damian doesn’t look like bruce. at all. no listen to me, maybe they share the same hair color but that’s like sharing the same hair color with about ¾ths of the dcu so it’s not that big of a deal. damian takes 98% after his mother, he has her skin color, her eye color, her face angles and her sharp features, the way he’ll form words with very specific mouth movements
so the kids and bruce and alfred, they forget sometimes. i mean, not that they’d literally forget damian is bruce’s very actual son (except for like tim who pretends to keep a file of ongoing DNA tests set to find some hidden secret code in their dna chains that proves damian is devil’s offspring), but it’s just that… the other robins, even though not related to bruce, bare some uncanny resemblances to him that may or may not border on Creepy Land. and yet, there are sometimes when damian is grimacing with a scrunched up face and damian, damian isn’t doing it on purpose, he’s not trying to imitate his father, it’s just that it’s nearly natural to him to stand just like a certain batman mcmopeman stands on top of roofs and mcmopes. how he purses his lips just enough not to be noticeable but enough for the family to know, how he looks in the distance like he’s about to doze off but is ANGRY about it, how he half-closes his eyes like he’s trying to shoot lazer beams in an attempt to set fire to someone and/or everyone
dick happens to pop in gotham for a case and batman and robin are waiting for him in silence on top of rainy rooftop because that’s the right Dramatic Scene comics dictate and nightwing approaches them, he takes his sweet time, and there he sees Big Bird and Small Bird being moody side by side in nearly twin-like ways. and he can’t stop smiling. he can’t stop smiling because genetics are weird and spot on and if he dared mention that, father and son would give him the exact same annoyed stare. simultaneously