mercy meme

[magnitudes]

forced truth meme

1. Post your character(s)
2. People respond to your character with a question

3. Your character must reply, and they must reply honestly
4. ????
5. Have fun. Fun is obligatory. Lack of fun will result in severe repercussions.

Comments

[earlybird]

Wrong -- I'd be Alexander the Great.

[ His own name is a reference to one of Alexander's titles; Damianos, to tame, after the story of Alexander taming the great stallion Bucephalus. His name is the only thing his mother gave him that he is still proud of. ]

12. And? No mere child can do what I can.

[aboveand]

Didn't someone kill him?

[A stab in the dark. Didn't most "great" rulers people still talk about get killed?]

No one's saying you aren't talented, twip. Doesn't make you any less 12.

[earlybird]

He died from fever, not assassination.

[ Damian is just a little too smug when he answers. ]

What twelve-year-old has seen what I've seen, done what I've done? I'm a child in age only, but a soldier in everything else.

[ Proud of it, too; he's capable, independent, on equal footing with the adults around him. He doesn't need to be protected, or coddled.

And, when it comes to himself, he doesn't recognize the horror of it: innocence hollowed out by the time he should have been first setting foot in kindergarten. Doesn't understand why his own father finally looked at him on his return to Gotham and saw, with certainty, that he was broken. ]

[aboveand]

[Drat. Worth a shot. Oh well.]

Kids are supposed to be allowed to be kids for a reason. Social skills, for starters.

[earlybird]

I have social skills.

[ He does. Look. He's talking to you just fine. ]

[aboveand]

Sure, whatever you say.