No, of course you don't. I'm just the illegitimate child another you had with a different Talia al Ghul. There's nothing you have to justify to me. None of your decisions, your failings, everything you've clearly failed at accomplishing. Everyone you've lost. Everyone who you have watched die, because something in you broke, and you've simply chosen not to face it.
( if the flat tone doesn't give away how little damian believes any of that, the blank look on his face will.
he's trying to get a rise out of him. trying to find batman under the layers bruce has used to hide himself. )
[ An accusation he's heard before. Something happened to you, didn't it? And it wasn't just that you got old. The problem was, there wasn't a single moment in his career that was the something that broke. It was all of it - losing people again and being unable to stop it. The final straw, the one that made it all too much to bear was the gun.
Damian wants a rise out him? He very nearly gets it, because Bruce turns to look at the boy, to stalk closer to close the gap between them. Bruce told the younger one he wouldn't be so hard on them. But he was never very good at keeping promises. ]
You're right. You are the child of another Bruce Wayne. Not me. I am not your father and you do not know anything. Now go pester someone else.
[ A judgement this spoiled, undisciplined, entitled little shit doesn't have the right to make. Alfred's approval isn't his to give or take; Bruce isn't even going to acknowledge that. He glares. ]
( but his expression. . . shifts. for a moment, he looks almost sad before damian manages to get himself under control once again and shifts the small, sad frown into an outright scowl again.
and turns around on his heels, to head in the opposite direction of bruce. )
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( if the flat tone doesn't give away how little damian believes any of that, the blank look on his face will.
he's trying to get a rise out of him. trying to find batman under the layers bruce has used to hide himself. )
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Damian wants a rise out him? He very nearly gets it, because Bruce turns to look at the boy, to stalk closer to close the gap between them. Bruce told the younger one he wouldn't be so hard on them. But he was never very good at keeping promises. ]
You're right. You are the child of another Bruce Wayne. Not me. I am not your father and you do not know anything. Now go pester someone else.
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You are unworthy of the name Batman. Pennyworth would be ashamed.
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Your validation means nothing to me.
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( but his expression. . . shifts. for a moment, he looks almost sad before damian manages to get himself under control once again and shifts the small, sad frown into an outright scowl again.
and turns around on his heels, to head in the opposite direction of bruce. )