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It seems like the phone rings a million times, to Damian. He's been sitting on the back of his chair with the phone clutched between his shoulder and his ear for ten minutes now, which includes all the interludes to redial and try again. He keeps glancing at the computer screen, hoping there's an email or something, but in the meantime, he's just ( Read more... ) -
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Children who have known nothing but killing, the death of friends and their own vulnerability find immeasurable difficulties in developing into adults capable of wisdom, restraint and moral generosity, the essential foundation of civil society.
-- Hugh Riminton
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"Well," she began, "sometimes you'd come back--you were so very young--and your face would be so set and hard, and I'd wonder why are you so angry, little boy? What can someone so young have to be so angry about?"
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Damian and Jason
Requested by Fudgey
Foreword: This is not meant to be a catch-all, objective look at canon. It moreso plays into the way I write Damian for paradisa and junk, so towards the end it'll get a bit more Paradisa-specific. Yay? Much of this also tailors to how I interpret things, rather than the multitude of ways you could interpret it ( Read more... ) -
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Damian, Emotional Walls and KindnessIn Damian's upbringing, there were no "nice people." He was raised among assassins and terrorists in a cut-throat world. He was spoiled rotten and was the little prince of the League, but he was by no means socializing and encountering nice people ( Read more... ) -
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It's relatively easy to pick up on culture and why people act as they do, but it takes an eternity to pick up on those little nuances. The broad strokes are easy, the details elude him. He can field-strip just about any gun, decode a programmed nuclear warhead, and parachute from ten thousand feet, but something as simple as why adults like to put ( Read more... ) -
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Damian and Death
I don't feel that Damian really understands the absoluteness of death.
This is a boy who, up until the death of his father, had never really experienced death on a personal level. He was desensitized to death as a child when he was trained to kill, and he was taught a very simple ideology behind killing: if they deserved to die, ( Read more... ) -
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He did not mean to be cruel. If anybody had called him so, he would have resented it extremely. He would have said that what he did was done entirely for the good of the country. But he was a man who had always been accustomed to consider himself first and foremost, believing that whatever he wanted was sure to be right, and therefore he ought to ( Read more... )
