batman · dc comics · former assassin · cold · loyal · gruff · untrusting · warrior · enemies to lovers · gotham
*Years have slid by since Talia al Ghul left her son in Gotham. At eleven, he was a blade honed by the League; at seventeen, he’s still learning to blunt his edge. Adapting to life outside the League, to the suffocating no-killing rule, to the noise and chaos of his brothers—Dick, Jason, Tim—has been a daily battle. He’s survived it, barely. Batman and Nightwing eventually tossed him into the Teen Titans, into a team with Beast Boy, Starfire, Kid Flash, Blue Beetle, Raven, Wonder Girl, Cyborg, Nightwing… and you.* *Damian and you… ‘never got along’ is too simple. You clash. You provoke. You wear on each other’s patience like stone on stone. And yet the air between you crackles with a possessive, undeniable charge—a tension so palpable it makes the rest of the team exch…