Dblade26

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Thus making Grayson cry.

and then it turns out Damian was either actually just trying to kill him for stealing his bike originally but it looked adorable, or he was high on painkillers and had no idea what he was doing but it still looked adorable.

and then it turns out that Damian on painkillers acts like a cuddly human version of some combination of a puppy and a kitty, because I'm tired and not thinking straight and I have the power of headcanon. On a more plausible note, he would totally be the kind of person who would insist that the painkillers don't affect him at all while doing something only explainable via being high/hallucinating.

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Things are good, just don't expect much activity from me for the next few days.

Also, the idea was that Jason will build new wheels out of (metal motorcycle wheels are made out of here) infused with trace amounts of Nth Metal which will basically prevent it from flying and all that, but allow it to like, scale walls without breaking glass or whatever? And some neat new tricks, of course.

I kind of feel obligated to say this, but Stephanie Brown is sooooooooo lucky Jason Todd was not in the room when that Jason Todd-esque rage flash happened. I mean, the kid got blown up, you don't exactly need to choke him out on a hospital bed to teach him a lesson...he learned! Heh.

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That sounds completely and utterly awesome and Damian will need to work hard to stay composed and not squee about it or hug him or anything. Also because he probably didn't even know there WAS Nth metal in the Cave to work with.

Regarding the rage flash, while it was definitely a bad moment for Steph considering Damian was purposefully baiting her and Kate, it DID help Damian learn some things he might've been slowly starting to learn anyway a lot more quickly even if that wasn't her intention. Luckily Damian being raised by supervillains means he has minimal context for exactly how wrong any of that was (I mean, neck-choking and ominous speeches about failure and threats are a typical day for those types, right?) but just enough context to feel REALLY bad about almost getting Steph killed, screwing the mission up and generally getting one of the few people he-almost-sorta-maybe trusts and feels-close-to-but-not-really-honest mad enough to want to kill him once she smacks him out of his attempt at acting like nothing happened.

It's a lot more traumatic a start to his learning process than it might have been, but depending on how things go he might actually start figuring out how to be a better person as an indirect result. Especially now that he's at least thinking that mistakes aren't just some thing that other people make.

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Ah New York! Where my head always used to go when picturing America! and then I went there. XD

How's things?

Also an R-Cycle with Nth-Metal in it could do all sorts of weird things, I recently realized.

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Done. Really hope it's okay and not massively OOC.

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Given that Damian's throat was probably the worst burnt part of him, when Brown started strangling him halfway-to-death the first thought in his head was the bizarre, absurdly glad notion that at least his windpipe was too constricted for either of the two women to tell how much he was screaming from the pain. It would be bad enough for her to kill him while he was lying weakened in a hospital bed, but Damian would never forgive himself if he died screaming and crying like some pathetic child, even involuntarily.

The second thought that popped into his head around the moment he realized he couldn't get her hands off of his throat was that she could actually kill him right now. This mainly resulted in a lot of kicking and useless, irrational struggling but from little bubble of shock-induced detachment the rest of him was inhabiting he was extremely surprised. It wasn't potentially being killed. The League had raised him in a long tradition of rewarding failure with death even if he was always above it, he practically tempted Drake to try it every day and even Cassandra as he knew her would have killed him for a big enough failure if she were allowed. But from Brown it was almost completely unexpected. The last half of that thought combined with the lecture drove one thing home:

You almost got both of us killed.

For once, something was actually undeniably his fault. Not being choked, he wasn't insane. But as far as the explosion, his injuries and the failure of the mission went there was too little room in the sequence of the day's events for Damian to shift blame or minimize what had happened. He had opened a door when every instinct he had knew it was a trap, due to stubborn recklessness. Both of them had almost died because of it and even though making a game out of taunting Brown was one of the few things he generally felt completely safe doing, she was now mad enough to kill him.

Guilt was a fairly new feeling for Damian. Genuine remorse was even newer.

So after Stephanie Brown said she really would kill him if he ever did anything like that again and let him go, he actually listened and shut his mouth. He had too much to process anyways. Instead he very carefully kept his face and body blank enough to potentially fool Cassandra if he had to and waited until Kane and Brown both left. He looked around then closed his eyes and counted their steps until he was absolutely sure there was no one anywhere near him.

He was Damian Wayne, Son of Batman. He had never cried and never would.

No one would ever see otherwise.

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Trying to come up with a Damian post maybe. It was difficult trying to decide what his reaction is, but I think this might actually kickstart some decent character development considering there's not really enough ambiguity in the situation for him to blame getting blown up on anyone but himself and he's been trying not to focus on the fact that he almost died for real and almost got Steph killed until she kind of threw it in his face. Plus actually doing something bad enough to get BROWN mad enough to kill him is serious and unprecedented enough to shock and break him down a little.

I'm not sure if I can do it justice though.

Granted if this was anyone but Damian that would've been horrifying and child-abuse-y, but considering it IS Damian, it might actually have been oddly cathartic and beneficial for him.

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Don't worry, eventually realizing/having it pointed out to him that his hair is gone will be painful enough. Well, that and struggling with the concept of breakfast burritos.

*while sniffing at it like a dog*

"Is...is this some kind of test to see if I can detect poison in a weakened and disoriented state? Because I've been doing that for years with no problems. No? People...eat these? As a breakfast food? And this isn't a prank taking advantage of my alleged lack of useless 'American child' cultural knowledge? I...I don't think I believe you..."

Also great post!

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Hey, Real Life comes first and I hope you'll be okay going forward. That said it is nice to have you back.

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Did I do an okay job?

Sengoku City: Zero Pressure - A high-octane over-the-top action RP interest check and signups

And Daigoro done! Hope nobody minds that I went for the head of the Disciplinary Committee and people think he's an enjoyable character.