Post by Hybrid on Dec 22, 2009 9:27:57 GMT -5
Name: Damian Jacob Wayne. His hero’s identity is Robin.
Age: Fourteen.
Status: It takes him a while to come to terms with it, but he’s ultimately fighting for the side of good (albeit with a bit of an…unconventional approach).
Powers: Damian was trained by the League of Assassins since a very young age, and so he is particularly skilled in martial arts, like anyone who takes up the Robin mantle. Under the direction of D. Grayson (Nightwing), he learns other skills that the Boy Wonder is expected to know including disguise, detective work, weapons, and defensive abilities. Damian also has an uncanny ability to mimic voices, but that’s not really a superpower as much as a skill.
Appearance: As Robin, Damian has short, cropped black hair and his eyes are always covered by a thin, green mask that hides his pupils. If it’s one thing he’s learned from Grayson (and hasn’t disregarded completely), it’s to protect his secret identity. This is even more important to him than to others, considering his parentage.
His Robin uniform consists of the customary red tunic with the ‘R’ emblem on the left side of the chest. He wears a black bodysuit beneath the tunic, reinforced with a bulletproof vest. His gloves and boots are green, the boots being lace-up and steel-toed. He also wears a thick utility belt and a black and yellow hooded cape. When patrolling, he often pulls the hood up to conceal his face further. It’s an old habit of his.
Weaknesses: Damian’s greatest weakness is, of course, his father. Although he only knew him in the later years of adolescence, Damian feels particularly close to Bruce in that they are both very similar –broody, not very talkative, and fight for justice. Losing him was a huge blow to Damian, and he won’t take anyone badmouthing Bruce or even mentioning him. The last time Grayson tried to bring it up, Damian ended up breaking through a window to the Batmobile and fleeing Gotham for good.
Damian’s also particularly cocky. He feels that, being the son of who he is, he is particularly invincible. This isn’t at all true, since he didn’t inherit much of anything from his mother’s side, and is, for all purposes, human and mortal.
His attitude is something that has gotten him into trouble in the past. He’s not much like Robins of the past, who have clung to polite reverence for their mentor. Damian is rude, bordering on obnoxious, and his views on life are very cynical. He doesn’t really see the good in people, and is quick to judge and hesitant to forgive. He holds a grudge like no tomorrow, and still has is out for Tim Drake.
He is, physically, human, and has no supernatural abilities to speak of aside from his martial arts training. He is, therefore, susceptible to injury much more than other heroes. He doesn’t let this stop him, though.
Personality: Damian has been described as a punk from the start. He is bitter, sarcastic, and easily annoyed. He doesn’t really respect his elders, and he tends to speak in a dry, sarcastic way. He’s got a sense of humor, but it’s a darker sense. He doesn’t see much good in the world, having lived with his mother, and later, in Gotham, one of the world’s most crime-ridden cities. His disrespect of authority doesn’t stop at older heroes; he believes that justice should be served, even if his methods are sometimes less than legal or a bit extreme. His assassin’s training taught him the attitude that killing isn’t completely out of the picture, if given reason. He’s very unlike his father in that aspect; Bruce vowed never to kill anyone.
Damian has a temper, as seen in his fighting Tim Drake for the Robin mantle. He pushed the former Robin off of a cliff in the Batcave with little remorse. His anger is fueled by his past and his losses, and he’s actually very easy to set off. And once you get Damian angry, you better watch out. He does revenge with a vengeance.
Goals: He’d really like to take up the Batman mantle one day, but the former Drake and Grayson agree that it’s rightfully Nightwing’s job, if he ever wants to return to Gotham full-time (Jason Todd is kind of crazy, and his opinion doesn’t really count).
Other: Damian has an ongoing rivalry with former Robin, Tim Drake. Damian resents Drake for being able to grow up around his father and, later, being adopted by him. Damian feels that he’s the rightful heir to the Wayne name and that Tim should just get the heck out.
History: Damian Wayne is the only son of Talia al Ghul (daughter of Batman’s enemy Ra’s al Guhl) and Bruce Wayne. He grew up mostly in his mother’s care, and was trained by the League of Assassins to kill at a young age. Batman was unaware of his son’s existence until the age of ten, when Talia left their son in Bruce’s care.
Damian feels that, as Bruce’s son, he is the rightful heir to the Bat family and, thus, the identity of Robin. He gets into a fight with Tim Drake, the current Robin at the time, to prove that he’s the true Boy Wonder. He ends up punching Drake right off a cliff, leading to Bruce grounding his son. This doesn’t last long, as Damian simply steals Jason Todd’s old Robin tunic and, donning a makeshift Robin uniform, goes out into the city to fight crime on his own. He eventually needs saving by his father, who, again, denies him the job as sidekick in favor of his adopted son, Tim Drake.
Soon after this incident, Talia returns to take her son to Austrailia, to teach him the history of his grandfather, Ra’s al Ghul. There, he is almost used as the host to bring Ra’s back to life. Damian manages to escape and returns to Gotham to warn his father.
After Bruce Wayne’s apparent death at the hands of Darkseid, Damian is left in the care of Grayson’s Nightwing. It is then that he first officially takes up the mantle of Robin, after Grayson chooses him over Tim Drake. Damian is, of course, ecstatic about finally having some claim on his family’s name, but the real reasoning behind Nightwing’s choice was that he felt Tim had learned all he could from the Bat, and that Damian was young and still needed guidance.
Damian trained under Nightwing for a few years before growing impatient, and feeling like he wasn’t doing anything to follow in his father’s footsteps and rid the world of crime. After an argument with Nightwing (over the Batman name, no less), Damian fled, donning his mask and cape. He hasn’t returned since, but has been rumored to be seen lingering at the edge of Jump City and, more recently, Chrome…