let damian wayne do mundane child things but let him to it in that extreme way of his!! like he discovers legos and hes obsessed, he replicates wayne manor and blows 800 bucks on the project. he finds glowing ceiling stars are a thing and he maps out detailed constellations on the ceiling. let damian wayne have fun
Saw this post and couldn’t resist writing a little something. Probably a little ooc, but it’s fluff!
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Damian has trained in stealth tactics since he could crawl and yet, all these lessons seem to go by the side of the road whenever even one of his older brothers is present. As much as it galls him to admit it, they’ve had much of the same training and more practical applications of it for years. So the fact he’s managed to keep this a secret for as long as he has is a minor miracle.
In a distant sitting room that no one aside from Pennyworth ever goes, Damian sets down his bag. On the old oaken table is a piece of poster board (placed there to protect the finish and any potential scratches) and a large structure made entirely from Legos. It’s Wayne Manor, his home, his legacy. During his explorations of his home, he’d discovered this quiet room and the old box of Legos neatly packed away on a shelf. This may have been a playroom at some point in the past, but he’s never asked since the baby grand piano points to more adult use as well.
Only Pennyworth knows his secret and Damian trusts the old man enough to keep his tongue. If any of his brothers discovered him playing with a child’s toy, there would be hell to pay.
Damian removes his newest acquisitions from his backpack. He’d drawn up a plan for what he needed, using sketches that he’d drawn from various points on the property to get the scale and angles correct. The mathematical computations need to miniaturize everything had taken hours, but was well worth it in the end. The only problem is buying all the pieces he needs without giving away where his allowance is going. So the project has taken months to get this far, but overall, he’s pleased with the effect.
He’s fully engrossed in his work when the door to the sitting room opens.
Leaping up from the table, Damian cringes when he realizes he has no avenue of escape. He’s been caught, redhanded.
Bruce appears just as surprised as him. “What are you doing in here, Damian?”
“N-nothing, Father.” Damian stands and hides the Lego pieces he’s still holding behind his back.
But his father’s attention is on the scale model of their home. “That doesn’t look like nothing. Did you build this?”
Damian closes his eyes and sighs. As tempting as it is to try and lie, he knows better than to try when all the evidence points directly to him. Here it comes, the ridicule, the lecture that these are toys for children. “Yes, Father.”
A small smile appears on Bruce’s face, one that looks strangely nostalgic as he closes the door behind him and approaches the table. “This used to be your grandmother’s sitting room,” he says quietly. “She would play the piano while I built space ships with my old Lego set. Sometimes, your other grandfather would help me and we’d listen to Mother play.”
Damian’s breath catches. His father, the Batman, playing with Legos? “Surely, you jest.”
Bruce chuckles as he takes a seat at the table. “I know it’s hard to believe, but I was a boy once too. And I loved Legos.”
Biting his lip, Damian glances between his father and the unfinished wall he’s been constructing, then back again. “Would you… Would you like to assist me?”
My favourite ongoing Midpollo-Superbat joke is that there are like 1000 different memes of Clark longingly watching Midnighter do something cute for Apollo, and he just looks expectantly at Bruce who without looking up goes, “No.”
•Jason always finishes what’s on his plate. Even if he’s full and throws it up later when he thinks Bruce isn’t looking, he always finishes it.
•Whenever Bruce has to leave for a business trip, Tim catches his sleeve and asks when he’s coming back. He holds on until Bruce gives him a time and day and promises to text and call.
•Dick double and triple and quadrupole checks the lines and grapples. He tests them out before anyone else can use them, even after Bruce tests them himself and promises Dick they’re safe.
•Steph always looks around corners first. Her eyes dart around the room, looking for something that Bruce thinks he knows the answer too, and she lets out a soft breath every time she dosen’t see it.
•Damian hides it very well, but he flinches back whenever Bruce or Dick or Jason raise their voices. He always looks down and twists his hands together, and Bruce is quick to lower his voice and tell Damian ‘it’s not your fault’ before an ‘I’m sorry’ can leave Damian’s mouth.
•sometimes Cass’s hands shake when she signs. She stops mid sentence, and Bruce will gently catch her hands and urge her to keep going.
•Sometimes Barbara will look panicked when someone knocks on the door. Her eyes widen and her breath hitches, and Bruce will go to answer it for her. He knocks softly now, when he goes do visit.
•Duke will hang back in the shadows at family gatherings. He does it less and less now, but Bruce will always put an arm around his shoulder and bring him out, and everyone else is always happy to bring him into conversation.
Red Hood 