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 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. His father's influence and lack of attention to his life motivate Damian even further to meet his expectations. 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 spread a rude rumor about how Anya got her first Stella Damian stood up for her.

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 about 2-3 times 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.

Donovan Desmond
His father, with whom he has a very distant relationship. Their butler, Jeeves, tries to act as if Donovan cares for Damian, but Damian does not believe it. Damian aspires to follow in Donovan's footsteps in becoming a politician and holds him in high regard, even believing that a man as important as his father would not spend time with someone like him.

Despite this, Damian wishes his father would pay him more attention, doing everything he can to impress him: from striving to become an Imperial Scholar to not wanting to show weakness. After Damian meets with Donovan during the Imperial Scholars Mixer, he seeks to become a better student to earn more praise from him.

Melinda Desmond
Similar to his father, Damian has a distant relationship with his mother. When Anya tells him that their mothers have become friends, Damian asks if his mother said anything about him. However, after Anya assures him that Melinda said nothing, Damian appears disappointed. After the bus hijacking incident, Damian is surprised and relieved that his mother came to pick him up and is happy upon learning that she cooked all the food for his dinner when they returned home.

Demetrius Desmond
Similar to his father, Damian has a distant relationship with his older brother, to the point of being nervous when talking with him on the phone.

Anya Forger
His classmate with whom he has mixed feelings. The two often engage in fights, but Damian has shown to have some positive feelings about her when he sometimes blushes while talking to her. Since Damian is unaware of Operation Strix or Anya's telepathy, he falsely assumes that her efforts to befriend him are simply to get closer to the Desmond name. After the bus hijacking incident, their relationship appears to have improved since Damian tolerates her presence more, with him gaining newfound respect for Anya and calling her a friend. He currently has a big and very obvious crush on her that she seems to be oblivious to, even getting jealous at the prospect of her getting taken away by someone else.

Becky Blackbell
Damian is on odd terms with Becky, with her being Anya's best friend, and the two often trade jabs on any subject in or out of school. After the bus hijacking incident, it is shown that these two are in better circumstances.

Emile Elman
His classmate who acts and is seen as Damian's flunky. Though Emile may be one of Damian's "minions," they seem to have a friendly relationship as they are shown doing various activities together.

Ewen Egeburg
His classmate who acts and is seen as Damian's flunky. Though Ewen may be one of Damian's "minions," they seem to have a friendly relationship as they are shown doing various activities together.

Awards and Demerits

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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!