( closed ) bred, born, and raised to kick your ass

[brat]

WHO: damian wayne (brat) & associates
WHEN: april - may
WHERE: places
WHAT: a catch all for closed starters
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Stephanie Brown. Robin the fourth.

( his current sketch. she gets a softer, more playful smile. he met her without her spoiler gear here, so he'll run with that for now. bruce will find out the rest eventually regardless. the image of her gets labeled with a 4, before he moves onto another sketch beside it. another girl, with shorter hair that he fills in with the pencil, indicating it's darker. her expression is more - neutral. not smiling, not scowling either. )

Cassandra Cain. Another child Father adopted. She can read body language extremely well.

( notice how he still hasn't answered bruce's question yet. though he does tear out that page, sets it aside with the rest, and stops for a moment. furrows his brows. )

Those are the ones from Gotham proper. There is a second Nightwing.

[batsymbol]

That's seven, including you. Eight if you add the second Nightwing.

( and bruce just... stares off at that. seven— potentially eight who all know each other. know some version of him while he... doesn't have a single person here from his own gotham. suddenly, there's so many more with the potential to be concerned about. to be a problem for him and he's left standing there. staring off. feeling... he doesn't know. here he'd just been getting used to having damian around. but to suddenly go from one to the possibility of eight... and then there's superman.

he looks down to the various sketches again. looks up to damian. stares to him. quiet. processing all of this as swiftly as he can even if it'll weigh on him later in ways he won't allow himself to deal with right now. )

Seems like you have your family here now.

[brat]

( he hears the context behind those words that bruce doesn't allow himself to say. looks up from where he's tearing the page out of the sketchbook and - just looks to bruce. watches him carefully. there are a few ways he could respond, and damian immediately trashes several. knows they'll cause more harm than good at this point. )

You are my family, too. Robin and Red Hood have always been here, yet I have stayed by your side. This won't change regardless of who appears.

( bruce needs someone. he's alone, new to the cowl, without alfred. someone needs to watch out for batman, and that's robin's job. drake, todd, grayson, brown, cain, gordon - they all know to watch each other's backs. they'll call on one another when necessary. bruce needs damian more than they do. )

[batsymbol]

( are we? he wants to ask but... refrains. later, when he has time to sit with all this, he'll do his best to work through it. or not. distract himself with the batmobile or something else in wayne terminus.

gaze dropping, he falls silent. like always. says more with what he doesn't say. like always. )

I'm not asking you to.

( stay by his side, he means. )

[brat]

You wouldn't regardless.

( bruce won't ask them to stay. would never, because he's batman. damian understands that. which is why he's not waiting for bruce to ask him, but has already decided himself that he is staying. )

But I am Batman's partner, and I have no intention of neglecting my responsibilities. Even if you disagree they are my responsibilities. I've already claimed them, you're not going to change my mind.

[batsymbol]

( hm. well. he's not wrong in assuming that.

for a long moment, he's silent. still trying to process the seven— eight from some version of gotham that are suddenly here. he'll dwell more on it later by himself, as expected but, for now, he chooses to just let it remain as something to deal with later. if he does at all. )

Is that all you need to tell me?

[brat]

Are you intending on leaving, or going back to sleep?

( because his answer depends on bruce's answer. there's more he could divulge. most likely shouldn't, because he knows this is already overwhelming as-is, but his father prefers to be prepared, and damian has the means of which to prepare him. )

[batsymbol]

What else?

( because clearly there's more. )

[brat]

( bruce has decades to catch up on, as far as damian is concerned. decades, of which damian doesn't really want to spend time going over, because it's too much. he's dropped enough on his shoulders as-is. )

Is there anything else you would want to know, or have I given you enough information for now?

[batsymbol]

( it is a lot. things he'll need to, at some point, address, but. for the moment... he just needs time. )

I'm going to do a round of the Manor.

[brat]

( he's quiet for a moment, and then - nods his head. damian has dumped a lot onto bruce, he likely needs a few minutes to process the six additional children damian has dropped onto him - or, seven, including the second grayson. )

I'll wait here.

[batsymbol]

( gaze dropping, he's quiet. a turn. lingering for a moment before he makes his way out of the room. intending to do a round of the manor. letting himself fall into whatever thoughts might come to him as he does. )