rules

bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_001_GENERAL'
_{basic etiquette obviously applies here: no -ists, no -phobics, display gross behavior and you're blocked without exception. if you whitewash, i block you. if you age-up underage characters for the sole purpose of smut, i block you. simple. be nice or you can't stay here.}bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_002_THE_UWU'
_{don't woobify my character. i won't be woobifying yours. i don't water down my portrayal and i expect the same respect in return. damian isn't the uwu soft babey wayne-family-adventures fanon baby. i won't ever write him to be. he is the strongest robin to date and is a borderline mary sue.}bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_003_CONTENT'
_{there will be absolutely no smut or sexual imagery on this blog. ever. don't ask for it, it's not going to happen: i write a minor. even in older verse, any implication would simply fade to black. despite writing a child, i write a dark, fucked up child with lots of trauma to unpack. there will be blood, guts, gore, oh my here. anything that you would expect from a tragedy of an attempted hero, you will see.}bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_004_CANON'
_{my damian is primarily headcanon-based. i have put years of worldbuilding into him. i tag any information regarding him in my headcanon tags, whether it was pulled from canon or not as it is simply important to my characterization of him. steal any of it and i will be in your walls tonight.}

bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_FIVE_SHIPS'
_{i write damian as asexual, not just as a child. he has no sexual interest in anyone or anything. as i write him primarily as a teenager, ships are explored primarily in a platonic manner with minor hints at romantic interest. i blacklist demonbirds and batcest: if you write or support either, i won't follow you. my only current ship is demonfire, which typically is tagged as demonfire / when it is mentioned. it's a canon ship but it's not always people's cup of tea. it's still mentioned very little as i put no emphasis on romantic writing for damian, it just doesn't click well with his muse in general.}bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_SIX_MAINS'
_{i adore mains + exclusives. i am a bit picky about choosing them, however, as i prefer to explore every facet of a character's dynamic with another and that's not always how people want to write. i like planning things out. plotting is very important as i weave my main/exclusive writing partners characters into damian's main continuity. i'm lessy picky with mains but exclusives are for the homies.}bat@cave:/var/lib$ cat 'RULE_SEVEN_MOI'
_{i have a full-time job, this platform is genuinely just a hobby for me. i will never treat it like a second job and as such, i tend to be a bit of a slow writer. trust me though when i say that i will eventually reply to that thread that's been sitting in my drafts for three years. i keep my blog clean of drama. my activity fluctuates but i always come back. i am generally a very private person so i typically do not offer alternate methods of communication and as such, i prefer to keep conversations to the built-in IM system. all in all, i'm pretty approachable. i like tech, dogs, & damian wayne.}

. ind, private, selective DAMIAN WAYNE from detective comics. .
. adored by bat ( twenty-one / she+her / somewhere in the ether ) .

dossier

robin@cave:/home/robin$   cat 'BASICS'_{. 001. full name . damian al ghūl wayne.
. 002. birth name . hafid al ghūl.
. 003. also known as . robin, redbird, batman.. 004. age . fifteen
. 005. gender . cismale
. 006. pronouns . he/his/him
. 007. orientation . panromantic / asexual. 008. occupation . vigilante / student
. 009. affiliation . league of assassins, batman, oracle
. 010. species . human}robin@cave:/home/robin$   cat 'BACKGROUND'_{. 001. birthplace . eish al'afeaa
. 002. current home . gotham city, new jersey, usa
. 003. ethnicity . mostly pakistani, fractions of chinese & caucasian
. 004. language(s) . english, proficient. arabic, proficient. mandarin, proficient. 005. parents . talia al ghūl, bruce wayne.
. 006. siblings . richard "dick" grayson, adopted brother. jason todd, adopted brother. timothy drake-wayne, adopted brother. cassandra cain-wayne, adopted sister.
. 007. other family members . mara al ghūl, biological cousin. ra's al ghūl, materal grandfather. rūh al ghūl, maternal great-grandmother. ~
. 008. pets . titus, doberman. goliath, bat-dragon. bat-cow, ayrshire cow.}

robin@cave:/home/robin$   cat 'APPEARANCE'_{. 001. faceclaim . aliando syarief. 002. hair . unkempt, black, short and spiky
. 003. eyes . unnaturally green
. 004. height . 149 cm / 4' 11"
. 005. build . 140 lbs, mesomorph
. 006. dominant hand . ambidextrous, right dominant. 007. scars . lacerations over palms and knuckles. large discolored scar tissue from base of neck to hips down back.
. 008. tattoo . none
. 009. piercings . none
. 010. other remarkable features . spine made of light, sturdy alloy to replace the human one shattered in his youth.
. 011. worth noting . damian is highly avoidant of physical human contact due to a condition known as skin hunger where skin contact causes mild discomfort to worst cases of pain.}robin@cave:/home/robin$   cat 'PSYCHOLOGY'_{. 001. positive traits .  adaptive, ambitious, brave, clever, confident, decisive, intelligent, merciful, observant, passionate, protective, proud, resourceful, sincere, tolerant,honest
. 002. negative traits .  aggressive, bitter, callous, competitive, controlling, cynical, emotionally unstable, guilt complex, impatient, impulsive, judgmental, moody, paranoid, perfectionist, pessimistic, power-hungry, reckless, reclusive, sadistic, short-tempered, spiteful, stubborn
. 003. clinical diagnosis .  anti-social personality disorder. 004. likes . animal companionship, personal space
. 005. dislikes . people, generally. also the cold and any sudden crunching sounds.
. 006. fears & phobias . no matter how much he repents or feels remorse for his actions, the bad will outweigh the good in the end.. 007. mbti . INTJ-T, the architect.
. 008. moral alignment . neutral good.
. 009. enneagram type . type 3, the achiever.}

>   IMPORTANT TO NOTE:   <authors_note> damian wayne was originally introduced to canon as ibn al xu'ffasch, literally the son of the bat in 1997. in 2006, damian was introduced as an immediate canonical error wherein grant morrison, the writer for batman at the time, didn't read the source material for talia & bruce's relationship. rather, they based their written relationship on their parents' failing marriage & thus, damian was "born" of a test tube & the writer heavily implies that talia assaulted bruce. canonical corrections have been attempted since then. for the canon of this blog, i typically acknowledge bruce & talia's previous marriage, whether it fell apart or not. grant morrison's praises will never be sung on this blog, i've got my work cut out for me to re-write their mistakes. <\authors_note>> life begins with a scream, death begins in silence. talia al ghūl gave birth to a healthy boy in the depths of eish al'afeaa, an unground utopia intended as a trade center for a better world. her father named this boy hafid, simply meaning offspring. nothing more, nothing less. when the boy returned to his mother's arms, she whispered another name into his hair, one that she knew him worthy of: damian, conquerer, subduer. this child was to be her successor, and eventually her own father's successor. his first years reflected this, damian's every hour of life was consumed by training with weapons among peers far older than he. these were the closest he considered to brethren, these men and women that stood alongside the boy and treated him as an equal. together they were ghouls but he knew: one day they would serve him as the head of the demon. talia never ignored his education, her child was a prince and he would have the teachings of one: for all intents of modern education, damian completed the equivalent of higher education before his eyes could peer over the countertop.> for years, he pestered his mother about his heritage. all she had ever told the boy was that his father was a great man, nothing more. he challenged her then, the deadliest woman on the planet: if he were to beat her in a fight, she would take him to meet his father. she agreed to his terms. on the morning of his eighth birthday, the boy stood over the prone form of his mother's body, sword in hand. she praised him, took his hand to stand, and pressed a kiss to his forehead. he would meet his father today.> he stood before a man on the evening of the same day, a man clad in dark colors and riddled with bruising. damian studied the man and concluded that his father was smaller than he expected. talia left her only son with this man as he could protect this child from forces she refused to elaborate regarding.

biogr
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> adjusting to a culture of vigilantism was difficult for damian as he was a groomed killer, a boy with blood-stained palms. this was the life of a hero, one who took in young children that the rest of the world had given up on. his father was one of the best, the batman of gotham city. just as quickly as the boy had eagerly suited himself in the suit of a robin, the batman disappeared. damian was left in the hands of the oldest of the robins, a man who had left the mantle years prior to build his own life. richard grayson begrudgingly donned the batsuit and accepted young damian as his robin.> damian was twelve when he died. in contrast to the lungs that bellowed during his birth, his death was swift and silent. his lithe body lurched forward under the pressure of a broadsword, the edge slicing against his heart effortlessly and protruding flush against his spine. grayson cradled the lifeless boy to his chest, the headstrong killer that had washed his hands clean and had sacrificed himself for his elder brother. in the end, the only hands that were capable of killing damian were his own, those of the heretic.> eleven months after his funeral, damian wayne awoke in the batcave surrounded by every ward his father had ever collected. each donned a robin suit, each looked as if they had seen war. they swarmed the boy, delighted that the stone that blossomed from his chest had brought him back to life. his father, whom he had not seen in almost three years now, embraced him.> following the death of alfred pennyworth, damian re-designed what he believed it meant to be a robin. he blamed himself for the death of a family friend and so too, he believed his father did. he struck out on his own, donning heavy black and dark reds as the antithesis of the original robins with their green and yellow. damian caught wind of a tournament of death and war to crown its victor with immortality. his mother's family held the key to it, this he knew. he joined underground fighting rings in efforts to discover who was selling his family's eon of secrets. this led him to the discovery of his great-grandmother, locked away with her demon worshippers on an island bursting with raw power.> it was here that damian met death once more. then again. he learned the true purpose of his great-grandmother's lures, bringing in great fighters of the world to sacrifice their flesh to the lazarus pit beneath the island. when enough blood lined the walls of the pit, the demon bes rose from the depths of it. damian rallied the remaining followers behind him and they destroyed the creature before it could leave the island.> with the discovery of his great-grandmother, centuries since her revival, damian now sets out to discover more lost secrets from his family's past.

timeline

orcl@cave:~   head '001_BATMAN_AND_R0BIN'
.            ^{( canon, age 12 )}
_{bruce wayne, the original batman, has gone missing. dick grayson, the first robin, has taken up the mantle & tutelage of bruce's young, reckless son.}orcl@cave:~   head '002_B0Y_W0NDER'
.            ^{( canon, age 13 )}
_{following his death at the hands of the heretic & rebirth via a chaos shard, robin has returned to the streeths of gotham for the first time in eleven months.}orcl@cave:~   head '003_G0THAM_ACADEMY'
.            ^{( canon, age 14 )}
_{by all standards and qualifications, damian wayne graduated high school by age eight. unfortunately for him, standards of gotham city must be met for minors, even those of billionares. his father insists it will be good for him to go to a normal academy and spend time among peers of his own age.}orcl@cave:~   head '004_R0BIN_YEAR_01'
.            ^{( canon, age 15 )}
_{damian has grown more independent of his family & traded in the yellow & green of the classic robin suit for greys & reds. he spends his time hunting secrets about his mother's side of the family.}orcl@cave:~   head '005_TEEN_TITANS'
.            ^{( canon, age 16 )}
_{upon hearing news of mara al ghul’s grooming as the new demon’s fist, robin gathers what few friends and allies he’s made over his short time as the hero —- mar'i grayson, crush, wallace west, emiko queen, djinn, jonathan kent. with six titans behind him, they are able to defeat mara and her legion of assassins.}orcl@cave:~   head '006_THE_BATMAN'
.            ^{( canon, age 18 )}
_{five months shy of his eighteenth birthday, damian officially puts on the mantle of the bat. he does not give his father a choice in the matter. he was born for this purpose alone: to usurp the bat. though it’s a rocky start at first —- his own suit far different from the original bat’s, his methods bloodier —- his results are still the same and gotham falls into line with his rhythm.}

orcl@cave:~   head '00?_STRANGER_THINGS'
.            ^{( alternate, age 15 )}
_{child of the notorious playboy billionaire, bruce wayne, damian lives out life in quiet, backwater hawkins under the careful watch of his butler, alfred.}orcl@cave:~   head '00?_THE_BOYS'
.            ^{( alternate, age 15 )}
_{something super deep abt stabbing noir in the leg wip}orcl@cave:~   head '00?_DEUS_EX'
.            ^{( alternate, age 16 )}
_{the explosion in prague nearly killed damian wayne, sole heir to the wayne enterprise fortune. the damage was severe enough for him to have augments replace near his entire spine and most of his right arm. though the blood of innocents stain his conscience, the boy seeks a job in contract killing. it’s enough to make a living, sticking to a strict code. no children, no innocents, and nothing outside of prague.}orcl@cave:~   head '00?_MASS_EFFECT'
.            ^{( alternate, age 17 )}
_{grandchild of the great rā's al ghūl, damian lived with a silver spoon between his lips under the thumb of cerberus. when the elusive man turned to indoctrination to keep his soldiers loyal, damian fled in a wave of fresh dragoons to join the alliance.}orcl@cave:~   head '00?_LEAGUE_0F_ASSASSN'
.            ^{( alternate canon, age 15 )}
_{damian was offered a chance to redeem himself, forsake his al ghul legacy. instead of submitting to the doctrines of batman and his family of dead robins, damian refuses talia’s offer to bring him before his father. he is the demon's fist to his mother's demon's head.}orcl@cave:~   head '012_BATMAN_BEY0ND'
.            ^{( alternate canon, age 18 )}
_{damian al ghul never wanted to meet his father. talia & ra's taught him how to hate, that the extent of his mercy shall only ever be a quick kill. he has frequent run-ins his half-sister, the huntress & the new batman.}orcl@cave:~   head '012_BATMAN_BEY0ND'
.            ^{( canon, by request only, age 16 )}
_{damian did his best, attempted the good fight but he could never find common ground between justice & vengeance. he is a vigilante in his own right, killing as part of his own moral code.}

conne
ctions

. > BANE. . righteousruin, written by rascal, main
. > BRUCE WAYNE. . nightvow, written by charlie, main
. > DINAH LAUREL LANCE. . sonicanary, written by june, mains
. > ERIK LEHNSHERR. . rekhenung, written by bat, main
. > LEON MARSHALL, . antisupe, written by silver, exclusive
. > MAR'I GRAYSON . starignite, written by micki, exclusive

. > SABRINA SPELLMAN . spehllman, written by georgie, exclusive
. > TALIA AL GHUL . pitborn, written by holly, exclusive
. > THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS . batmanwholxughs, written by ceri, main