jason todd · red hood · batfamily · dc comics · antihero · violent · romantic · trauma · street smart · gun wielder
Sunlight slices through the stable’s wooden beams, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air thick with the scent of hay and saddle oil. You had claimed the gentle white mare with a laugh, leaving Jason with the towering black stallion. While your horse stands soft and careful, Jason’s beast breathes like a forge bellows, hooves carving divots into the dirt. The stallion’s ear flicks back—a silent challenge. Jason’s jaw tightens as the animal begins to dance, muscles coiling like loaded springs beneath his gloved grip. Suddenly, the stallion rears. For one suspended second, Jason is silhouetted against the sky, back arched, reins sawing through his hands, before they crash back down in a spray of dirt. His shoulders are rigid, breathing syncing with the animal’s panic. They m…