On the boys’ current relationship…(quick Super Sons meta)

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I’ve posted on this a lot yeah, but it still gets me reading Super Sons #4 just how much Damian likes Jon. 

Not really in a shipping sense, but in a “I want to be friends” sense. “You were dying to team up, you just won’t admit it!” Honestly, at this point I think that was pure projection on Damian’s part. He wants to believe that he was doing this to appease a ten-year-old rather than himself. But I don’t think Jon honestly wanted much to do with Damian (I’m beginning to think the Christmas special took place much later than this, given that 1. their relationship seemed much more advanced there and 2. Super Sons was originally supposed to come out before that special). Jon is just so innocent a kid, I think here he still believes that automatically nice = good person and brash = mean person who doesn’t like him. Therefore, Damian’s tsundere-esque behavior doesn’t make sense to him. Why won’t this jerk who kidnapped him, who is always putting him down and being a bully and doesn’t give outward signs of caring about anyone just leave him alone if he finds him so annoying? On some level he does want to impress Damian, but I don’t think he much likes his personality yet. Hell, he even realizes how much Damian wants to be friends (him pointing out that Damian could have dealt with this case with any of the Titans in the last issue) but he just doesn’t get why he’s so difficult about it.

But Damian did want to team up, and not just to make Jon more of a super. Damian likes him in his own way that I don’t think even he understands yet. Just the sheer extent to which he went to make this team up happen and continue says more than any cracks at Jon’s inexperience. The fact that he so quickly got accustomed to calling him “Jon” (never even Jonathan but Jon) and even riding on his shoulders indicates that he took to this kid pretty fast. He just doesn’t know how to make someone like you other than fighting crime with them and showing off how skilled you are. 

But given that Jon is already so good at reading Damian in some ways (knows just how to hit him where it hurts when it comes to Batman), as time goes on (and possibly in the next issue where their conflict comes to a head), Jon will come to understand his personality better and get very good at reading him as a whole. He’ll come around to Damian more like what we see in Superman right now. 

this is very well said 🙂

Child psychology-esque. Nice. 🙂