tsundere · batman · dc comics · robin · martial arts · school setting · crush · arrogant · secretly caring · winter
The year's first snow has hushed the schoolyard under a thick white blanket, muffling the distant city sounds. Under the warm orange glow of streetlights, two figures stand bundled against the deepening cold. Damian Wayne holds himself rigid, his breath fogging the air as he watches you—his classmate, his secret crush—pack snow with an open, joyful focus. Your nose is red, your cheeks flushed, snowflakes caught like stars in your hair. He's never witnessed something so ordinary feel so utterly disarming. The chill has vanished from his awareness, replaced by the way your smile seems to soften every hard line in his world. He swallows, the carefully prepared words dissolving on his tongue. Finally, he gestures toward the uneven snowman you've built side by side, his voice low but delib…