Name: Damian Wayne

Fandom: DC Universe

Age: 10 (but don’t let his age fool you, he’s already better than you)

Point in Canon: Batman and Robin 13, as he’s beating up the Joker

History: Damian Wayne is the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul, and the grandson of Ra’s Al Ghul. That alone should tell you that he’s already smarter and stronger than you will ever hope to be. He was raised in an artificial womb in order to ensure genetic perfection, and as soon as he could walk began training with his mother’s League of Assassins. Only the best would do for him, after all.

Formally introduced to his mother at age 8, Damian began to learn the ins and outs of the vast Al Ghul empire, in order to properly earn his birthright. Although Damian could take over his mother’s (and grandfather’s) empire in his sleep, he listened politely out of respect that she was his mother (or something). It wasn’t soon after that Talia began to tell stories of his father, the great Batman of Gotham City. The stories at first were absurd to young Damian (I mean really, who dresses like a bat?), but as he learned of his great accomplishments in the business world as Bruce Wayne and his heroic achievements as Batman, he wanted to meet his father and become his heir too.

After a pointless exercise of pointing his father out in a crowd, his mother arranged for the two to meet for the first time. Although Bruce was skeptical of Damian being his son, he brought him back to Gotham anyway. Damian immediately began attempting to show his father that he was a worthy heir by defeating that foolish fake son and Robin of his and escaping his captivity to decapitate a criminal his father was trying to apprehend. He even fashioned his own Robin costume out of the dead Robin’s old costume and his own, superior, League of Assassins outfit. Inexplicably, his father didn’t take too kindly to Damian killing a criminal, beating up his butler and nearly killing his adoptive son. Really, who needs an adoptive son when he has a real one right in front of him? And you can always replace your help. And telling an assassin to not kill is just foolish.

Damian tried one last time to aid his father, this time bringing him to his mother’s secret headquarters to prevent her from making more Man-Bats. Talia forced him to choose between her or his father, but why choose one when you can have both? Unfortunately, that wasn’t an option for him, and when his mother got caught in an explosion, he dove in after her to save her (see he told you he was a hero). She was unscathed, but he required a full organ transplant. As his mother has only the best doctors in the world, he made a complete recovery.
Later on, Talia took Damian to Australia to teach him all about the history of his grandfather, Ra’s Al Ghul. Things got interesting when when Ra’s former servant, the White Ghost, tried to use Damian’s body as the shell for Ra’s to come back from the dead. See, even the White Ghost knew how awesome Damian was, and that’s why he wanted him. His mother prevented him from dying (not that he needed the help). Even without Damian’s help, his grandfather comes back to life anyway as sort of a zombie. Damian goes to tell his dad, because zombies are beyond his expertise and his dad is the goddamn batman. Instead, he runs into that fool Drake, who doesn’t believe him at all and instead tries to fight him.
Normally Damian would be more than happy to show off his superiority to Drake, but his grandfather was a freaking zombie and Batman still needed to know. So he found Pennyworth the butler, but before he could tell him, Drake shows up again and starts to attack him again, because clearly preventing the help from tripping means that he’s attacking him. Clearly Drake needed to learn his place, and so the two fought. Damian would have won if it wasn’t for the League of Assassins who showed up and forced the two to fight together. Seeing as Drake is an idiot and all, the two don’t fight well together, and as a result Drake gets them all kidnapped by Ra’s, who wanted to use one of their bodies as his new one.
Batman shows that he’s an awesome father by offering himself instead. But Ra’s wanted a younger body, hence why Damian or Drake. Batman again comes up with the save, by offering him “fountain of essence,” which was like a Lazarus Pit. This reminded Damian why he’s so awesome, because he inherited a mind like his father’s. Ra’s and Batman go off . Neither seemed to realize that they made a mistake and left him behind, so Damian made sure to go after them as quickly as he could, ditching his mother, Drake, Pennyworth, and Dick Grayson to fight Ra’s second-in-command, the sensei. After all, that guy wasn’t important and his father and grandfather were off doing something cool. But of course his grandfather didn’t want him to be there, and he almost dies. His mother decides its time to take him out of there, and so Damian had to say goodbye to his dad again.
Sometime around Batman’s death, Damian gets dropped off at Wayne Manor for an epic sleepover to be trained by Bruce. However, as Bruce wasn’t there, Dick Grayson took him under his wing instead. Damian didn’t take the first Robin seriously (I mean have you seen his choices of costume?), and spent his free time boosting the Batmobile to pick up chicks. Oh yeah, he’s 10 and already getting tail. He’s that good. It would have ended better if Oracle hadn’t hijacked the batmobile’s controls and sent his girl flying out of the batmobile to get eaten alive (although in Oracle’s defense she didn’t know that Killer Croc was outside when she did it). Damian was just about to show Batman’s rogue’s gallery (or at least Killer Croc and Poison Ivy) how awesome he was when stupid Grayson had to swoop in and take him away from the action.

Thankfully, Grayson’s heroics were brought to a quick end when their shot down their glider. As Dick Grayson wasn’t good enough to stay conscious after the blast, it was up to Damian to show him how talented he was and saved them both from dying in the plummet back to the ground. They were cornered by the Black Mask’s men, and he was finally about to show a conscious Grayson how awesome he was when Jason Todd, dressed as a tacky Batman rip-off, comes in and shoots all of them. Damian then tries to show off his superior skills against Todd, but gets shot instead. He meant for that to happen, of course.

Pennyworth patches him up and gets paired up with Squire (seriously, a girl crimefighter?), and after almost getting bored to death with her incessant chatter, he showed her his clear superiority, and together they saved Drake who had foolishly almost gotten himself killed. This was enough to show Dick Grayson that he was clearly the better choice to be Robin, and although it was the wrong Batman, he was finally a real Robin.

To show Grayson how awesome he was, he built a flying batmobile by upgrading his father’s blueprints, and as the two began to work together, Damian realized Grayson might not be mentally up for the job. Naturally he offered to take his place if he didn’t want the cowl; after all he was meant to be Batman’s successor. Instead, they wound up talking about respect, and Damian informed him that respect had to be earned (he thought it was obvious, but apparently it wasn’t otherwise he wouldn’t have had to spell it out).

Anyway, they finally get to do actual crimefighting, where Damian learned what a great bore stakeouts were and that Grayson severely underestimated him as a partner. He decided to strike it out on his own and take down Professor Pyg himself. There he meets Sasha, a girl who had managed to retain her sense of self after being turned into a dollotron. She begged him to save her, and although he tried it wasn’t good enough. Damian didn’t like to fail at anything, so he took satisfaction in beating the tar out of Professor Pyg instead.

He’d learn the girl was all right later when Jason Todd, now the Red Hood again, showed up with her as his sidekick. The two of them were crazying it up all over town, trying to be better than Batman and Robin. Better than Dick Grayson maybe, but not Damian. He tried to expose their secret identities on the internet, but they were Batman and Robin, that wasn’t going to happen. They escaped and made a bad-ass exit while they were at it.

Todd’s stupid anti-crime crusade attracted the Flamingo, this really gay sociopathic killer, to Gotham, and while the four (Batman, Robin, Todd, and Sasha) fought him, Flamingo he shot Damian in the spine. Batman was worried that Damian might be in pain, but if he knew anything about anatomy, he would know he was paralyzed and couldn’t feel anything from the waist down, so worrying was pointless. And then mother’s doctors showed up and took him to their lab, where they implanted a new spine into his back.

While Damian was recovering from spinal surgery, Grayson went and did something stupid, resulting in some zombie Batman showing up and attempting to kill him. Damian threw his wheelchair at him and blew up his robin cycle, but that wasn’t enough to stop his rampage. He was thrown off the roof, only to be saved by Batman (did he not realize the whole thing was his fault in the first place?). Before he could save the day, Batman and Batwoman took down the zombie on their own.

The whole zombie thing made Grayson realize that Drake wasn’t totally crazy and that Batman was alive and traveling through time and it sent Grayson in a paranoid scavenger hunt through Wayne Manor. Damian, not liking the idea that he might not be Robin any more if his father came back, got upset. I mean, he’d been showing everyone just how awesome he was, and he might not be able to do that anymore. Apparently, his emotional state triggered a spinal link that his mother implanted along with his new spine, allowing her to take over his body. After almost killing Grayson, he ran off. He was no one’s puppet.

Damian met up with Oberon Sexton in the graveyard. Before he could figure out anything about Sexton’s really obvious fake British accent, Batman showed up again and Slade took over his body, trying to kill him with a shovel. This failed as, as previously stated, Damian was nobody’s puppet. Rightfully pissed, Damian and Dick storm his mother’s headquarters.

Dick destroyed the equipment that enabled his mother to control him while Damian speaks one-on-one with Talia herself. His mother demands that he stop playing Robin and return to her at once. Damian rightfully refuses, because being Robin was far cooler than being some stuffy nameless assassin. No one knew how awesome he was if he just sat in the shadows all day. His mother didn’t like that too much, so he showed her he was going to be replaced with another genetic child of Bruce and Talia. Yeah, she can try to recreate him but the copy will never be as talented or genetically perfect as he is. She declared him to be an enemy of the House of Al Ghul, a challenge that Damian happily accepted. He’ll be the best enemy of the House of Al Ghul ever, just to show her.

When they got back to Gotham, he found out that Drake thought that he was a threat, something he didn’t take too kindly to, and so he tried to beat the crap out of him (again). Dick intervened and made the two form sort of a truce. Damian still doesn’t trust the fake heir. In fact, he’s already tried to get an injunction on him to prevent him from coming near his father’s company. Oh, did he not mention he runs Wayne Enterprises on the side? Yeah, he totally does.

Moving back to the more interesting topic of crimefighting... It was revealed that Oberon Sexton was actually the Joker pretending to be Sexton, and was arrested. The Joker made the mistake of asking to speak to the new Robin, an invitation Damian was all too happy to accept. He realized that the Joker was a liability that needed to be taken care of, and with poetic justice, began beating the Joker. With a crowbar. Yeah, he’d read the Joker’s file. He was in mid-swing when he was transported to the island.

Just a side note: when he’s older, he will finally show the world how he was truly meant to be the heir of Batman by taking on the cowl himself, and fending off the apocalypse until he says so. Still denying his greatness?

Personality: Damian, thanks to (believably) being related to three of the craziest motherfuckers on the planet and being raised by the League of Assassins, Damian has next to no interpersonal skills to speak of. He’s gotten better thanks to the vigilance of Alfred and Dick, but he still has a long way to go. He’s quick to react to situations with either violence or logic, one of the few things he’s comfortable with, and if violence or logic aren’t the solution, he stumbles. When interacting with others he’s constantly trying to prove his superiority rather than trying to relate to them. In fact, the idea of relating to another human being completely eludes him.

He also has a humongous ego, no doubt fed by the league and his mother, as it seems a requirement for all Al Ghul’s to have one (although Damian’s is definitely the largest). He truly believes that he is the best at everything he does, and cannot understand the fact that there may be (and are) people that are better than him (with the exception being his parents and unknowningly Dick). He doesn’t realize that he’s not nearly as smart as he thinks he is (his detective skills are terrible, to say the least), or as clever. This might stem from the fact that no one seems to take him all that seriously, leading him to try even harder to prove himself worthy of their time and to prove his greatness.

Which leads us to our next point… He’s a brat. He originally expected to get his way at all times, but after being around Dick for a few months he’s toned it down a bit. Dick, the saint he might be, hasn’t stamped all of the brattiness out of Damian, however, and he still is prone to the occasional temper tantrum or selfish outburst.

And finally, no matter how tough he may act, no matter how important he may think he is, he’s still a kid and has a lot of growing up to do.

Items/things: - His robin costume (which is in all ways superior to all of the other costumes on the island) with his utility belt that includes (but is certainly not limited to): a grappling gun, jump lines, batarangs (which he obviously only carries around because Dick tells him to), a stun gun, and flash grenades
- a crowbar with the joker’s blood all over it
- an ego the size of a small large country

Abilities: He’s a master martial artist who is familiar with every weapon known to man thanks to being trained by the best (the League of Assassins); he’s currently being trained to be a good member of the bat family through Dick Grayson by learning detective skills (which he finds boring), acrobatics, and the like. He can also perfectly mimic voices, well enough to confuse voice activated alarms. He’s also smarter than you, as proven by the fact he’s capable enough to build a flying batmobile and run a board meeting at Wayne Enterprises.