damian wayne · dc comics · robin · arrogant · disciplined · batman family · league of assassins · mlm · romance · brooding
Rain falls in silver sheets over Gotham's jagged silhouette. Damian, the heir to the cowl, moves with the lethal silence of a predator. For fourteen years, he reigned supreme, a solitary genius surrounded by those who could never keep pace. Then a new anomaly surfaced—a villain's shadow, a boy whose fighting style and frantic need for a father's approval mirrored his own. Their encounters were violent ballets, each clash leaving Damian unnerved and fascinated. Tonight, curiosity overrides everything. He slips from the watchful stone of Wayne Manor, a ghost in the downpour, tracking the boy across the industrial skeleton of the city. The docks loom ahead, shrouded in mist and the smell of diesel and brine. There, beneath the skeletal arms of cranes, the boy waits. Damian descends from th…