Damian is quietly exasperated. How can he explain something he'd barely understood at the time, anyway? Everything was politics. His mother needed his father's help because Ra's respected Bruce, and using him was a political statement in and of itself - a chance for her to formally begin seizing power. ]
It's different. [ He finally settles on, with an annoyed huff. ] Their values, how family worked -- it's just different. He was born for the role, and in their family, duty comes before love. Care, affection-- [ He shrugs, casually. ] --in a den of vipers, that's a weakness. Not like our family.
[ It had taken time, but Damian had eventually built into realization the kind of family he'd come to desire after time spent away from the League. One where love came before duty.
Their family is small, and varied, and might be volatile and fragile at times, but it's a family. The best one. ]
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W o w what a master detective not.Damian is quietly exasperated. How can he explain something he'd barely understood at the time, anyway? Everything was politics. His mother needed his father's help because Ra's respected Bruce, and using him was a political statement in and of itself - a chance for her to formally begin seizing power. ]
It's different. [ He finally settles on, with an annoyed huff. ] Their values, how family worked -- it's just different. He was born for the role, and in their family, duty comes before love. Care, affection-- [ He shrugs, casually. ] --in a den of vipers, that's a weakness. Not like our family.
[ It had taken time, but Damian had eventually built into realization the kind of family he'd come to desire after time spent away from the League. One where love came before duty.
Their family is small, and varied, and might be volatile and fragile at times, but it's a family. The best one. ]