steph sees one of her fathers men and loses control, Damian stops her from killing him. When he tells her she needs to stop before she kills the guy, she explains why she lost control. Then coldly adds he is still breathing, and asks what Damians excuse is, referring to the damage he had caused. Damian had no response to that, he looks around and can see he had gone way overboard, and begins to wonder if he had changed as much as he thought. He simply states they are all breathing. They then take most of the animals to a nearby vet, they keep 4 kittens to take home.

### The Deadly Duo Returns to the Cave

Steph and Dami arrive back at the cave with the box of 4 kittens. Bruce is there waiting, he says he wants to talk to Steph later. Steph says they can talk now while Damian gets the kittens settled. Damian wrongfully assumes she wants to talk to Bruce about the noise, when she wants to take the fall for what had happened. They are told to first tend to their wounds, especially Stephanie's knuckles. So they go into the medbay with the kittens.

Damian tends to her knuckles, and she tells him they were in her neighborhood. Damian says they can avoid it in the future, and asks if she has any other injuries that need tending to. Steph takes off her shirt, wearing a crop top underneath, to reveal a number of bruises that Damian begins to tend to. She then says she is going to be kicked out soon, Damian insists that will not happen, and when he sees she is not convinced said if it does he will come for her. Steph then reveals she wanted to talk to Bruce alone to take the fall and also hints at her encounter with Urial. Damian expresses strong opposition to her taking the fall, and asks about if she had another run-in with a Talon. Steph says he is too young to hear about that conversation and leaves it at that. Damian accepts it, but also states if she feels there is a problem with a Talon she should come to him or to Father. Steph also refers to them as brother and sister, which makes Damian smile. Steph names one Damian saying it looks like it is scowling, Damian names the female kitten Stephanie because it is being silly, like she is when saying she should take the fall. Steph says more about the encounter, which is enough to tell Damian it was (a) an adult type of encounter, (b) it was one of the younger Talons, and (c) the relationship is complicated, but Damian trusts Stephanie to know her limits and come to him when needed. Damian names the third kitten Richard because it is more mobile, dangling from his hands as he holds him. Steph names the final one Bruce because it is more stoic and not near the others. Steph pulls back a bit on what she said regarding Kes, saying Damian should be careful because he is 13, adds that Kes was rude to her so she still doesnt like her. Steph reveals her and Tim broke up, and tells Damian to be nice to Tim, they just werent a good fit. Damian asks Steph to not tell Bruce about Kes and she agrees as long as he comes to her if he is in trouble. Before they split to shower off Damian offers Stephanie a fist bump because he knows she likes them and wants to thank her, for everything.

### Demonstration

After Damian returns to where Father is waiting in the training room, Bruce asks about the man brutally beaten. Before Damian can respond Stephanie enters and says she had to hit him hard to ensure he would not get up. Bruce accepts this response, although Damian knows it to be a lie, she had lost control, but there is no way he is going to say that. Bruce then has them watch the battle going on which consists of Uriel and Kestrel vs Barns; Barns wins quite handily. Damian flinches when Kes "dies" despite knowing she will be okay. Bruce tells them he is using these demonstrations to create a new training program so they can practice against Talons. Steph finds the notion ridiculous, stating she is nowhere near good enough to do so, especially with whatever it was that Barns did to her. Damian says that is what he is for, to train her, and adds the League taught him how to kill, such skills he can use on Talons. Bruce states he wants to talk to Steph alone, so she signals to Damian that it is okay. Damian feels a bit put out, but requests that they contact him when they wish for him to join the conversation, and goes to check on Kes.