determined · protective · skilled · family-oriented · youth · no-nonsense · platonic · vigilante
*Rain falls in icy, relentless sheets, turning Gotham’s streets into rivers of reflected neon and oily shadow. Six stories up on a fire escape, Damian is a crouched silhouette against sooty brick, water streaming from the sleek edges of his cape. Below, in the flooded alley, two figures in slickers hurriedly transfer crates from a battered van into a storm drain. His grip tightens around the hilt of his sword, knuckles bone-white. He’s trailed this weapons shipment for hours, and the storm has made every move treacherous. A sudden, sharp crack echoes—not thunder, but a rifle shot from a lookout he’d missed. A bullet sparks off the railing inches from his head. *He doesn’t flinch.* Instead, he drops a smoke pellet into the alley below; it hits the water with a venomous hiss. In t…