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    His shoulders dropped, and he shut his eyes. “Forgive me. It’s an autonomic reaction. Prime used various hormones to repress such things, but it seems they’ve worn off. When we have access to a lab, I can synthesize the same hormone cocktail to keep those instincts in check.”

    “Why would you want to keep them ‘in check’?”

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    Or: Hordak’s body is finally his own. Now he just needs to figure out what he wants to do with it. Thankfully, Entrapta is here to help.

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    Bruce is at a loss when Damian begins to withdraw from the family. Meanwhile, Damian is certain that he has the pain in his back under control

    Bad Things Happen Bingo: Chronic pain

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    Grayson behaves like this sometimes: like Damian needs to be protected. It twists his stomach in sharp and unfamiliar ways.

    “You leave, then!" Damian spits. "I’ll—I’ll track Clayface on my own.”

    Another shudder takes him. The pain floods him all over again. It doesn’t matter: he won’t cry out. The rain pelts the dumpster behind him. It pools in cracks in the concrete.

     

    (Dick and Dami Week 2021, for the prompt "You're not my father!"/"I am well aware.")

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    The knife pushes thin along Dick’s carotid artery, cupping the indent between neck and jawline—forcing him to angle his chin. The metal is warm, pulled with execution speed from under Damian’s pillow.

    “Okay,” Dick says quietly, tracking the intricacies of his own heartbeat—counting the space between breaths. “Guess I did need a shave.”

    (With faltering steps, Dick and Damian become Batman and Robin.)

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    Crying should only be used as a tactical advantage. A distraction technique, nothing more.

    As such, Damian did not cry as he walked towards the training mats, nor did he give off a single outward sign of the fire that was tearing through his abdomen with each and every step because he knew better than to show weakness like that.

    Even without any evidence that there were other people here, Damian could not let up on his discipline at any point, not when Grandfather’s men could come and check his progress at any moment.

    He steeled himself, knowing to expect the flare of pain that would no doubt come the very moment he starts his first kata but before he could get fully into position, an alert came through proclaiming that it was dinner time.

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