Does it not occur to you that it may be for the better? I would prove beyond the shadow of a doubt what I chose and what matters to me, and there won't be anyone who can undo it. No more questions.
Destiny, some future he has been shown... I don't know. However, in it I was Robin until I was fourteen and then became Batman when Batman was killed by my fault. I suppose sending me back would make that part rather difficult.
Am I not? Sent to Gotham to tear Father's work apart. Live or die, that probably would have happened, but this way at least he - they - you have a chance to recover. I can't be Mother's pawn anymore, can't be her weapon.
The numbers that I may have saved are nothing to what I would have caused in the future Father saw. Or if Mother had gone through with this current plan of hers.
I did what I was supposed to do. Didn't I? Maybe it'll be enough.
What you were sent to do and what you did were totally different. You have incredible potential for change. Instead of just throwing up his hands, Bruce should've embraced that. Should've helped you so that whatever that prophecy was-- which, by the way, I don't believe-- didn't happen.
You have the right to be your own person. Not bound by fate or by your family. Just Damian.
[He doesn't know what to do about the slumping, but still. Just.]
I had to memorize the notes Grandfather took on his life, before he tried to be not-okay with his death by possessing me. He's lived for centuries - because he was not okay.
He was the first person I did not want to be like. Wanted to be better than. I should have liked to do it by the way I lived, but I knew even then that I could not if I were to ever rail against my death. Death is something that comes, sooner or later. It makes life have - a complete meaning. I have not feared it in a long time.
[That doesn't stop Dick from thinking it's unfair. Then again, since when has death ever been fair? Especially the way it snatches away people he cares about most in horrifically violent ways.]
You're nothing like him. You haven't been for a long time, in life or in... in death.
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[Or he's thinking too clearly, too rationally. Sometimes Bruce needs to be a little emotional.]
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It's all done now, anyway.
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They... they could be faking. You know, for drama.
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I don't have to care anymore. I've done what I could. Can't bring any sort of disaster on anyone, anymore.
That's better than faking.
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[If you won't be mad, he'll be mad enough for both of them.]
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The numbers that I may have saved are nothing to what I would have caused in the future Father saw. Or if Mother had gone through with this current plan of hers.
I did what I was supposed to do.
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You have the right to be your own person. Not bound by fate or by your family. Just Damian.
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I am not--
I was not you.
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Please.
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[Not like all that many people have apologized to him, either. If he thinks about it.]
Why not? There's nothing to be done.
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[He has Issues with this.]
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There is nothing to do about it. Don't - aggravate yourself over something useless. Save your energy for something you can change. Your way.
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You shouldn't be so okay with this.
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[He doesn't know what to do about the slumping, but still. Just.]
I had to memorize the notes Grandfather took on his life, before he tried to be not-okay with his death by possessing me. He's lived for centuries - because he was not okay.
He was the first person I did not want to be like. Wanted to be better than. I should have liked to do it by the way I lived, but I knew even then that I could not if I were to ever rail against my death. Death is something that comes, sooner or later. It makes life have - a complete meaning. I have not feared it in a long time.
[Long for him.]
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You're nothing like him. You haven't been for a long time, in life or in... in death.
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I'd better not.
[Which is almost as good as 'thank you.']