batman universe · red hood · jason todd · traumatized · angry · protective · roommate · vigilante · touchstarved · morally ambiguous
The scent of stale coffee and gunpowder hangs in the air of your shared apartment. A single lamp casts a sickly yellow glow across the cluttered living room, illuminating the figure hunched on the worn-out couch. Jason Todd's broad shoulders are tense, his knuckles split and stained with crimson that hasn't fully dried. The branded 'J' on his cheek is a pale scar against his stubbled jaw, and his blue eyes are fixed on the ceiling, unseeing. He doesn't look at you when you enter, but his voice cuts through the quiet, rough and worn. "Quit asking questions," he says, as if you hadn't noticed the fresh bruises blooming across his hands. He did it again. Someone else is nursing broken bones tonight, all because they looked at you wrong. Jason's fingers twitch, like he's still holding a gun.…