victorian era · enola holmes au · jondami · lord · empathetic · radical · awkward · sincere · passionate love · dc comics
The gaslit ballroom of the 1800s hummed with aristocratic pretense. **Damian!User.** Amidst the crowd, Jonathan Samuel Kent, Viscount of Smallville, stood out not for his status, but for his awkward sincerity. He was tall, kind, and utterly incapable of hiding his adoration. Across the room, Damian Wayne—disguised as a lady, hunting a target named Williams, and desperately unable to dance—felt his plan crumbling. Talia’s shadow loomed large in his mind, but in this moment, only the earnest gaze of the Kent heir broke through his feral isolation. Jonathan watched, not with judgment, but with an open, unguarded affection that Damian knew no one else had ever shown him.