From the friends to lovers prompt: “Their pick-up line wasn’t as good as any of mine, I’m just saying.” dickdami if you would ^_-
Hey, look! I’m not dead, even if I am behind on life (a.k.a. comics).
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“Robin!” someone shrieks and Damian turns, ready to fight, surely wondering why so many low-rank villains feel the need to announce their presence before an attack, but he instead finds a woman running toward him breathlessly.
Damian blinks and his stance loosens as he tries not to gape at her. “Is there a problem?”
She reaches his proximity and doubles over a moment, gasping, and Damian does his best not to scold her for wasting his time. He thinks of all the crime Gothamites are constantly facing, looking in himself for enough sympathy to exchange for patience. Flushed, she straightens up quickly and smiles and Damian is taken aback.
“Hi,” she says and Damian does not step away. He just…assesses his current situation.
“Problem?” he asks again.
Her expression changes to a pout. “Oh, yes,” she intones. “I have a horrible problem, Robin, and only you can solve it.”
“Get on with it then.”
“See?” she says, and she spreads her hands before her. “That’s my problem: we’re not getting it on.”
Damian only stares at her, appalled and…oh, that heat he’s feeling is in his cheeks. “What?” he manages. He shakes his head and ignores the way his voice shakes, too. “T— tt.”
The woman winks at him and Damian is frozen.
“Robin?” someone else calls. “Are you coming?”
Nightwing hops down and his gaze swivels between Damian and the woman. He grins his impossibly charming grin at her. “Did you need something?”
She eyes him with uncertain interest and Dick tries not to feel too insulted when she shakes her head, albeit ever-so-slightly. “Nah,” she says to herself after she finishes her appraisal. “Robin’s definitely cuter.”
“And, despite his newfound height, not yet eighteen.”
The woman stares at Damian again, then lets out a disappointed sigh. Suddenly, she smiles and her eyes twinkle. “When’s your birthday? I’ve got the perfect—”
“We have to go,” Dick interrupts and Damian gives him a curt nod.
They hop away and the woman shouts her number into the distance.
With the safety of a rooftop, Dick pulls Damian into his arms. “Her pickup line wasn’t nearly as good as any of mine,” he murmurs, amused, and his finger crooks under Damian’s chin as he leans in. “I’m just saying.”
Damian kisses him hard before shifting away slightly. “‘Not yet eighteen,’” he mimics, in far too eerie an approximation of Dick’s own voice.
Dick shrugs. “You know I hate that.” Then, his cowing turns to false confidence. “Anyway, my job is to stop them from committing crimes, not me.”
“Are you planning on committing a crime, Grayson?” Damian asks, but his smirk belies his earnest tone.
Laughing, Dick nuzzles Damian’s throat. “Oh, yeah,” he says. “Are you going to stop me, Robin?”
“Tt,” but then Damian’s breath hitches. “I might be willing to concede defeat. Just this once.”
“I guess I should be happy you’re not sleeping with supervillains—we’d all be dead.”
“Be quiet, Grayson,” Damian says, and he does his best to make it so.
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I watched two episodes of Iron Fist and stopped. I couldn’t take the torture. And yeah, the writing is horrible. Danny and the others are just….????? They make weird statements at weird times that are totally uncalled for. Did anyone proofread this script before hand?
it’s sad to say that the first two eps are actually the better part of this series >:D
You’ve done good dropping it. For real....it only gets way, way worse.
If you don’t mind the spoiler read beneath the read more:
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like that time where his love interest who he knows for no time turns out to be part of the enemy group, he says he’ll never trust her again, but half an ep later he’s already hugging her in the rain and saying they should fight just bc she had a fallout with her group (which doesn't change her lying to him and deceiving him but hey, plot reasons, right?) I cannot even-- the further I go-- the worse it gets.
Sorry for sending to the wrong inbox initially! At 3am I really should be asleep instead of lurking on tumblr-lol. As for the prompt if you could do 44. Two Roads with a shippy Dick/Dami I'd be forever grateful! Have a great weekend :)
44. Two Roads
Damian is 30.
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“You can’t.” Dick argued sorrowfully. “You can’t come with me, I won’t let you.”
“Beloved-”
“No, I won’t hear it.” Dick shook his head, turned away. “I won’t let the Court have you too, okay? I’m going to protect you. Protect the family. And you’ve...Damian, you’ve done so much to make your life better. To be accepted and loved and good...”
He felt Damian’s hand on his, let himself be turned back, his space invaded.
“I was only able to achieve any semblance of goodness with your help. Without you, surely I would falter.” Damian’s breath washed across his cheek as he lifted his hand to hold Dick’s face. “They say there are fates worse than death. Continuing in this life without you is surely one of them. Working for the Court is not.”
Dick leaned into his touch anyway. Let Damian pull him into a hesitant hug.
“I’m sorry.” Dick whispered into his neck. “I’m sorry the Court is invading our lives again. Taking our family from us. Threatening you. Forcing us to make choices we don’t want to, and do things we don’t want to and-”
“Whether we are heroes or villains, where you go, I go. And as long as I have you, I am content.” Damian hummed. “And I don’t regret that. I never have, and never will.”
“I couldn’t agree more.” Dick looked up at him, then wrapped his arms protectively around Damian’s hips. “...If any members of the Court so much as look at you, I’m taking them down. I swear.”
Damian laughed, even as Dick kissed his chin. Adoringly, still apologetically.
OMG! How do you have the patience for this? All the detail! I'm crying just from looking at it.
For the bottom panel I am using a reference from the game, which helps! I taught myself a while ago how to draw a bunch of different rock types, so for most of the details in a natural environment like this I tend to zone out and freehand a lot :D
I absolutely love the idea of Bruce in charge of the Court of Owls, and Damian sneaking off the join the League. And it makes my dark heart happy that Dick isn't on Damian's side in this one, but Jay and Tim letting things 'slip' that allow him and the Kents to escape. I actually drew a picture of Dick capturing Damian to bring him back to the Court, but Tumblr doesn't let me link here. Is Dick attached to Dami here like he is usually? Or more like Dami is his father's heir?
Mmm, I feel like while Damian is trained as a Talon like the rest of them, and works with them and all that/is not special in that aspect, he’s held in a little higher regard because he is Bruce’s son. So I don’t think they’d be attached emotionally really, but Dick’s been trained his whole life to protect the grandmaster/Bruce. And once Damian was born, that protection was shifted to Damian as well. (Same with the other Talons. In any mission, the goal is always protect Bruce, and if worst comes to worst, make sure Bruce and Damian get out and are able to return to the leadership of the league.)
But Bruce is still top dog, so when Bruce says jump - or in this case, bring his son back into the fold by whatever means necessary - Dick says how high. And the younger ones are supposed to, but they all have their own ideas sometimes. They haven’t been brainwashed as long as Dick has.
I feel like Jason or Tim would ‘help’ Damian because as the second, Jason would get how it feels to potentially never be good enough, a replacement, or replaceable. And I think just since they’re closer in age, Tim might have been one of Damian’s tutors or trained with him when they were younger or something, so were just more often together, and had those ‘what do you think is on the surface world/beyond those walls’ kind of talks that DOES emotionally bond them.
