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    Damian Al-Ghul does not get sick.

    He is the son of the Batman.
    Heir to the Demon’s Head.
    The future of the Bat mantle, the pride of his parents, the successor his brothers watch with wary admiration.

    He does not get sick.

    Not when he goes under in the Gotham harbor.
    Not when filthy water fills his lungs and drags him down.
    Not when he drags himself home, bruised and shaking.
    Not when the fever blooms behind his eyes the next morning.

    No.
    Because Damian Al-Ghul does not get sick.
    Sickness is weakness, and Damian Al-Ghul is never weak.

    …right?

    He's not sick. Not when the fever climbs, when breathing becomes a battle he can’t win alone, when the river’s infection sinks its teeth into his lungs and blood- No. He's fine.

    Damian Al-Ghul does not get sick. That would imply weakness. And he is an unstoppable, invincible, ten-year-old war assassin- …who maybe, possibly, hypothetically should not be coughing like that. Or swaying like that. Or unable to get up anymore. No.

    Because Damian Al-Ghul doesn’t get sick.

    (Except, apparently… Damian Wayne does. He absolutely does.)

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    10 Feb 2026

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    "I'm your father," he replies gently.

    "F-ather," Damian repeats clumsily. He knows what the word means, but he can't associate it with an experience. Now that he thinks about it, he has zero experiences to draw from. His mind is an empty void. He does not know who he is, aside from his name, and he does not know what he is supposed to do.

    "That's right," his father hums in agreement. "I'm your father, you're my son, and now you're home." 

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    06 Feb 2026

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    “Nobody got hurt.”

    For a moment it looked like Tim wanted to say something to the contrary, but then he settled on, “Not tonight, no thanks to you. But it has happened, and it will happen again.

    “You destroy everything, Damian. It’s in your nature.”

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    After a mission gone wrong and a spat with Drake, Robin is benched. Worse than that: Damian is grounded. As serendipity would have it, it gives Damian the opportunity to facilitate the rehabilitation of the manor's new ward, a dog Batman rescued from a fighting ring.

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    13 Jan 2026

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    "Uh, I dunno, used to? Didn't really use wooden forks much though, so not really." Apparently happy with the choice, he pulled the bowl out and scrapped the covering, next going for a large serving spoon from one of the doors so he could shovel it into his mouth like a starved dog. "Fuckin' chopsticks was what we had to keep an eye on." He added in between mouthfuls, giving Dick a smirk and a knowing glance, as if they were both in on it and Dick knew anything about what he meant. "Anyway, I'm out. See you next family reunion, or tragedy or whatever."

    And then he was gone, as was one of Alfred's favourite serving spoons and bowl, and the potato salad Dick knew for a fact Bruce had been saving to eat for lunch the next day. Jason probably knew that part, to be fair.

    "...Chopsticks?" He muttered to himself, baffled, in the now empty kitchen.


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    Damian has some concerning habits. Jason's the only one that seems used to it. The rest of the bats scramble.

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    06 Jan 2026

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    Contrary to popular belief, Damian Wayne was keenly aware of all of his flaws. His entire life had been about improving, about becoming the best version of himself possible, and how could he possibly do that without meticulously recording, indexing, and attempting to correct every single one of his weaknesses? 

    Not all flaws, however, were so easy to fix. Frankly, he wasn’t even sure if they could be fixed.

    or: the irrational rationalizations of a deeply traumatized fourteen-year-old child soldier, and the secret that just might crumble his ramshackle psyche for good

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    04 Jan 2026