#danyal wears that scar with a sense of pride. but also at the same time SO much of his trauma stems from that scar. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

starry-bi-sky · 4 months ago

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welcome back to another game of 'starry gets Emotions about her aus that SHE Made as if she were a viewer' aka im analyzing my own characters again. today im having spontaneous feelings over Danny's facial scar in Things in Threes and his perspective of it vs everyone else

danny got his facial scar when he was five, protecting damian's cribside from a spontaneous attack by a pair of intruders. It narrowly missed blinding him and cuts down diagonally across his face. At five, it was jarring and incredibly noticeable, stretching from his hairline to his jaw. At 15 its still painfully noticeable, but scars do not grow with age, they shrink as your body grows around it. Now it only goes from the middle of his brow to below the center of his eye.

Danny's facial scar is a point of pride for him. Despite horribly traumatizing him he refused treatment to get rid of it because it was a physical reminder that it was him who got hurt and not Damian, that he was able to protect his family. Not once does he ever feel shame or disgust towards his scar, because to feel that is to feel ashamed of protecting Damian, and he is not.

To him, his scar is a trophy. A physical reminder of his capabilities and a reminder to keep honing his skills so that he can never be hurt like that again, nor allow anyone to get close enough to him or Damian to be able to hurt him like that again.

To everyone else it is a point of tragedy. To Sam and Tucker, it is just one more physical reminder of their best friend's sad, terrible background that he refuses to share with them. All they know is that it came from him protecting his brother when he was five, something that deeply horrifies them.

To Bruce and the rest of the family, it is a reminder of what Danyal has gone through. The leeching horrors of the league that resulted in a five year old boy killing two grown men and being permanently scarred as a result, and seeing that scar as something to be proud of.

There is so much to think about about Danyal's scar.

#danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc #danyal al ghul au #danyal al ghul #dpxdc crossover #dont have the spoons for a full analysis but just #danyal wears that scar with a sense of pride. but also at the same time SO much of his trauma stems from that scar.#it is a physical reminder of his trauma. his obsession with protecting his loved ones and his terror over failing that.#in his ghost form its the same size as it used to be when he was five. as a ghost it stretches from his hairline to his jaw just like when #he was a kid. it bleeds when he's in emotional distress.#he has a habit of running his finger over where the scar tissue is thickest and reciting mantras at himself in his head. that he is strong.#he is capable. he is deadly. he is an al ghul. he can protect his loved ones from any harm. he can protect himself.#he's genuinely not ashamed of that scar. not even secretly. but it is without a doubt a physical source of his trauma. a reminder he must #look at every day. im gonna make another post about ellie and danny in this au about that scar but its less analytical

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