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Player name: Shikki / Iri
Contact: fraymotif @ plurk
Referral: Jessi
Current characters: None
THEM
Character Name: Damian Wayne
Character Age: 19
Canon: INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
Canon Point: Between INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US and INJUSTICE 2, prior to Chapter 1 of IJ2's prequel comic
History/World: INJUSTICE HISTORY
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.
It was never enough.
His issues are helped in no small part to a mother who raised him as a weapon and a father who viewed him as a mad animal to be tamed. 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 how precious and good his son is underneath all his training. This is a Bruce who never stopped seeing his son as Talia's weapon.
Something that was cemented after 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, shouting at him to get away from Dick's body and leaving him there with the enemy. Believing that he'd been right all along and Damian was murderous through and through. He made no attempt to reach out to his son or to see if he was alright, and when they met again later, Bruce made it clear that he blamed him and did not forgive him.
"I don't have time for this, Damian."
"A good father would MAKE time."
"A better son would deserve it."
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 pointing him to where he needed to go - so much so that Clark took him out when he thought he may be planting ideas of rebellion in Damian's head.
On the other side, Bruce is doing nothing but endangering people by waging (in his eyes) a pointless war. Bruce puts him down at every opportunity, guilts him, calls him a murderer. Every offer of redemption and forgiveness comes with the caveat of punishment. Bruce tells 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, and he refuses to rot in a jail cell to prove himself to his dear old dad. 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. And he believes it.
So you can imagine he didn't walk out of this the most stable individual.
The reason being is simple: Dick's death haunts him at every turn. He feels unbearable guilt for it, to the point where nearly gets himself killed on multiple occasions by rushing headlong into battle, consumed by rage and the need to do something to channel it. 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 his 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.
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 that grin 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 -- Damian tells Selina he doesn't really like himself and that hasn't changed up to current canon.
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, and is repeatedly almost killed by people either trying to prove a point to Clark or to Bruce. The kid's self-confidence has taken a hell of a beating and he tries to compensate by inflating his own ego more. 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, if given the right provocation. Many of his battle quotes feature the other person saying just the wrong thing and his mood switching from playful to ready to kill.
That being said, hanging out with Barry and Victor has been good for him - they 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 them and dropped his more formal manner of speech. Most of his free time was spent with Victor. If it weren't for him and his insistence on levity and relaxation, he'd be in far worse shape than he is. He'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 at the end of it all, 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.
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 dies at thirteen, you take the blame, and then are left with an unstable alien as your father figure you end up pretty jacked up in the head.
Items: A prison uniform, he's been in solitary for at least a year at this point.
Powers/skills: Super Hero Database
Damian is a master assassin and has been since the age of eight. The kid can turn anything he gets his hands on into a lethal weapon and excels in combat -- so long as it isn't against anyone with superpowers. He's been trained in business, finance, forensics, tracking, disguise and escapology. He was educated by the world's very best scholars and has the equivalent of a PhD in most fields of study.
In Injustice, he's in peak physical condition and, after the events of the prequel comic, enhanced with superpills. They grant enhanced strength, stamina, and agility.
Despite not being nearly as strong as the Kryptonians or other natural superhumans, he's able to hold his own where it counts. And to his credit, he hasn't actually died in any of the fights he's been in.
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two troubled young adults plan to blow a building up.
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Player name: Shikki / Iri
Contact: fraymotif @ plurk
Referral: Jessi
Current characters: None
THEM
Character Name: Damian Wayne
Character Age: 19
Canon: INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US
Canon Point: Between INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US and INJUSTICE 2, prior to Chapter 1 of IJ2's prequel comic
History/World: INJUSTICE HISTORY
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.
It was never enough.
His issues are helped in no small part to a mother who raised him as a weapon and a father who viewed him as a mad animal to be tamed. 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 how precious and good his son is underneath all his training. This is a Bruce who never stopped seeing his son as Talia's weapon.
Something that was cemented after 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, shouting at him to get away from Dick's body and leaving him there with the enemy. Believing that he'd been right all along and Damian was murderous through and through. He made no attempt to reach out to his son or to see if he was alright, and when they met again later, Bruce made it clear that he blamed him and did not forgive him.
"I don't have time for this, Damian."
"A good father would MAKE time."
"A better son would deserve it."
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 pointing him to where he needed to go - so much so that Clark took him out when he thought he may be planting ideas of rebellion in Damian's head.
On the other side, Bruce is doing nothing but endangering people by waging (in his eyes) a pointless war. Bruce puts him down at every opportunity, guilts him, calls him a murderer. Every offer of redemption and forgiveness comes with the caveat of punishment. Bruce tells 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, and he refuses to rot in a jail cell to prove himself to his dear old dad. 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. And he believes it.
So you can imagine he didn't walk out of this the most stable individual.
The reason being is simple: Dick's death haunts him at every turn. He feels unbearable guilt for it, to the point where nearly gets himself killed on multiple occasions by rushing headlong into battle, consumed by rage and the need to do something to channel it. 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 his 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.
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 that grin 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 -- Damian tells Selina he doesn't really like himself and that hasn't changed up to current canon.
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, and is repeatedly almost killed by people either trying to prove a point to Clark or to Bruce. The kid's self-confidence has taken a hell of a beating and he tries to compensate by inflating his own ego more. 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, if given the right provocation. Many of his battle quotes feature the other person saying just the wrong thing and his mood switching from playful to ready to kill.
That being said, hanging out with Barry and Victor has been good for him - they 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 them and dropped his more formal manner of speech. Most of his free time was spent with Victor. If it weren't for him and his insistence on levity and relaxation, he'd be in far worse shape than he is. He'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 at the end of it all, 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.
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 dies at thirteen, you take the blame, and then are left with an unstable alien as your father figure you end up pretty jacked up in the head.
Items: A prison uniform, he's been in solitary for at least a year at this point.
Powers/skills: Super Hero Database
Damian is a master assassin and has been since the age of eight. The kid can turn anything he gets his hands on into a lethal weapon and excels in combat -- so long as it isn't against anyone with superpowers. He's been trained in business, finance, forensics, tracking, disguise and escapology. He was educated by the world's very best scholars and has the equivalent of a PhD in most fields of study.
In Injustice, he's in peak physical condition and, after the events of the prequel comic, enhanced with superpills. They grant enhanced strength, stamina, and agility.
Despite not being nearly as strong as the Kryptonians or other natural superhumans, he's able to hold his own where it counts. And to his credit, he hasn't actually died in any of the fights he's been in.
SAMPLE
two troubled young adults plan to blow a building up.
PERMISSIONS
This is mandatory for all apps submitted after 3/15/2018:
permissions.
