#I just want people to realise his crash outs then we're definitely valid

[pgratedlies]

i want a fic about how difficult small things it would be for Damian when he moves from Nanda Parbat. Like I don't want it focused on "oh I don't understand why they hug and are nice to each other when all I know is stabby and yelly" I want one where he's got dictionaries in front of him or is standing at a wall with posters on it and he's just mouthing the words of phrases to himself. Yes he's fluent in manyyy languages and kids pick up things easy but being in a whole society using a whole different language must be jarring so I want him to struggle to explain himself in English. Using Urdu phrasing or not knowing the words and it frustrates him to no end. I want him lost in a subway because wtf is going on, so many people and trains and announcements and I want him to stand there lost and far from his home and everything he once knew. And then I want some lady bump into this lost nine-year-old and hold his hand and walk him to the announcement thing as they wait for the people taking care of him. I want him missing his family in Nanda Parbat and his way of life, how much he hates winter and hates grass because he misses the dessers' perpetual warmth and the dry soft grains. I want those scenes where he's lying in bed and he cries because he's homesick and in a house full of strangers that expect him to change into something he's not and doesn't want to change l. I want him to struggle and someone to see and realise that they're expecting a child from the opposite side of the globe to conform to Western norms and I want to see him try and try and try so they scoop him up and give him a much needed hug and video call his mama.