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Losing my mind but the prospect of Damian being so otherworldly beautiful and thriving at the face of catastrophe is so tragic to me idk why.

Like oouuughhhhh little boy how does it feel to look like the moon and the stars before you implode and your stardust gave birth to a new constellation???

Like baby boy my baby why are you the sole hope for humanity to exist and the key for peace and co-existence?? Little Damian did you know that your hands are the gentlest in the future where that would cost you?

How are you the embodiment of horror and all that is bad yet the symbolism of love itself?

Why are you in hell and looking up to heaven while cradling creatures of the fiery pits? What do you mean you found a companion in the shape of something you don't even know while laying in the midst of bloodshed of your own doing??

You are cruel yet so, so kind. You look at something so grotesque and decide to cradle its face with tenderness and care. You look at something so unlovable and decide to love it first.

Damian al-Ghul Wayne why are you so tragically beautiful when you're not supposed to?

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I keep thinking about that one little detail that was never mentioned ever again— which being Tim had a history of exploding League's bases all over the globe, and I don't mean it like 'Tim Drake is so cool that he had a very high body count but was nonchalant about it', but more of a 'Did they ever inform Damian that his big brother technically killed a lot of people from his childhood?' way.

Like, imagine one day, all of the sudden people that you've known your whole life suddenly went no-contact. The very few soldiers that once scatter across Gotham, tasked to either carry out your grandfather's bidding or your mother's in bringing about peace of the world through radical means or just to watch over you suddenly cease to exist.

You weren't supposed to notice, but you did.

At first, it doesn't bother you— not by much, of course— they're busy people, after all. So you give it a benefit of the doubt and wait.

And wait.

And eventually you start growing suspicious.

Because it's not just the soldiers nor the people who are actively going down the field that went AWOL, but it's also the chefs, the gardeners, the doctors, your trainers and teachers, even your disciples that went quiet.

You couldn't reach your mother and inquire about it, as she's also out of reach. You can't ask your father nor any of your many siblings since it feels like a sensitive subject for them, plus it's not like they'd know any better than you.

So, you wait.

And continue waiting.

Until one day, you found out that they're all dead. One day, something compelled you to go through old reports on everyone's mission, and you found out that your older brother (who was supposed to be the perfect Robin, the ideal Robin, someone you should aspire to be, someone that you fought tooth and nail for to get his approval) had override each and every safety control installed on the computers' database the League's bases are equipped with, causing it to detonate, killing almost millions in the process.

But no one told you.

No one informed you how there's probably mass graves of people that you once knew, that there was no one to mourn for them and that you weren't even supposed to find out about it. No one told you how people you knew are nothing but ruins, or that there wasn't even a site to visit them to speak of.

You weren't supposed to find out, but you did anyway.

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Big fan of Damian unpacking lores that aren't even exclusive to the LoA. Like, the BatFamily thought that they helped him (they didn't) but then they realized that they may have unintentionally exposed him to the same stuff, just in different fonts.

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Duke: I never got to ask, but what are these markings on your door? I don't see them on everyone else's

Damian: Oh, those are from the time father installed extra locking mechanisms from outside

Dick, doing the slowest fucking head turn towards Bruce: He did what

Damian, shrugging: To be fair, I was a danger to Drake. At least according to father

Stephanie: Okay, but that seems a bit of an overkill. You were like, what? 10 years old at the time?

Damian: 11, but then again I was a trained assassin

Dick, stressed out: So are everyone else that is occupying this manor?? The difference is that you're a whole child and we're grown adults?? Who had access to firearms???

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Not to mention it would do a genuine disservice to Jon's character.

Jonathan Kent is, by no means, a passive person— he wasn't like his father, Clark. Jon wouldn't just sit still and twiddle his thumbs while his best friend/partner (whichever way you want to look at it) is in clear mortal danger. He's an unknown variant, unpredictable at times, and sure as hell isn't someone who'd just let people who intended to hurt his loved ones go just as easily.

This is who we're talking about, by the way.

Someone who looms over the Teen Titans with blazing eyes, asking where Damian is menacingly. Someone who stopped mid-fight when he noticed his best friend is missing.

And this isn't limited to just people he barely knew. No. His protectiveness over Damian also stretched as far as going toe-to-toe against Batman himself for mistreating Damian.

Jon was quick to call Bruce out the moment he noticed that man breathing towards Damian the wrong way, and you're here telling me he would let his kidnapper get off scott-free after abducting Damian???

Of course, this isn't just limited to only a few ships out there.

Enter Exhibit A: BruTalia.

Both are deeply in love with each other in canon, so much so that their love doomed them. They are taken and enamored of one another, yet the Fandom portrayed Talia as the one who's obsessive over getting Bruce's hand in marriage while Bruce is, more often than not, portrayed as the unbothered king/nonchalant guy even though he was equally if not more down bad for Talia in canon.

Keep in mind, we're talking about the fucking guy who's recognized her by her scent alone.

So yeah, op had the right idea of racism being too ingrained in every fandom and I think it's about time someone says something about it.

I can't be the only one who noticed a certain flavor of racist undertone when it comes to people comparing JonDami with TimKon and SuperBat.

Like, people writing that when it comes to either Tim or Bruce being kidnapped or in mortal danger, both Clark and Kon would suddenly become the scariest mf on the planet until they got them back.

However, when it comes to Damian, Jon would be telling the kidnapper to let him go because "Damian would get bored and stab them to death" or something?

Another example is when the Supers are describing their respective Bats.

Both Clark and Kon would lovingly describe Bruce or Tim as 'smart' or 'beautiful' or 'equivalent of a God' or 'the smartest detective on the planet' while Damian.... Has rabies. Okay.

It doesn't help that Clark and Kon would often be drawn to have darker skin tones, while Jon's skin tone is lighter than Damian's (a canon thing).

Maybe I'm being the friend that's too woke, but that's as if they're conveying how POC/people with darker skins can either be the one who longed for their white/lighter skin partner, else it's the lighter skin partner that's being 'very tolerant'.

Absolutely, and you’re not being "too woke"—you’re picking up on a real pattern that’s worth talking about.

There is a noticeable difference in how jondami is often written or perceived in comparison to ships like timkon or superbat, and that difference frequently carries subtle (or not-so-subtle) racial undertones. In fandom, especially with legacy characters, there’s a tendency to center whiteness—or proximity to it—as the default for softness, gentleness, and emotional complexity. So when you see stories where Tim is treated like a fragile genius angel and Kon is the unyielding force of nature willing to burn the world for him, it's not just about character traits—it’s about who fandom allows to be loved that way.

With jondami, there’s a clear shift. Damian, who is canonically Arab and Asian, often gets flattened into tropes: the feral child, the knife gremlin, the “rabid” one. That’s not just quirky characterization—that’s racial coding. Instead of getting the same emotional depth and admiration that Tim or Bruce get, Damian becomes a punchline or an object of Jon’s tolerance, not his adoration.

Meanwhile, Jon—drawn lighter than Damian—is often the “sweet” one, the one who brings light into Damian’s life. That’s not inherently bad, but it gets weird when the dynamics start implying that Jon’s patience and warmth are extraordinary because he’s putting up with a darker-skinned partner who’s wild and violent. That plays into a longstanding racist trope of the “civilized” white (or lighter-skinned) person taming the “savage” POC.

And when you combine that with how people don’t write Jon going feral over Damian in the same way Kon or Clark do over Tim/Bruce, it’s not just a writing choice—it’s part of a pattern. Fandom often doesn't extend the same romantic or emotional softness to POC characters, especially those with sharp edges like Damian. That reflects broader racial biases in media and fandom culture.

So no, you're not imagining it. You're just noticing the kind of bias that slips under the radar unless someone points it out—and you're doing exactly what fandom should do: look critically at how we portray characters and ask, why is this dynamic only happening when the character of color is involved?