Chapter 1527: The Farce of the Bat Nest (Part II)
At first glance, Red Hood's words sounded like nothing wrong with them, and it could be regarded as giving Damian a step down, but the reason why Thomas, Martha, and Bruce frowned at the same time was that they all found that the original bat family's socialization education was more lacking than they thought.
The fact that Damian asks Nightwing for a seat is more of an all-encompassing provocation to authority, first, Nightwing is older than him, second, Nightwing is the leader of the Outsiders group, and third, Nightwing also takes on more responsibility for caring for others in the family than Damian, and the sooner or later he sits down is the least important point.
This means that both Damian and Red Hood are completely unaware of what is going on on the field, do not understand the normal rules of social interaction, do not understand social codes, and cannot even feel the emotions output of other people.
I believe that many people will feel very broken when they encounter the kind of person who blindly makes demands but does not pay the price, regardless of the occasion, and thinks that everyone should get used to him and follow his ideas.
Many times this kind of person is not emitting malice, but the lack of social education makes him not know how to find his own position and influence others in the group in a rational way, so he can only output emotions and look like a sprinkler.
Damian actually felt that he should sit closer to Thomas, because he felt that he was closer to Thomas, but he didn't know how to impress others with this reason, so he could only ask for it or find some crappy reason that sounded ridiculous.
Nightwing hadn't been in the manor for a few days before, and it was the younger Dick who was close to Aisha, not him, but Damian just found a reason that didn't make sense at all, and even believed that this reason could impress the other party.
Social habits and thinking are gradually established in society, and Damian's performance means that he should not have explored it at all.
In the end, under the watchful eyes of Thomas, Martha, and Bruce, Damian still walked to the last seat, and during the whole meal, he kept sticking his fork into the leaves on the plate, and did not speak.
He felt aggrieved in his heart, and he didn't know why he was suddenly so far away from the people closest to him that he was almost out of sight, and the way he vented this emotion was to go to Nightwing after breakfast.
This series of operations really looks too much like a bear child, but fortunately, Martha, who once grew up in the Kane family, had a similar confusion when she was younger, why did instinct conflict with the rules, and she could only obey the rules? Why does her family clearly say they love her, but they never compromise on some things?
After Damian beats himself to the ground in a fight with Nightwing in the back garden, Martha sits on the steps in front of the door and calls him over, hugs him to comfort him, and asks him why he did it.
People are more likely to have emotional breakdowns when facing their mothers, because there are fewer antagonistic emotions between mother and child, and no one has to rebel against their mother's love in the same way that they rebel against patriarchy, at least in front of Martha.
Damian only lasted about thirty seconds and began to babble and complain to Martha, but he still didn't realize what the problem was, and was still saying that Nightwing was unwilling to give up his seat to him, that Red Hood said that he woke up late, but he was only pestered by Aisha, etc.
After listening patiently, Martha began to explain to him little by little why he couldn't ask Nightwing to give him up his seat in a commanding tone, why they had to sit in order of seat instead of sitting randomly, and even why the vast majority of social situations in this society were actually magnified versions of finding seats.
Over the next few days, Martha, Bruce, and even Thomas are tirelessly dealing with the small frictions that arise from these complex social relationships, and the ignorant lambs are constantly learning how to accept the good influence of others and discard the bad, and how to use their position to influence others.
All Robins are smart, without exception, and the special thing is that the members of the Bat family are good at learning by doing, and within a few days they began to understand the rules of Wayne Manor.
Damian finally learned that if he wanted to sit next to Thomas the next day, he had to go to Thomas first and ask him to agree, then find Alfred to add a chair, and finally find a doll to put across from Aisha to prevent her from gnawing on the plate.
Nightwing has finally learned to be dignified in the face of all the people he can wield power, to restrain them from getting into trouble, rather than rushing to clean up the mess and make a mess of his own life.
But this is not the end, after exploring their personal positioning, they began to form groups, divided into different small groups according to age, familiarity, and activity time, and the groups and groups have to find their own positions, and at the same time produce various exchanges and frictions.
In addition to the two sets of Robin, the group also formed Hallie, Jason, Aisha, and Damian, the group that had been looking for black diamonds, and the first group where Robin and Baby were mixed together, as well as the group of two Dicks who were going to ballet class together, the group that studied anatomy with Bruce, and the group of Nightwing, Dick, Red Hood, and Aisha who had to go out for a ride every night.
They begin to learn how to reconcile their position in small groups, and in doing so, to consolidate their position in the larger society, to deal with conflicts between preferences and rules, and to decide how much to sacrifice individuality for the group, so as to gain a clearer sense of self and a more stable personality.
When Bruce said this, both Gordon and Barbara looked at him, and Gordon said, "Isn't that a good thing?" It's a rare educational opportunity, and it doesn't even take much effort on your part. β
Barbara also sighed and said: "Thank God, they can finally learn to mature a little, don't you know, when I used to quarrel with them in the Batcave, a little thing can become a world war, everyone is naΓ―ve, and sometimes I complain that Batman should really take care of them." β
"But now it seems that the Batman tube alone is useless." Barbara pursed her lips and said, "Besides, he doesn't have much time to care." β
"If it's going so well, why are you here?" Gordon asked again.
Bruce sighed deeply and said, "After they continued to run in, they finally realized that everyone in Wayne Manor is a community of interests, and they should unite to fight for the status of this group." β
"Isn't that good?"
"And guess where they're going to fight for their position?"
Gordon looked at Bruce with wide eyes and said, "It can't be the whole of Gotham, right?" β
"Congratulations, you got it right." Bruce reached out and covered his eyes and said, "All the kids have banded together and started fighting crime in Gotham." β
Gordon opened his mouth for a moment, thought for a moment, and said, "Although I don't agree with letting such young children wander around Gotham, at least their hearts are good, who hasn't dreamed of fighting crime and upholding justice?" Right? Batman? β
"You don't think they're rushing up and throwing their fists at criminals, do you?"
"Isn't it?"
"They can do it themselves with their fists, why join forces?"
Looking at Gordon's puzzled expression, Bruce said helplessly: "They are not a team, but a gang, God knows what they have learned recently!" They don't want to save Gotham, they want to dominate Gotham! β
Bruce put one hand on the table and began to count on his fingers: "One day, after Dick got off ballet class, he didn't take the car home, but ran home from the rooftop, and on the way he saw a new street of food and snacks and goods near the Gotham train station. β
"He was supposed to lead the other children there to eat and drink, but Damian somehow asked the trade secret of one of the stall owners, it turned out that the small traders knew in advance that Gotham was going to hold a big music festival, and there must be a lot of outsiders at that time, and it was definitely not a loss to grab the stall near the train station in advance."
Damian immediately felt that he had found the capital of the ups and downs of the business sea, so he asked Jason to charter a stall with him, and when the time came, it was good to sell goods here, Jason felt that there was money and should be made together, so he found the original members of the Children's Gang, and asked them to buy some popular small goods and sell them here.
"But you have to get the permission of the gang to set up a stall in Gotham, and the gang there hasn't seen a few of them, thinking that they are here to find fault, and a conflict broke out between the two parties, and as a result, Nightwing led a few other older children to beat them all down."
"At this time, Red Robin found that it was more profitable to sit behind the scenes and set up a stall in person, so they replaced the original gang and began to collect the threshold fee for all the stall holders, and then they found that the two gangs next door also had a good foothold, especially suitable for connecting with the lot they controlled to form a big market."
"I don't know what Red Hood thinks, but after the others figured out the headquarters of the two gangs, he threw Aisha into the other's arsenal and ate all their weapons, so the two gangs surrendered without a fight, and they took the two largest pieces of land near the train station suitable for stalls."
"And Damian didn't know how to get ashore without a teacher, so he asked Tim to write a letter to the Gotham City Hall, claiming that they were going to launch a 'King of Gotham Music Festival Cultural Showcase' near the train station, packaging the entire three streets and a plaza near the train station into a shopping street dressed as a musical and cultural exhibition."
"All of them played several roles and wrote letters to the city government, some played the role of a down-and-out artist who wanted to exhibit paintings, some played the role of a wandering musician who wanted to sing in residence, some played the role of a small trader who begged for a stall but could not, and some played the role of a customizer of peripheral products who could ship in large quantities.
"That idiot Roy really fell for it, and it wasn't until he came to me and asked the Wayne Group if they wanted to invest in this cultural event that I realized that the handwriting on the letters he brought couldn't be more familiar, and hundreds of letters were written by these little bastards."
"In less than a week, they've swindled more than $20 million in investments, 80 percent of which were invested by the Gotham gang."
"They drew more than 20 posters of Gotham's street scene and culture, took more than 200 live photos, and set up an official website, put them all on it, and after they were completed, they exploded on the Internet within a week, with more than 400,000 views and more than 30,000 reservations."
"Tickets have been booked for all six East Coast TV stations, including Clark Kent, and my stupid journalist friend wants me to give him a tour suggestion in advance, and even Princess Diana of the Amazon has said she wants to come and learn from the advanced tourism development experience, and she has asked me to organize a banquet so that she can meet the talented curator of Gotham."
Gordon covered his eyes, and Bruce sighed again, then fell on Barbara's face and said.
"Now, Miss Gordon, you have a new task, which is to get an extra twenty million dollars on top of the festival's investment, and find a way to put this cultural showcase up to -- it's pretty much a wasteland."
Barbara slapped her on the head.
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