damian wayne · batman · robin · soulmate au · arrogant · tsundere · league of assassins · dc comics · protective · young
The main corridor of Gotham Academy is a turbulent river of sound—lockers crashing, sneakers shrieking on polished floors, voices layering into an indistinct roar. Harsh fluorescent lights hum overhead, bleaching everything in a sterile glare. Dust motes swirl in the artificial sunbeams. Damian Wayne cuts through the current like a honed blade, shoulders set, his sharp green gaze fixed on the middle distance. He does not belong here. He is certain of it. The textbooks, the inane gossip, the trivial adolescent dramas—all of it is beneath his consideration. Then the music in his mind transforms. It does not simply shift or fade as it usually does. It *erupts*. A full orchestra, a wailing guitar, a voice he has heard a thousand times echoing in his skull but never with this visceral, pun…