Dblade26

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Yes, naturally I am the best ninja.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

We're still missing Sloth/Jason and Corsair/Barbra if they want to get in on things. Oh and Archangel/Gordon for that matter unless Gordon wants to stay in the background.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

can people who weren't able to introduce themselves to the scene yet and interact still do that retroactively?

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

quick! Check if you can reclaim it by pressing the back button

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

and yet he'll probably still miss most of them. Also yeah, Damian's life as far as the public eye goes must be completely and totally bizarre. He's the previously unknown biological kid of one of the city's richest, most well-known men and Bruce's playboy reputation aside he came out of ABSOLUTELY nowhere at primary school age. Plus his interactions with people outside the family are likely carefully controlled or at least were until they started getting him at least minimally socially trained. The paparazzi and every celebrity news outlet in Gotham must just have an absolute field day whenever he shows up in public. In fact, if that picture with Steph doesn't wind up in at least five trashy mags under some variation on "Gotham's Princeling leads the charge for new 'ironic scowling' trend" or "Dami Wayne in: the Top 10 bad boys of celebrity children" or at least "Youngest Wayne rebels against longtime babysitter, family torn" then my entire view of humanity might be wrong.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

I'd offer myself as a resource/helper too but I'm not sure how well I'm doing since I'm nervous about playing canons anyways, even AU versions of canons and ESPECIALLY Batfamily stuff...but y'know, fun. Speaking of, not sure if I should have Damian fail HORRIBLY at acting like a normal kid after the one exchange with Kate Kane due to complete lack of any context for 'normal' other than 'act like a smaller Grayson' and/or just plain forgetting (which is my gut instinct) or be shockingly, disturbingly not sucky at it due to being good at mimicking things/the rest of the Batfamily very carefully coaching him. Also he may wind up wearing suits semi-regularly now as a self-imposed challenge. Also is it bad that my silly justification for him having actually seen a James Bond film is that Ra's Al Ghul finds them to be flattering self-depictions he forced himself to memorize certain pop-culture references after being frustrated with never understanding Batfamily conversations?

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Right, Damian post done in response to fit with the Steph stuff. Also seriously, awesome job Ruby. 100% approval! and now Damian has to pretend to be 'normal'. This is gonna be fun!

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

In his arguably short time alive Damian had faced highly trained assassins, hordes of undead warriors that reeked of long forgotten battlefields, monstrous clowns and deranged serial killers all without batting an eye. But a faint scent of rosewater and lavender was all the warning he got before the arrival of something more dread-inducing and disturbing than any of those things. Stephanie Brown had become one of the most consistent and reliable people in his young life, in that she consistently and reliably tormented and nagged him on a daily basis. A thousand and one insults sprang instantly to mind at her approach, but he forced himself to swallow them all for the sake of appearances though he didn't stop faintly scowling. After all, today he was supposed to be a 'normal' child, or as normal as the formerly-secret-or-unknown biological child of billionaire Bruce Wayne was expected to be, at least. Casually threatening to find his knives and stab the Brown girl if she started up on her nonsense again would likely ruin the illusion. Besides, for whatever reason she tended to brush off his threats with infuriating non-chalance and continue whatever idiotic thing she was doing. Once she had even had the nerve to laugh in response, as if he'd said something FUNNY. For similar reasons he didn't bother resisting for more than a few fractions of a second when she ordered him to stand up in that bizarre tone of voice she always used. Long, painful experience had taught him that she would merely continue annoying him until he gave in or left violently and either way causing a scene now would jeopardize his cover. He wasn't sure how to respond when she moved to properly tie his neck-tie, though fortunately it was over before he even had the chance. He didn't think to hide the drawings from her either but was distracted from the thought as the blonde Batgirl commented on the suit. James Bonde was a ridiculously bad spy from the movies Damian had seen, but the man was effective enough as a killer and a life among assassins and (necessary) doomsday plots with a (falsely maligned) global terrorist organization made the films strangely, familiarly appealing. More importantly the idea that he could at least manage to still look dangerous in a suit even if he didn't feel like it was...acceptable for now even if they still seemed idiotic. For the sake of his cover he had to bite back an insult about lacking a girl to escort when she brought it up, then scowled even more when she ordered him to leave his sketchpad behind though he made no move to pick it up. Less than a year ago anyone foolish or arrogant enough to give him orders without backing it up via skill or blood would face immediate retribution. 'No' of any sort had not been a word he'd heard often. Now though oddly enough, he found himself going along with her now without thinking. The prospect of it allowing him to see Drake in an even more miserable state than himself likely did a lot to mitigate his pride. He even allowed her to put an arm around his shoulders and instead focused all of his pent up irritation and annoyance at a photographer, making a face that made arsenic-laced lemons seem sweet. Even the public knew he despised media circuses and he took a certain amount of enjoyment out of making the man squirm. His rage at the picture potentially ending up in another one of those vapid periodicals on celebrity children evaporated as Batgirl pointed out Kate Kane and how likely it was that she and her aging grandmother could beat Drake in a fight. Nobody was ever sure he had actually smiled in a truly happy, non-predatory way but in the moment he visibly almost laughed, decided it would be too out of place and undignified and suppressed it while settling for a casual smirk. As they waited for Kate and company to approach he tried to remember to put on his best 'normal child' impression while remembering how he had acted around her in their few previous high society meetings. He hated acting for strangers but it was necessary, of course. He projected a cheerful, jokey smile that was surprisingly, purposefully similar to Grayson's on a good day and said with full, precociously happy mockery: "Hi Miss Kane! If Tim's your date to the wedding, shouldn't he be wearing a dress that goes with your suit?" sometimes having to act childish out of necessity had its advantages.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Since he's Lucius' son, its' possible he could be invited to the wedding along with Lucius.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Wayne Manor-the day of the wedding Damian hated proper suits. They had to be almost literally the most combat restrictive clothing in the entire world. The jacket hampered arm and shoulder movements to a ridiculous degree unless he stripped down to the waistcoat while the trousers barely allowed for enough range of motion to execute proper kicks. Worse yet any acrobatics he had to perform would feel far more stiff and unnatural than normal and even though Damian insisted otherwise and been extremely specific Grayson or his father must have countermanded his orders in secret, because the tailoring made it near impossible for him to hide weapons on his person with any amount of decency. He would think it was like being tied up in a straight-jacket but having actually experienced that the suit was definitely far, far worse. But the absolute worst part of all was the damned neck-tie! It was like wearing a silk noose around his neck and never being able to take it off! It would be the very first thing an enemy would grab onto and it would make it horrifyingly easy to strangle him or give them access to strike his head or initiate all sorts of other grappling maneuvers with ease. Of course Grandfather often wore neck-ties, but at this point Damian had become convinced that he did so as a sheer statement of superiority in combat. It was an absolute death-trap and the worst part was... It seemed to be infuriatingly difficult to actually tie. He had studied the problem from every possible angle, but all of the different styles of knot had seemed virtually the same and all of them were equally needlessly complex! It wasn't that he couldn't do it, of course. He had no equal in any field he chose to seriously pursue, it was just that he didn't see the point of learning it, that was all! Before he had always managed to avoid wearing one at formal appearances over the last year or so, but of course today Father insisted just like he insisted that nobody argue. It was bad enough being constantly mocked by the Brown girl and putting up with Drake without having a stress-induced aneurysm, but he'd rather die than ask one of the others for help. Petty-minded as they were, they would all probably shame him for it for months if not years. So he sat in a corner with a sketchbook and the idiotic, improperly done neck-tie while everyone else presumably made preparations, trying extremely hard not to be noticed while drawing all the various ways Drake ought to violently pay for being such an irritant, then preferably roast atop a bonfire of all the world's formal suits.