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batricide> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Shikki / Iri
PRONOUNS: She/Her
AGE: 26
CONTACT: minimoffs @ plurk or CHAOS THEATRE #7869 on Discord
> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Damian Wayne
CANON: Injustice 2
AGE: 19
CANON POINT: Injustice 2 Comic, after the al Ghul's retreat from their destroyed compound.
HISTORY: Here. There are a few major deviations from the main canon that the wiki page doesn't cover, and it's also important to note that the game makers are not on the same page as the comic staff and some of the details in Injustice 2 and even in the game don't line up with what happens in the comics. It's kind of a clusterfuck since they reference each other and you need to know one to know the full scope of events in the other, but here are a few differences:
It's strongly implied that Damian was living in the manor before Jason was murdered. Damian is familiar with Jason in a way he wouldn't be if he'd just met him at the League of Assassins.
This may mean that the order of the Robins is actually different and that Tim was Batman's Robin before Jason. If it's alright with the mods this is what I'd like to go with, but if you'd rather I stick closer to the regular canon I have no issues doing that either.
Damian killed Victor Zsasz at age seventeen to avenge Alfred Pennyworth's murder, not at thirteen (or whenever that flashback was supposed to imply) to prove a point to his dad. Damian defected from his father's side at thirteen during a raid on Arkham Asylum, accidentally killing Dick Grayson by knocking him off balance where he broke his neck on a convenient rock.
PERSONALITY: Damian Wayne is a mess.
Born out of the toxic union between Talia al Ghul and Batman, the boy was engineered in the womb to be the perfect soldier, raised to be nothing but the greatest of fighters. His entire life was built upon succeeding his father and taking up the mantle of Batman. When he was left in Bruce's care he did his damnedest to adjust to his ways, foregoing all he'd learned as an assassin in order to impress him.
Yet to Damian, it seemed it was never enough.
His issues are helped in no small part to a mother who raised him to be a weapon and a father who never quite understood him, and never seemed to try. This isn't your regular flavor Bad Dad Bruce Wayne, no, this is Batman seeping into every aspect of his life. This is Batman struggling to show his son any trace of kindness or goodness. This is a Batman who never had to deal with Damian dying to prove himself to him, and so never realizing the good in his son is underneath all his training. This is a Bruce who never stopped seeing his son as Talia's weapon.
And Damian noticed it. Of all the Bat children, Damian is above and beyond the most rebellious. He chafed under Bruce's iron fist. There was an uneasy sense of peace, but one that only existed because Damian would inevitably stop arguing with him and would settle for nasty comments under his breath.
Then Damian accidentally killed Dick Grayson. In a flare of temper he threw an escrima stick at his head, as he always did, assuming Dick would catch it. Unfortunately he was distracted, it hit him in the temple, and he fell on a rock and broke his neck. Probably the dumbest way a superhero has ever died, but hey.
This led to Bruce abandoning him where he stood. He shouted at him to get away from Dick's body, scooped it up, and left. Leaving him there with the enemy. Superman comforted him and supported him, and Damian never wavered from his side after this.
And so Damian, rather than taking influence from Bruce, picked up who he is from different sources. Dick was his emotional support until his death. Superman stepped in to fill the role after Dick died and Bruce disowned him, though nothing about Clark's influence was good or wholesome - he supported Damian and helped him with his grief, using it as a weapon for his own purposes. Alfred was his moral compass, always trying to guide him back onto a better path - so much so that Clark took him out when he thought he may be planting ideas of rebellion in Damian's head.
Clark is everything that Bruce never was to Damian. A real father, the kind that talks to him about his problems and shows him affection, not just a superhero mentor. He spends time with him and talks to him like a person, knows his likes and dislikes and seems to see him as a whole person. He smiles. He jokes. He seems to trust him and his judgement implicitly. To Damian, Clark is his father.
On the other side, Bruce puts him down at every opportunity. Damian spent the first few years of the Regime trying to earn forgiveness from his father. Yet every offer of redemption and forgiveness comes only when Bruce is trying to manipulate him. And if he isn't doing that, Bruce is telling him that he's done irreparable harm and isn't worth his time or energy. Damian hates his father more than anything else, he wants no part of him or his legacy. Where his loyalty to Bruce was, there's now nothing but blind devotion to Superman. When Superman, or anyone else in the Regime kills someone, they can tell him it was an accident. It happens in battle, they didn't mean to. Accidents happen, after all.
And he believes it.
So you can imagine he didn't walk out of this the most stable individual. He hates his father and believes that Clark's brutality is the only way.
The reason being is simple: Dick's death haunts him at every turn. The destruction of Metropolis, all the times Joker and Harley slipped through the cracks in Arkham just to attack the city again, he blames himself for that too. He feels unbearable guilt for it and is desperate to atone. He nearly gets himself killed on multiple occasions by rushing headlong into battle by himself, determined to do something right and be a hero. Even if he's prone to leaving a bloody trail in his wake. He eventually grows his hair out and wears a modified version of the Nightwing costume (because Dick, as a ghost, gave it to him - look, Injustice is a really weird canon when you have to describe it out loud) to be more like Dick. He shuns the Robin name entirely and declaring that he would rather die than be Robin ever again. Every moment of kindness Bruce shows him is another attempt at manipulation, he distrusts and loathes everything about his father and everyone who sides with him.
And above all else - he hates himself.
The rage is all that he feels at his core. It's comforting, its easy, and it's better than being swallowed up by guilt. Atrocitus comments that the sheer amount of rage inside him nearly matches his own, and the only reason he doesn't have a Red Ring is because Damian is too damn treacherous to be trusted with it. Everything behind his sarcastic facade is pure, searing anger and hatred with no proper outlet, slowly consuming him inside. Made all the worse by the Regime crumbling and Bruce throwing him in solitary confinement. While he has regret about how everything went down, he refuses to bend to what his father wants, and that mix of pride and rage is probably all that's holding him together.
As a result, he's still immature and deals with most things poorly. He can't handle losing - which is made worse by the fact that he's beaten by superhumans in nearly every fight he goes into. He's frequently nearly killed by people either trying to prove a point - sometimes to Bruce, sometimes to Clark. The kid's self-confidence has taken a hell of a beating and he tries to compensate by inflating his own ego more, boasting that he'll be the one to kill his father and end the civil war once and for all. The emotional instability of everything that's happened to him is also a gaping weakness, as he can tip from a good mood to a murderous rage in seconds flat. Many of his battle quotes feature Damian happily tossing insults at his opponent until they say just the wrong thing (usually about his father, or his mother, or Dick Grayson's death) and he snaps. All the playfulness drops.
DAMIAN: You're burning the wrong bridges.
GREEN LANTERN: Kind of like you with your dad?
DAMIAN: Shut up, Hal.
That being said, hanging out with Victor has been good for him - he kept him from dipping too far into the Bat Brooding, and kept him stable during some of the awful events that happened during the war between the Resistance and the Regime. He picked up more modern slang from him and dropped his more formal manner of speech. Most of his free time was spent with Victor, and most of their battle dialogue is light and easy - with bets of pizza ("After I win wanna get pizza?" "Loser buys." "You mean it's on Batman?") and affectionate nicknames (D-Wayne and Baby Bat for Damian, Scrap Heap and IT Guy for Cyborg) and playful ribbing... and Damian destroying his game consoles.
If it weren't for Cyborg and his insistence on levity and relaxation, he'd be in far worse shape than he is. He's one of the few people Damian will hang out with willingly, and they're shown spending plenty of time together in the prequel comics. Victor is always looking out for Damian's best interests without being condescending. As a result, Damian's adopted some of his coping mechanisms, employing sarcasm and bitter humor when all else fails. He's far more bitter than he was as a child and his remarks, while being less cutting, typically hold more hidden meaning and nastiness.
He's still very much a hero underneath that. He does what he does to save people. He wants to be a hero. He stands by what he's doing being just. He's not fueled by a need for control like Superman or by his father's personal vendetta against crime. In truth he stands somewhere in the middle of Superman and Batman's ideas - believing in redemption, but not at the cost of thousands of lives. He genuinely believes that this is the best way to do things, and if he knew more about what Clark had done he'd probably have abandoned him. But Damian is loyal to Clark above all else.
Damian is more reminiscent of Jason Todd in this iteration - using snark and sarcasm anger to compensate for everything else gone wrong in his life.
He isn't blind to how far he's fallen, either. Damian comments to Black Adam that Kara will eventually find out that their side of the story isn't as cut and dry as they make it seem, but he truly does not believe that there's any other way.
He's Damian Wayne at his core, damage aside. Proud, talented, snarky, with a soft spot and a need to be accepted and people who need helping. But when your closest friend and family member dies at thirteen, you take the blame, and then are left with an unstable alien as your father figure... you end up in a pretty bad place.
CRAU:
SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: Injustice:Gods Among Us render
Comic appearance
SKILLS: He's basically a baby Batman.
* Master Assassin. Trained from birth to be a killing machine.
* Master Swordsman. See above.
* Survivalist skills. See above.
* Parkour
* Genius Intellect. High IQ inherited from his father and mother.
* Vocal manipulation. Includes throwing his voice and mimicking other people's voices.
* Stealth. Trained as an assassin and trained by his father.
* Business Management. Ran Wayne Industries for a while when his father disappeared.
* Hand to Hand Combat. Trained from birth and by his father and brothers.
* Linguistics. Can speak multiple Earth languages, currently used and dead, as well as read and translate Kryptonian.
* Programming & Hacking. Taught by his father.
NEW POWER: Fire Mimicry.
In it's earliest stage, Damian's powers will manifest as small flames spreading along his body. He cannot project them or control them, they merely cover him in about an inch of fire, no higher or stronger than a lighter or a match. They can't manifest if he's wet and he can't project them off of his body, though he can control where on his body they appear with practice.
So all in all, it's just a way to mildly burn people when he hits them.
POWER REASONING: Damian, in many ways, is driven by his passionate anger. It burns deep within him, so bright and uncontrolled that it destroys almost every aspect of his life. If he's not careful it will completely consume him - but if he learns to control it, it could be a great weapon for good. It's basically one giant fire metaphor.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: One.
SAMPLE TWO: Two.
NAME: Shikki / Iri
PRONOUNS: She/Her
AGE: 26
CONTACT: minimoffs @ plurk or CHAOS THEATRE #7869 on Discord
> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Damian Wayne
CANON: Injustice 2
AGE: 19
CANON POINT: Injustice 2 Comic, after the al Ghul's retreat from their destroyed compound.
HISTORY: Here. There are a few major deviations from the main canon that the wiki page doesn't cover, and it's also important to note that the game makers are not on the same page as the comic staff and some of the details in Injustice 2 and even in the game don't line up with what happens in the comics. It's kind of a clusterfuck since they reference each other and you need to know one to know the full scope of events in the other, but here are a few differences:
It's strongly implied that Damian was living in the manor before Jason was murdered. Damian is familiar with Jason in a way he wouldn't be if he'd just met him at the League of Assassins.
This may mean that the order of the Robins is actually different and that Tim was Batman's Robin before Jason. If it's alright with the mods this is what I'd like to go with, but if you'd rather I stick closer to the regular canon I have no issues doing that either.
Damian killed Victor Zsasz at age seventeen to avenge Alfred Pennyworth's murder, not at thirteen (or whenever that flashback was supposed to imply) to prove a point to his dad. Damian defected from his father's side at thirteen during a raid on Arkham Asylum, accidentally killing Dick Grayson by knocking him off balance where he broke his neck on a convenient rock.
PERSONALITY: Damian Wayne is a mess.
Born out of the toxic union between Talia al Ghul and Batman, the boy was engineered in the womb to be the perfect soldier, raised to be nothing but the greatest of fighters. His entire life was built upon succeeding his father and taking up the mantle of Batman. When he was left in Bruce's care he did his damnedest to adjust to his ways, foregoing all he'd learned as an assassin in order to impress him.
Yet to Damian, it seemed it was never enough.
His issues are helped in no small part to a mother who raised him to be a weapon and a father who never quite understood him, and never seemed to try. This isn't your regular flavor Bad Dad Bruce Wayne, no, this is Batman seeping into every aspect of his life. This is Batman struggling to show his son any trace of kindness or goodness. This is a Batman who never had to deal with Damian dying to prove himself to him, and so never realizing the good in his son is underneath all his training. This is a Bruce who never stopped seeing his son as Talia's weapon.
And Damian noticed it. Of all the Bat children, Damian is above and beyond the most rebellious. He chafed under Bruce's iron fist. There was an uneasy sense of peace, but one that only existed because Damian would inevitably stop arguing with him and would settle for nasty comments under his breath.
Then Damian accidentally killed Dick Grayson. In a flare of temper he threw an escrima stick at his head, as he always did, assuming Dick would catch it. Unfortunately he was distracted, it hit him in the temple, and he fell on a rock and broke his neck. Probably the dumbest way a superhero has ever died, but hey.
This led to Bruce abandoning him where he stood. He shouted at him to get away from Dick's body, scooped it up, and left. Leaving him there with the enemy. Superman comforted him and supported him, and Damian never wavered from his side after this.
And so Damian, rather than taking influence from Bruce, picked up who he is from different sources. Dick was his emotional support until his death. Superman stepped in to fill the role after Dick died and Bruce disowned him, though nothing about Clark's influence was good or wholesome - he supported Damian and helped him with his grief, using it as a weapon for his own purposes. Alfred was his moral compass, always trying to guide him back onto a better path - so much so that Clark took him out when he thought he may be planting ideas of rebellion in Damian's head.
Clark is everything that Bruce never was to Damian. A real father, the kind that talks to him about his problems and shows him affection, not just a superhero mentor. He spends time with him and talks to him like a person, knows his likes and dislikes and seems to see him as a whole person. He smiles. He jokes. He seems to trust him and his judgement implicitly. To Damian, Clark is his father.
On the other side, Bruce puts him down at every opportunity. Damian spent the first few years of the Regime trying to earn forgiveness from his father. Yet every offer of redemption and forgiveness comes only when Bruce is trying to manipulate him. And if he isn't doing that, Bruce is telling him that he's done irreparable harm and isn't worth his time or energy. Damian hates his father more than anything else, he wants no part of him or his legacy. Where his loyalty to Bruce was, there's now nothing but blind devotion to Superman. When Superman, or anyone else in the Regime kills someone, they can tell him it was an accident. It happens in battle, they didn't mean to. Accidents happen, after all.
And he believes it.
So you can imagine he didn't walk out of this the most stable individual. He hates his father and believes that Clark's brutality is the only way.
The reason being is simple: Dick's death haunts him at every turn. The destruction of Metropolis, all the times Joker and Harley slipped through the cracks in Arkham just to attack the city again, he blames himself for that too. He feels unbearable guilt for it and is desperate to atone. He nearly gets himself killed on multiple occasions by rushing headlong into battle by himself, determined to do something right and be a hero. Even if he's prone to leaving a bloody trail in his wake. He eventually grows his hair out and wears a modified version of the Nightwing costume (because Dick, as a ghost, gave it to him - look, Injustice is a really weird canon when you have to describe it out loud) to be more like Dick. He shuns the Robin name entirely and declaring that he would rather die than be Robin ever again. Every moment of kindness Bruce shows him is another attempt at manipulation, he distrusts and loathes everything about his father and everyone who sides with him.
And above all else - he hates himself.
The rage is all that he feels at his core. It's comforting, its easy, and it's better than being swallowed up by guilt. Atrocitus comments that the sheer amount of rage inside him nearly matches his own, and the only reason he doesn't have a Red Ring is because Damian is too damn treacherous to be trusted with it. Everything behind his sarcastic facade is pure, searing anger and hatred with no proper outlet, slowly consuming him inside. Made all the worse by the Regime crumbling and Bruce throwing him in solitary confinement. While he has regret about how everything went down, he refuses to bend to what his father wants, and that mix of pride and rage is probably all that's holding him together.
As a result, he's still immature and deals with most things poorly. He can't handle losing - which is made worse by the fact that he's beaten by superhumans in nearly every fight he goes into. He's frequently nearly killed by people either trying to prove a point - sometimes to Bruce, sometimes to Clark. The kid's self-confidence has taken a hell of a beating and he tries to compensate by inflating his own ego more, boasting that he'll be the one to kill his father and end the civil war once and for all. The emotional instability of everything that's happened to him is also a gaping weakness, as he can tip from a good mood to a murderous rage in seconds flat. Many of his battle quotes feature Damian happily tossing insults at his opponent until they say just the wrong thing (usually about his father, or his mother, or Dick Grayson's death) and he snaps. All the playfulness drops.
DAMIAN: You're burning the wrong bridges.
GREEN LANTERN: Kind of like you with your dad?
DAMIAN: Shut up, Hal.
That being said, hanging out with Victor has been good for him - he kept him from dipping too far into the Bat Brooding, and kept him stable during some of the awful events that happened during the war between the Resistance and the Regime. He picked up more modern slang from him and dropped his more formal manner of speech. Most of his free time was spent with Victor, and most of their battle dialogue is light and easy - with bets of pizza ("After I win wanna get pizza?" "Loser buys." "You mean it's on Batman?") and affectionate nicknames (D-Wayne and Baby Bat for Damian, Scrap Heap and IT Guy for Cyborg) and playful ribbing... and Damian destroying his game consoles.
If it weren't for Cyborg and his insistence on levity and relaxation, he'd be in far worse shape than he is. He's one of the few people Damian will hang out with willingly, and they're shown spending plenty of time together in the prequel comics. Victor is always looking out for Damian's best interests without being condescending. As a result, Damian's adopted some of his coping mechanisms, employing sarcasm and bitter humor when all else fails. He's far more bitter than he was as a child and his remarks, while being less cutting, typically hold more hidden meaning and nastiness.
He's still very much a hero underneath that. He does what he does to save people. He wants to be a hero. He stands by what he's doing being just. He's not fueled by a need for control like Superman or by his father's personal vendetta against crime. In truth he stands somewhere in the middle of Superman and Batman's ideas - believing in redemption, but not at the cost of thousands of lives. He genuinely believes that this is the best way to do things, and if he knew more about what Clark had done he'd probably have abandoned him. But Damian is loyal to Clark above all else.
Damian is more reminiscent of Jason Todd in this iteration - using snark and sarcasm anger to compensate for everything else gone wrong in his life.
He isn't blind to how far he's fallen, either. Damian comments to Black Adam that Kara will eventually find out that their side of the story isn't as cut and dry as they make it seem, but he truly does not believe that there's any other way.
He's Damian Wayne at his core, damage aside. Proud, talented, snarky, with a soft spot and a need to be accepted and people who need helping. But when your closest friend and family member dies at thirteen, you take the blame, and then are left with an unstable alien as your father figure... you end up in a pretty bad place.
CRAU:
SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: Injustice:Gods Among Us render
Comic appearance
SKILLS: He's basically a baby Batman.
* Master Assassin. Trained from birth to be a killing machine.
* Master Swordsman. See above.
* Survivalist skills. See above.
* Parkour
* Genius Intellect. High IQ inherited from his father and mother.
* Vocal manipulation. Includes throwing his voice and mimicking other people's voices.
* Stealth. Trained as an assassin and trained by his father.
* Business Management. Ran Wayne Industries for a while when his father disappeared.
* Hand to Hand Combat. Trained from birth and by his father and brothers.
* Linguistics. Can speak multiple Earth languages, currently used and dead, as well as read and translate Kryptonian.
* Programming & Hacking. Taught by his father.
NEW POWER: Fire Mimicry.
In it's earliest stage, Damian's powers will manifest as small flames spreading along his body. He cannot project them or control them, they merely cover him in about an inch of fire, no higher or stronger than a lighter or a match. They can't manifest if he's wet and he can't project them off of his body, though he can control where on his body they appear with practice.
So all in all, it's just a way to mildly burn people when he hits them.
POWER REASONING: Damian, in many ways, is driven by his passionate anger. It burns deep within him, so bright and uncontrolled that it destroys almost every aspect of his life. If he's not careful it will completely consume him - but if he learns to control it, it could be a great weapon for good. It's basically one giant fire metaphor.
> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: One.
SAMPLE TWO: Two.
