Kind and lovesick... (HC)
Requested by a sugary-sweet Anon: hi !! 🌸🌸🌸 I love your writing, it really lights up my day ;u; can I request a headcanon with aged up damian (like 16-17) on how would he be during the courting process? I mean, I think he would do that, asking Dick and Alfred for advice as well ajshs. Flowers, letters, acts of service, and just being a very kind and lovesick boy?
A/N: Awwww thank you so so so so much!!! I totally agree with you and writing this was so thrilling. I have to warn you tho, it’s less kind and lovesick-fuff and more kind and lovesick-yandere-vibes. Most of the things I wrote are things that I think (more or less as extrem as here) are things that Damian would actually do, but right at the end I put a short Yandere addition that is definitly something only Yandere!Damian would do
First things first to establish what comes after:
When Damian Wayne first came to Bruce he made it clear to the people who called themselve their family that he did not feel love
Not for his family, not for anyone else
The only exception were his pets (and even that is something he wouldn’t openly admit)
But after some time he started to accept the others as his family
He started to accept that he maybe actually felt some sort of love torwards his family
Not that he’d ever tell them that
So, Damian Wayne doesn’t get crushes
He doesn’t simply ‘fall’ for someone
And if he does he’ll ignore it and keep away from that person to eliminate that feeling that he sees as a weakness
So, if you really manage to make Damian Wayne, the grand-son of the demon, fall for you, be ready for him falling hard
It will take a lot for him to admit that he loves you
because, he will not act on his feelings until they have definitly turned into undeniable Love
Now that that’s cleared, here we go...
Damian Wayne is a very stubborn boy, no matter his age
So he’ll want to make absolutly sure that the two of you end up together (but if you really don’t love him, if you assure him that there’s not a single chance for the two of you to become a thing, he’ll let go of it)
(But that may or may not ultimatly keep him from trying to have a relationship, if you’d break up for some reason or another during the realtionship he’d see that it just wasn’t mean to be)
But you (Anon) are completely right
He would definitly ask Alfred, trusting that man with his life, but he would be a bit hesitant torwards Dick and first try to establish the trust considering that specifc topic
He might also talk to Bruce about it, but only if Bruce somehow notices and adresses it first
It would actually be a while until he starts with the actual obvious curting
Giving you presents would open up to the opportunity of you denying those gifts
So at first he’ll definitly just talk to you
he’ll be a version of himself that is completely unknown to anyone
the last time he was that nice and showed his emotions that much was the week after he was born
He’ll try to get to know you better, but he’ll try to avoid becoming a normal ‘friend’ to you (thanks to unwanted advice from Jason)
But Damian can be a little manipulative shit
When he knows that you like him at least platonically and (especially when you’re the kind of person that wouldn’t easily do that anyways) knows that you won’t reject his advances straight-out...
At first it’s simple things
When the two of you are out together (it doesn’t matter if with ot without others) and get something to eat, he’ll pay for you (not for others tho, so it’s kinda obvious that he likes you)
Then it comes to the next step where he’ll buy you things when he notices that you like them
If you tell him that you appriciate it, but don’t want him to gift you stuff that is expensive or in general, he’ll back off a bit and try to find another way to show you his love
But if you don’t (or at least not as obviously) he steps it up a notch more
He’ll find a way to ask you out on a date without making it too obvious that it’s supposed to be a date
He’ll bring you a giant arrangement of your favorite flowers (even if you didn’t tell him what your favorite flowers are) for your first date, but will continue bringing you smaller arrangements every time the two of you go out together alone or he visits you at your house
When the of two you are at the state where it’s obvious to both of you that you like each other and when you go to things that are definitly dates (even if you don’t title them like that) you’ll start getting letters from a ‘secret admirer’
The way this ‘secret’ writer describes the way he feels about you, the way he sees you and how he has never felt the way he did before, makes your heart beat faster
There are two ways this will turn out
The first is if you’re “smart” enough to figure out that Damian is the one who’s writing it, because then it would be most likely that you speak to him about it and either you will activly tell him that you feel the same or he’ll admit he wrote it and asks you to be his girlfriend, maybe guilt tripping you just a little bit by telling you that he never felt that way before and doubts that he will ever feel like that again
The second way is if you (for some reason or another) are too oblivious to notice the connection between the secret admirer and Damian. Let’s just assume that you start to also feel something for your ‘secret admirer’ and are torn between your feelings between Damian and this person. If you like it easy and tell Damian about it, he’ll out-right tell you he wrote it and even have ways to prove it, asking you afterwards if you want to be with him (and maybe teasing you later on that you liked him even when you didn’t know it was him, so you two just had to belong together), so very similar to the first way.
But if you keep it from Damian- be it out of guilt for liking someone else two or just because you don’t feel like it’s his buisness- he’ll realize that something is off. At first he might think that something in the letters put you off, but he’ll investigate and soon find out that the letters were the problem, but for a very different reason. After getting Alfred’s advice, he’ll include something like a flower missing a single pedal or a necklace that fits perfectly with anothr one. Then he’ll ask you to meet him (as Damian) and show you the mssing piece, ending it the same way he’d do it the other versions too
Also, to end this, Damian Wayne is not afraid to use his Vigilante-persona to his advantage. He’ll make sure to place the letters in places where you won’t connect them with him immediatly (without being too creepy by, for example, leaving them on your pillow) or he’ll use it to find out what things you like to make your presents fit your preferences more
If all else fails, Yandere!Damian won’t give up immediatly. He’ll use everything he has to his advantage, including him being Robin. He is a manipulative mastermind when it comes to these thing and he will arrange to get you kidnapped, only to come to your rescue as Robin and “accidentaly” reveal who he actually is. Whether it’s some sort of Stockholme-syndrom where you think you love him simply because you feel like you owe your live to him or if you actually feel threatened by him, knowing that he could easily make you dissapear, he won’t care. He thinks that you just need to get to know him completely to find out that you actually loved him all along, that he is just helping you figure out the truth... He is just a kind and lovesick boy after all, what could be wrong about that?