Damian will never be so horrified again

Remember that last picture?



Yeah, this is the sequel to it, because as chances would have it, four year old Damian had snuck past his caretaker and the guards down to the Lazarus pit that night out of curiosity for what was being planned. He had not yet been to the pit, but he had heard of it, and he had seen the coffin being carefully down the stairs.

He watched from his hidden alcove within the cavern as they carefully removed the tightly bandaged body and tossed it into the rejuvinating green waters.

Everything was still for only a few moments.

Then, this Damian, a mere four year old then, was witness to the most blood-curdling, raw, animalistic scream he had ever heard in his life as one Jason Todd crashed through the surface of the pit, thrashing and wailing before going under again.

Damian watched in horror and listened to the most agonized, soul wrenching screams he'd ever heard as the tightly bandaged Jason floundered and sobbed while half his body regrew itself.

It was the most raw, horrific, and traumatizing experience of Damian's life. From that point onward, nothing ever seemed as horrific as what he had seen and heard that night, and thus, he quickly became the brutal and cold-blooded assassin his mother wanted.

He never knew who the person was that night, and he never went back to see. To this day, nothing as affected him so greatly as the horror of the night, and he doubts anything ever will.