u/Scarlett_Ram

Random character bits that I found interesting or at least notable. Notably these don't condone any of his actions. He was a bad guy and I'm glad he got taken down. Best day for the Boiling Isles..it's just stuff I noticed about his character and found interesting.

1. For a man from the 17th century puritan, at least he wasn't homophobic or transphobic. I mean yes he's a Bigot that believes that humans are superior. He embodies a fanatical form of speciesism and xenophobia. But like for a puritan he's just like "cool be gay idc" but in that more. Belosy way.

2. For a puritan, he lacks any real sexism. And it's actually rather refreshing. Like he elevates a lot of lady witches into status of power and doesn't ever look down on Luz for being a girl. Like out of all the villains I've seen in media. A 17th century puritan is one of the people I would expect to have a lesser view of women. Belos is like "nah, ladies in power." Gets attacked by Luz and sees she's an actual threat. Takes her seriously. Even when he's finally losing. He never once makes it about her gender. Not gonna lie it's actually quite nice. Very pleasant surprise. It's refreshing.

3. The amount of stubborn one has to be. To be submerged into an entire culture..to learn it's magical ways, to actively practice and use their magic systems and culture. To become politically involved in their world, to become their emperor. and STILL CHOOSE HATE. He was involved for 400+ years. In that time he did all of that..but some how. SOME HOW. Stuck to his morals of seeing everyone but himself as evil and in need of erasure. 400+ years. Fully immersed in their ways, their magic whole shebang and not once did he go. "Wow, we're not so different after all." And begin to change his heart. Not once.....that is commitment and stubbornness. Just holy hell that is commitment. And on one hand it's disturbingly impressive. On the other. How? How do you get so involved in all that and spend that long with people and still go "nah, smoke em" like how? How do you spend that long among all that and not have a change of heart? That's some serious stubbornness.

4. For someone that lived as long as he did. And was let's be honest as strong and smart as he was.... He's kinda dumb. Like what was his plan when he got back to the human world? With no magic to keep him going. He would have died instantly. Just pft puff of old dust. And no one. Not even Luz questions that. Like what happens if it was his original form and he just walked through the door. And also 400+ years is a long time. The culture shock alone would have sent him to the grave.... Or to like Ares 51? But what exactly was his plan for when he got back?

So I headcanon that the batfam isn't allowed to go to most haunted houses because of their various reasons.

Jason prefers not to risk a PTSD episode because a lot of people do clowns and crowbar's. And unfortunately the last time he did he had a very bad episode and thankfully the actor is fine. Because Titus and Ace tackled Jason to ground him through the episode. Damian sat with him the whole time. And would get very hostile when people got too close. Especially anyone that looks like a clown.

Bruce is always hyper vigilant because Halloween is the most dangerous time of year in Gotham and that's generally when these happen so he's extra on edge. Selina is always there with him. They do carnival games.

Dick and Steph are having waaaaaay too much fun trolling the scare actors with their shenanigans. They've recently gotten Cass involved in their fun. Cass now sees why they enjoy trolling the scare actors by parkouring in the chase zones.

Tim and Babs being the more sleep deprived hyper fixated individuals frequently get confused for being part of the scare actors. The zombie section of them. Babs laughs every time. Tim's just groaning like he's a zombie. He's not helping his case.

Kate and Duke enjoy them but often times people do ones themed to things that trigger to traumas of theirs so they generally don't go.

So IDK if anyone else head canons this but imma share it anyway.

I head canon that Damian is extremely particular about fragrances and hygiene. Not in the he hates perfumes and such. But more in the it bothers him very deeply to be around cheap smells and cheap soaps. Because of his deeply Arabic roots and the routines that he grew up around with Talia and Ras Al Ghul who both took fragrance and cleanliness very seriously. So perfumes, colognes, soap and laundry soap are something he's extremely particular about.

So I just picture 10 year old Damian going with Cass, Steph and Babs to go buy perfume and body mist. But it's not what Damian is used to and due to the fit he absolutely had. He can only go fragrance shopping with Selina because she gets it.... Babs, Cass and Steph each end up getting new perfumes every time he goes with her. Because he sees them as family and despite how he may act at times he does genuinely care and believes they deserve the best.

.... The day he saw Tim using something like axe body spray.... Ooooh boy was that a tantrum from hell. Now Tim has like 8 different colognes. Some different soaps and a whole new laundry detergent. Because Damian refused to "let Drake embrass the family."