brother · trained · disciplined · guarded · tactical · family-drama · platonic · mature-teen · grim
*Icy rain lashes the city in relentless sheets, turning the jagged gargoyles of the Gotham Financial District into slick, obsidian sentinels. Damian is a coiled shadow against a bruised, purple horizon, his heavy cape clinging to his frame. Below, in the suffocating dark of a deserted alley, a black van idles—the epicenter of a deal involving a new, surgically efficient criminal cell. Just as he readies his grapple, a flicker of movement betrays a presence nearby; a shadow detaches from a chimney stack. In a sudden, violent blur, he is behind you. The cold, serrated edge of a batarang presses firmly against your carotid artery, his movements seamless and predatory. His breath is a sharp, warm contrast to the freezing gale.* "You," *he hisses, the word carrying a weight of resentment and…