Gotham's former "sword" Robin

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Earth 1, T-universe

Real name : Damian Wayne.

Former vigilante persona : Robin

Current vigilante persona : Passerine.

Age : 20-21

Gender : He/him

Sexuality : Bisexual.

INFO :-

He is in a relationship with Christeline Judith (married to her) and Nika / Flatline.

He is a vet as his Day Jon, along with being a shareholder in Wayne industries.

He has many kids (he takes after Bruce)

His main villains are League of assassins, Shush and Justice.

He mentors a whole group of vigilantes in Gotham.

Relationship (RP Buddies)

@the-astromeners-bakery 1) Hecate is Damian's sister-in-law as They are married to Cassandra 2) Kam is Damian's favourite Grelitia. 3) Daxter just exists for Damian. 4) Carol is technically both his sister-in-law and mother-in-law but he doesn't try to think about that 5) Ben also just exists for him.

@gotham-its-seven-in-the-morning Delenn is again both his sister-in-law and mother-in-law, as they are married to Jason but also are Christel's adoptive mom.

@scarecrowspawn a fellow bird, who doesn't believe that birds exist.

@dc-adventurer Harley, Damian's adopted son.

@the-children-of-gotham Mahina, Damian's eldest daughter and his mentees.

Relationship (with canon characters) :-

Bruce Wayne/Batman : Somehow both rocky and easy going. He mostly only visits Wayne manor for the man to meet his grandkids.

Nightwing/Dick Grayson : Damian's Batman, he is his eldest brother and is trying to mold Passerine into a Nightwing like vigilante.

Red hood/Jason Todd : Jason is currently his father-in-law which he again chooses to ignore, other then that their relationship is smooth.

Black bat/Cassandra Cain : the closest sibling he has, they patrol together often along with having family picnics. Godmother of one of his children.

Red Robin/Tim Drake : Acceptable.

Spoiler/Steph brown : Acceptable.

Signal/Duke Thomas : the only one allowed to babysit the kids.

For more information on this AU, look through @christelgothamite , @justice-in-gotham and @gothams-time-hoes

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{In universe tumblr bio}

Yes, it's the "sword" Robin.

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[dc-adventurer]

@passerine-former-sword-robin Happy papas day!

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Thank you Harley.

[eris-maddison-offical]

@passerine-former-sword-robin Happy fathers day.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Thank you.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

@league-of-shadows Happy mother's day.

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[christelgothamite]

I- who? Congrats??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t know! I don’t have a uterus! I should be able to get pregnant!

[christelgothamite]

Did you eat something weird or magical??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I had an espresso from this dimensional cafe..?

[christelgothamite]

.... dimensional Cafe... THERAPY CAFE OFC!

[eris-maddison-offical]

Are you saying a drink got me pregnant??

[christelgothamite]

Yeah. It's dimensional therapy cafe. I got summoned there after my falling out with Hecate. They are brutal and kind and can manage do alot.

[eris-maddison-offical]

Madame Hecate mentioned something about the same cafe once… I didn’t recall it until now.

[christelgothamite]

The coffee is good tho. I wanted to go there just for the food but I can't. I need to have issues 😞

[eris-maddison-offical]

Time to traumatize myself again for more of those dumplings.

[christelgothamite]

🤣

Congratulations Xyria! Sleep well because I will assure you. You won't be able after the kid is born.

[eris-maddison-offical]

Where the fuck even did she go- oh never mind nope ew ew ew I regret looking

[christelgothamite]

I won't even ask. Also tell Mahina not to become pregnant too. I am not becoming the world's youngest grandma.

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t have the parts for that so I doubt it’ll happen! -Elwin

[christelgothamite]

Look me in the eye and then look at Celeste and Xyria.. and then look back at me.

[eris-maddison-offical]

…Mahina maybe we shouldn’t so back to that cafe-

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

The universe will find a way.

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I am not drunk enough for this. Who did you fuck? Celeste??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t have the parts for that!

And I don’t have a uterus- I shouldn’t be- I don’t know!

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Calm down. It's alright... Are you sure, you are pregnant?

[eris-maddison-offical]

I took seven tests.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Okay, congratulations. You are pregnant. Let's hope it's not Greek Gods related.

[eris-maddison-offical]

I’m praying…

Incoming Celeste.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Christel says it's because of the Expresso. The child is very much yours..

[eris-maddison-offical]

Oh my gosh…

And now the lesbians are both crying.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I call dibs on choosing the baby crib.

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I am not drunk enough for this. Who did you fuck? Celeste??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t have the parts for that!

And I don’t have a uterus- I shouldn’t be- I don’t know!

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Calm down. It's alright... Are you sure, you are pregnant?

[eris-maddison-offical]

I took seven tests.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Okay, congratulations. You are pregnant. Let's hope it's not Greek Gods related.

[eris-maddison-offical]

I’m praying…

Incoming Celeste.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Christel says it's because of the Expresso. The child is very much yours..

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I am not drunk enough for this. Who did you fuck? Celeste??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t have the parts for that!

And I don’t have a uterus- I shouldn’t be- I don’t know!

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Calm down. It's alright... Are you sure, you are pregnant?

[eris-maddison-offical]

I took seven tests.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Okay, congratulations. You are pregnant. Let's hope it's not Greek Gods related.

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I am not drunk enough for this. Who did you fuck? Celeste??

[eris-maddison-offical]

I don’t have the parts for that!

And I don’t have a uterus- I shouldn’t be- I don’t know!

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Calm down. It's alright... Are you sure, you are pregnant?

[eris-maddison-offical]

[Private post]

@christelgothamite @passerine-former-sword-robin

I don’t know how, but I’m pregnant. -Xyria

WHAT?! -Mahina

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

I am not drunk enough for this. Who did you fuck? Celeste??

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded, having Johnny land on his arm. “We’re not talking about her… We’re talking about Mrs Christel, my new mama!!”

Johnny seemed to understand, bowing his head in seemingly a silent apology.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"with that out of the way... Who are you?" Damian got straight to the point. Batman mode on.

[dc-adventurer]

The crow looked around, trying to find a way to communicate, before his beady eyes found the calendar.

He flew over and his ghostly beak pointed at two days from then.

Harley looked at the date, staring at it before promptly bawling his eyes out and trying to hug the bird.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Harley-" Damian looked worried before looking at the date and then finally saying "he is his father"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahinas hands went to cover her mouth as she watched Harley hug the ghost with all his might, sobbing his eyes out.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian wordlessly went and sat next to them rubbing the kids back as they continued to hug.

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked at the bird.

“We’re taking good care of him. We promise.”

Johnny nodded as much as he could.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Erica doesn't have his Custody. It's shared between me, my wife and a trusted friend named Artem" Damian explained. "He lives with us some days and with them the others"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley finally let go of Johnny, the bird sitting on the table.

“Yeah… m-.. Ms Erica.. I don’t see her anymore.” Harley smiled as he let along the ghosts head. “Im safe. Im.. I’m happy.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just patted his head.

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded, having Johnny land on his arm. “We’re not talking about her… We’re talking about Mrs Christel, my new mama!!”

Johnny seemed to understand, bowing his head in seemingly a silent apology.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"with that out of the way... Who are you?" Damian got straight to the point. Batman mode on.

[dc-adventurer]

The crow looked around, trying to find a way to communicate, before his beady eyes found the calendar.

He flew over and his ghostly beak pointed at two days from then.

Harley looked at the date, staring at it before promptly bawling his eyes out and trying to hug the bird.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Harley-" Damian looked worried before looking at the date and then finally saying "he is his father"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahinas hands went to cover her mouth as she watched Harley hug the ghost with all his might, sobbing his eyes out.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian wordlessly went and sat next to them rubbing the kids back as they continued to hug.

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked at the bird.

“We’re taking good care of him. We promise.”

Johnny nodded as much as he could.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Erica doesn't have his Custody. It's shared between me, my wife and a trusted friend named Artem" Damian explained. "He lives with us some days and with them the others"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded, having Johnny land on his arm. “We’re not talking about her… We’re talking about Mrs Christel, my new mama!!”

Johnny seemed to understand, bowing his head in seemingly a silent apology.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"with that out of the way... Who are you?" Damian got straight to the point. Batman mode on.

[dc-adventurer]

The crow looked around, trying to find a way to communicate, before his beady eyes found the calendar.

He flew over and his ghostly beak pointed at two days from then.

Harley looked at the date, staring at it before promptly bawling his eyes out and trying to hug the bird.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Harley-" Damian looked worried before looking at the date and then finally saying "he is his father"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahinas hands went to cover her mouth as she watched Harley hug the ghost with all his might, sobbing his eyes out.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian wordlessly went and sat next to them rubbing the kids back as they continued to hug.

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded, having Johnny land on his arm. “We’re not talking about her… We’re talking about Mrs Christel, my new mama!!”

Johnny seemed to understand, bowing his head in seemingly a silent apology.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"with that out of the way... Who are you?" Damian got straight to the point. Batman mode on.

[dc-adventurer]

The crow looked around, trying to find a way to communicate, before his beady eyes found the calendar.

He flew over and his ghostly beak pointed at two days from then.

Harley looked at the date, staring at it before promptly bawling his eyes out and trying to hug the bird.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Harley-" Damian looked worried before looking at the date and then finally saying "he is his father"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded, having Johnny land on his arm. “We’re not talking about her… We’re talking about Mrs Christel, my new mama!!”

Johnny seemed to understand, bowing his head in seemingly a silent apology.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"with that out of the way... Who are you?" Damian got straight to the point. Batman mode on.

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

[dc-adventurer]

“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

[dc-adventurer]

“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

[dc-adventurer]

“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

[dc-adventurer]

“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

[dc-adventurer]

“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

[dc-adventurer]

The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

[dc-adventurer]

Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

[dc-adventurer]

“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

[dc-adventurer]

“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

[dc-adventurer]

“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

[dc-adventurer]

“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

[dc-adventurer]

“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

[dc-adventurer]

“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

[dc-adventurer]

Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

[dc-adventurer]

“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

[dc-adventurer]

Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

[dc-adventurer]

“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"

[dc-adventurer]

Johnny pointed his beak at the burn mark on his shoulder.

“You think we’re talking about his bio mom?”

The bird nodded.

Mahina looked bewildered. “..What?”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian massaged his head. "You are certainly not a normal dead bird.." he mumbled. Normal day, that's all he asked. "Honeybee mind correcting your friend here?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Damian was waiting in the garden for the duo to return from adventuring.

- @passerine-former-sword-robin

It was a while until they got back, but the duo eventuallt returned, Harley riding on Mahinas shoulder’s carrying a bag of trinkets.

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

"well looks like someone's having alot of fun" Damian spoke making his presence known before looking at Mahina. "Are those trinkets?"

[eris-maddison-offical]

Mahina put Harley down as he ran over and hugged Damian’s leg.

“Yep. The little crow over here found a small trinkets. Snail shells, mushrooms, old parts of things, heck he even found some sea glass.” Mahina looked proudly at her little brother.

“Mhm!! It was high up in a tree! A crow dropped it off!”

[passerine-former-sword-robin]

Damian shrugged off the memory of Christel & Barnaby and picked Harley up. "Is that so?. Quite the Indiana Johns we have here. Remind me to make a trinket wall back in the mansion" Damian stated.

[eris-maddison-offical]

“Trinket wall!!” Harley cheered, clinging onto Damian as Mahina gently took the trinket bag.

“You spend some time with dad, crow. Im gonna go put the trinkets on your desk.” Mahina ruffled his hair, laughing while she walked inside and watched him try to fix it.

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Damian swiftly ruffled her hair as she left before diverting his attention back to Harley with a grin of his own. "So? How was the adventuring. Only collected trinkets or found a bigger treasure?"

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“We found a huge abandoned warehouse!” Harley stated, moving his hands out to show the size of it. “Mahina let me go in for five minutes, and look!”

Harley pulled a jar out of his bag that held a seemingly tiny ghost in it. “Ta-da! This is Johnny! Don’t worry, he’s not trapped! He can leave the jar whenever! But he feels safe in the jar.”

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Damian nodded "when I was your age, I went into a scavenger hunt made by my mother. I was tasked with finding artifacts and dea-" Damian stopped himself before saying "people- but I didn't find anything cool like this!" He complimented.

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“Mhm!” Harley giggled, holding Johnny in his arms. “Mahina let me climb the big big tree! I found a birds nest!”

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"what type of bird was it? Any clue?" Damian asked sitting down and letting harley sit next to him. Eyes on Johnny, inspecting it.

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“It was a Raven!” Harley sat down and sat the jar in his lap. “I could tell from the eggs and how the nest was built!”

Johnny was just a tiny ghost. He looked like a baby crow. The ghost bird stared up at him.

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Damian nodded diverting his attention to Harley. "Woah! That's amazing. I love black birds but my favourite bird is still Robin". Damian didn't know why but he felt like the ghost was trying to read him back just like he was.

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“Oooh!” Harley nodded, kicking his feet like a little kid.

Johnny the bird looked him up and down, his beady crow eyes staring into him. Before he nodded, almost in approval.

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Damian ignored the bird before telling Harley "you ate breakfast? Did your sister?" Damian asked, it was early enough but past breakfast timing. "Malyk brought a new book about seashells. The ones that have touch feel pages. He told me he wanted to read it together with you"

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“Mhm!! Mahina made me pancakes! She made a little blueberry smiley face!” Harley smiled, before his eyes widened. “The touchy pages?? Yay! Of course I wanna read it!”

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"good because your brother won't let me even open the book nor touch it. Speaking of family. Mama is coming back a bit later" Damian explained softly. "Space aliens are being mean but nothing she can't handle"

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“Meanie space aliens can’t do anything to mama!” Harley cheered.

The ghost bird cawed loudly, phasing out of the jar and cawing in their faces.

“What’s wrong Johnny?!” Harley asked, placing the jar beside him and standing up.

Johnny cawed even louder, Harley panicking at not knowing how to calm him down.

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Damian looked at the bird before pulling Harley away and hugging him. "Calm down... It's okay. Maybe he saw something alerting? You panicking won't do him any good honeybee"

Damian gave a batglare to the bird. "Calm it. You are troubling him" he never knew he would use his dad voice on a dead bird but here he was.

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The bird calmed down after seeing Harley’s state, flying down to land on his shoulder and nuzzling against his cheek.

Harley giggled against Damian. “H-hey- that’s cold! And it’s tickles!”

Johnny paused his actions, looking Harley in the eyes, before resuming with increased intensity.

“Johnnnyyyyy!” Harley kept laughing, and the bird cawed, as if laughing back.

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Damian just chuckled along. "See nothing's wrong. Let's go check on your sister hm?" Damian got up, picking harley and johnny with him.

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Harley clung into Damian once again, Johnny flying right alongside them.

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Time-skip

"Hey Harley, can I ask you something buddy?" Damian asked carefully as he sat beside the boy after lunch.

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Harley looked up from his plate, nodding his head. “Mhm! What is it papa?”

Johnny was sitting on Harleys shoulder once again.

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Damian froze before looking at Harley and then at Mahina nearby. This was the first time harley called him anything father adjacent, at least out loud. "Oh"

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Mahina looked up from her drawing, a tattoo design, and smiled, watching Harley’s confused face.

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Damian remembered his training to get to the point. He ignored the crack of his voice at being called papa.

"Has your power activate further than teleporting?" Damian asked carefully.

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“Well… I can teleport and shape-shift.. and that’s all.” Harley said just as carefully, not sure whether to reveal to Damian he could make portals.

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"no accidental magic-- wait you don't have magic right?" Damian looked at Mahina before looking back to Harley. "It's okay if you have other abilities Honeybee, I am asking so that we can train you to control them better. Just like how me and your mama train Mahina's team"

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“Uh… I don’t think so?” Mahina shrugged.

“..I can make lil portals.” Harley admitted. “Tiny ones. To- to get across a river. And things like that..”

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"that's cool, I wish I had that ability" Damian complimented ruffling his hair before looking at Mahina "would make traveling very easier wouldn't it?"

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“Oh it would! You got all the cool powers, little guy” Mahina ruffled his head even more, causing him to laughing and try and fix his hair.

Johnny watched the trio with beady eyes.

“Bird ghost still acting weird?” Mahina raised an eyebrow.

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"he is very weird.." he whispered getting close to Mahina so only she could hear and whispering further "he also starts glaring daggers whenever I speak of your mother"

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“That’s… really weird…” Mahina muttered back. Just what was this BIRDS issue with her mama.

Harley was busy playing with Johnny, the bird nabbing a small wooden piece and throwing it to Harley. Harley would catch it and toss it back.

“Almost looks like they’re playing catch…”

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"I am tempted to bring future Nyx here just to see who this ghost is." Damian whispered back before looking at the two.

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“Honestly wouldn’t be a bad idea.” Mahina whispered.

The bird and Harley kept playing catch, Johnny cawing happily at Harley whenever he caught the ball.

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"your mother would have my head for breaking the timeline... Speaking of your mother, she is busy with the alien invasion on starfire's homeplant. It's not looking that good" Damian explained before adding. "I mean economically. It's like keeping up with the kardashians but space royalty family version"

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“Ohhh, political stuff. Ew.” Mahinas lips curled in at the mention of political mumbo jumbo.

The cawing started again, Johnny flying up off the table and cawing.

“Why don’t you like mama…?” Harley asked the bird hopelessly.

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"yeah- she thinks it's annoying too--" the cawing began.

"what was that buddy?" Damian asked, his attention back to Harley.

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“He doesn’t like mama… Why not?” Harley asked again, more insistent.

Johnny flew close to Harley, poking his ghostly beak at his right shoulder.

Harley, confused, shrugged off his coat and rolled up his sleeve to reveal a circular shaped burn mark.

Mahinas eyes looked ticked off, recognizing what kind of burn it was, before looking at the crow with confusion, then back at Harley. “Buddy..?”

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"Did your bio mom do that?" Damian asked softly before kneeling down. He was clenching his jaw but was still soft with the kid. He glanced at the crow before back to Harley.

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Harley nodded sadly. “She was really really mad…”

Mahina kneeled down right next to Damian. “Did she hurt you often?”

“No!” Harley was quick to defend. “O-only when she got really mad. And this was the worst thing she did!”

“Harley.. the fact that she hurt you at all isn’t okay.”

The crow was watching rapidly, as if almost daring them to step out of line.

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Damian took a deep breath "Harley.. can I ask you a question? Have you ever seen me or your mama hurt Anas, Astrid or any of your siblings?" Damian asked taking the boy's hand. "Even when we are mad?"

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“…No.” Harley shook his head. Mahina sat down on the floor to be at his height.

“Cause that’s not what parents are supposed to do. They aren’t supposed to hurt their kids, no matter what you did or how they’re feeling.”

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"Exactly. You said it yourself. She isn't your mama anymore. You don't have to defend her Honeybee... She was bad and what you went through was wrong. It's okay for you to think so"

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Harley started tearing up, and Johnny landed on his shoulder, trying to use his ghost beak to wipe the tears.

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Damian stared at the bird before glancing back at Mahina.

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“Hey uh… Harls… how did you get Johnny again?” Mahina asked carefully.

“Well..” Harley wiped his eyes. “I found him in the jar. High on a shelf in the abandoned warehouse… he kept cawing until I set him down, and when i went to put him down, he didn’t stop cawing until I picked him up and took him with me.”

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Damian was about to say something but decided against it. Directly looking at Johnny. "Who do you think we are talking about when Harley calls for his mama?"