Damian Desmond

"I’m Damian, scion of the Desmond family! I’ll be a politician one day and protect this country! Father fought against all kinds of enemies during the war… and I… can fight too!"

- Damian Desmond in Chapter 71

Damian Desmond (ダミアン・デズモンド) is one of the main characters of the SPY x FAMILY series. He is the second son of Donovan Desmond and a first-year student at Eden Academy, being part of Cecile Hall, Group 3.

Appearance
Damian is a young boy with short brown hair and hazel eyes with light skin. Similar to his mother, Damian's eyes are narrowed and slightly drooping, with visibly long lower eyelashes and short, thin eyebrows above them. He often wears a condescending expression. In Anya's perspective, he gains a derpier appearance.

Like other students, he is usually seen wearing Eden Academy's uniform. He wears socks with vertical lines and black shoes.

Personality
Due to his upbringing as a child of an important and powerful man, Damian gained a highly respected status among his peers by default, making him grow incredibly arrogant, assuming Anya gained a crush on him when she stared at him. He is shown to prefer being called Lord Damian when spoken to. He gets angry when he is looked down upon by Anya's smug smile, quickly resorting to insulting her with his limited vocabulary and harassing Anya.

After taking a punch from Anya, he becomes very embarrassed around her. After Anya's tear-filled apology, Damian develops a crush on her that he does not want to acknowledge, denying it at every opportunity he gets.

Later it is hinted that a possible reason for Damian's behavior can be attributed to his brother's success as an Imperial Scholar and his father's influence, which has set high expectations for him to strive and become part of the Imperial Scholars. Damian believes that getting a high status and achieving success will encourage his honored father to finally pay attention to him. This causes him to look down on others beneath his social class, for if they are not a benefit to him, they only slow him down from becoming an Imperial Scholar and, in turn, slow down his progress in getting his father's attention. A rare exception is when he protects Anya from a ball in a dodgeball game, willingly getting himself eliminated. Though it did not help their class win the game, Anya recognized Damian's good nature. Another rare moment was in their classroom when a girl from their class was spreading a rude rumor about how Anya got her first Stella, Damian stood up for her. During the bus hijacking, he showed bravery and selflessness when he tried to save Anya, demanding that the terrorists hang a bomb on him instead of her.

Behind his cocky, self absorbed, snobby behavior is a sweet, insecure boy desperate for his parents' love and approval. After the bus hijacking incident, Damian is surprised and tearfully relieved that his mother came to pick him up. However, the boy tries to hide his weaknesses from his father and, not wanting to make him worry, asks his mother not to tell him that he cried.

Abilities and Skills
As Damian is still a child, most of his known abilities are limited.

Physical Ability: Although his strength as a child is limited, he is able to be one of the few that nearly survive to the end of the dodgeball match, despite having Bill Watkins as an opponent.

Endurance: Damian has shown to be quite tough, being able to block a shot from Bill Watkins, a kid who is much bigger than the size of an average 6-year-old.

Intelligence: As is shown in his grades, Damian is a very studious and intelligent student, always striving for high grades and good scores. His discipline and responsibility made him have one of the highest grades in his class, and for this, he managed to get a Stella for being in the top 2 highest grades in the History midterm.

Awards and Demerits

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Anime Appearances

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Trivia

 * Anya's nickname for Damian 'Sy-on Boy' is a mispronunciation of 'Scion.' Anya calls him "Jinan" (じなん) in Japanese, which means "second son" (次男).
 * The anime's English dub translates Anya's nickname for Damian as 'Second son,' instead of following the English manga's 'Sy-on boy.'
 * Damian stays in the school dormitories of Eden Academy, with Emile and Ewen.
 * Damian has a German Shepherd named Max, who he leave at home in the care of his house servant, Jeeves.
 * Damian has a fear of worms.
 * Damian's shoe size is 17 cm.
 * Damian's favorite things are football, cartoons, and Stella Stars.
 * Damian's disliked things are earthworms, peppers, and the national language.
 * Damian's chair, featured on the seventh volume cover, is a Willow Chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Quotes

 * (Damian to himself, referring to Donovan): I know father couldn't care less about me. If I want to please him... If I want to earn his respect... I have to be perfect. I have to become an Imperial Scholar!