> > Tempted to have Damian bolt to answer the doorbell as yet another excuse to duck out on all the family gathering awkwardness and avoid arguing with Tim, then despair inwardly when it turns out it's not someone he can just run past to sneak out of the Manor for the night.
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> What, he doesn't automatically love his new sibling for giving Dick and Babs grief?
> 
> You could always just have him linger on the outside of the room with Cassandra, just staring at everyone disapprovingly and not saying anything, because that's what they do.

He might like him for that if the dynamic didn't seem painfully similar to what he seems to have going with Tim and Stephanie. Plus, y'know, feelings in general are something he doesn't usually like to admit he has. I'm sure they'll wind up getting along great and everyone else will be freaked out that now there's two of them though XD

They might just wind up doing that while Damian tries _really_ hard not to bring up the fact that most of his experiences with her involved an evil brainwashed version that he potentially actually got along with.